TROY, N.Y. – Four Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athletes have been selected to the 2009 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District 1 College Division Softball and Baseball Teams, as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Becky Bailey, Andrew Mondo and Camden Mamigonian were named to the First Team in softball and baseball, respectively, while Nic Marchese garnered Second Team recognition. As First Team honorees, Bailey, Mondo and Mamigonian are now eligible for National Academic All-America consideration.

Bailey, a junior captain and second baseman from Rome, N.Y., is a chemical engineering major with a 3.93 cumulative GPA. She has been a Dean's List selection every semester at Rensselaer and is a Liberty League All-Academic selection. A graduate of Holland Patent High School, Bailey batted .309 this season with 42 hits in 136 at-bats. She ranks fourth nationally in sacrifice hits per game (0.45), leading both the team and the Liberty League. An All-Liberty League Second Team selection, Bailey was an Academic All-District Second Team selection a year ago.

A junior pitcher out of Clifton Park, N.Y., Mondo is a management major with a 3.55 grade point average. A Liberty League All-Academic and multiple Dean's List honoree, he is the team's leading hurler, posting a 10-2 record and a 2.55 earned run average in 14 games. The Liberty League Pitcher of the Year, he has pitched 81.1 innings, allowing 23 earned runs and a .254 opposition batting average. The Shenendehowa High School graduate, who ranks first nationally in Division III in victories, has two complete games, one shutout, 82 strikeouts and 20 walks.

Mamigonian, a junior from Dover, N.H., is a physics major with a 3.76 cumulative grade point average. A leftfielder out of Dover High School, he is batting .383 with 47 runs and a team-best 56 runs batted in. An All-Liberty League Second Team selection, he has 67 hits, including 19 doubles and seven home runs, with four stolen bases. This is the second straight season in which Mamigonian has been named to the Academic All-District First Team.

A sophomore rightfielder from Tampa, Fla., Marchese garnered Second Team honors after posting a 3.68 cumulative GPA in mechanical engineering. A Liberty League All-Academic selection, he is third on the team in batting with a .381 average in 45 games. The former Chamberlain High School standout is also third in hits (61) and runs scored (49) with nine home runs and 45 RBI.

The baseball team is playing in the NCAA Tournament for the 16th time in the last 18 years. The Red Hawks, who are 34-11, are seeded third in the six-team, double-elimination New York Regional, which is being held at Farmingdale State Baseball Complex in Farmingdale, N.Y. RPI faces the host team on Wednesday night, beginning at 7pm. That game, and all Rensselaer games, will be broadcast live on WRPI, 91.5 FM, and www.wrpi.org. The softball team concluded its 2009 season with a 26-14 record, appearing in the ECAC Upstate Tournament for the third straight season.