NAIA star Canada’s top college baseball player

Outfielder Christopher AcostaTapia has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2017 college player of the year. The native of Laval, Que., received first-place votes on 41 of 51 (80.3 per cent) ballots cast by a panel of scouts, coaches, executives, former players, writers and broadcasters. The Oklahoma Wesleyan Eagles star was a three-time Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference player of the week, earned NAIA first-team all-American honours and was recognized as national player of the year by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings Sporting Goods.