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Bronx, N.Y. – Just a day after receiving ABCA/Rawlings All-Northeast Region honors which puts him in consideration for its All-American team, Fordham University senior pitcher
Matt Mikulski (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.) garnered All-America honors from two organizations on Thursday.
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Having already been named Second Team All-America by
Collegiate Baseball, Mikulski was named First Team All-America by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and Third Team All-America by
Baseball America. He is the first baseball Ram to receive First Team All-America honors since Mike Marchiano in 1997.
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The 2021 Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Year and Golden Spikes Award semifinalist, Mikulski completed one of the finest single seasons in Fordham baseball history in 2021.
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The 2021 Vincent T. Lombardi Award winner as the top male athlete at Fordham, finished the year with a perfect 9-0 record to go with a 1.45 ERA and 124 strikeouts in 68.1 innings pitched. He led the Atlantic 10 in ERA, hits allowed/9 innings, strikeouts, strikeouts/9 innings, wins (T-1st), complete games (T-1st), and WHIP in the regular season, while nationally, he was the NCAA leader in both hits allowed/9 innings and strikeouts/9 innings and among the top five in ERA, total strikeouts, and WHIP.
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A four-time Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Week and two-time National Player of the Week honoree, Mikulski held opponents to a .127 batting average overall, while lefties hit to an .073 average (4-for-55). He set single season record for strikeouts at Fordham, breaking Hank Borowy's 1939 mark of 115, while also becoming the all-time strikeout king at Fordham with 272, surpassing Javier Martinez's 264 from 2004-07.
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Additionally, his 1.45 ERA is the fifth-best single season mark at Fordham with his 3.17 career ERA, raking in a tie for 15th all-time. Mikulski also became the 11th Ram to reach 20 career wins (tied for fifth all-time with 21), while his nine wins in a single season is tied for eighth.