ROCKVILLE, Md. – Carrying the momentum of a stellar spring into his summer assignment, outfielder
Cameron Hyder of the Salisbury University baseball team was named to the All-Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League First Team, as revealed by the league office earlier this month.
Hyder, a senior from Laurel, Md., ranked in the top 10 in the league with a .315 batting average for the Olney Cropdusters. In 24 games he scored 24 runs with five doubles, 14 RBIs, 13 stolen bases and 16 walks against just four strikeouts, good for an .804 OPS. Of the 21 players selected as First-Team All-Ripken League, Hyder was one of just five who play at non-NCAA Division I institutions.
Hyder, who played on the Cropdusters
with SU teammate and Ripken League All-Star Kavi Caster, used the summer as a victory lap after a 2022 season that saw him help lead the Sea Gulls to a 39-12 record and a second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Championship Series. He took the most at-bats in one season in program history (216), tallied the second-most hits (84), doubles (19) and triples (five), and ranked in the single-season top 10 in runs (57), times hit by the pitch (17) and total bases (111).
Saving his best for the season's biggest stage, Hyder was awarded Most Outstanding Player of the Salisbury Super Regional after tagging a go-ahead two-run homer late in the winner-take-all showdown against Wooster and earned a spot on the College World Series All-Tournament Team. He was also named First-Team All-Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C), C2C Tournament MVP, and American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Second-Team All-Region.
Featuring seven teams located in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metro regions, the Ripken League is an elite wooden-bat summer baseball circuit for collegiate ballplayers.
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with the New Jersey Athletic Conference for football, Coastal Lacrosse Conference for men's lacrosse and the Metropolitan Swimming and Diving Conference for men's and women's swimming. With over 500 student-athletes in 21 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, and dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on-and-off the field. The Sea Gulls have celebrated 22 team national championships, 24 individual national champions, 189 conference championships and 43 Academic All-Americans.
To learn more about the tradition of excellence with Sea Gull Athletics, visit www.SUSeaGulls.com or on social media @SUSeaGulls.
