Monessen grad Sacco wins PONY award
Rob Burchianti | Herald-Standard
Monessen’s Jack Sacco bats against Avella during a game this past season. Sacco was chosen as the PONY Baseball East Zone scholarship recipient for 2022. He batted .462 for the Greyhounds and was selected to the Herald-Standard All-Area Baseball Team.
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Jack Sacco
Every year PONY Baseball and Softball awards one high school senior from each zone a scholarship. This year’s East Zone recipient is Jack Sacco of Monessen High School.
Sacco was selected to the Herald-Standard All-Area Baseball Team in 2021 and 2022.
He graduated from Monessen High School, May 27 as Salutatorian. He was a highest honors student.
Sacco was a member of the National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society, vice president of his class and was the top Scorer in the Monessen-Charleroi Academic League. He was president of Monessen High School’s Leo Club.
He batted .462 with 11 RBIs and had a .556 on-base percentage, a .641 slugging percentage and a 1.197 OPS this spring and was a two-year team captain. He also was co-captain of the Greyhounds’ section championship basketball team.
Sacco was a three-year starter for Monessen’s soccer team as a goalkeeper and a four-year starter in baseball.
He will attend Washington and Jefferson College and major in data science and business administration.