ROCKFORD, Ill. - Rockford University senior starting pitcher Paul Turelli was named Third Team All-Region by D3baseball.com on Tuesday morning. This is the second postseason award for Turelli this year, as he was voted Second Team All-NACC earlier in the month. Turelli becomes the sixteenth RU baseball player to be named to a D3baseball.com All-Region Team and the third Regent in as many years to garner all-region status. 

Paul Turelli anchored the Regent pitching staff and was one of the top pitchers in the NACC the entire year. Despite pitching against six of the top seven teams in the conference, including each of the top five, he finished the year ranked in the top thirteen in the NACC in six categories and is ranked in the top five in the country in two additional categories entering the NCAA Division III Baseball Championships. He currently leads all NCAA Division III pitchers in hits allowed per nine innings (4.22) and is fifth in the country in strikeouts per nine innings (13.78). Turelli also led the NACC with a .143 batting average against, was third in runs allowed (26), fourth in earned runs allowed (20), sixth in earned run average (3.78), thirteenth in starts (9) and third in strikeouts (75) despite pitching 22 less innings than the NACC strikeout leader.

Rockford finished the 2024 season in eighth place in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference and earned its first NACC Tournament berth since the 2021 season. The Regents went on to win their first postseason game since the 2010 season behind a brilliant pitching performance from Paul Turelli. 

The 2024 season marks the twelfth year that D3baseball.com has named All-Region teams, with more than 1,000 players nominated. Please visit D3baseball.com via the links below for both a complete listing of all their All-Region awards, as well as just the Region 8 Team.

2024 D3baseball.com All-Region Teams
2024 D3baseball.com Region 8 Team