June 3, 2002

Poughkeepsie, NY - Marist College baseball player Anthony Bocchino (Brooklyn, NY) was named a TPX Collegiate Baseball Second Team All-America Outfielder, it was announced on Friday, May 31st.

Bocchino earned the honor after having a record setting season in which he had 92 base-hits and batted .444 in 55 games fort the Red Foxes. He led Marist to its first-ever Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) regular season title, and its third straight MAAC Tournament title and ensuing NCAA Regional appearance. The Red Foxes earned a three-seed for the first time in program history and backed that up with a win over the second seeded Southwest Missouri State team, 5-4 in 11 innings.

A graduate of Xaverian High School, Bocchino became the school's all-time leader in base hits with a homerun against Fairfield on March 24th, and has kept going, finishing his career with 334 base hits in his 815 at-bats, also a school record. The outfielder hit a school record .410 over his career and finished with 74 doubles, 24 triples and 23 homeruns. His RBI total of 217 is also an all-time record, as Bocchino finishes his four-year stint at Marist holding 16 school records and just three runs shy of tying the school all-time runs scored record of 208.

This season Bocchino led the team in nearly every category with 24 doubles, nine triple sand nine homeruns. He finished with a .778 slugging percentage and was on base 52 percent of the time. He was 17-19 in stolen base attempts on the year and had 65 runs scored, second on the team. Defensively he was just as potent, making only one error in 116 chances, with five outfield assists, for a 99.1 fielding percentage.

In three NCAA Tournament games, Bocchino hit .364 with a double two ruins scored an RBI, in earning All-Regional Team honors for the second time in his career. In 2000 he was named to the All-Regional Team at the Lafayette, LA Regional.

Bocchino was named the MAAC Player of the Year and was a First-Team All-MAAC performer in right field for the third straight time this spring. On the year he was named the MAAC Player of the Week on three separate occasions.

Bocchino led Marist to a school record 41-14 mark this spring and helped the Red Foxes to 134 wins during his four seasons at the Poughkeepsie school.