Felician University

Matthew Ryan Diesel.

2018: Consensus All-American (First Team NCBWA & ABCA, Second Team CCA)... First Team Google Cloud Academic All-American... consensus East Region Player of the Year and First Team All-East Region... Google Cloud Academic All-District... CACC Player of the Year... First-Team All-CACC... CACC All-Academic... started all 55 games (20 LF, 20 CF, 15 DH)... hit .435 (sixth in D-II) and slugged .700 with .500 on-base percentage... set single-season Felician records for hits (87), doubles (25) and RBI (65) and led East Region in all three... had eight triples, four home runs, 51 runs scored, 28 walks and 11 steals... began season with school-record 42-game reached-base streak (50 dating back to end of 2017)... was 7 for 7 with two HR and seven RBI in split at Dominican 3/29... 200th career hit was Game 2 walk-off single vs. Jefferson 4/13... went 3 for 3 with two doubles, a triple, and four RBI in two innings vs. Concordia 5/1... two-time CACC Player of the Week... NCBWA East Region Hitter of the Week 4/3... will graduate as school career triples leader (25) and second all time in hits (231), runs (161) and RBI (154).

2017: Second-Team All-CACC... NCAA East Regional All-Championship Team... inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma college athlete honor society... CoSIDA Academic All-District... Academic All-CACC... played in all 50 games, starting 48... batted .310 with eight doubles, six triples, six homers, 47 runs, and 36 RBI... was second in CACC in runs scored and triples (both to teammates)... put together a 25-game reached-base streak... earned 100th career hit vs. Caldwell in Lantana, Fla. 3/10... scored 100th career run at Post 4/28... hit 10th career HR at Goldey-Beacom 4/30... had a homer and 3 RBI in win over then-national No. 1 Nova Southeastern 3/7... strung together six straight multi-hit games in early April... was 5 for 15 with five RBI in the NCAA Tournament.

2016: Consensus all-region selection (First Team ABCA, Second Team D2CCA & NCBWA)... first team all-CACC... Academic All-CACC... started all 55 games... hit .341 with 14 doubles, seven triples, five home runs, 49 runs scored, and 43 RBI... finished among the top five in the CACC in runs, hits (70), RBI, doubles and triples... hit first career home run vs. Molloy in Myrtle Beach, S.C. 2/27... went 6 for 8 and scored five runs in sweep of USciences 3/19... was 5 for 8 with two doubles and two triples in pair of wins at Mercy 4/8... went 5 for 9 with four RBI in championship round of CACC Tournament 5/14.

2015: Had season cut short after 21 games by injury... went 20 for 64 (.313) with seven doubles,, four triples, 14 runs scored and 10 RBI... slugged .547 and added 11 walks for a .418 on-base percentage... went 12 for 24 in his final seven games of the season... two-time CACC Rookie of the Week.

Prior to Felician: All-League and Scholar-Athlete Award winner for coach Tom Sheedy at Massapequa (N.Y.) High... team won 2013 Nassau County championship... National Honor Society member... played travel baseball for the Massapequa Cyclones and the Long Island Prospects.

Personal: Son of Chris and Linda Diesel... has a younger sister, Juliana... completed B.S. in accounting in December 2017 with 3.71 GPA... is pursuing MBA... born 5/7/96 in Massapequa Park, N.Y.