McCreary, Matias, Zietara named First Team all-CCAC
After helping St. Ambrose finish second in the conference, Noah McCreary, Brandon Matias and Adrian Zietara were named to the all-CCAC First Team as the league announced its postseason baseball awards. Additionally, Zietara earned a conference Gold Glove.
This marks the third straight year the Bees placed three on the first team.
McCreary earned first-team honors for the second straight season. The senior second baseman from Davenport, Iowa, batted .324 with 24 extra-base hits (11 doubles, four triples, nine home runs). He was second on the club with 45 RBIs and finished third on the team with 40 runs scored. He collected two-or-more hits in a game 22 times this season.
In 97 career games at St. Ambrose, McCreary batted .343 with 83 RBIs, 86 runs scored and 14 home runs among his 45 extra-base hits.
Matias led the conference with 18 home runs and tied for the league lead with 29 extra-base hits to post a CCAC-best .753 slugging percentage. The senior designated hitter from Glenview, Ill., also shared the conference lead with 58 RBIs. Matias batted .346, the second-best mark on the team, and had 17 games of multiple hits.
Zietara, also a first-team selection in 2022, batted a team-best .382 with 14 doubles, two triples and two home runs. He scored 50 runs and drove in 30. He had 16 multi-hit games, including eight games with at least three hits. Zietara, a graduate student from Chicago, Ill., also earned his second straight CCAC Gold Glove for his work in right field. He committed just one error in 101 total chances for a .990 fielding percentage. He recorded 99 putouts and one assist.
In 140 games over three seasons with the Bees, Zietara batted .348 with 35 doubles, scored 136 runs and knocked in 56.