CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Securing consensus honors from both major voting organizations, first baseman Danny Sheeler of the second-ranked Salisbury University baseball team has been named an American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings NCAA Division III Fourth-Team All-American, as revealed on Thursday evening.
 
Sheeler, a junior from Towson, Md., proved to be the lynchpin in a vaunted Sea Gull lineup all season, posting a .400/.518/.767 slash line with 14 doubles, one triple, 13 home runs, 53 RBIs, 49 runs scored, 13 steals and a 1.285 OPS through his first 41 games. He ranks top-40 in Division III in homers and slugging average, plus top-150 in batting average. Sheeler has also committed just one error at first base all season, posting a .997 fielding percentage in 350 chances.
 
With 13 homers on the year, Sheeler is tied with teammate Jacob Ference and 1998 SU slugger Dave Westervelt for the most longballs in single-season program history. He also ranks inside the top 10 in single-season slugging percentage (.767), RBIs (53), walks (34) and total bases (115) with the chance to climb higher over at least two more games in 2023.
 
Sheeler becomes a consensus Fourth-Team All-American after earning the same honor from D3baseball.com on Wednesday. He was also a consensus First-Team All-Region V, Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) Player of the Year and First-Team All-C2C.
 
First awarded in 1949, the ABCA All-America Teams now recognize athletes from nine divisions of amateur baseball: NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA Divisions I, II and III, the Pacific Association Division and high school.
 
Sheeler and the Sea Gulls open play at their third straight NCAA Division III Baseball Championship against 19th-ranked East Texas Baptist on Friday at 5:30 p.m. EDT (4:30 p.m. CDT).
 

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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 and men's and women's swimming, and the Coastal Lacrosse Conference for men's lacrosse. 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 23 team national championships, 24 individual national champions, 196 conference championships and 44 Academic All-Americans.

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