BROCKPORT, NY – The No. 22 ranked SUNY Brockport baseball team will travel to No. 11 Oswego State this week for the 2022 SUNYAC double-elimination three-day tournament. With the top four teams in the conference qualifying for the tournament, Brockport will face No. 12 SUNY Cortland on Thursday at 3:30 pm.
 
Tournament Breakdown: No. 11 Oswego State enters the tournament as the conference's No. 1 seed with a 16-2 Conference Record and will host the tournament. No. 12 Cortland enters as the No. 2 seed having a 15-3 conference record. No. 22 Brockport enters as the No. 3 seed with a 13-5 conference record while Plattsburgh earns the No. 4 seed with a 7-11 record against conference opponents. The tournament will be played at Oswego from Thursday-Saturday and the winner will receive the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. 
 
The full tournament seeding, and schedule can be found here at: https://sunyacsports.com/sports/bsb/2021-22/releases/20220507qoul8d
 
Brockport (31-7, 13-5 SUNYAC) enters the SUNYAC Tournament following its best regular-season record in program history. Brockport has now earned a spot in the conference tournament 18 times since the year 2000. The Golden Eagles have won the conference tournament five times in program history, with their last tournament championship crown coming back in 2010. 
 
Weekly Awards: Last weekend Tom Kretzler earned the D3Baseball.com/NCBWA NCAA DIII National Team of the Week as a second baseman and Hitter of the Week award for slugging 11 extra-base including seven home runs, three doubles, and a triple. This week, Kretzler was named to the D3Baseball.com/NCBWRA DIII Team of the Week as a Starting Pitcher for his performance on the mound in the second game of the weekend series against Plattsburgh. In that game, Kretzler recorded his second complete-game shutout of the season and picked up his seventh in a 1-0 victory over the Cardinals. Kretzler struck out a total of nine batters for an 11.57 K/9 while only allowing a total of three hits.
 
Kretzler ranks 23^rd nationally and first in the league with four complete games and rank 23^rd in the nation with a 1.71 ERA. Kretzler also ranks in the top 50 nationally as he ranks 21st in home runs (13), 37th in RBIs (51), 30th in slugging percentage (.766), and 44th in total bases (108).
 
Brockport's Iron Man: On Thursday, having played in a total of 172 games to date over the course of his career, Kretzler will break the record for the most games played by an individual in a Golden Eagles uniform when he takes the field for his 173rd career game on Thursday against No. 12 Cortland.
 
Since April 29th, 2017, against New Paltz where he started in right field and went 1-for-4 with an RBI, Kretzler has started in every game from that day to now. Since then, he has started in 145 straight games in a row for the Golden Eagles.
 
Weekend Recap Highlights:
This past weekend the Golden Eagles finished the regular season on the road scoring two wins against Plattsburgh State including two shutouts. The Golden Eagle took the first game of the Plattsburgh series by a score of 10-0 backed by Andrew Huffman's (8-2) strong performance on the mound going seven innings while striking out seven batters on the day. His seven strikeouts helped him break the school's record for the most strikeouts in a single season which was previous 79 and held by Kyle Smith (2011). Huffman now has 83 K's this season. His eight wins this year tie him for the second-most wins in a single season in school history. If he can record his ninth win this weekend, he will tie the school's record for the most wins in a single season.
 
National Stats Rankings:
Huffman ranks 35^th nationally with a 1.84 ERA and he's also in the top 50 in strikeouts-to walk ratio (5.93), strikeouts (83), and wins (seven). Huffman has been named the SUNYAC Pitcher of the Week three times this season.

Nationally, the Brockport pitching staff ranks ninth nationally in earned run average (3.24) and seventh in hits allowed per game (7.70). The staff ranks fourth nationally with eight total shutouts and 16^th in strikeouts per nine innings (10.0).
 
Senior left fielder, Ryan Mansell had one of his best weekends to date when he went 7-for-13 (.538) with three RBIs and two doubles against the Cardinals. Second baseman James Houlahan went 5-for-14 (.357) with two RBIs and one run scored. Senior center fielder, Nicholas Pastore recorded four hits this past weekend with a total of five RBIs, one double, and one triple. Pastore ranks third nationally with eight triples this season. 
 
What's Ahead: With three out of the four teams in this year's SUNYAC conference tournament ranked nationally in the Top 25 D3baseball.com Poll, it will be one of the most exciting conference tournaments in all of Division III baseball. All teams will be looking to claim the name of 2022 SUNYAC Baseball Champions and also attempt to get into this year's NCAA Division III College Baseball World Series Tournament. With the conference champions earning an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament each team will need to bring their A+ game to show the NCAA selection committee why they deserve a spot in this year's NCAA Tournament.