TROY, N.Y. - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) senior baseball player
Sean Conroy has signed a minor league contract with the Sonoma Stompers of the Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs, after completing his final season with the Engineers.
A righthander from Clifton Park, N.Y., Conroy joins a Stompers team that is in its second year of existence. The club will play a 78 game schedule that begins on Monday, June 1 and runs through August 30. Sonoma's 39 home games will take place at Arnold Field in Sonoma, Calif.
Conroy went 6-2 with a 1.87 earned run average in 15 apperances (12 starts) this season for Rensselaer. Recording a save, he allowed 27 runs (17 earned) on 67 hits in a career-high 82.0 innings, striking out 87, while walking 21. The D3baseball.com Second Team All-America selection held opponents to just a .223 batting average. He struck out six or more batters in seven starts, including a career-high 16 on April 12 against Bard College.
The Liberty League Pitcher of the Year, Conroy was 5-0 with a 1.48 ERA in six conference starts, allowing 10 runs (7 earned) on 35 hits in 42.2 innings. Also an ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-New York Region selection, he struck out 50 batters, with 10 walks and gave up a .220 opponent average.
In 52 career appearances (33 starts) at Rensselaer, Conroy went 21-7 with a school-record 2.05 earned run average. He allowed 86 runs (59 earned) on 211 hits in 259 innings, striking out 223 and walking 49. Opponents hit .220 lifetime off of him.
Conroy helped RPI to a 29-17 record this season, including an 18-6 mark and a first place finish in the Liberty League. The Engineers captured the tourtitle and the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. At the New York Regional, the Engineers opened with a pair of wins before falling to nationally first-ranked SUNY Cortland. The team won an elimination game over Oberlin College to make the championship round, before being knocked out by Red Dragon, who went on to win the 2015 National Championship.