LOUDONVILLE, NY – Following the program's most successful regular season in roughly a decade, a trio of Siena Baseball standouts were honored with Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference annual honors. Staff ace Alistair Morin earned First Team All-MAAC acclaim, while Aidan Paradine and Jake Sparks were each heralded as Second Team All-MAAC selections.
 
Siena boasts First or Second Team All-MAAC selections for the first time in four years, since pitcher John Lumpinski was a Second Team All-MAAC pick in 2021. Moreover, Morin becomes the first Saint since fellow pitcher Brendan White in 2019 to be named a First Team All-MAAC honoree.
 
Morin wrapped up a fantastic regular season in which he went 5-5 over 14 starts, while ranking second in the MAAC in strikeouts (73), sixth in ERA (4.14), and eighth in opponents batting average (.251). The red-shirt junior from Norwalk, Connecticut pitched the Saints to eight consecutive MAAC series opening victories to begin the conference slate.
 
Paradine paced the Siena offense in his first full collegiate season, and ranks third in the MAAC in both batting average (.377) and on-base percentage (.484), and ninth in both OPS (1.036) and hits (69). The red-shirt freshman from Bayonne, New Jersey and Buster Posey Award Midseason Watch List selection (nation's most outstanding catcher) has appeared in 51 games (50 starts), and also leads the Saints with 46 runs scored while achieving a team-best 27-game reached base streak earlier this season.
 
A local product from nearby Hoosick Falls who transferred into Siena as a sophomore this season, Sparks currently stands tied for second in the MAAC in home runs (14), tied for fifth in total bases (125), ninth in both RBI (50) and doubles (16), and 10^th in slugging percentage (.610). The third baseman has appeared in all 52 games (51 starts) at the hot corner, where he recently achieved a team-best 19-game hitting streak and carries a 22-game on-base streak into postseason play.
 
Six Saints also earned MAAC All-Academic Team honors, which recognizes student athletes who have both completed a minimum of two semesters at their current institution and who possess a cumulative grade-point average of 3.20 or better. The Siena honorees were senior Ramsey Collins, juniors Nick Bergamotto and Joe D'Elia, red-shirt sophomores Sam Falace and Ryan Taffe, and sophomore Noah Brooks.
 
The individual honors come on the heels of a program rebirth this spring. Predicted to finish 11^th (out of 13 teams) according to the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, the Saints finished in a three-way tie for third place in the standings to claim the program's first postseason berth in four years. The 22 wins to date mark the program's most in nine years (25 wins in 2016), and 17 league victories match the 2014 MAAC Championship squad for the most in 20 years (19 MAAC wins in 2005).
 
The fourth-seeded Saints make their MAAC Tournament return Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Clover Stadium in Pomona, New York, when they face the highest advancing seed from the single-elimination round played on Tuesday.