Honors and Awards:
- All-Skyline Conference Second Team (2021)
- Skyline Player of the Week (3/9/20)
- All-ECAC Second Team (2019)
- ABCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region Third Team (2019)
- D3baseball.com All-Mid-Atlantic Region Third Team (2019)
- First Team All-MAC Freedom (2019)
- Second Team All-MAC Freedom (2018)
2020: Started all 10 games for Manhattanville as a junior … named Skyline Player of the Week (3/9) … ranked first on the team with a .514 batting average, a 1.000 slugging percentage, four home runs and 10 RBI … went 2-for-2 with a home run and two RBI in a loss against Lynchburg (2/22) … went 2-for-4 in a loss against Methodist (2/22) … had two RBI and went 1-for-3 in a loss to Eastern Nazarene (3/1) … went 3-for-5 with two home runs and two RBI against New England (3/2) in a loss … went 2-for-4 and then 3-for-4 with a home run in a sweep against Wesley (3/7) … went 3-for-4 with two RBI against John Jay (3/8) in a 10-2 win.
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2019: Appeared in 39 games, starting 37 as a sophomore … tied for sixth in the MAC Freedom with a .407 average, tops on the team … second in the conference with 18 doubles … finished 6-for-11 with three runs scored in season-opening doubleheader against Manchester (03/01) … went 7-for-10 with two home runs and seven runs scored in MAC Freedom series sweep over Delaware Valley (03/29, 03/30) … went 6-for-9 with four runs and five RBI’s in MAC Freedom series against Wilkes (04/06, 04/07) … went 3-for-5 with five RBI’s in win over Mount Saint Mary (4/10) … went 3-for-6 in MAC Freedom Tournament win over King’s (05/04).
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2018: Had an outstanding freshman season, starting 30 of his 31 appearances, 22 behind the plate… hit .333 with two HR’s, 25 RBI’s, and 20 runs scored… recorded a hit in each of his first four games from March 4 to March 11… went 2-for-4 and hit first career home run against Montclair State (3/28)… finished 5-for-13 with seven runs scored in three-game sweep of FDU-Florham (3/30, 3/31)… went 2-for-4 with a home run, two runs scored, and two RBI’s against Wilkes (4/13)… recorded two hits and three RBI's against Delaware Valley (4/18)... went 3-for-6 in walk-off win over King’s (4/22)... posted a 4-for-6 performance at the plate in doubleheader against Eastern (4/28).
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High School: played four years of baseball for John Jay Senior High School… two-time All-County and one-time All-Section selection
Personal: son of Joseph Matero; has one brother and one sister, Joseph Jr. and Chelsea.
