PGCBL Announces 2025 All-League Selections

August 8, 2025

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. – Fifty players from across the 15 teams of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League (PGCBL) have been selected as members of the 2025 All-League First, Second, and Honorable Mention Teams.

Deserving players were nominated by their teams at each position and the league office selected the 17 players to fill each of the three teams. One player was selected at each of the infield positions, along with four outfielders, two designated hitter/utility players, three relievers and three starting pitchers.

Included in the First Team are Player of the Year TJ Gramesty (Elmira) and Pitcher of the Year James Redick (Amsterdam).

Auburn's Tyler ViVacqua was selected to the First Team in two different positions - as a second baseman, where he batted .308 with 36 runs scored, and as relief pitcher, after recording 4 saves with a 1.53 earned run average.

The Jamestown Tarp Skunks led all teams with eight players selected to the All-League Teams, followed by six apiece from Amsterdam, Boonville, and 2025 champions Saugerties. Three of those Boonville selections ended up on the First Team, including third baseman Andy Perez, who broke the PGCBL record with 45 stolen bases this season. He was joined by first baseman Carter McKay and outfielder Chase Triplett. Jamestown and Saugerties were represented on the First Team by DH Nathan Borchardt and reliever Mason Weaver, respectively.

The Mohawks put two of their players on the First Team, with catcher Bray Touchstone joining his battery-mate in Redick.

West Division regular season and playoffs champion Batavia had five honorees, while Utica and Niagara Falls, the two three-seeds in the postseason, each saw four players honored. Batavia claimed an outfielder spot with Brayden Horton and also saw standout pitcher Luc Rising named as a First Team starter.

The Blue Sox were led by First Team selections Matt Colella (DH/UTIL) and Luke Baker (SP). Niagara Falls also had two players on the First Team, outfielder Grant Moore and reliever Hudson Boring.

ViVacqua was one of two Doubledays to claim three spots on the list. Geneva had two players selected, as did the Niagara Ironbacks, who in their first season of play produced First Team shortstop Carter Shin. Gramesty was the lone recipient from Elmira, while Newark, Oneonta, Glens Falls and Mohawk Valley all had one player selected for recognition as well.

	First Team		Second Team		Honorable Mention Team
	Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team
Catcher	Bray Touchstone	Amsterdam Mohawks	Jakob Haynes	Jamestown Tarp Skunks	Noah Brooks	Newark Pilots
First Base	Carter McKay	Boonville Lumberjacks	Nolan Smith	Jamestown Tarp Skunks	Aiken Santana	Geneva Red Wings
Second Base	Tyler ViVacqua	Auburn Doubledays	Miguel Gonzalez	Boonville Lumberjacks	Connor Kiefer	Niagara Falls Americans
Third Base	Andy Perez	Boonville Lumberjacks	Xavier Smith	Utica Blue Sox	Brady McGuire	Jamestown Tarp Skunks
Shortstop	Carter Shin	Niagara Ironbacks	Tyler Castrataro	Batavia Muckdogs	Chris Hoalcraft	Amsterdam Mohawks
OF	TJ Gramesty	Elmira Pioneers	Justin Bremner	Jamestown Tarp Skunks	Alex Kean	Niagara Ironbacks
OF	Chase Triplett	Boonville Lumberjacks	Justin Ford	Saugerties Stallions	Aidan Gallagher	Glens Falls Dragons
OF	Grant Moore	Niagara Falls Americans	Jake Long	Amsterdam Mohawks	Travis Hobbensiefken	Saugerties Stallions
OF	Brayden Horton	Batavia Muckdogs	Lewis Rodriguez	Saugerties Stallions	Ryan Ulisse	Utica Blue Sox
DH/UTIL	Nathan Borchardt	Jamestown Tarp Skunks	Zach Banks	Geneva Red Wings	Zach Porter	Oneonta Outlaws
DH/UTIL	Matt Colella	Utica Blue Sox	Cooper Fesh	Batavia Muckdogs	Jamie Zee	Saugerties Stallions

RP	Hudson Boring	Niagara Falls Americans	Riley Hasenstab	Boonville Lumberjacks	Max Martzolf	Boonville Lumberjacks
RP	Tyler ViVacqua	Auburn Doubledays	Derek Duval	Amsterdam Mohawks	Will Taylor	Jamestown Tarp Skunks
RP	Mason Weaver	Saugerties Stallions	Mason Veronezi	Amsterdam Mohawks	Eric Woodley	Batavia Muckdogs

SP	James Redick	Amsterdam Mohawks	Jace VanValkenburg	Saugerties Stallions	Luke Blandino	Niagara Falls Americans
SP	Luc Rising	Batavia Muckdogs	Brendon Miller	Mohawk Valley Diamond Dawgs	Brennan Hileman	Auburn Doubledays
SP	Luke Baker	Utica Blue Sox	Nick Ianniello	Jamestown Tarp Skunks	Christian Pencek	Jamestown Tarp Skunks

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed Xavier Smith as both a member of the First and Second Teams. Smith is the Second Team third baseman, while his teammate Matt Colella is the First Team selection at DH/UTIL.