ABCA/Rawlings All-America First Team - Dominic Perachi
NEWPORT, R.I. (June 2, 2022) - Salve Regina University junior Dominic Perachi (Washington Depot, Conn.) adds to his 2022 accolades with a selection to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-America First Team.
Sixteen players from this year's All-America teams are participating in the 2022 NCAA Div. III World Series which begins Friday, June 3 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
ABCA/Rawlings All-Region First Team selections, which were announced Tuesday, were nominated for All-America honors. In all divisions, the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Teams will be announced on Wednesday, June 22. The ABCA/Rawlings National Pitchers and Position Players of the Year for all divisions will be announced on Monday, June 27.
The ABCA All-America team was first recognized in 1949 and now includes nine divisions: NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA Divisions I, II and III, Pacific Association Division, and high school. ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove teams were first recognized in 2007.
The Chair of the ABCA NCAA Div. III All-America & Coach of the Year Committee is Paul Hesse of the University of Mount Union. Also on the committee are Justin Beach (Brockport State University), Derek Carlson (Brandeis University), Brian Casey (U.S. Coast Guard Academy), Dean Glus (The College of New Jersey), Ray Hedrick (Randolph-Macon College), Luke Johnson (North Park University), Scott Laverty (Chapman University), Yogi Lutz (Alvernia University) and Kevin Tomasiewicz (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh).
The ABCA, founded in 1945, is the primary professional organization for baseball coaches at the amateur level. Its over 13,000 members represent all 50 states and 25 countries. Since its initial meeting of 27 college baseball coaches in June 1945, Association membership has broadened to include eight divisions: NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA, Pacific Association Division, High School and Youth.
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Perachi began his 2022 campaign with an immaculate inning (nine pitches, nine strikes, three outs) in the season-opening first frame against Johnson & Wales University (W, 7-0). He finished with 16 strikeouts over seven innings and earned multiple weekly accolades including Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Pitcher of the Week (3/7/22), D3baseball.com Team of the Week, and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association (NCBWA).
His next start came in Florida when the Seahawks took on Farmingdale State and the only hit allowed was a dribbler up the first base line to the first batter he faced. He struck out 13 Rams and then returned to the mound later that week in the Sunshine State to face a perennial NCAA postseason participant Southern Maine and handcuffed the Huskies for the second time in two straight matchups (last year's NCAA Regional in Hartford, Conn., hosted by Trinity College).
Returning to New England, Perachi took the bump in the first of several weekend matchups with CCC foes and extended his string of starts without allowing an earned run to five. Wentworth was the first team to notch an earned run against the junior lefty and that did not come until the seventh frame of an eight-inning, complete-game outing where Perachi struck out a season-high 17 batters.
He was charged with another earned run in a 9-2 victory over Suffolk University in Boston while striking out nine Rams. A mid-week matchup with previously nationally-ranked Roger Williams University, then undefeated in CCC play, gave Perachi the opportunity to vault the Seahawks onto a path to first place in the league.
Perachi faced the Hawks again among his final three outings which also included a pair of nationally-ranked teams, No. 16/22 Endicott College and No. 11 University of Lynchburg. In each of those three starts, he reached double-digit strikeouts to establish a new single-season program record of 120 Ks.
The Seahawks (30-13-2) clinched first place in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) with a doubleheader sweep of Endicott, also undefeated in CCC play before meeting in Newport, on the final weekend of the regular season. Perachi matched his season-high in innings pitched (eight) and exited against the Gulls with the game tied before Salve Regina won on a walk-off basehit from Chris Veneruso (Westport, Conn.) in the bottom of the ninth. Perachi had three combined shutouts on the season.
Perachi joins Ryan Holleran (2002), Eric Cirella (2004, 2005), and Alex Perry (2015) as members of the ABCA/Rawlings All-America club from Salve Regina. He also earned a 4.0 grade point average during his historic semester.
DOMINIC PERACHI - 11 STARTS IN 2022
| DATE | OPPONENT | SCORE | GS | W | L | SV | IP | H | R | ER | ERA | BB | K | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5 | vs. Johnson & Wales (RI) | W, 7-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 16 | - |
| Mar 11 | vs. Farmingdale State | W, 9-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 13 | - |
| Mar 17 | vs. Southern Me. | W, 8-3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 6 | - |
| Mar 26 | at Gordon | W, 10-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 12 | - |
| Apr 2 | at Nichols | W, 6-5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 6 | - |
| Apr 9 | Wentworth | W, 11-1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1.13 | 0 | 17 | - |
| Apr 16 | at Suffolk | W, 9-2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1.50 | 1 | 9 | - |
| Apr 27 | Roger Williams | W, 8-1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 9 | - |
| May 6 | No. 16/22 Endicott | W, 3-2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1.13 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| May 13 | Roger Williams | W, 5-1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1.35 | 1 | 11 | - |
| May 20 | vs. No. 11 Lynchburg | L, 7-3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5.14 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
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