Five student-athletes from the Marian University baseball program have been named All-NACC.
Senior Tanner Alsteen (Casco, Wis.) was the most utilized arm for Marian during the regular season earning himself his first all-conference award. Alsteen was 5-2 on the season spending time as a relief pitcher and a starter. He was one of just 10 student-athletes in the conference with an earned run average under 4.00 at 3.99. Alsteen logged the eighth-most innings in the conference at 56.1 and held hitters to a .289 batting average. He earned one NACC Pitcher of the Week award after leading Marian to victories over Edgewood and Dominican. Between the two games he tossed 13.0 innings allowing just nine hits and one unearned run. He threw his lone complete game of the season against the Eagles where he allowed his lone unearned run.
Freshman Blake Griesbach (Neenah, Wis.) found his stride towards the end of the season to earn a spot on the All-NACC Honorable Mention squad. Griesbach went 2-1 on the year ranking sixth in the NACC with a 3.76 earned run average over 40.2 innings of work. He held hitters to a .231 batting average appearing in 10 games with five starts. His breakout performance of the season came at Aurora where he went 8.2 innings allowing just three hits and one earned run in a 4-1 win. Griesbach also allowed just one earned run against WLC over 6.0 innings where he scattered four hits.
Senior Jacob Kleemann (Green Bay, Wis.) earns All-NACC Honorable Mention recognition for a second straight season after another strong campaign. Kleemann was a .300 hitter with a .440 slugging percentage after recording 45 hits, 18 of which were extra-base hits. He ranked fourth in the conference with his 16 two-baggers, while also driving in 24 runs and scoring 36 times. Kleemann had 20 multi-hit performances and posted a 20-game hitting streak from April 3 to April 19. He drove in multiple runs six times including the opener against Dominican where he was 2-for-4 with three runs driven in and three runs scored. Kleemann also had a four-hit game against St. Norbert going 4-for-6 with two runs scored and two runs driven in.
Graduate student Robbie Knorr (Sun Prairie, Wis.) is named all-conference for a second straight season after being named to the honorable mention team. Knorr had a career-high 47 hits, 10 of which went for extra bases, during the regular season with a .315 batting average and .403 slugging percentage. He would score a career-high 34 runs and drove in 21 runs. Defensively, he had the best season of his career at shortstop with 108 assists and a .933 fielding percentage. Knorr had 15 multi-hit efforts with multiple runs driven in four times. The doubleheader with CUW saw him go 4-for-7 (.571) with five runs driven in and two runs scored. He also went 3-for-4 against Calvin with two runs scored and two driven in.
Senior Logan Rademan (West Allis, Wis.) earns all-conference recognition for the second straight year earning a spot on the honorable mention squad. Rademan reached 50 hits for a second straight campaign and led Marian with a .347 batting average and .438 on base percentage. He started in 35 games and was held hitless only seven times with 17 extra-base hits. He also had a stretch of nine straight games from April 12 to April 23 where he had multiple hits in every game. That stretch was started after going 5-for-9 (.555) in two games against CUC and 5-for-8 (.625) in the twin bill with CUW. In the second game against Allegheny, Rademan was 3-for-4 with a run scored and three runs driven in.
The full release and all-conference lists from the NACC can be found at https://naccsports.org/sports/baseball.
