General | 8/3/2023 10:30:00 AM
New York, New York – For the first time since 2020, Borough of Manhattan Community College Athletics will recap the year by counting down the Top-10 most memorable moments of the 2022-23 season, with nine sports represented. Each Top-10 moment voted by our athletics staff will be unveiled, with a recap every Tuesday and Thursday for the next five weeks, culminating with our top moment of the 2022-23 athletic year, released Thursday, August 31st.
No. 9 – BMCC Baseball's Frank Reyes Becomes First Panthers Player To Grab First-Team All-Region 15 Honors In 13 Years
Continuing at No. 9 in our 2022-23 Top-10 Moments is BMCC Baseball's Frank Reyes (Brooklyn, New York), becoming the first Panther player in 13 years to earn All-Region 15 First Team honors. Reyes joined program greats Stanley DeLaCruz, Harry Santiago, and Garison Polius, who were also named All-Region 15 First Team selections during the 2012 season.
Reyes provided a lethal bat in the Panther lineup in the lead-off spot during his two years at BMCC and produced one of the program's best seasons in over a decade in 2023. The Brooklyn native had his best season this year, leading the Panthers in seven different offensive categories and tying for first in another. The sophomore shortstop registered season-bests in nine different offensive categories leading the Panthers for a second straight season in batting average (.397), hits (29), and doubles (7) while also leading BMCC in slugging percentage (.616), RBIs (22), steals (20), multi-hit games (9), multi-RBI games (6) and tying for the lead in triples (3). He was also second in runs scored with 21.
Reyes also grabbed CUNYAC All-Star accolades for a second consecutive season, the first Panther ballplayer to do it since Wilson Aristy accomplished that feat during the 2013 and 2015 seasons while also finishing his career in the top five in five single-season and all-time offensive categories.
His seven doubles and three triples are the second most in a single season, while his 22 RBIs and 20 steals are the third most in a single season, and his 29 hits rank fourth. Reyes finishes his career tied for second all-time with three career triples. His 45 career hits and 29 steals are third most in school history, and his 26 career RBIs and 11 career doubles are fourth.
Reye's best performance in the season came in the Panther's home opening victory over Queensborough Community College on March 21st in a dominant 17-5 for the program's first regular season win since the 2019 season and the team's biggest hitting output since 2018. The sophomore went off for a career-high four hits and four RBIs to go along with two doubles for the second time, which tied a career-high.
The sophomore shortstop also made headlines nationally earlier this year, getting to as high as third in the country earlier in the season with a .625 batting average.
Reyes also impacted BMCC in the infield as the shortstop finishing the season second on the team with 66 putouts and posting 91 putouts for his career while also getting it done in the classroom, being named 2022-23 NJCAA All-Academic Second Team and Region 15 All-Academic Team accolades.
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