CALIFORNIA (June 3) – The California (PA) baseball team placed five players on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team on Tuesday afternoon.
Senior
Payton Conte, junior
Jake Kramer, senior
Santino Marra, senior
James Salvatori and junior
Michael Valente received laurels from the organization. Marra and Salvatori earned the accolade for the third time in their careers, while Conte, Kramer and Valente collected the honor for a consecutive year.
A native of California, Conte tied for the team lead with 52 RBI and posted a .352 average (63-for-179), .403 on-base percentage and .525 slugging percentage. He repeated as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West Athlete of the Year and was a consensus all-region honoree for the second-straight spring. Conte recently graduated with a 3.61 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) while completing a degree in exercise science.
Kramer broke the single-season school record and the all-time PSAC record for saves this spring. He was recently tabbed a National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) All-American following a season in which he posted a 4-1 record and 11 saves over 22 appearances. Kramer maintains a 3.65 GPA while pursuing a degree in finance and personal financial planning with a minor in accounting.
The school's all-time hits leader, Marra finished second in the PSAC with a .398 average (68-for-171) and ranked third in the league with a .480 on-base percentage. He also totaled 15 doubles, five homers and 40 RBI while being a consensus all-region selection for the second time in his career. Marra finished his master's degree in professional accountancy last month with a 3.60 GPA after earning his bachelor's degree in accounting with a minor in finance in 2024 while maintaining a 3.63 GPA.
Salvatori graduated last month with a 3.88 GPA while completing a degree in interdisciplinary studies. In his first season with the program, he hit at a .292 clip (38-for-130) with five homers, 22 RBI and 26 runs scored while making 40 starts. Salvatori previously received academic all-district honors in each of the last two years while being a standout at West Liberty in the Mountain East Conference (MEC).
The 2025 PSAC Champion Scholar, Valente tied the single-season school record with 10 wins. He was a consensus all-region selection this spring after ranking among the conference leaders in victories, ERA, WHIP and strikeout-to-walk ratio. Valente boasts a 4.00 GPA while majoring in management with a minor in marketing.
To qualify for CSC Academic All-District honors, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically, maintain a cumulative 3.50 GPA and have played in 90 percent of the team's games or start 66 percent of the team's games. For pitcher nominations, the minimum is 17 appearances or 35.0 innings pitched. Additionally, each institution is capped at five nominees in the sport of baseball.
The quartet of Conte, Kramer, Marra and Valente were chosen as CSC Academic All-America finalists and advance to the national ballot with the CSC Academic All-America Teams being announced next month.
