2025 All-NCAC Baseball Team Announced

CLEVELAND, OH -- Denison seniors Eric Colaco (Richfield, OH/Revere) and Nick Falter (Powell, OH/Olentangy Liberty) and Wabash junior Ben Henke (Jasper, IN/Jasper) earned Player of the Year honors to headline the 2025 All-North Coast Athletic Conference baseball team following balloting by the league coaches.

Colaco is only the second player in NCAC baseball history to claim three-consecutive Player of the Year honors. He earns Denison its sixth NCAC Player of the Year award in the last seven seasons of competition. Colaco collects his fourth All-NCAC certificate with three-straight selections to the top team after a nod to the second team in 2022. Over the course of the Big Red’s 37-game regular season schedule, the senior hit .370 (57-for-154) with 11 doubles, nine home runs and one triple. The 2022 NCAC Newcomer of the Year produced 43 RBI, 28 stolen bases, 54 scored runs and 97 total bases, while also drawing 19 walks in the regular season. He hit safely in 32 of Denison’s 37 regular-season games and produced 18 multi-hit games, highlighted by a 4-for-5 performance and a 3-for-4 effort. The outfielder made 59 putouts on 61 total chances, committing just two errors to tally a .967 fielding percentage in the regular season. This season, he broke the NCAC career records for doubles (72), stolen bases (142) and runs scored (264). At Denison, Colaco owns the program’s most career doubles, stolen bases, runs scored, hits (290), RBI (207), walks (103) and games played (182). With NCAA regional play ahead, he is currently tied for the Denison career records for home runs (30) and triples (14).

Falter collects Denison’s fifth NCAC Pitcher of the Year award, and first since former teammate Charlie Fleming captured the honor in 2023. The senior earns his second-consecutive selection to the All-NCAC first team. Falter closed out the regular season with an unblemished 9-0 record, which included a perfect 4-0 mark against conference foes. The right-hander posted a 2.53 ERA after allowing 18 earned runs and 43 hits, while pitching the most innings in the NCAC, 64.0, in the regular season. In 11 total appearances in the regular season, he struck out an NCAC-best 86 batters. In a conference win over Oberlin on April 12, Falter recorded a career-high 14 strikeouts.

Henke earns the 2025 NCAC Gold Glove for his defensive excellence, following AJ Reid as the second-straight Little Giant to win the award in its two-year history. Playing exclusively at shortstop, the junior posted 100 assists and 63 putouts on 171 total chances during the regular season. Through 40 games, he turned 21 double plays and made just eight errors for a .953 fielding percentage. Henke captures his first All-NCAC certificate with a nod to the top team this season. Overall this season, Henke produced 104 assists which ties for tenth on the Wabash single-season records list. At Wabash, he currently sits tenth in career assists with 288 and 11th in most double plays turned with 64.

A pair of Wittenberg graduate students join Colaco on the first team as repeat selections to the top team in back-to-back seasons: catcher Parker Gryskevich (Brownsburg, IN/Brownsburg) and second baseman Luke Thomas (Tallmadge, OH/Tallmadge). The Tiger duo collect their second-consecutive first-team certificates, while Thomas was also named to the second team in 2023 and Gryskevich was tabbed to the third team two seasons ago.

Denison sophomore designated hitter Jack Lutte (Venetia, PA/Peters Township), Wabash senior first baseman Camden Scheidt (Highland, IN/Highland) and Wittenberg junior third baseman Alex Nemunaitis (Perrysburg, OH/Ottawa Hills) all make the jump to first team from the second team a season ago, while Scheidt also collected a third-team selection in 2023.

Denison sophomore pitcher Peter Lemke (Geneva, IL/St. Francis), Wabash junior pitcher Caleb Everson (Zionsville, IN/Zionsville) and Wittenberg senior outfielder Rocco Royer (Lake Bluff, IL/Lake Forest) elevate to the first team after earning third-team accolades in 2024.

The remaining first-team selections are making their All-NCAC debuts this season: Denison junior outfielder Erik Sundgren (Pittsburgh, PA/North Allegheny), Wittenberg senior pitcher Charlie Schafer (Beavercreek, OH/Beavercreek) and junior utility Tommy Chilicki (Lewis Center, OH/Olentangy) and Wooster junior pitcher Jack Spring (Pflugerville, TX/Brentwood Christian).

Wabash first-year left-handed pitcher Jarrod Kirsch (Crawfordsville, IN/North Montgomery) was selected as the 2025 NCAC Newcomer of the Year as the league's top player in his first year of collegiate competition. Kirsch captures the Little Giants’ first NCAC Newcomer of the Year award. The rookie closed out the regular season with a perfect 4-0 record, which included a 2-0 mark against conference foes. The southpaw posted a 4.46 ERA after allowing 20 earned runs and 43 hits in 40.1 innings of work in the regular season. In 13 total appearances in the regular season, he struck out 35 batters. Overall, Kirsch set the Wabash record for strikeouts by a freshman pitcher by fanning 37 batters this season.

Finally, the leadership at Wabash collected the NCAC Coaching Staff of the Year honors. Led by head coach Jake Martin, the Little Giants set a new program record for NCAC wins this season with 12, while the team’s 27 overall victories are the second-most in a single season, trailing only the 32-win 2018 season. Martin’s staff, including assistants Mac Lozer, Caleb Fenimore and Cesar Barrientos and student assistant Conner Stidham, earn Wabash its first NCAC coaching honor. Notably, this is not Martin’s first coaching honor in the conference, he collected NCAC Coach of the Year in 2012 while serving as the head coach at DePauw. The Little Giants were guided to a .314 batting average (422-for-1343) across 40 regular season contests and posted a league-best 18 triples, 205 walks, 37 sacrifice flies and 24 sacrifice hits. Wabash also tallied 320 runs, 282 RBI, 72 doubles, 10 home runs and 69 stolen bases, while the pitching unit posted a 5.28 ERA through 339.0 innings with 273 strikeouts in 40 games.

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