2012 D3Baseball.com All-Central Region Team

A total of three North Park baseball players were named to the D3Baseball.com All-Central Region team for the 2012 season.

Junior Nick Soldano and senior Steve Kuligowski earned First Team All-Central honors, while senior Matt Rice earned Third Team honors.

Soldano, a native of Lake Zurich, Illinois, who was also named an All-CCIW First Team selection as well as CCIW Co-Pitcher of the Year, led the team with 99 strikeouts and a second-best 3.12 earned run average. He also had a second-best 9-2 record and .258 opponents' batting average. In addition he earned two CCIW Pitcher of the Week honors (April 3 and May 1) and pitched a season-high 101 innings, earning one save.

Kuligowski, a native of Grayslake, Illinois, who earned All-CCIW First Team honors as well, led the team with a 2.76 earned run average and had a team second-best 91 strikeouts. In addition, he had a .262 opponents' batting average, and a team-best 11-2 record, becoming only the second pitcher in North Park history to reach double-digit wins in a season.

Making all 43 starts in center field, Rice, a native of Park Ridge, Illinois, and an All-CCIW First Team pick, led the team in batting average (.392) and led the team in on-base percentage (.495). He also had a team second-best 43 runs scored, a third-best 62 hits and led the team in hit by pitch (14) and stolen bases (22).

North Park finished the season with a 32-14 record, the most wins by a Viking squad since the 1983 season, and captured the CCIW regular season and tournament championship, its first outright in 22 years.