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DelSignore Second Team Academic All-District - 05/08/08

ATH07_009_DelsignoreDan_TDan DelSignore Named to ESPN The Magazine Second Team Academic All-District II Baseball Team
     05/08/08...Pitt Johnstown senior infielder Dan DelSignore (Johnstown, Pa.) was named 2008 Second Team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District II when this year’s teams were released on Thursday.
     DelSignore, a graduate of Bishop McCort High School, has posted a 3.46 overall G.P.A. in Secondary Mathematics Education.  
     DelSignore has started all 53 of Pitt Johnstown’s games this season.  He is third on the team in batting average at .354 (67-189).  His 67 hits, 50 runs 189 at-bats and 14 hit-by-pitches all lead the Mountain Cats, while his 18 doubles are second on the team.  DelSignore is also third in homeruns (5) and total bases and fourth in runs-batted-in (32).
     DelSignore, who has helped Pitt Johnstown to a school-best 35-17-1 overall record and the #4 ranking in this week’s  NCAA Division II North Atlantic Region poll, also received the WVIAC Male Student-Athlete Award in March.
     The members of the College Sports Information Directors’ of America (CoSIDA) selected this year’s First and Second Team Academic All-District teams.
     To be nominated for the Academic All-America Program, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.2 or higher cumulative grade-point-average and be a starter of significant reserve.