2025 OCCAC Baseball News
Fifty programs are represented on the OCCAC All-Academic Team for Spring '25 with all nine conference institutions receiving recognition.
For the second year in a row, Cuyahoga Community College has been crowned the OCCAC’s top athletics program as the All-Sports Award winners.
Cuyahoga Community College paced the conference with seven baseball players voted All-OCCAC, including a half dozen First Teamers.
Edison State Softball’s Kaycie Albers and Marissa Pine were joined by Kohan Merritt (Cuyahoga) and Kai Canson (Hocking) as the latest OCCAC Players/Pitchers of the Week (Apr. 21-27).
Marissa Pine (Edison State), a four-time OCCAC Pitcher of the Week, can now also lay claim to being an OCCAC Position Player of the Week for April 14-20. Her baseball counterpart is also a Charger — Parker Shannon. The pitcher award winners this week are Sammi Zabak (Cuyahoga) and Noah West (Hocking).
Mason Johnson (Terra State) and Marissa Pine (Edison State) both wrangled their third OCCAC weekly honor this season and fourth of their career as this week’s OCCAC Baseball Player and Softball Pitcher of the Week, respectively. They are joined by first-time honorees Jenna Dirksen (Edison State) and Vinny Gallaher (Cuyahoga).
Three different institutions are represented in the latest OCCAC weekly awards.
Julee Phillips (Cuyahoga) secured her third consecutive OCCAC Pitcher of the Week recognition, and was joined by another 3-time winner (twice this season) in Terra State’s Mason Johnson as the Baseball Player of the Week.
Julee Phillips (Cuyahoga) and Jackson Smith (Lakeland) both defended their crown as the OCCAC Pitchers of the Week, snagging the award for a second consecutive week. They are joined by a pair of first-time honorees for OCCAC Position Player of the Week — Alexis Sheridan (Lorain County) and Jonathon Woedl (Hocking).
Mason Johnson (Terra State) and Jackson Smith (Lakeland) are back as the OCCAC’s Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, and are joined by a pair of freshmen from Cuyahoga Softball — Gabrielle Nieves (position player) and Julee Phillips (pitcher).
Four student-athletes have been selected as the OCCAC Athletes of the Week for March 3-9. Edison State’s Marissa Pine (pitcher) and Byson Arthur (position player) are joined by Coltin Chany (pitcher, Owens) and Isabella Kepple (position player, Cuyahoga).
A pair of student-athletes from both Edison State Softball and Terra State Baseball have been selected as the OCCAC’s first Spring Athletes of the Week in 2025.
It’s a long scroll to get through the entire list (below) of OCCAC All-Academic Team members for the past semester.