Montclair, NJ – Senior PETER COSENTINO of the Montclair State baseball team was named an Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America Tuesday.

Cosentino, who was named to the Second Team, was one of three New Jersey Athletic Conference student-athletes to gain All-America honors. Ricky Voss of NJCU joined Cosentino on the Second Team, as Colin Lombardo of William Paterson was tabbed to the Third Team. The slugging first baseman, who boasts a 3.70 GPA as an accounting major, is the first baseball student-athlete in program history to be named a CoSIDA Academic All-American.

Last week, the Whitehouse Station, NJ native was named First Team All-Region by D3baseball.com and the ABCA and was a First Team All-NJAC choice this season. He batted .352 with 25 hits, 21 runs scored, seven doubles, two home runs, and 14 RBI during the 18-game league slate. He slugged .563 and had an on-base percentage of .434 with an OPS of .997. Cosentino was ninth in the NJAC in slugging percentage, eighth in doubles, and sixth in runs scored. Overall all this season, the slugging first baseman from Whitehouse Station batted .383 with 67 hits, 17 doubles, 10 home runs, and 52 RBI while also scoring 56 runs. On Alumni Appreciation Day, the first baseman delivered a dramatic walk-off single down the left-field line to help Montclair come from three runs down in the ninth to top TCNJ 4-3. In the two NCAA Tournament games, Cosentino went 5-for-7 with five runs scored while homering and knocking in two against Ithaca.

Cosentino is the second Academic All-America selection for Montclair State this year, joining men's soccer goalkeeper Shane Keenan, a Second Team choice. Two other student-athlete, Allyn Lilien of women's lacrosse and John Griffith of men's track and field, received Academic All-District honors last month and are eligible for All-American later in June.