MIAC Release

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. - Six Saint John's University baseball student-athletes earned 2022 All-MIAC honors on Wednesday, May 18.

Senior pitcher Nathan Brandecker (South St. Paul, Minn.), senior catcher Ethan Roe (Golden Valley, Minn./Blake), junior second baseman Owen Dauk (Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview), junior first baseman Max Nyrop (Alameda, Calif.), junior pitcher Casey Trapp (Blaine, Minn./Centennial) and sophomore center fielder Jordan Amundson (Eden Prairie, Minn.) received All-MIAC distinction. Brandecker (starting pitcher) and Roe (catcher) were also their respective position's designees on the MIAC All-Defensive team and senior infielder Pete Schroeder (Plymouth, Minn./Providence Academy) was named to the MIAC All-Sportsmanship team.

The six honorees led the MIAC, followed by Bethel and Gustavus Adolphus with five apiece.

SJU has now had 49 All-MIAC honorees over the last 12 seasons.

The All-MIAC honor is the second consecutive for Roe and Nyrop. Roe started all 20 games at catcher and tied for second in the league with eight home runs in conference play. He batted .351 (26-for-74) with 24 RBI and a 1.143 OPS in MIAC games. Overall, Roe played all 41 games and led the Johnnies with 12 homers – one away from his single-season, program record set in 2021 – a .678 slugging percentage and 49 RBI, the third-most in SJU history. He also led SJU in extra-base hits (25), multi-hit (18) and multi-RBI (14) games, while batting .404 (23-for-57) with runners in scoring position. Roe batted 7-for-13 (.538) with six runs scored, a homer and five RBI in three MIAC Tournament games last weekend.

Roe ended his SJU career as the program's all-time leader in home runs with 25, as well as third in both RBI (104) and doubles (33), fourth in total bases (248) and 10th in runs scored (95).

Nyrop, meanwhile, reached base safely in all 20 MIAC games and tied with senior right fielder Soren Roe (Golden Valley, Minn./Blake) for the conference lead in doubles (8), while finishing third in RBI (26) in league play. He ended the 2022 season with a 20-game hit streak (24-game on-base streak) and led the team in hits (55), while batting .383 (18-for-47) with runners in scoring position and .467 (7-for-15) in three MIAC Tournament games. Nyrop enters his senior season fourth in program history in home runs (18), seven away from Ethan Roe's record, and tied for 10th in RBI (90), 20 RBI behind Max Jackson's '19 record.

Brandecker tied with freshman teammate Griffin Larson (Edina, Minn.) for second in the MIAC in wins (4-1 record) and was second in innings pitched (39.2) in conference play. He posted a 3.86 ERA and .200 opponent batting average in nine MIAC appearances (six starts). Overall, Brandecker compiled a team-best 7-2 record, 4.19 ERA and .238 opponent batting average in 68.2 innings pitched (14 appearances, 11 starts). He ended his career 10th in program history in innings pitched (159.0) and totaled a 13-7 record, 3.96 ERA and 124 strikeouts.

Dauk tied for third in the MIAC in both runs scored (24) and on-base percentage (.551) during conference play. Overall, Dauk started all 41 games at second base and led the Johnnies in on-base percentage (.497), thanks to a .354 batting average with 23 walks and was hit-by-pitch 15 times, and tied with Soren Roe for the team-lead in runs scored (37). He recorded a team-best, 25-game on-base streak during the season and batted .459 (28-for-61) with the bases empty. Dauk became SJU's all-time hit-by-pitch leader with 35 this spring.

Trapp led the MIAC in innings pitched (42.1) and was second in strikeouts (42) across nine conference appearances (six starts). He posted a 3-1 record. The lone loss was a complete-game one-hitter April 19 at St. Scholastica. Trapp set a single-season record for strikeouts with 73, surpassing the previous mark of 71 set by Andy Schneider '00 in 1998, and totaled a 5-1 record with a 3.63 ERA and .234 opponent batting average in a team-best 74.1 innings pitched. He enters his senior season seventh in program history with 139 strikeouts.

Amundson finished third in the conference in slugging percentage (.750) and fourth in home runs (7) in league play. He started all 20 MIAC games in center field and led the team in stolen bases (6) and finish second in batting (.375). He played all 41 games (35 starts) and finished second on the team in triples (3) and homers (8) in his first season as a Johnnie.

The valedictorian of the 2022 graduating class with a 4.0 GPA in global business leadership, Schroeder played nine games this spring. He batted .273 (6-for-22) with a homer, nine runs scored, five RBI and five stolen bases in 27 career contests.

The Johnnies finished second in the MIAC with a 15-5 record (24-17 overall) and made their 12th consecutive appearance in the MIAC Tournament in 2022. SJU's program record for home runs (39) lasted only one season as the Johnnies hit 51 this spring.