Luis Misla and Mat Bruno Earn Baseball All-America Honors
Cortland Sports Information Department
Cortland junior pitcher Luis Misla (Tampa, FL/Riverview) and graduate student outfielder Mat Bruno (Rye) have earned Division III All-America honors from both the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and the website D3baseball.com for the 2024 season. Misla was named to the D3baseball.com second team and the ABCA third team. Bruno was chosen to the All-America fourth team by both organizations.
Misla started 14 games and posted an 8-2 record with a 2.34 ERA. In 77 innings pitched he allowed 50 hits and 27 walks and struck out a school single-season record 114 batters. Opponents had a .183 batting average against him. Misla struck out 13 batters each in wins over Oswego and Oneonta. He fanned 11 batters in four and a third innings in a no-decision versus Christopher Newport, an NCAA super regional competitor, and he struck out 11 batters in a win over Washington & Jefferson in the NCAA regionals. Misla allowed two earned runs or less in 12 of his 14 outings.
Bruno started all 46 games this spring and batted .403 with eight homers, 15 doubles, eight triples, 62 RBI, 52 runs, 15 walks, 10 hit by pitches and 11 steals. He finished the season with a .656 slugging percentage, and in the outfield committed only one error and had four assists. Bruno drove in five runs in a game on four occasions. He was a combined 8-for-16 with two walks in four SUNYAC tournament games, and in a stretch from March 25 to May 18 he hit safely in 28 of 29 games. Bruno graduates as Cortland's career leader with 224 games played, 262 hits, 33 homers, 203 RBI and 192 runs scored from 2019-24 (the 2020 season was canceled in mid-March) and he posted a career .350 batting average and .581 slugging percentage.
Cortland finished the season with a 31-14 1 record, including a 16-2 mark to win the SUNYAC regular-season title. The Red Dragons extended their Division III record to 31 straight NCAA tournament appearances and finished 1-2 at a regional in Cortland.
