Designated hitter graduated with 3.81 GPA in biology

Northeast-10 Student-Athlete Sport Excellence Award Winners

RINDGE, N.H. (July 13, 2011) – Derek Ingui '11 (Sterling, Mass.), after his final season with the Franklin Pierce University baseball team, has been selected as the recipient of a Northeast-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award, as announced Wednesday by the conference office.

Ingui is the third Raven to capture a Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award in the last two years, joining women's soccer's Angelika Johansson and women's basketball's Johannah Leedham from 2009-10.

The Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence awards are chosen by a committee of athletic administrators and Faculty Athletic Representatives. The Northeast-10 honors one student-athlete per conference-sponsored sport each year, based on a combination of academic and athletic criteria.

To be eligible for the Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award, a student-athlete must have completed at least two consecutive semesters of full-time enrollment at their current institution and at least two years of athletic eligibility at any institution. In addition, the student-athlete must have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of a 3.30.

Ingui, who graduated with a 3.81 grade-point average to earn a bachelor's degree in biology, put together one of the most impressive offensive seasons in the nation in 2011, especially given that he played in a wood-bat conference. He finished the season ranked among the top 85 players in the country in batting average (.387), runs scored per game (0.96), runs scored (52), hits (75), home runs per game (0.19), home runs (10), runs batted in (47), slugging percentage (.634) and total bases (123).

It is not the first academic award for Ingui, who was selected to the CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-America Second Team earlier in 2011, and is a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection. On the field this spring, he was a consensus All-East Region First Team selection, having earned the honor from the NCBWA, the ABCA and Daktronics, and was a member of the inaugural edition of the College Baseball Lineup DII All-Stars. Before that, Ingui was named to the All-Northeast-10 First Team and was also a semifinalist for College Baseball Lineup's Tino Martinez DII Player of the Year Award.

The Ravens wrapped up the 2011 campaign at 40-14, reaching the 40-win plateau for the second year in a row and the fifth time in program history, all in the last six years. Franklin Pierce hosted NCAA Regional play for the sixth time in school history, all in the last seven years.

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