NEWMAC Announces 2004 All-Conference Baseball Team
Wheaton’s Keith Cooper Named Player of the Year

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Wheaton College senior outfielder Keith Cooper (Swampscott, MA) was named the New England Women’s
and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Player of the Year. Cooper helped lead the Lyons to a 9-3 conference record and the
first seed in the NEWMAC Championship for the sixth straight year. Through games Sunday, April 25, he was seventh in the
conference in batting average (.372), third in RBI (39), third in doubles (11), fifth in runs scored (27), fifth in stolen bases (8)
and first in triples (5). The senior was also named to the all-conference first team for the second consecutive year. Senior
pitcher Trevor Alexander (Wilton, ME) joins Copper on the first team. Babson, who won the NEWMAC Championship for
the first time in the history of the conference, had three players selected to the all-conference first team. Leading the way was
sophomore catcher Ted Dziuba (Wayne, NJ). Dziuba was fourth in the league in batting average (.392), second in home
runs (7), first in RBI (45) and second in runs scored (31). Joining Dziuba on the all-conference first team are teammates,
senior pitcher Jason Kosow (Exeter, NH) and junior pitcher Jimmy Burke (Milton, MA). Kosow was ranked second in the
NEWMAC in ERA (2.26) with 55.2 innings pitched and second in strikeouts (50). Burked, who was ranked fourth in winning
percentage with 6-1, led the conference with 53 strikeouts and was sixth in ERA (2.68).

Babson’s head coach Matt Noone, who led the Beavers to a 8-4 NEWMAC record, was named Coach of the Year
while leading Babson to four straight wins in the tournament to claim the title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Babson defeated Clark (10-1), Coast Guard (8-6), Wheaton (9-0) and Springfield (8-3) en route to the championship. Wheaton
had won five straight conference championships.

Completing the all-conference first team was Clark’s senior outfielder Dave McNamara (Worcester, MA), Coast
Guard’s senior outfielder Aaron Meredith (Montville, CT), Springfield’s senior pitcher Todd Royce (Chester, NH) and WPI’s
sophomore second baseman Nick Angelini (Braintree, MA).

Coast Guards’s Chuck Arena (Houston, TX) was named Rookie of the Year. Arena, an outfielder, was 13th in the
conference batting average (.346) and had a .386 average in conference games. He struck out just three times in 108 plate
appearances and did not make an error in NEWMAC games on 24 chances.

Babson’s senior outfielder Mike Muccio (Northboro, MA), Clark’s senior infielder Michael Burnham (Hadley, MA),
Coast Guard’s junior shortstop Nick Anderson (Westerly, RI), MIT’s junior pitcher/shortstop Mike Batty (Golden Valley,
MN), MIT’s sophomore second baseman Wayne Duggan (Hazel Green, AL), MIT’s sophomore catcher Kyle Zeller (Sea
Ranch Lake, FL), Springfield’s junior shortstop Matt Basteri (Melrose, MA), Springfield’s junior outfielder/catcher Anthony
Gorneault (Springfield, MA), Wheaton’s first-year shortstop Brandon Leonard (Brockton, MA) and WPI’s TJ McLaughlin
(Manchester, CT) were all named to the all-conference second team.

NEWMAC All-Conference First Team

NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team

Player of the Year
Keith Cooper, Wheaton

Rookie of the Year
Chuck Arena, Coast Guard

Coach of the Year
Matt Noone, Babson