Montclair, NJ – The awards keep coming in for junior first baseman PETER COSENTINO and they're even more prestigious. Cosentino was selected to the D3baseball.com All-America Third Team on Wednesday. He was named to the organization's Mid-Atlantic All-Region Second Team in addition to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Mid-Atlantic First Team on Tuesday.
Cosentino, a First-Team All-NJAC selection last month, becomes the first Montclair State player to earn All-American honors from any organization since Rob Bowness was chosen to the ABCA All-America Team in 2006. Cosentino was chosen from among the nearly 900 players nominated from across the eight regions.
The Whitehouse Station, NJ native, enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2021 leading MSU in virtually every offensive category. Cosentino posted a .426 batting average with 49 hits, 42 runs scored, 13 doubles, two triples, nine home runs, and 32 RBI. He totaled 93 bases and registered a slugging percentage of .809, an on-base average of .538 with an OPS of 1.347 while drawing 25 walks.
Cosentino also came up in the clutch for MSU, which went 20-10 this season and finished fourth in the league standings, its highest finish since 2014, and made the league tournament for the first time since 2016. He hit .375 with runners in scoring position with nine of his 32 runs batted in coming with two outs. Fourteen times this year Cosentino had multiple-hit contests with eight contests of two or more RBI. Cosentino also had an 11-game hitting streak during the season.
Cosentino finished second in the NJAC in batting average, led the conference in on-base percentage and home runs, and was second in slugging percentage. He was fourth in run scored, seventh in hits, and sixth in doubles.
Cosentino, a D3baseball "Team of the Week" selection, opened the year in style, belting three homers and finishing with five RBI in a 9-2 victory at Cabrini. He became the first Red Hawk to record a multiple-homer contest since Bond had two against New Jersey City during the 2010 campaign. Cosentino's three homers were also one shy of Dave Kennedy's record of four set during the 1991 NCAA Division III Regional in Ithaca, NY.
Cosentino had six hits, four RBI, and blasted homers in each game as Montclair swept Stockton at home in late March and recorded another multi-homer game with two along with five RBI in a 9-0 victory at The College of New Jersey on April 9.
