HARWICH, Mass. — UC Santa Barbara Baseball alumnus Andrew Calica was inducted into the Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame on Sunday, being enshrined nine years after he was the batting champion of the most prestigious collegiate summer baseball league in 2015. A Gaucho from 2013-2016, Calica hit .425 and maintained a .480 on-base percentage for the Wareham Gatemen in 2015, leading the league in both categories. His .425 mark remains the fifth-best single-season batting average in CCBL history and the best in the league since the turn of the century.
 
In his Gaucho career, Calica was a two-time All-Big West honoree and a member of the 2016 team which reached the College World Series for the first time in program history. Calica was named to the Nashville Regional All-Tournament Team during that postseason, batting .462 (6-for-13) in Santa Barbara's three wins over Washington and Xavier (twice). 2015 was his best season in Blue and Gold, hitting .329 to help the Gauchos host an NCAA Regional for the first time, including a 37-game hitting streak to start the year. Calica was drafted by Cleveland in 2016 and went on to play four years of professional baseball in the minor leagues.
 
Alongside Calica, the CCBL Hall of Fame's Class of 2024 includes 2024 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Todd Helton, former Cape Cod League MVP and current major leaguer Nick Senzel, former major leaguer Pat Neshek as well as fellow CCBL batting champs Todd Cunningham and Brick Smith, plus longtime Falmouth Commodores manager Jeff Trundy. The CCBL Hall of Fame was established in 2000 to honor those who, through their exceptional achievement or volunteerism, have made lasting contributions to the game of baseball on Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Baseball League and serves to collect and preserve the history of baseball on Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Baseball League.