2009 Horizon League All-Tournament Team
2009 Jewish Sports Review All-American
2008 Jewish Sports Review All-American
Honors and Awards: 2009 Jewish Sports Review All-American...2009 Horizon League All-Tournament Team...2008 Jewish Sports Review All-American...Named Horizon League Pitcher of the Week on 4/21/08.
2009: Appeared in 13 games with 12 starts...finale 12 appearances of the season were starts...threw 6+ innings in 11 of 13 games...walked one batter or less in 12 of 13 appearances...won four straight decisions between May 2 and May 20...allowed one earned run or less in seven of 12 starts...ranks second on the fewest walks/per nine innings list for a single season...first appearance was out of the bullpen at Tulane (2/27) with 6.2 innings, allowing three runs and fanning three batters to get the victory...threw six innings in a no decision against #17 Kent State (3/6) at the UNC-Wilmington Round Robin with two earned runs allowed a pair of strikeouts...tossed 7.1 innings of one run baseball with two strikeouts in a no decision against Eastern Michigan (3/14)...threw eight innings and allowed four runs with four strikeouts and no walks in a victory against Youngstown State (3/21)...allowed one earned run and struck out nine in six innings versus Butler (3/27)...gave up four runs and struck out two in six inning of work versus Le Moyne (4/4)...tossed five innings and allowed one run against Valparaiso (4/26)...threw six shutout innings with six strikeouts and no walks at UIC (5/2) to pick up the win...struck out five and didn't walk a batter in six innings to collect a victory at Youngstown State (5/8)...allowed one run and fanned four in 6.1 innings of work against Cleveland State (5/15) in a victory...threw a complete game with seven strikeouts and no walks to open the Horizon League Tournament against Butler (5/20)...held UIC (5/24) scoreless through 5.2 innings of work with three strikeouts in the Championship Game of the Horizon League Tournament...allowed one earned run with three strikeouts against #25 Texas A&M (3/30) in 6.2 innings of work at the NCAA Fort Worth Regional.
2008: Appeared in 18 games with eight starts on the mound...won seven straight decisions between 4/12 and 4/16...allowed two runs in each of two appearances at Arkansas (2/22 and 2/24)...allowed an unearned run at The Citadel (3/8) in three and two-thirds innings of work with two strikeouts...allowed four runs at #22 Louisville (3/12)...surrendered three runs - two earned - in one-third of an inning against Eastern Michigan (3/16)...struck out one in two scoreless innings against Hiram (3/26)...surrendered two runs in three and two-thirds innings at Xavier (4/1) with one strikeout to collect the victory in relief...struck out one in two scoreless innings at Cleveland State (4/5)...tossed four innings and allowed two runs on five hits in first start against Cincinnati (4/9)...threw two scoreless innings in relief at Butler (4/12) to collect a victory...tossed four perfect innings in a start against Xavier (4/15) with two strikeouts...struck out three, scattered three hits and allowed one run in seven innings of work at UIC (4/20) to post a victory...picked up a win with six and two-thirds inning of work against Milwaukee (4/26), allowing seven earned runs...threw six scoreless innings with four strikeouts to collect a victory at Youngstown State (5/2)...struck out four in seven innings of work against Youngstown State (5/9) and allowed three runs - only two earned - to post a win...allowed four hits and one run in six innings of work in the series opener against NJIT (5/16) with five strikeouts...allowed only two runs in three and one-third inning of work against Milwaukee (5/22) in the Horizon League Tournament.
2007: Appeared in 10 games with one start...made his collegiate debut in the series finale against Milwaukee...struck out two batters in a scoreless inning at Butler in the series finale...struck out two in two innings of work against Notre Dame College...picked up the win with four innings of relief work against Dayton with two strikeouts...struck out one in two-thirds of an inning of work at Miami (FL)...got the start against Bowling Green and fanned four batters in four innings of work...threw two innings in the regular season finale against UIC...struck out two in two innings of work against UIC in the Horizon League Championship game.
Prep: Lettered all four years for the Redmen...garnered All-Northern Ohio League accolades as a sophomore, junior and senior...named to the District Six All-Star team as a senior...helped guide his team to a school record 23-5 record in 2006...played for head coach Brooks Lance while at FHS...also lettered in basketball.
Personal: Born Alex Ryan Kaminsky on February 25, 1988...the son of Alan and Teri Kaminsky...has one brother, Jason, and one sister, Erin.
