Oggeri Catches Sportsmanship Award

Newtown native Pete Oggeri, who was a catcher for the Boston-based Wentworth Institute of Technology Leopard baseball team before graduating this year, was honored by the New England Chapter of the College Baseball Umpires Association of New England with the 2010 Allard-McDonough Sportsmanship Award.

The award, which was voted on by a committee of New England college baseball umpires, was presented at the chapter’s business meeting at the Chateau Restaurant in Norton, Mass on November 21.

Oggeri, who graduated in August with a degree in Construction Management and joined the Leopard staff as an assistant coach, was nominated for his exemplary sportsmanship throughout his collegiate career.

A four-year mainstay at catcher and three-year captain of the Leopards, Oggeri started 145 of the program-record 147 games in which he played, batting .300 (143-for-476) with 29 doubles, six triples, 14 home runs, 125 runs scored, 70 stolen bases, and 94 runs batted in.

Oggeri’s final season was his best offensive campaign with The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) team. He hit .373 (53-for-142) with 11 doubles, two triples, seven home runs, 43 runs scored, 15 stolen bases, and 42 runs batted in, while starting all 42 games in which he played. 

The Newtown native set new program marks for highest on-base percentage (.486) and times hit by a pitch (18) during his senior campaign and his 43 runs, seven home runs, 89 total bases, and 42 RBI were all the second-highest in a season. 

He was named Second Team All-TCCC, as well as the TCCC Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Second Team CoSIDA Academic All-America District One, and was the recipient of Wentworth’s Carl A Swanson Senior Scholar-Athlete Award. In addition to playing in more games than anyone in Wentworth baseball history, Oggeri is the all-time leader in runs scored, hits, home runs, total bases, hit by pitch, stolen bases, total chances, and putouts, while ranking in the top five in numerous other categories such as runs batted in, on-base percentage, sacrifice hits, doubles, triples, and walks. Additionally, he threw out nearly 27 percent of runners attempting to steal on him during his career and picked off six base runners.