Schulte, Rios Land Top Honors for DII Baseball

Schulte, Rios Land Top Honors for DII Baseball

The 2025 Division II All-Region Baseball teams were released Thursday, showcasing the top performers from across the ICCAC. Southeastern, the 2025 Region 11 regular season champions, led the way with five First Team selections, while the season's top individual awards were split among three programs.

Cal Sullivan of Kirkwood was named the ICCAC Player of the Year. 

In 33 league games, Sullivan led the ICCAC in hits (56), doubles (23), and average (.455) and was top five in RBI (47) walks (26), on-base percentage (.561) and slugging (.837).

The Pitcher of the Year honor went to Chris McCormack of Iowa Central.

Southeastern's Abrahan Rios earned Defensive Player of the Year, anchoring the Blackhawks in the field with an elite .995 fielding percentage. Rios committed only two errors in 52 games and just one during Southeastern's 33-game conference slate. He also recorded 228 outs in conference play, the second-most in the ICCAC, showing both range and reliability.

The Coach of the Year award went to Justin Schulte, who led Southeastern to its second-straight ICCAC regular season title with a dominant 29-4 conference record. Under Schulte's guidance, the Blackhawks climbed as high as No. 3 nationally and currently sit at No. 6, all but ensuring an at-large NJCAA World Series bid with their 48-13 overall record. A bid would make it three straight World Series apperances for the Blackhawks.

Southeastern's First Team All-Region selections were Keaton Fenn (SP), Owen Thomson (RP), Zach Moorman (RP), Michael Farina (INF), and Jackson Petsche (OF), each playing a crucial role in the team's historic season.

 

2025 First Team All-Region

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Pos.

Name

School

Year

12

UTL

Kaden Frommelt

DMACC

SO

3

C

Caden Sammler

Ellsworth

SO

5

DH

Boston Doeschot

Ellsworth

SO

31

SP

Brock Adamson

Ellsworth

SO

1

INF

Cooper Nicholson

Iowa Central

SO

2

UTL

Chayton Fischer

Iowa Central

SO

14

SP

Chris McCormack

Iowa Central

SO

8

INF

Cal Sullivan

Kirkwood

SO

12

OF

Jaxon Schumacher

Kirkwood

SO

15

SP

Boede Rahe

Kirkwood

SO

2

INF

Carter Noakes

Northeast

SO

9

OF

Brady Fitzpatrick

Northeast

RFR

11

UTL

Hayden Parrish

Northeast

FR

2

INF

Michael Farina

Southeastern

SO

21

RP

Owen Thomson

Southeastern

SO

28

OF

Jackson Petsche

Southeastern

FR

39

SP

Keaton Fenn

Southeastern

FR

39

RP

Zach Moorman

Southeastern 

FR

 

2025 Second Team All-Region

#

Pos.

Name

School

Year

5

INF

Jackson Manning

DMACC

SO

16

SP

Ty Thomson

DMACC

SO

21

RP

Nick Cox

DMACC

FR

4

RP

Jaden Morris

Ellsworth

SO

12

SP

Jordan Dahlof

Ellsworth

SO

26

OF

Sam Patton

Ellsworth

FR

6

SP

Ryan Ohm

Iowa Central

SO

9

INF

Jake Busson

Iowa Central

SO

33

DH

Sawyer Stein

Iowa Central

FR

6

INF

Blake Lundholm

Kirkwood

FR

11

OF

Joe Adams

Marshalltown

SO

8

INF

Jack Borgmann

Northeast

SO

1

C

Abrahan Rios

Southeastern

SO

5

UTL

Efrain Osorio

Southeastern

FR

13

OF

Caleb Klein

Southeastern

SO

31

RP

Trey O'Neil

Southeastern

SO

40

SP

Maddux Frese

Southeastern

SO

 

2025 Honorable Mention All-Region

#

Pos.

Name

School

Year

3

OF

Archer Ogbourne

DMACC

SO

24

RP

Andrew Theiss

DMACC

FR

35

SP

Jaqson Tejada

DMACC

SO

15

SP

Carter Woollums

DMACC 

SO

7

INF

Brandon Weigel

Ellsworth

SO

8

OF

Riley Schrader

Ellsworth

SO

11

SP

Jakob Nachreiner

Ellsworth

FR

31

UTL

Eric McGill

Ellsworth

FR

37

RP

Parker Otte

Iowa Central

SO

35

OF

Elkin Ortiz

Iowa Lakes

SO

4

SP

Andrew Carroll

Kirkwood

SO

7

UTL

Addison Binnie

Kirkwood

SO

18

OF

Kade Knock

Kirkwood

FR

32

C

Ty Andrews

Kirkwood

FR

2

DH

Carter Schellsmidt

Marshalltown

SO

14

INF

Sinclair Lee

Marshalltown

SO

18

INF

Alex Wickett

Marshalltown

SO

13

UTL

Lincoln Becker

NIACC

RFR

16

INF

George McIntyre

NIACC

FR

21

SP

Caden Watson

NIACC

FR

49

SP

Cooper Tessendorf

Northeast

SO

5

INF

Efrain Osorio

Southeastern

FR

21

SP

Andrew Hamlett

Southeastern

FR

 *Article courtesy of ICCAC.

Full article available at https://www.iccac.org/sports/bsb/2024-25/releases/20250514jphzkt