CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS |
2024-25 (Graduate Student) |
BIG EAST All-Academic Team |
Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Fall 2024, Spring 2025) |
2023-24 (Graduate Student) |
BIG EAST All-Academic Team |
Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Spring 2024) |
Career: Named BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week (April 7) … Appeared in 44 games with two starts and a 7-7 record … Pitched 83.2 innings holding batters to a .268 batting average and a 5.49 ERA … Member of the 2023-24 BIG EAST All-Academic Team … Named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll twice.
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2025: Appeared in 21 games out of the bullpen … Recorded 56 strikeouts and a 4.86 ERA with a 4-6 record over 53.2 innings pitched … Tallied a team-best six saves, the most by a Villanova pitcher since 2021 … Held opponents to one earned run or less in 13 of 21 appearances … Pitched 4.2 scoreless innings in a win over NJIT (March 16), allowing only three hits and one walk … Had a career-high seven strikeouts at Butler (April 13), throwing 4.2 innings with no runs, three hits and one walk allowed in a 21-2 win … Went a career-high 5.1 innings at Creighton (April 25), posting five strikeouts while allowing only two hits, one run and one walk.
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2024: Appeared in 23 games with two starts and had a 3-1 record … Held a 6.60 ERA in 30 innings pitched … Faced 153 batters and yielded 39 hits, 23 runs (22 earned), 22 walks and struck out 32 … Recorded a season high four strikeouts against Pepperdine on March 8 in two innings of work.
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Holy Spirit High School: Three-year varsity letter earner in baseball as well as one year soccer … First Team CAL United in 2018 … Second team press all-star … Member of NHS, president of Spanish honor society, and presidents’ education award.
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Personal: Born on 08/10/2001 in Egg Harbor township, New Jersey … Son of Mark and Anna Sachais … Has one sibling named Gianna … Chose Villanova to pursue his MBA and play baseball at a high level.