PHILADELPHIA – Recent Ursinus Baseball graduate Dan Bass earned a spot on the PhillySIDA Baseball Academic All-Area Team that was announced on Wednesday morning.
 
 

The Academic All-Area Team, voted on by the sports information offices of 30 institutions in the Philadelphia metro area, requires a student-athlete to be in their second year at the school and hold a cumulative grade-point average of 3.30 or better. Bass became the first Ursinus Baseball player since Solomon Griffith in 2023 to be named to the team.
 
 

Bass, a media and communication studies graduate, had a career year for the Bears on the mound and has amassed numerous postseason nods. He earned All-Region honors from D3Baseball.com and the ABCA while making it on the All-Centennial First Team. Bas led the Centennial with 75 innings pitched and tied for the second-lowest ERA in the league at 3.72. He ranked second with 62 strikeouts in the Centennial Conference and led the league with three complete games with his third coming in his final collegiate start in a win over Washington College in the Centennial Conference Tournament. Bass tied for third in the Centennial and led the Bears with six wins. Academically, Bass garnered CSC Academic All-District honors while being named to the Centennial Conference Academic All-Centennial and Centennial Academic Honor Roll.
 
 

Full Team:

2026 PHILLY-SIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AREA BASEBALL TEAM
Name                              School                Class           Position    Major(s)                                        Hometown
Dan Bass                        Ursinus              Senior              SP         Media and Communications Studies Berkeley Heights, N.J.
Sam Cohen                     Haverford          Senior              SP         Computer Science                             Ellicott City, Md.
Thomas Kozlusky          Eastern               Senior              OF        Math/Pre-Engineering                        Quakertown, Pa.
Austin Kreyenhagen       Rowan                Sophomore      SP         Mechanical Engineering                   Souderton, Pa.
Trent MacDougall          Eastern               Junior               OF        Business Administration                    Boynton Beach, Fla.                    
Max Oswald                   Arcadia              Senior              OF        Business Administration                      Whippany, N.J.
Miles Prusek                  Haverford          Sophomore      3B        Economics                                            Richmond, Va.
Hunter Smith                  West Chester     Sophomore      OF        Accounting                                          Martinsburg, Pa.
Wyatt Spinks                  Chestnut Hill     Junior               OF        Early Education/Special Education       Levittown, Pa.
Aidan Sullivan               Swarthmore       Senior              OF        Psychology/Mathematics                        Rye, N.Y.
 
Performer of the Year: Sam Cohen, Haverford