Rutgers-Camden’s Baldiserra earns
d3kicks.com All-Metro Second Team

CAMDEN (Nov. 27, 2006) – Rutgers University-Camden junior midfielder Pat Baldiserra (Milmay, NJ/Buena Regional) has been named to the inaugural d3kicks.com All-Metropolitan Region Second Team after a record-breaking soccer season for the Scarlet Raptors.

Baldiserra, who was named the ECAC tournament MVP on Nov. 12 after leading the Raptors to the ECAC Div. III Men’s Metro Soccer Championship title, collected 13 assists for the season, setting the program’s single-season record. The old mark of 12 was shared by Ruthven Williams (1976) and Mike Zeno (1995). Baldiserra also owns 24 career assists and will enter his senior season only four shy of Zeno’s program mark of 28.

The d3kicks.com honor is the latest in a string of awards for Baldiserra, who is the only player in the New Jersey Athletic Conference to earn All-NJAC First Team honors in each of the past three seasons. In addition to his ECAC tournament MVP honor, he was named the NJAC’s Offensive Player of the Week on Nov. 13 and earned NJAC Defensive Player of the Week honors on Oct. 30. He also was named the ECAC Div. III Metro Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 31.

Baldiserra capped his junior season with a goal and three assists while leading the Raptors to the ECAC Metro title. He scored his fourth goal of the season and added an assist in a 5-0 quarterfinal victory over City College of New York Nov. 9, then added an assist in each game over the weekend as the Raptors defeated Richard Stockton (2-1 Nov. 11 in the semifinals) and New Jersey City University (1-0 Nov. 12 in the title game).

Baldiserra finished his season with four goals (two game-winning goals) and a team-leading 13 assists for 21 points. He was second on the team in scoring.

Among Baldiserra’s numerous accomplishments in 2006 was a four-assist game against John Jay College (Oct. 9) in which he tied the school’s single-game program record set by Zeno against Holy Family (Oct. 7, 1995). Baldiserra also scored a goal in that game to finish with six points in the contest.

In the latest NCAA Division III statistics (through games of Nov. 19), Baldiserra is tied for 18th nationally with 0.62 assists per game.