2024 All-RMAC Baseball Teams

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Nine Orediggers were recognized on the 2024 All-RMAC Baseball teams Wednesday just hours before Mines' conference tournament opener.
 
Mason Andrews and Luke Folsom were First-Team All-RMAC selections. Folsom stood out with first-team nods at both starting pitcher and infielder. He's the first Oredigger to earn First-Team All-RMAC status at two positions in the same season since Nate Ollinger was honored at pitcher and in the outfield in 2016. Alex Honeyman and Tyler Pina were Second-Team All-RMAC for Mines. Keene Tanaka appeared on the Gold Glove team and claimed Honorable Mention All-RMAC distinction. Evan Bilter, I-Ly Hsue, Ben Schoneman, and Jackson Woolwine were Honorable Mention All-RMAC as well.
 
Superlative awards were spread around the league. The 2024 RMAC Co-Players of the Year were Rob Sharrar (Colorado Mesa) and Mike Bathauer (Adams State). Tyler Curtis (CSU Pueblo) won RMAC Pitcher of the Year. Ethan Nunez (Colorado Mesa) was voted RMAC Freshman Position Player of the Year. Andrew Rodriguez (New Mexico Highlands) claimed RMAC Freshman Pitcher of the Year. Adams State's Bruce DelTondo earned 2024 RMAC Coach of the Year. Teams and awards were voted on by the league's nine head coaches. They could not vote for their own players.
 
Andrews' First-Team All-RMAC selection marks the first all-conference award of the redshirt junior's career. During the 2024 regular season, he started 45 games and produced a .390 batting average while leading the team with 63 runs on 64 hits including 11 doubles and 16 home runs with 53 RBI. Andrews also walked 28 times and was hit 15 times on the way to a .517 on-base percentage. He added 10 stolen bases as well. Heading into the postseason, the McKinney, Texas, native ranks #26 in the nation in home runs and #10 in runs per game. In the Mines record book, Andrews is tied for #2 in all-time home runs, tied for #4 in single-season runs, tied for #4 in single-season home runs, #7 in all-time runs scored, #9 in single-season RBI, tied for #8 in all-time walks and tied for #8 in single-season total bases.
 
Folsom, as stated above, brought home First-Team All-RMAC accolades as a starting pitcher and at the conference's infielder position. Other Orediggers with all-conference status at multiple positions include the aforementioned Ollinger in 2016 with Walter Pennington appearing as Honorable All-RMAC designated hitter and starting pitcher in 2018. The selections mark the first nods to the top team in Folsom's career. He was Second-Team All-RMAC at designated hitter in 2022. On the mound in 2024, the Littleton, Colo., native is 5-1 with a 5.34 ERA in 10 starts. He's tossed one complete game, struck out 50 batters and walked 15 across 55.2 innings of work. Folsom anchors a pitching staff that leads the entire RMAC with its staff ERA of 6.78. His opponent batting average of .278 ranks #1 in the RMAC among qualifying pitchers and his ERA ranks #2. He's also top-10 in strikeouts looking, wins, fewest hits allowed, fewest runs allowed, and walks allowed. Folsom starts at third base and appears at designated hitter as well, giving him 46 starts for the season. In 156 at-bats, he's hitting .359 with 43 runs on 56 hits including 16 doubles and nine home runs with 48 RBI. Folsom has walked 21 times and been hit 19 more times. He's also stolen eight bases. So far, Folsom appears more than 20 times in the program record book. Those listings include, but are not limited to, #1 in single-game doubles and single-season doubles, #2 in career doubles, #6 in all-time home runs, #3 in all-time RBI, tied for #5 in career walks, and #6 in career total bases.
 
Honeyman brings home Second-Team All-RMAC distinction as a true sophomore, marking the first such award of his career. He's part of the starting rotation on a staff that ranked #1 in the RMAC in ERA during the regular season. The San Antonio native went 6-3 with a 6.25 ERA in 12 starts. He threw three complete games and helped with one shutout. Honeyman struck out 58 batters and walked 21 across 59.0 innings of work. His strikeouts and total innings pitched were #1 on the team. He also ranked #34 in the nation for his three complete games. Withing the RMAC, Honeyman was top-10 in 15 different categories including ERA, wins, strikeouts, and opposing batting average.
 
Pina, also a true sophomore, won Second-Team All-RMAC as part of Mines' catcher rotation. In just 29 games and 20 starts, he batted .368 with 18 runs on 28 hits including nine doubles and six home runs for a .724 slugging percentage. The Morgan Hill, Calif., native racked up 28 RBI and walked 12 times as well. He enters the postseason with five home runs in his last 10 games. During the same span Pina touts a .416 batting average thanks to 15 hits and an active seven-game hitting streak.
 
Tanaka, in his sixth year with the Orediggers, not only earned Honorable Mention All-RMAC for the first time, but grabbed distinction as the best defensive catcher in the league. His 2024 RMAC Gold Glove team nod is also the first of his career. At the plate, during the 2024 regular season, Tanaka batted. 313 with 16 runs on 31 hits including four doubles and three home runs with 25 RBI. He walked five times, was hit twice and stole two bases in 40 games and 29 starts. Behind the plate, the Honolulu, Hawaii, native fielded .996 with just one error while putting up 213 putouts with 22 assists. He also gunned down seven runners attempting to steal bases.
 
On the Honorable Mention All-RMAC list, Bilter put together a .430 batting average across 36 games and 31 starts, mostly as a designated hitter. His average ranked #3 in the RMAC among qualifying hitters. Hsue, Mines' starter at second base, hit .322, scored 44 runs, had 15 doubles, and hit 10 home runs. He also had just four errors on 160 chances in the field at second base. Schoneman, a starting pitcher on the staff with the #1 ERA in the league, went 2-2 with one complete game and posted a 5.80 ERA. He struck out 38 and walked 15 in 45.0 innings of work while holding opponents to a .267 average. Woolwine rounded out the Honorable Mention All-RMAC list as one of the top outfielders in the RMAC. He hit .383 with 63 runs on 62 hits including 22 doubles, five triples, and five home runs with 30 RBI. The Boulder, Colo., native also walked 32 times, was hit 14 times, posted a .512 on-base percentage and stole 25 bases. He ranked #4 in the nation in doubles per game, #26 in total runs scored, #15 in runs per game, #43 in stolen bases and #24 in triples. Within the RMAC, Woolwine was #1 in doubles, #1 in triples, #2 in runs scored, #2 in stolen bases, #4 in walks, and #4 in on-base percentage.
 
The nine All-RMAC Orediggers lead Mines into the first game of the 2024 RMAC Baseball Tournament, facing fourth-seeded Adams State at 12 p.m. on Wednesday in Grand Junction, Colo. Pay-per-view video of the tournament is available on the RMAC Network. There will also be free live stats linked at www.minesathletics.com.

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