The California Collegiate Athletic Association's coaches acknowledged the Chico State baseball team's awesome offensive output by selecting seven of the team's nine regular starters for All-CCAA recognition Wednesday. The conference honors were announced on the eve of the CCAA Tournament, taking place Wednesday through Friday at Nettleton Stadium on the Chico State campus. 
 
Willie Lajoie is the Wildcats' lone First Team All-CCAA selection; Jacob Jablonski, Jeffrey Ray, Kyle Dobson, Grady Morgan, and Jack Murphy were all named Second Team All-CCAA; and Jarret Lindsay is an honorable mention selection.
 
Chico State hit .344 as a team (32 points higher than the second best in the CCAA) and scored more than two runs per game more than second-place Cal State Monterey Bay during the regular season. The Wildcats also led the league in doubles, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, sacrifice flies, sacrifice bunts, and hit by pitches. 
 
Chico State, 34-14 on the season and 27-12 overall, opens the CCAA Tournament Wednesday at 3 p.m. with an elimination game against Cal State Dominguez Hills. The Wildcats are the No. 3 seed in the six-team tournament. Cal State Dominguez Hills is No. 6.  The winner of that game will take on Cal Poly Pomona Thursday at 3 p.m. in the second game of what turns into a four-team, double-elimination tournament following Wednesday's matchups. No. 4 seed Sonoma State and No. 5 seed Cal State San Bernardino will square off Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the other opening-day elimination game. 
 
Complete tournament information—including schedules, ticketing details, broadcast information, and more—can be found on the CCAA Baseball Tournament website. 
 
Lajoie, a CCAA Player of the Year nominee, is among the top five in the conference in batting average (.397), slugging percentage (.587), on-base percentage (.493), hits (71), runs (54), and runs batted in (53). The first baseman is a junior in terms of athletic eligibility, but will graduate in a couple weeks. His .401 career batting average is tops in Chico State baseball history.
 
Dobson actually leads all CCAA hitters with a .417 batting average. He's seventh in slugging (.574), and second in on-base percentage (.504). The sophomore also leads Chico State with a trio of triples. 
 
Morgan, also a sophomore, is fourth in the CCAA with a .396 batting average, having banged out a team-high 74 hits. His 47 RBI are 9^th best in the CCAA. Ray, who recently hit two grand slams in the same game to tie an NCAA Division II record, has tied Chico State records with eight RBI in a game and four walks in another. The junior second baseman leads the CCAA with 62 runs scored, boasts a .482 on-base percentage (5^th in the CCAA), and is tied for tops in the CCAA and 10^th in Chico State history with 37 walks drawn. He's also been hit by pitches 19 times, which is second most in the CCAA. 
 
Murphy, a graduate transfer from Saint Mary's, ranks 10^th in the CCAA with 63 hits and seventh with 51 runs scored. The right fielder leads the Wildcats with 15 doubles. Jablonski, who hit a walk-off, three-run homer to complete a comeback victory against Cal State Dominguez Hills earlier this season and became the first Chico State player to homer from both sides of the plate in the first game of that series, is hitting .319 and ranks ninth in the CCAA with 49 runs scored. Lindsay ranks seventh in the CCAA with a .469 on-base percentage and leads the CCAA with 10 sacrifice bunts. His 12 hit-by-pitches is tied for seventh in the conference. He's also been one of the league's best defensive catchers.

2022 CCAA Baseball Tournament Schedule
at Nettleton Stadium, Chico State, Chico, Calif.

Wednesday, May 11
Game 1: #3 Chico State vs. #6 Cal State Dominguez Hills, 3 p.m. (elimination)
Game 2: #4 Sonoma State vs. #5 Cal State San Bernardino, 7 p.m. (elimination)

Thursday, May 12 (after reseed)
Game 3: #1 Cal State Monterey Bay vs. Seed #4, 11 a.m.
Game 4: #2 Cal Poly Pomona vs. Seed #3, 3 p.m.
Game 5: Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4, 7 p.m. (elimination)

Friday, May 13
Game 6: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 3 p.m.
Game 7: Winner Game 5 vs. Loser Game 6, 7 p.m. (elimination)

Saturday, May 14
Game 8: Winner Game 6 vs. Winner Game 7, Noon
Game 9: If necessary