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Capece honored by Patriot League
Former T'Bolts star named student-athlete of the year
From www.BucknellBison.com
July 7, 2006
[Editor's note: Matt Capece played for the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts in 2005]
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell's Matt Capece (Bowie, Md./DeMatha Catholic) was named the Patriot League Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the league office announced on Friday. Capece was one of two members of the Baseball Academic Honor Roll to achieve a grade-point average of 4.0 or above this spring and is the fourth Bison to be named the league's Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Capece, who graduated from Bucknell this May, became the school's 111th Academic All-American recently when he was named to the ESPN The Magazine 2006 Academic All-America Baseball Third Team.
An All-Patriot League first team selection, Capece started all but one game at shortstop for the Bison this spring and missed just two contests in his final two seasons with the Orange and Blue. In 20 Patriot League games in 2006, Capece registered a league-best 18 RBI and a .447 batting average. He batted .336 overall in his senior campaign with 31 runs scored and posted career highs with 59 hits, 26 RBI and eight doubles. His team-high 17 stolen bases was also a career-best and he led the Bucknell squad with 10 sacrifice hits as well.
In addition to his on-field accomplishments, Capece enjoyed success in the classroom with a cumulative 3.71 GPA as a civil and environmental engineering major with a minor in mathematics (statistics). A four-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll member, Capece participated in Bucknell Brigade, a week-long service trip to Nicaragua which involved collecting monetary and medical donations on campus, was a member of Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity and as a member of Sigma Chi, organized and participated in a local Habitat for Humanity project.
The Bison, who finished the 2006 season as Patriot League regular season co-champions and tournament runners-up, placed a league-high 13 student-athletes on the 2006 Patriot League Baseball Academic Honor Roll.
