Reading, Pa. (May 28, 2019) -  Alvernia senior Nathan Sides was named a d3baseball.com All-American as a shortstop, announced on Tuesday by d3baseball.com.

Sides was named All-American Second Team for his performance this season. A total of 848 players were nominated for the 13th annual D3baseball.com All-America team

Sides has had a career year for the Golden Wolves, and adds to his postseason accolades with today's honor. Sides earned Second-Team All-Region honors from D3baseball.com last week, and earned MAC Commonwealth Player of the Year and First Team All-Conference honors earlier this month.

Sides led Alvernia and the MAC Commonwealth with a .453 batting average, which was good for seventh in the country. He finished second in the country with 86 hits over 190 at bats. Sides had a team-high 15 doubles and a team-high five triples. He hit three home runs on the season and drove in 49 runs while scoring 59 of his own. Sides was also 17-18 on stolen base attempts.
In the field, Sides had a .963 fielding percentage with 119 assists and 87 putouts on 214 chances.

Sides rewrote Alvernia's record book this season, breaking the all-time hits, triples, at-bats, and putout records.  He was just five hits shy of breaking Alvernia's single season hits record of 91, held by Todd Meyer.

Sides is just the eighth player in Alvernia's history to earn D3Baseball.com All-American honors since the award began in 2007. Sides is the first to get it since 2015 when both Ben Sawyer and Kevin Becker-Menditto earned the honor.

Toby Welk, a shortstop out of Penn State Berks, was named Player of the Year. John Howard of Washington (Mo.) was named Pitcher of the Year, and Jack Hodgins of Hendrix earned Rookie of the Year honors.
 

First Team
Pos.	Name, School	Yr.
C	Casey Combs, East Texas Baptist	Sr.
1B	Tim Johnson, Sul Ross St.	Sr.
2B	Joe Professori, La Roche	Sr.
3B	Cal Aldridge, UW-Whitewater	Sr.
SS	Toby Welk, Penn St. Berks	Sr.
OF	Josh Goulet, Plymouth St.	Sr.
OF	Alex Mumme, Ursinus	Jr.
OF	Bret Williams, Penn St. Harrisburg	Jr.
DH	Dan Harwood, Wooster	Jr.
UTL	Jake Dexter, Southern Maine	Sr.
SP	John Howard, Washington (Mo.)	Sr.
SP	Tyler Peck, Chapman	Sr.
SP	Luke Summers, Fontbonne	Jr.
SP	Matt Valin, Cortland	Sr.
RP	Nick Garcia, Chapman	So.
UTL	Jake Dexter, Southern Maine	Sr.
Second Team
Pos.	Name, School	Yr.
C	Alex Kachler, Methodist	Jr.
1B	Davis Mikell, Castleton	Jr.
2B	Harry Witwer-Duke, Wooster	Jr.
3B	Daniel Montgomery Jr., Southwestern	Jr.
SS	Nathan Sides, Alvernia	Sr.
OF	Nick Herzog, UMass Boston	Sr.
OF	Noah Payne, Howard Payne	Sr.
OF	Matt Woods, Rowan	Sr.
DH	Jeremy Jess, Pomona-Pitzer	Jr.
UTL	David Larson, WPI	Jr.
SP	Jonathan Cole, Franklin & Marshall	Jr.
SP	Nolan McCarthy, Occidental	Jr.
SP	Zach Pronschinske, UW-La Crosse	Jr.
SP	Nick Roth, Randolph-Macon	Sr.
RP	Gage Smart, Buena Vista	Jr.
UTL	David Larson, WPI	Jr.
Third Team
Pos.	Name, School	Yr.
C	Rob Marinec, North Central (Ill.)	So.
1B	Allen Murphy, St. John Fisher	Jr.
2B	Joseph Cutchins, Christopher Newport	Sr.
3B	Bryan VanDuser, Concordia Chicago	Sr.
SS	Kenny Jarema, Misericordia	Sr.
OF	Connor Harding, Scranton	So.
OF	Patrick Keohane, John Carroll	Sr.
OF	Will Welsh, Lancaster Bible	Sr.
DH	Nate Davis, Johns Hopkins	Jr.
UTL	Christopher Peres, La Verne	Sr.
SP	Michael Genaro, Babson	Sr.
SP	James Green, Saint Mary's (Minn.)	So.
SP	R.J. Hall, Tufts	Sr.
SP	Ben Lambert, Southern Maine	Jr.
RP	Calvin Bush, Concordia Texas	Sr.
UTL	Christopher Peres, La Verne	Sr.
Fourth Team
Pos.	Name, School	Yr.
C	Graham Low, Macalester	Sr.
1B	Cole Beeker, Swarthmore	Jr.
2B	Dave Tatoian, Gwynedd Mercy	Sr.
3B	Seth Woodard, Christopher Newport	Sr.
SS	Joey Murphy, Saint Joseph's (Maine)	Sr.
OF	Connor Brandon, Concordia Chicago	Sr.
OF	Nick Fowkes, Thiel	Sr.
OF	Matt Psychas, Heidelberg	Sr.
DH	Dakota McFadden, Keystone	Sr.
UTL	Dugan Darnell, Adrian	Sr.
SP	Danny Cody, Baldwin Wallace	Sr.
SP	Emmett Dunn, Ithaca	Sr.
SP	Charlie Klemm, North Central (Ill.)	So.
SP	Mike Webb, Rhode Island College	Jr.
RP	Bobby Tramondozzi, UMass Boston	Sr.
UTL	Dugan Darnell, Adrian	Sr.
Honorable Mention
Pos.	Name, School	Yr.
C	Patrick Geiger, Skidmore	Sr.
1B	Vince Schwartz, Carthage	Jr.
2B	Bryce Rheault, Buena Vista	Jr.
3B	Clayton Noakes, Louisiana College	So.
SS	Ben Boran, Bethany Lutheran	Sr.
OF	Brady Ballstadt, Piedmont	Sr.
OF	Thomas Craig, Texas-Dallas	Sr.
OF	Anthony Crowley, Westfield St.	Sr.
DH	Brad Pearson, Clarkson	Sr.
UTL	John Brinkman, Washington (Mo.)	Jr.
SP	Zack Jones, Rockford	Jr.
SP	Jake Jourdain, NVU-Lyndon	Sr.
SP	Matt Mulhearn, Webster	Sr.
SP	Matthew Williams, Concordia Texas	Jr.
RP	Alex Sheetz, Monmouth	Sr.
UTL	John Brinkman, Washington (Mo.)	Jr.