CONTACT: Justin Hoyt, (518) 629-7898, j.hoyt@hvcc.edu
FOR RELEASE: Immediate, Thursday, May 16, 2013
Sophomore centerfielder Andy Kozak (Sidney/Sidney) signed his National Letter of Intent with Erskine College on an athletic baseball scholarship.
Kozak was the school's first ever Rawlings Gold Glove award winner last season in which he also earned All-Conference honors. Earlier in the season he earned Region III Player of the Week when he hit 16-26 during an eight-game stretch. Kozak finished the regular season as the #1 hitter in the Nation with a .537 average. He finishes 9th in Vikings history with 94 hits and 3rd in stolen bases with 39. This past season, Kozak recorded two hits or more in 17 games, recorded a hit in 31 out of 35 games, reached base safely in every game except for one, and only struck out once all season long in 121 at bats.