CHICO, Calif. – The Cal State San Marcos baseball team saw a record six of its student-athletes earn California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) All-Conference honors on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Austin Ott and Cabot Van Til earned All-CCAA first team honors while Andrew Garcia, Grant Buck and Joseph Bahna were named to the All-CCAA second team. Mike Lopez was named an All-CCAA honorable mention.
 
Ott finished the season ranked third for RBIs (49), first for sacrifice flies (8) and seventh for slugging percentage (.586) in the CCAA. This is Ott's second time earning All-CCAA honors as he took second team honors in 2018. He also collected CCAA Player of the Week honors once during the season.
 
Van Til ranked second for batting average (.384), first for hits (81), second for runs (48) and fifth for total bases (101). His 81 hits for the year were the third most in program history. Van Til was named an All-CCAA honorable mention in 2018.
 
Garcia had the fourth-highest batting average in the CCAA at .373 and had the most multi-RBI games on the team with 13. The junior was the 11th-toughest player to strikeout in the league as he struck out every 9.5 at-bats.
 
In his lone season with the Cougars, Buck ranked third in the CCAA for home runs (10), seventh for hits (62), second for runs (48), fourth for RBIs (48) and fourth for total bases (104) while hitting .335. He was named the CCAA Player of the Week on two occasions.
 
Bahna was the 13th-toughest player to strikeout in the league as he struck out every 9.1 at-bats while hitting .331 with 54 hits, 28 RBIs, 21 runs, nine doubles and a home run.
 
Lopez ended the year with a 6-2 record after going 4-0 for the month of April. His 2.72 ERA was the fourth lowest in the league while his six wins tied for the seventh most. Lopez earned CCAA Pitcher of the Week honors once during the season.
 
Until today, the Cougars' most All-CCAA selections in one season was five in 2016 – its first year in the conference.

The Cougars now have 18 All-CCAA selections since joining the league.

ALL-CCAA FIRST TEAM

Pos.	Name	Yr.	School	Hometown
C	Aaron Kim	RSo.	UC San Diego	Orange
1B	Pierson Loska	Jr.	Cal State Dominguez Hills	Fountain Valley
2B	Gabe Cahvez	Sr.	Cal State San Bernardino	West Covina
SS	Shay Whitcomb	So.	UC San Diego	Newbury Park
3B	Alex Eliopulos	RSr.	UC San Diego	La Jolla
INF (SS)	Tyler Odekirk	Jr.	Cal State L.A.	Rancho Santa Margarita
OF	Kyle Dean	Jr.	Cal State Monterey Bay	San Diego
OF	Adam Gordon	Sr.	Cal State L.A.	Mission Viejo
OF	Austin Ott	RSr.	Cal State San Marcos	Vista
OF	Cabot Van Til	Sr.	Cal State San Marcos	San Diego
P	Tim Holdgrafer	Sr.	Cal Poly Pomona	San Diego
P	Andrew Lopez	Sr.	Chico State	San Diego
P	Brandon Weed	Jr.	UC San Diego	Lemon Grove
P	Chase Wheatcroft	Sr.	Stanislaus State	Santa Clarita
RP	Matt Pulos	Sr.	Stanislaus State	Brentwood
Utility	Alec Daily	Gr.	Cal State L.A.	Temecula
DH	Alex Devito	Sr.	Chico State	Northridge

ALL-CCAA SECOND TEAM

Pos.	Name	Yr.	School	Hometown
C	Andrew Garcia	Jr.	Cal State San Marcos	San Dimas
1B	Grant Buck	Sr.	Cal State San Marcos	Carlsbad
2B	Ryon Knowles	Jr.	Cal Poly Pomona	Corona
SS	JT Navarro	Jr.	Chico State	Fountain Valley
3B	Nate Alam	Sr.	Cal State L.A.	Placentia
INF (3B)	Grant Victor	So.	Stanislaus State	Pasadena
OF	Jeremy Ciolek	So.	Cal State Dominguez Hills	Laguna Niguel
OF	Jack Harris	Jr.	San Francisco State	Watsonville
OF	Braeden Oki	Sr.	Stanislaus State	Tracy
OF	Kyosuke Ushimaru	Sr.	Cal State East Bay	Tokyo, Japan
P	Kevin Hahn	Sr.	Stanislaus State	San Mateo
P	Preston Mott	Sr.	UC San Diego	Clovis
P	Greg Steinbeck	Jr.	Cal State Monterey Bay	San Benito
P	Ted Stuka	Jr.	UC San Diego	Newport Beach
RP	Kyle Lucke	Sr.	UC San Diego	El Dorado Hills
Utility	Joseph Bahna	So.	Cal State San Marcos	Upland
DH	Nic Hernandez	Sr.	Cal Poly Pomona	San Dimas

ALL-CCAA HONORABLE MENTION
C – Noe Garcia (CSULA), Logan Gopperton (CPP); 1B – Blake Baumgartner (UCSD); Kory Brown (SSU); 2B – Kyle Czaplak (CSUMB), Vinny Margiotta (STAN); 3B – Adam Hollar (CSUEB); OF – Alex Athanacio (UCSD), TJ Dove (CSUMB), Kai Gomez (CSUDH), Zachary Guardino (SSU), Nic Hernandez (CPP), Cesar Lopez (CPP); P – Jack Higgins (SFSU), Austin Isenhart (CPP), Grant Larson (CHICO), Mike Lopez (CSUSM), Ethan McRae (CSUMB), Brian Martinez (CSUEB), Rylan Tinsley (STAN); UTIL – Keenan Brigman (UCSD), Domenic Colacchio (CSUDH), Harley Lopez (SFSU); DH – Steve Robinson (CSUEB), Kokko Figueiredo (CSUMB).