Baseball Sees Three Earn CSC Academic All-District Honors

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Three members of the Union College baseball workforce – junior Jacob Skarlis and seniors Caleb Miller and Andrew Keaveney – have been acknowledged for his or her excellence on the sphere and within the classroom by incomes spots on the 2026 Academic All-District Baseball Team, chosen by College Sports Communicators and introduced on Tuesday.
 
To be nominated for CSC Academic All-District honors, student-athletes should take part in no less than 90 p.c or begin no less than 66 p.c of their workforce’s video games (with pitchers needing both 17 appearances or 35.0 innings pitched), preserve a cumulative GPA of three.50 or greater, and attain sophomore athletic and educational standing on the faculty. Every Academic All-District honoree is taken into account for development to the CSC Academic All-America poll, and Keaveney and Miller each superior to the All-America voting course of.
 
Miller was acknowledged for the third straight season, Keaveney obtained the second CSC Academic All-District honor of his profession, and Skarlis earned his first CSC All-Academic award.

Miller was named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region III first workforce for the second time in his profession after incomes first-team honors from the Liberty League for the third season in a row. He began all 37 video games for Union and wrapped up his fourth 12 months in Schenectady as this system’s chief in profession hits (181), runs (138), RBIs (122), complete bases (302), and at-bats (527), reaching all 5 marks in 2026 as he slashed .368/.446/.573. The Rome, N.Y. native produced top-10 offensive numbers within the Liberty League whereas catching 88.4% (275/311) of Union’s innings defensively and spending the opposite 36 innings within the outfield. Behind the plate, he threw out a league-leading 20 would-be base stealers. Union’s premier catcher had the ninth-highest OBP (.484), ninth-highest OPS (1.060), ninth-most runs scored (39), sixth-most hits (53), ninth-most doubles (13), fifth-most HBP (14), and sixth-most stolen bases (19) within the league. The program’s all-time hits chief completed his senior season on a 12-game hitting streak, had 15 multi-hit video games, six three-hit video games, and a pair of four-hit performances. On prime of his profession information, Miller posted the Tenth-most hits in a single season in program historical past (53), the Tenth-most runs (39), the sixth-most doubles (13), and stole the Tenth-most bases (19).

Keaveney earned All-Liberty League third-team honors after proving to be probably the greatest on-base hitters within the convention whereas splitting his time virtually evenly between first base, proper subject, and designated hitter. In 36 video games, he reached base at a .513 clip (the fourth-best within the convention) and was certainly one of 4 Liberty League hitters to bat over .400, hitting .411. Keaveney additionally produced 23 runs, 29 RBIs, and a .519 slugging share for a career-best 1.032 OPS. He recorded 16 multi-hit video games and had two four-hit performances on the dish. While boasting a .400 common, he additionally walked 26 occasions (sixth-most within the Liberty League), giving him the fourth-most walks in a single season in program historical past. The managerial economics main additionally reached base safely in 32 of 36 video games.

Skarlis emerged as certainly one of Union’s prime choices on the mound all through his junior season. The Rensselaer, N.Y. righty began 9 video games and entered yet one more sport in reduction. He posted a 3-5 report whereas displaying glorious management, solely strolling 9 batters in 52 1/3 innings pitched (tied for the second-least in Liberty League). Skarlis pitched eight innings in a 10-3 win over Rensselaer, putting out 5 and solely permitting two earned runs. He additionally earned a win in his first outing of the season with 4 Ks and no runs in opposition to Stockton (3/6). That begin started a stretch the place he didn’t enable a run over his first 9 innings pitched of his junior season. 

With the three baseball honorees this 12 months, Union student-athletes have now earned 314 Academic All-District honors since 2001.