2026 OCCAC Baseball News
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2026 OCCAC Baseball Awards
May 20, 2026The 2026 OCCAC Baseball honors are split between D-II and D-III competitors with All-OCCAC recognition spread across a pair of D-II teams and a D-II squad. -
Final Weekly Awards of 2025-26 Presented
May 04, 2026Five individuals representing four institutions are the recipients of the OCCAC’s final Spring Athletes of the Week accolades this season.
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OCCAC’s Latest Athletes of the Week Honorees
April 27, 2026Familiar faces Mackenzie Byrne (Edison State) and Julee Phillips (Cuyahoga) snagged the conference’s weekly softball awards for April 20-26. Two incredible performances by Gavin McLane (Bryant & Stratton) and Jamir Ross (Cuyahoga) resulted in co-Player of the Week recognition for baseball while Owens’ Parker Woods earned Pitcher of the Week honors.
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Impressive Efforts Lead to Conference Honors
April 20, 2026Marissa Pine (Edison State), winner of three consecutive OCCAC Pitcher of the Week awards, is joined this week by her teammate Mackenzie Byrne and baseball honorees Dennarius Walk (Terra State) and now two-time Pitcher of the Week Max Wagar (Bryant & Stratton, OH).
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Four Athletes Rise Above the Rest
April 13, 2026Three institutions are represented in the latest OCCAC Athletes of the Week recognition as Cuyahoga’s Josie Miliken (softball) and Keegan Gilbride (baseball) earned Position Player and Pitcher of the Week accolades, respectively, and Tyler Biskup (baseball) of Bryant & Stratton (OH) and Marissa Pine (softball) from Edison State earned the other awards for their respective sports.
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Bobcats, Chargers Sweep Weekly Honors
April 06, 2026Pairs representing Bryant & Stratton (OH) Baseball and Edison State Softball were selected as the latest OCCAC Athletes of the Week on April 6.
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Pitchers Repeat in OCCAC Weekly Awards
March 30, 2026Julee Phillips (Cuyahoga) and Andrew Smith (Hocking) are back again as the OCCAC’s Pitchers of the Week, a fourth consecutive honor for Phillips. Their teammates Reese Adkins (Cuyahoga) and Grayson Briggs (Hocking) are the Position Players of the Week.
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Five Earn Weekly Conference Award
March 23, 2026Four conference institutions and five teams are represented in the latest OCCAC Athletes of the Week laurels. The softball honorees hail from Cuyahoga and Edison State while the trio of baseball picks are enrolled at Cuyahoga, Hocking and Terra State.
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‘tops Trio Flanked by a Titan in Weekly Awards
March 16, 2026Cuyahoga Softball swept OCCAC honors for the second straight week, joined by Triceratops classmate Patrick Farrell as the Baseball Player of the Week. Baseball Pitcher of the Week recognition went to Logan Walder of Terra State.
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First Softball Awards of 2026, Third Installment for Baseball
March 09, 2026Cuyahoga Softball won five of six games last week (March 2-8), leading to two Triceratops — Isabelle Kepple and Julee Phillips — earning OCCAC Athlete of the Week recognition. Baseball’s honorees were Terra State’s Brendan Barlage (position player) and Lorain County’s Dylan Coughlin (pitcher).
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Baseball’s Best Tabbed as March Arrives
March 02, 2026Kael Longwell (Hocking) and Breyton Reisinger (Edison State) were recognized by the conference office as the latest (Feb. 23-March 1) OCCAC Baseball Athletes of the Week.
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Lead-off Award Winners
February 16, 2026Ryan Deveraux (Hocking) and Abe Delano (Owens) put the recent snow conditions of Ohio behind them and started off their 2026 baseball seasons on a hot streak. Both student-athletes were unanimous selections for the OCCAC Position Player and Pitcher of the Week awards, respectively.
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OCCAC All-Academic Team Announced for Fall 2025
January 20, 2026Nearly 50 programs representing all nine conference institutions placed student-athletes on the OCCAC All-Academic Team for Fall ’25. A 3.30 grade-point average with 12 completed credit hours is required to receive the honor.
