• Official D2CCA Press Release

MILLERSVILLE, Pa. – West Virginia State baseball's Tyler Lafferty (Man/Kistler, W.Va.) was named Second Team All-Atlantic Region by the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) when the awards were announced on Wednesday afternoon. He was also the only Yellow Jacket to earn First Team All-Mountain East Conference honors this season.

Lafferty began his senior year with a total of 7.1 innings pitched in his collegiate career. His first three appearances of the 2023 season were as a reliever. He only gave up two hits in five innings without allowing a run to be scored against him. He then earned his first start against a tough non-conference opponent in Slippery Rock. He tossed a complete game in which he allowed just three hits, struck out six batters and earned zero runs.

After impressing in the first start of his collegiate career, Lafferty worked his way into the starting rotation and became the pitching staff's ace. At the end of the regular season, he held the lowest earned run average (2.33) and opposing batting average (.195) in the MEC. Furthermore, his 39 hits allowed, 16 runs allowed and 14 earned runs allowed were all the lowest totals in the league.

Lafferty wrapped up a stellar 2023 campaign with an impressive outing against Frostburg State in the MEC Tournament. He chucked for eight full innings and recorded a career-high 10 strikeouts. He was charged with four earned runs, but three of the runs scored against him were the result of a bases-clearing triple on a routine fly ball lost in the lights of GoMart Ballpark.

The D2CCA is a national organization consisting of Sports Information Directors at NCAA Division II schools. Nominations for All-Region awards are made by SID's from each respective region and then voted on by those same SID's. Only First Team All-Region honorees are eligible for All-American awards.