NORTON, MA- Wheaton College baseball standouts Nick Pecora (Highland Park, NJ/Immaculata) and Josh Simmons (Cranston, RI/Cranston West) are set to play in the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) All-Star game on Thursday, June 4, at Brockton's Campanelli Stadium at 7:00 p.m. Including this year's tandem, the Lyons will have had 10 players compete in an NEIBA All-Star game since 2002.

Sixteen players from Division III New England college baseball teams who were seniors in 2009 will join a team of Division II all-stars and play against a squad of Division I all-stars in the 35th annual game. The University team holds a 21-11-1 lead in the series, but the College team has won four of the last six games.

Pecora and Simmons, who account for two of the four New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) selections, were both voted to the NEIBA All-New England second team. The lone shortstop on the region's second squad, Pecora was named to a NEWMAC All-Conference team for the second time in his career, while Simmons, who was the lone relief pitcher on the NEIBA's second squad, garnered his first all-league honor.

Pecora batted .375 with team highs of 49 runs and 21 doubles while driving in 29 runs, drawing 20 walks and fielding at a .940 clip in 41 starts. He broke the program's single-season doubles record, tied for fourth in runs, ranked seventh in total bases (104) and tied for seventh in hits (66). Pecora is tied for sixth in program history in career triples (6), seventh in batting average (.335), eighth in walks (55), tied for eighth in sac flies (8), ninth in hits (183) and total bases (249), and tied for ninth in doubles (36).

As Wheaton's closer for the third straight spring, Simmons posted a 1.03 earned run average in 21 appearances this season. He struck out 38 batters in just 26.1 innings while recording nine saves and limiting the opposition to a .192 batting average. Simmons' season save total ranks fifth in program annals, and he tied for sixth in pitching appearances. For his career, he stands first in games pitched (81), second in saves (27) and sixth in ERA (2.64).

The duo helped Wheaton record its fifth consecutive 30-win season, as the Lyons went 30-12 overall and 9-3 in the NEWMAC. Capturing at least a share of its 10th regular season conference title in the league's 11-year history, the Blue and White ranks 24th in the D3baseball.com national poll and seventh in the NEIBA regional poll.