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Rowing: UD at CAA Champ. (Va.), 9 am (5/19)
Base: JMU at Delaware, 1 pm (5/18)
Base: Delaware 12, JMU 4 (5/17)
Soft: Kolofer Signs NLI With UD (5/17)
Base: Delaware 8, JMU 7 (5/16)
WBB: Delle Donne UD Out. Female Athlete
Base: Yezzo UD Outstanding Male Athlete
FB: Worrilow Earns Edgar Johnson Award
WBB: Craig Earns Mary Ann Hitchens Award
Blue Hens Host Warner Elem. for Field Day
Base: Northeastern 5, Delaware 3 (5/12)
WTrack: Delaware 25th at ECAC's (5/12)
WTrack: Idris, James 5th at ECAC's (5/12)
Best of Blue Hens: Vicky Caruso (5/6)

#5
Brock Niggebrugge

Sophomore
Infield
Bear, Del. / Caravel Academy

At Delaware: Will look to build on freshman campaign where he went started every game of the season at shortstop for the Blue Hens.

2012: Joined senior D.J. Long as the only Delaware players to start all 58 games during his freshman season • UD Team Defensive Player of the Year Award after he produced 87 putouts, 161 assists and .947 fielding percentage at shortstop • second in the CAA and led the Hens with 16 sacrifice bunts • produced a season-high, four-run game on Apr. 10 vs. UMBC, where he collected a season-high four hits (4-for-5) and three doubles • tallied nine multi-hit games, four multi-run games and one multi-extra-base hit games during freshman campaign • produced a season-high six-game hitting streak from Mar. 6-16 where he hit .286 (8-for-28) with two RBI • in six games at the 2012 CAA Baseball Championships, hit .272 (6-for-22) with four runs scored • played for the Youse’s Orioles of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League during the summer baseball season • hit .219 (28-for-128) with 1 double, 1 triple, 9 RBI and 12 runs scored in 35 games • went 2-for-3 with one run scored in the one LCS game the Orioles played in • helped the Orioles to a third-place finish at the AAABA National Tournament.

High School: Starred as a shortstop at Caravel Academy • member of the varsity squad since eighth grade • recognized as one of the top-100 baseball players in the nation by The Baseball Factory and Under Armour • earned second-team All-State accolades for his performance on the diamond • helped guide the team to a state championship in 2010 • also excelled on the soccer field, earning first-team All-State honors.

Personal: Brock Niggebrugge ("nigga-brew-guh") • son of Paul and Cynthia Niggebrugge • youngest of six children • his sister, Ashley, competed in softball for CAA rival UNC Wilmington • pursuing a degree in criminal justice at Delaware.