ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Teams

WINONA, Minn. — It's official — Willie Doll (Amherst, Wis.) has now received as many post-season honors as runs he scored the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota baseball team's 19-2 MIAC Playoff win over Hamline on May 13.
 
Five.
 
For the fifth time this season—and the second time in as many days—Doll earned yet another first-team, post-season honor on Tuesday, as the Cardinal senior was named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-Midwest Region First Team.
 
And for the second straight day, Doll was one of five Cardinals to earn post-season accolades.
 
Third baseman Ben Buerkle (Roseville, Minn.) and pitcher Steph Scatassa (Westchester, Ill.) were named to the ABCA/Rawlings Second Team, while outfielder Bob Kinne (St. Paul, Minn.) and pitcher Nathan Mathwig (Woodbury, Minn.) were Third-Team selections.

As an All-Region First-Team selection, Doll will join the rest of the first-teamers in the eight regions who are all eligible for the ABCA/Rawlings All-America team, which will be announced Thursday.

Tuesday's ABCA selections were just the latest post-season honors for the Cardinal Five.
 
On Monday, Doll and Mathwig were named to the D3baseball.com All-Midwest Region Team, while Kinne was a Second-Team selection, and Scatassa and Buerkle were Third-Teamers.
 
And last week, the group kicked off their post-season hit parade by landing eight Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors. Doll was named the MIAC's Max Molock Most Valuable Player, while all five were named First-Team All-MIAC, and Doll and Kinne were selected to the MIAC All-Defensive Team.
 
Saint Mary's accounted for five of the MIAC's 19 ABCA/Rawlings All-Midwest Region selections, with regional champ UW-La Crosse landing the Midwest Region's Player (Taylor Kohlwey) and Pitcher (Caleb Boushley) of the Year.
 
Doll was an offensive juggernaut in his final season in a Cardinal uniform, boasting a team-leading .438 batting average, while also leading the Cardinals in at-bats (160), runs (49), hits (70), on-base percentage (.523), and stolen bases (22).
 
Doll, who played in all 156 games during his four-year collegiate career—including 155 starts—closed out his illustrious four-year playing career as the Cardinals' all-time career leader in games played (156), at-bats (591), runs (151), hits (220), doubles (44), total bases (316), and stolen bases (80).
 
Buerkle started all 43 games for the Cardinals this season, finishing second on the team in batting average (.386), runs (45), and RBIs (43), while leading the squad in triples (6) and walks (33), and sharing the team's top spot in doubles (14). Buerkle reached base safely in 42 of the Cardinals' 43 contests this season—including hits in 38 of the those 43 games—and has been held off the base paths just three times in 118 career contests.
 
Scatassa proved to be the ace of the Cardinal pitching staff this season, going 7-2 with a 2.17 ERA in 74.2 innings—all tops among Cardinal starters. Opposing hitters hit just .225 off Scatassa, who surrendered 18 earned runs, walked just 23 batters, and fanned a team-leading 61 batters in 13 starts. The senior right-hander accounted for two of the team's three complete games this season—including a four-hit shutout over regular-season champion St. Thomas in the opening game of the MIAC Playoffs.
 
Mathwig had a breakout sophomore season, making a team-high 19 appearances this season—owning a 5-1 record and a team-best 2.01 ERA in 31.1 innings. Mathwig accounted for six of the team's 11 saves, leaving him one save shy of the single-season school record of seven, set by Tyler Krysiak in 2013.
 
Kinne took the baseball world by storm in his first year as a Cardinal this season, hitting .386 in 43 games (61-for-158) and amassed team-highs in home runs (8), RBIs (50), total bases (109), and slugging percentage (.690). The owner of a team-leading 13 multiple-RBI games—including a pair of career-best five RBI performances—Kinne broke the single-season school record with his 50 RBIs this season.
 
The Cardinals finished the year with a 27-15-1 overall record—the most wins under coach Nick Winecke and the most since 1992, when they finished 28-7. Saint Mary's made its third MIAC Playoff appearance in the last four years, falling to Saint John's 11-4 in the championship game.
 
Members of the American Baseball Coaches Association vote on the all-region teams, and the process is led by the ABCA NCAA Division III All-America Committee.
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.