( CNN ) -- A 20-year-old Florida International University baseball star was charged last week with the rape of two females in Nassau , police said Monday . The athlete , Garrett Wittels , has been released on $ 10,000 bail , Bahamas Police Department Press Officer Sgt . Chrislyn Skippings told CNN . `` We are aware of the case and we are providing all appropriate consular assistance , '' said a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman in Washington . `` We are providing all appropriate consular assistance and , due to privacy concerns , we are unable to share specific information about this case . '' The 6-foot , 1-inch , 198-pound infielder finished the 2010 season on a 56-game hitting streak , the second-longest in NCAA Division 1 baseball history , according to FIU 's website . Calls to Wittels ' family , FIU and the NCAA were not immediately returned . The junior shortstop was with four friends from Miami , Florida , when the incident allegedly occurred , said Skippings , who added that all five were charged . But the mother of one of the friends said only three of the five were charged , and that all five had returned to Miami . `` I really think all of them are innocent , '' said Dalilah Tromberg , mother of Steven Tromberg , in a telephone interview . `` These kids are going to prove , at the end , that they are innocent . The truth will prevail . '' She added that her son and another of the group were not charged . `` They are all wonderful boys from great families and I 've known them for many years , most of them . '' Tromberg said she could not add more . `` I 've been told not to discuss , '' she said . Wittels was named this month to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America Preseason All-America Team . His streak , which will carry into the 2011 season , puts him two games behind Robin Ventura 's 1987 record of hitting in 58 straight games . According to FIU 's website , Wittels is slated to start on Feb. 18 , when FIU hosts Southeastern Louisiana . CNN 's Zarifmo Aslamshoyeva contributed to this story .
NEW : `` I really think all of them are innocent , '' said the mother of one of the group . Garrett Wittels and four friends are charged with rape in the Bahamas . The woman told police that she was raped by a man who had been drinking at her home on Friday night. Wittels finished the 2010 season on a 56-game hitting streak .