2007 ABCA/RAWLINGS DIVISION II
NORTHEAST
REGIONAL BASEBALL TEAM ANNOUNCED
ARBURR AND CAWLEY NAMED TO FIRST TEAM
EASTON, MA - Pace University juniors Matt Arburr (Bristol, CT/Bristol Eastern) (third base) and Jack Cawley (Bronx, NY/Iona Prep) (outfield) were both named to the 2007 American Baseball Coaches of America/Rawlings Division II Northeast Regional First Team. The awards keep piling up for Arburr and Cawley as the classmates were both named to the 2007 Northeast-10 Conference Baseball All-Conference First Team, as well as the 2007 Daktronics Baseball All-Northeast Region Second Team earlier this month.
Arburr and Cawley were instrumental in guiding Pace (30-26/18-12 NE-10) to its second consecutive 30-win season and third in school history. The Setters finished fourth in the Northeast-10 Conference, earning a berth in the NE-10 Conference Baseball Championship and fell to eventual conference champion, Franklin Pierce College.
This season, Arburr played and started in a team and career-high 55 games, batting .315 (62-for-197) with career-highs in homeruns (12), walks (36), triples (3), total bases (116), slugging percentage (.589) and stolen bases (16), to go along with 12 doubles, 46 runs batted in and 41 runs scored. His 62 hits this season tied a career-high. Arburr led the team in slugging, RBI's, homeruns, total bases and walks. He led the NE-10 in homeruns and total bases, while ranking second in slugging, walks and RBI's. For his career, Arburr has played in 149 career games, starting in 147 and is batting .316 (170-for-538) with 27 homeruns, 42 doubles, 72 walks, 121 RBI's, 112 runs scored, 303 total bases, while slugging .563 with a .407 on base percentage. He is tied for seventh all-time at Pace in homeruns, seventh in RBI's, tied for fifth in doubles, tied for 14th in hits, tied for 18th in runs scored and 14th in walks.
Cawley started in all 54 games he played in this year, a
career-high. This season he hit a team and career-high .359
(74-for-206) with 14 doubles, three homeruns and triples for 103
total bases, to go along with 28 walks, 27 RBI's and 43 runs
scored, while slugging .500 with a .440 on base percentage.
Cawley set new career-highs in runs scored, hits, triples, total
bases, walks, slugging and on base percentage. He also set a
career-best in stolen bases, swiping 32-out-of-34, which is good
for second all-time for stolen bases in a single season. His 74
hits this season were also a career-high and fourth all-time in
hits in a single season. Along with leading the team in batting
average, hits and stolen bases, Cawley led the team in on base
percentage, runs scored, doubles and total plate appearances. He
currently ranks fifth all-time in steals in Pace history. Cawley
led the conference in hits and stolen bases, while ranking seventh
in batting average and walks, sixth in on base percentage and runs
scored, tied for fifth in doubles and third in total bases.