South Kingstown Native, Bryant Infielder Zac Zyons Wins America East Batting Title

SMITHFIELD, R.I. — Bryant baseball sophomore second baseman Zac Zyons claimed the program’s first America East batting title following the conclusion of the regular season on Saturday.

Zyons, who hit .373 overall in 39 games, becomes the fifth player in DI program history to win a batting title. He joins Robby Rinn (2016), Ryan Ward (2018), Liam McGill (2021) and Matt Woods (2022) who all won the award when Bryant was a member of the Northeast Conference. Zyons is the fourth Rhode Islander to win the honor, joining Rinn (Warwick), McGill (Wakefield) and Woods (Warwick). Both McGill and Zyons are graduates of South Kingstown.

A year after earning America East All-Rookie honors, Zyons shook off an early-season injury to win the batting title by 30 points. He missed the first 11 games of the year before making his first appearances as a pinch-hitter in the series finale at Iona. He started 6-of-33 (.182) in his first 10 games but jump-started his season with a pair of two-run home runs in a doubleheader sweep of UMBC on Mar. 30. Zyons would hit safely in each of the next 10 games and ended the regular season with hits in 27 of his final 29 games and has reached safely in each of his last 32. During that stretch, he hit .427 (50-117) with 11 doubles, six home runs, 39 runs scored and a .511 OBP.

Zyons enters the postseason ranked first in the league in hitting, fourth in slugging (.607), tied for first in OBP (.472), third in OPS (1.079), fourth in runs scored (45) and first in HBPs (17).

Bryant will be the No. 1 seed in the 2024 America East Baseball Championships and will play its first game on Thursday, May 23 against the lowest remaining seed following Wednesday’s single-elimination round.