Holy Cross Athletics

2012: Named first team All-Patriot League… Earned New England All-Star honors … Chosen to theACBA All-Northeast first team … Appeared in a school record29 games with one start … finished with a 6-1 record, whileregistering a school record 11 saves … Had an team-best ERAof 2.32 in 54-1/3 innings of work … Ranked second on theteam with 53 strikeouts and a .202 opponent batting average… Struck out a season-best five batters against Albany(3/17) … Posted saves against Charlotte (3/6), Winthrop(3/9), Boston College (3/20), Massachusetts (3/27), Bucknell (3/31& 4/1), Marist (4/4), Lehigh (4/20 & 4/21), Army (4/28) andNavy (5/12) … Did not allow a run in 17 outings, and did notsurrender a hit in 11 of his appearances … Gave up justeight extra-base hits all year … Named to Patriot LeagueAcademic Honor Roll.

2011: Named to the New England All-Star team… Broke Holy Cross single season records with nine saves and24 appearances  … Finished with a 3-2 record …Had a team-low ERA of 3.00 in 42 innings of work … Struckout 40 batters, third highest on the team … Recorded savesagainst Princeton (3/13), Albany (3/18), Boston College (3/23),Columbia (3/27), Lafayette (4/17 & 4/18), Brown (4/21), Navy(4/24) and Lehigh (4/30) … Struck out a season-high sixbatters against Lafayette (4/18) … Recorded eight hitlessoutings … Did not allow a run to score in 19 of hisappearances … Gave up just seven extra base hits …Allowed 16 runs (14 earned) on 31 hits total … Named to thePatriot League Academic Honor Roll.

2010: Made nine appearances, starting threecontests … Finished with a 0-2  record … Had anERA of 8.86 in 21-1/3 innings of work … Struck out 13batters …  Earned his first collegiate start againstHarvard (4/1), pitching 4-2/3 innings, allowing no runs on just onehit with a season-high five strikeouts … Saw his firstcollegiate action in relief at Ga. Southern (2/27),  pitchingone inning … Did not allow a hit in one inning of reliefagainst NJIT (3/28) … Also made starts against CCSU (4/13)and Connecticut (4/22).

HIGH SCHOOL: Played two years of varsity baseballas a pitcher under head coach Kevin Ford at Chantilly H.S. ...Named captain and team MVP his senior year ... Earned first teamAll-District and second team All-Region honors in 2009 ... Qualified for the state tournament for the first time in schoolhistory (2008) ... Va.  High School Coaches AssociationAll-Star (2009) ... Recorded a career-high 17 strikeouts in theConcorde district semifinals (2009) ... Finished senior year with a1.85 ERA and 91 strikeouts in 79-1/3 innings.

PERSONAL: Son of John and Andrea Colella ... Hasthree sisters (Laurel, Olivia and Leandra) ... Majoring inHistory.

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