By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
WINONA, Minn. — At this rate, Saint Mary's University's James Green (East Bethel, Minn.) is going to need a wheelbarrow to haul off all his post-season awards.
 
Already this season, Green has been named the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year — not to mention earning First-Team All-MIAC honors for the second straight year; he's earned Third-Team All-America and First-Team All-Midwest Region honors by D3baseball.com; and he's a Google Cloud Academic All-District VI selection.
 
And Tuesday afternoon, Green was at it again, as the sophomore pitcher was named American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-Midwest Region Pitcher of the Year, while he and teammate Matthew Piechowski (Hutchinson, Minn.) were tabbed First-Team All-Midwest Region.
 
Green and Piechowski were two of five players from the MIAC named to the 15-man All-Midwest Region First-Team, being joined by Macalester's Graham Low, and Joey Stock and Jake Dickmeyer of Saint John's. St. Olaf's Tommy McDonald was a Second-Team selection, with St. Olaf's Luke Dahl and Dylan Blake, as well as Hamline's Nolan Schoonveld earning Third-Team honors.
 
In 10 appearances this season, Green — who helped lead the Cardinals to a second straight MIAC Tournament appearance, and their sixth post-season showing in the last eight years — compiled a near-perfect 8-1 record and a microscopic 1.85 ERA.
 
The sophomore right-hander logged a team-leading 58.1 innings and pitched at least six innings in eight of his nine of his starts this season. Opponents hit just .194 against Green, who accounted for four of the Cardinal pitching staff's six complete games, and boasted a team-high 63 strikeouts — including a career-high 13 against No. 1-ranked Concordia-Chicago on March 22 — and walked just 10 batters.
 
In 37 games this season, Piechowski hit a team-best .406, while also leading or sharing the team lead in runs (32), hits (52), triples (4), home runs (2), total bases (73), slugging percentage (.570), on-base percentage (.476), and stolen bases (10). The junior outfielder belted his first collegiate home run — a grand slam — in the Cardinals' 11-1, season-opening win over Cabrini on Feb. 24, before adding his second of the year in Game 1 against Augsburg on April 23.
 
ABCA/Rawlings All-Region First-Team selections are nominated for ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors. The ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. III All-Americans will be announced the evening of Thursday, May 30. The ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove teams for all divisions will be announced Wednesday, June 19.
 
The ABCA All-America team was first recognized in 1949 and now includes nine divisions: NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA Divisions I, II and III, Pacific Association Division, and high school. ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove teams were first recognized in 2007.