JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (May 19, 2025) – University of North Alabama baseball players Matthew Delgado, Petey Craska and Luke Davenport were honored with postseason awards from the Atlantic Sun Conference on Monday.
 
Senior catcher Matthew Delgado earned the highest honor of the group with a Second Team All-ASUN selection, while redshirt freshman first baseman Petey Craska earned Third Team All-ASUN. Craska, coupled with freshman right-handed pitcher Luke Davenport, both earned a spot on the ASUN All-Freshman Team.
 
All three players were selected to these teams in a vote of the league's head coaches.
 
Since moving to Division I for the 2019 season, UNA now has five all-conference selections and three all-freshman team selections. All three players that won awards this season are first year Lions — two by way of transfer and one incoming freshman.

Delgado becomes the first Second Team All-ASUN selection from UNA since Luke Harper in 2022. Craska joins Jacob James and Gehrig Frei as the third Lion to earn a Third Team All-ASUN selection, as James and Frei did so in 2024.

Davenport and Craska join Frei as the three Lions to make the ASUN All-Freshman Team. Frei first accomplished this in 2023.

Delgado, a junior college transfer catcher from Pasadena City College, turned in a .300 batting average for the season. He played in 50 games with 48 starts, accumulating 312 putouts for a fielding percentage of .980. He allowed only one passed ball all season long.

In last week's series against Central Arkansas, Delgado threw out two runners trying to steal second. Those two gave him the most runners caught stealing in the Division I era, passing former Lion — and now coach — Levi Jensen who set the total at 17 in 2023. Delgado's 18 caught runners ranks second in the ASUN.
Craska, a transfer first baseman from Georgia Tech, led the Lions in nearly every statistical category this season. The redshirt freshman led in batting average (.360), OPS (1.077), slugging percentage (.562), on-base percentage (.515), runs scored (32), hits (64), RBI (33), doubles (18), total bases (100), walks (43), hit by pitch (15), putouts (394) and fielding percentage (.995).

The redshirt freshman is sixth in the ASUN for batting average, seventh in slugging percentage, second in on base percentage and fourth in OPS.
Craska started and played in all 52 games during the regular season for UNA. He is currently tied for the single-season Division I doubles record with 18 so far this season, tied with Andrew Knight in 2023. He is also three hits away from tying the most hits in a Division I season at UNA which was set by Luke Harper in 2022 with 67.

Davenport, a freshman that attended James Clemens high school, appeared in 13 games this season with one start. He posted three wins and three saves during those games with a 3.52 ERA in 30.2 innings pitched. He allowed only 17 hits this season and struck out 35 different batters. When faced, opponents had a dismal .162 batting average against the freshman.

These three led the Lions to their first Division I 20-win season and their first ASUN Tournament berth since the transition. The trio lifted the Lions to their most conference wins during the Division I era.
 
2025 ASUN Baseball Postseason Awards
Player of the Year: Cameron Nickens, Austin Peay
Defensive Player of the Year: Lorenzo Meola, Stetson
Pitcher of the Year: Jonathan Gonzalez, Stetson
Freshman of the Year: Cole Johnson, Austin Peay
Coach of the Year: Roland Fanning, Austin Peay
 
First Team All-ASUN
SP Evan Dempsey, FGCU
SP Richard Long, Jacksonville**
SP Jonathan Gonzalez, Stetson
RP Ty Van Dyke, Stetson
C Trevor Conley, Austin Peay
1B Josh Steidl, Jacksonville
2B Kyler Proctor, Austin Peay
3B Ray Velazquez, Austin Peay
SS Lorenzo Meola, Stetson**
OF ^John Bay, Austin Peay**
OF ^Cameron Nickens, Austin Peay
OF Jaden Bastian, Jacksonville
DH ^Cole Johnson, Austin Peay
 
Second Team All-ASUN
SP Gavin Braunecker, Austin Peay
SP Lyndon Glidewell, Austin Peay
SP Landry Jurecka, Queens
RP Kaden Humphrey, North Florida
C Matthew Delgado, North Alabama
1B Gus Freeman, Austin Peay**
2B Juan De La Cruz, Stetson
3B Isaiah Barkett, Stetson
SS Landon Akers, Bellarmine
OF Evan Dempsey, FGCU
OF Parks Bouck, Lipscomb
OF Jordan Taylor, Stetson
DH Chandler Howard, Jacksonville
 
Third Team All-ASUN
SP Collin Rothermel, Jacksonville
SP Cole O'Brien, Lipscomb
SP Clay Hendry, North Florida
RP Nick Anello, Jacksonville
C Santiago Ordonez, North Florida
1B Petey Craska, North Alabama
2B Jonah Shields, Jacksonville
3B Bryce Cermenelli, Central Arkansas
SS Andres Matias, Austin Peay
OF Zeb Allen, Central Arkansas**
OF Harrison Povey, FGCU**
OF Nick Monile, North Florida
DH Jack Witmer, West Georgia
 
^ denotes a unanimous selection to the All-ASUN First Team
* denotes the number of career All-ASUN selections
 
All-Freshman Team
^Cole Johnson, Austin Peay
^Luke Davenport, North Alabama
^Foster Apple, Stetson
Landon Akers, Bellarmine
Nathan Negre, Central Arkansas
AJ Groeneveld, EKU
Jon Embury, FGCU
Cayden Hessemyer, FGCU
Brady Miller, Lipscomb
Petey Craska, North Alabama
Seth Alford, North Florida
Bryson Treichel, North Florida
Ryan Brown, Queens
 
^ denotes a unanimous selection to the All-Freshman Team

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