Currier Earns D3Baseball.com All-American Status
SALEM, Mass. - After being named to the D3baseball.com All-Region II First Team, Nolan Currier (Maynard, Mass.) garnered D3baseball.com Fifth-Team All-American status, as announced by D3baseball.com on Thursday, May 28. He is just one of two Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) student-athletes to earn the honor. He becomes just the seventh Viking to earn All-American honors and the first since 2016 when Richard Fecteau was named a D3baseball.com Pre-Season All-American. He is also the third pitcher to earn the honor and the first since Steve Stapleton in 1993-94.
On the mound, Currier had a career year for Salem, setting numerous career-bests: wins (six), complete games (four), innings pitched (50.1), strikeouts (54), ERA (1.07), WHIP (0.97, and batting average against (.140). He also led the squad in wins, complete games, K/9 (9.66 - min. 35.0 IP), strikeouts, ERA, and WHIP. In terms of the MASCAC, he ranked among the top five in multiple pitching categories, including ERA (1st), wins (2nd), K/9 (5th), and WHIP (2nd).
His 1.07 ERA was also the second best in all of Division III and was the only pitcher from the MASCAC to be ranked within the top five in the country. Currier struck out five or more batters in each start, highlighted by a career-high 11 in a 3-0 win over Anna Maria, where he allowed just two hits. Along with his strong season, he was named MASCAC Pitcher of the Week twice. Statistically, Currier ranked within the top-10 of numerous pitching categories in program history for season performance, including: ERA (third), shutouts (fourth), batting average against (second), wins (sixth),
At the plate, Currier also had a stellar year for the Vikes. He posted a career-high .342 batting average, 26 hits, six doubles, a career-high three triples, 18 RBIs, a .404 on-base percentage, and a career-high .500 slugging percentage. On the team, he was first in slugging and second in batting average. He was also one of seven Salem hitters to record 15 or more RBIs. In contests where he recorded multiple hits, Salem was 7-2. As for where he stood in the MASCAC for hitting, he was ranked in the top-15 in triples (third), slugging (11th), and batting average (15th).