DECKER NAMED PRESEASON ALL-EAST

February 2, 2018

DECKER NAMED PRESEASON ALL-EAST

Orangeburg, N.Y. (2/2/18) Dominican College baseball player, Justin Decker, has been named to the 2018 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II Preseason All-East Region First Team as was recently announced by the NCBWA.

Orangeburg, N.Y. (2/2/18) Dominican College baseball player, Justin Decker, has been named to the 2018 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II Preseason All-East Region First Team as was recently announced by the NCBWA.

Decker, a junior second basemen from Rotterdam, N.Y., makes his first NCBWA Preseason All-East Region honors. Following the 2017 season he was named to the NCBWA All-East Region First Team, the All-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) First Team honors, the 2017 Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) Baseball All-East Region Team and to the CoSIDA Academic All-District® Team.

In the 2017 season, Decker led the CACC in hitting and ranked second in hits, fourth in on-base percentage, fifth in double and ninth in runs batted in. Decker also earned on CACC Player of the Week honors this season.

The 2017 Charger baseball team won the CACC Baseball Championships and made thier fourth NCAA Tournament appearance in program history and first since 2010.

The NCAA Division II East Region consists of the CACC, East Coast Conference and Northeast 10 Conference and encompasses 33 baseball-playing institutions.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.