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2025 CUSA All-Academic Team

2025 (Senior): Played in 43 games, made 26 starts in the outfield…tallied 24 hits, two doubles, triple, two homers and 17 runs driven in…registered five multi-hit games…had two hits in season debut in 7-6 win vs Stonehill (2/14)…had a three-hit effort with a two-run homer vs Merrimack (2/28)…recorded three RBI with a double vs Merrimack in 14-4 win (3/1)…added a homer vs Merrimack (3/1) in second game of doubleheader…paced team with three RBI on two hits 22-6 win vs Bucknell (3/13)…notched three hits with a triple and RBI at Bethune-Cookman (3/25)…walked-off vs Stonehill (2/15) on hit-by-pitch…logged two hits with a double at Middle Tennessee (3/28)…notched an RBI and base hit in pinch-hit role over New Mexico State (4/12).

2024 (Junior): Appeared in 36 games, started in nine games in the outfield...logged a homer, ten RBI and five doubles...logged a season-high of three hits with two doubles and a RBI at Jacksonville State (4/6)...recorded a pair of RBI n the extra-inning victory on the road at Jacksonville State (4/7)...notched his first homer of the season vs Sam Houston (5/12)...drove in two RBI on a double at Iowa (5/17)..made his first start of the season at Bethune Cookman (2/20).

2023 (Kansas City Kansas CC): Played in 60 games…Led the Blue Devils with a .429 batting average and 20 doubles….second on the team with 70 RBIs and five triples…belted nine home runs…registered 20 multi-hit games including six games with 3+ hits…drove in six RBIs and smacked two home runs in a four-hit performance vs Fort Scott (4/6)
 
High School: Attended Leadership Christian Academy in 2021…played club baseball at TNXL Academy…graduated with the highest GPA in his class.

Personal: Born June 3, 2003…son of Hector Candelas and Yahaira Gracia.