Luke Vonderhaar of Auglaize County Chosen for 2023 D3baseball.com Preseason All-america Team
Luke Vonderhaar (New Bremen/new Bremen High School) of Baldwin Wallace University has been selected as a D3baseball.com Preseason Allamerican.
Vonderhaar was an American Baseball Coaches Association/rawlings All American, D3baseball.com All-american, American Baseball Coaches Association/rawlings and D3baseball.com All-region first team, Brockport (N.Y) NCAA All-regional Tournament MVP, All-ohio Athletic Conference first team and ALL-OAC Tournament honoree. Off the field, he was the NCAA Baseball Championships Elite 90 Award winner, College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-american second team, COSIDA Academic Alldistrict Seven and Academic ALL-OAC.
The All-american first basemen set the BW single season records in home runs with 19, runs batted in with 70 and games started/played with 50. Vonderhaar also posted a .340 batting and was third in the OAC with .711 slugging percentage. He recorded 67 hits, 34 extra base hits and 53 runs scored.
In his career, Vonderhaar has appeared in 96 games with a .332 batting average, 24 home runs, 104 RBIS, 116 hits, 49 extra base hits, 13 stolen bases, a .616 slugging percentage and a .415 on base percentage.
Vonderhaar is accompanied on the Allamerica team by one other OAC athlete. Senior starting pitcher Trent Valentine of Marietta College joins Vonderhaar on the third team.
The Yellow Jackets open the season on the road with a non-conference doubleheader in Danville, Ky. as they take on Centre (Ky.) College. First pitch is scheduled for 12:00 on the Gary Wright Field inside Fishman Park.
Baldwin Wallace University, founded in 1845, was one of the first colleges to admit students without regard to race or gender. An independent, coeducational university of 3,500 students, BW offers coursework in the liberal arts tradition in more than 80 academic areas. Located in Berea, 12 miles from downtown Cleveland, BW offers students the cultural, educational and business advantages of a major metropolitan area.