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Nate Sides All American

Baseball By Marisa Lombardo (Assistant SID)

Sides Named D3Baseball.com All-American

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.
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Nathan Sides

#9 Nathan Sides

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5' 9"
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Players Mentioned

Nathan Sides

#9 Nathan Sides

5' 9"
Senior
R/R
SS