2024-25 Baseball News

Conforti named NAIA Third Team All-American
Conforti named NAIA Third Team All-American

June 04, 2025

St. Ambrose first baseman Jeremy Conforti was named an NAIA All-American as the national postseason baseball awards were announced by the league office. He was named to the third team.

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Five Bees named to CSC Academic All-District Team

June 03, 2025

Brad Niedzwiedz, Kevin Niedzwiedz, Brandon Matias, Jake Pauley and Brandon Roth were named to the 2025 Academic All-District NAIA Baseball Team as selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC).

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Conforti named POY; joins Niedzwiedz on all-CCAC First Team

May 08, 2025

A year of firsts continued. Days after earning a share of its first Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) regular-season championship, the St. Ambrose baseball team had its first player earn CCAC Player of the Year honors.

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Early deficit too much to overcome in CCAC Tournament

May 02, 2025

Behind a five-run first, Olivet Nazarene built an 8-0 lead after three innings to ultimately defeat St. Ambrose 11-4 in an elimination game at the CCAC Tournament at Slammers Stadium in Joliet, Ill., Friday.

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St. Ambrose keeps season alive with win over VIterbo

May 01, 2025

Jeremy Conforti and Brandon Roth each drove in three runs and Joe Turek worked into the eighth inning as St. Ambrose kept its season alive with an 8-2 win over Viterbo in an elimination game at the CCAC Tournament Thursday.

Spring All-Academic selections released by the CCAC
Spring All-Academic selections released by the CCAC

April 30, 2025

The Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference announced the spring sports All-Academic Teams earlier today. A total of 68 Bees were named to the All-Academic Teams this winter (9 baseball, 4 men's golf, 3 women's golf, 8 softball, 1 men's tennis, 6 women's tennis, 17 men's track and field, 13 women's track and field, and 7 men's volleyball). The St. Ambrose and St. Xavier women's golf teams led the CCAC in the number of All-Academic student-athletes with three student-athletes. Danny Molony, Kylee Claypool, and Ryleigh Warden held a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA. 

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SAU earns share of CCAC title; enters conference tourney as No. 2 seed

April 30, 2025

St. Ambrose earned a share of the regular-season conference title and will enter the upcoming CCAC Tournament as the No. 2 seed as postseason play gets underway Wednesday.

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Conforti named CCAC Player of the Week

April 29, 2025

CHICAGO --- St. Ambrose University's Jeremy Conforti (Villa Park, Ill.) and Saint Xavier University's Jimmy Fairley (Lake in the Hills, Ill.) have claimed the final set of Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball weekly awards for 2025, the league office announced on Tuesday.

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Bees earn two seed with Senior Day victories

April 26, 2025

St. Ambrose guaranteed itself at least a share of second place and the two seed in the upcoming CCAC Tournament by sweeping a doubleheader from Calumet Saturday.

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St. Ambrose scores 33 runs to take first two from CCSJ

April 25, 2025

St. Ambrose got back to .500 by sweeping a doubleheader at Calumet by scores of 13-0 and 20-4 Friday in Whiting, Ind.

Fighting Bees named as NAIA Scholar-Athletes
Fighting Bees named as NAIA Scholar-Athletes

April 23, 2025

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the 2025 Daktroncis NAIA Scholar-Athletes awards earlier today. Of the winter student-athletes at St. Ambrose, 66 (3 men's basketball, 4 women's basketball, 6 competitive cheer, 11 competitive dance, 25 men's swimming and diving, 12 women's swimming and diving, and 5 men's wrestling) were named NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

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Bees split non-conference doubleheader at Clarke

April 22, 2025

Nine runs over the final three innings propelled St. Ambrose to a 12-4 victory over Clarke in the first game of a doubleheader Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. The Pride bounced back to win the second game 10-5.

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SAU gets win No. 20 by taking down Grand View

April 16, 2025

St. Ambrose reached the 20-win plateau by handing Grand View just its seventh loss of the season in a 10-8 victory at Modern Woodmen Park Wednesday.

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Offense erupts to help SAU get split at Judson

April 12, 2025

St. Ambrose exploded for 13 hits leading to 13 runs in a 13-1 win at Judson in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday. The Eagles bounced back to get the second game 15-5 to win the four-game series.

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St. Ambrose drops two in extra innings to Judson

April 11, 2025

St. Ambrose dropped a pair of extra-inning games to Judson Friday afternoon at NelsonCorp Field in Clinton, Iowa. The Bees lost 4-3 and 6-4, both in eight innings.

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Winning streak snapped by Fighting Saints

April 08, 2025

St. Ambrose saw its seven-game winning streak snapped as its home struggles continued. The Bees dropped to 1-5 in home games in Clinton, Iowa, after dropping a doubleheader to St. Francis by scores of 7-4 and 9-2 Tuesday afternoon.