The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its eleventh season of recognizing the top performers at each of nine positions from the previous week. Players are selected from nominations from their school's sports information directors. This is the eleventh Team of the Week of the 2022 season.
Games of April 18-24, 2022
C Kevin Garcia, Sr., Concordia Chicago
Garcia hit .529 (9-for-17) on the week with four homers, a double, six runs scored and eight driven in. He handled 18 chances without a misplay on the week.
1B Jason Clark, Jr. Knox
Clark finished the week hitting 10-for-16 (.625) with five doubles, two home runs, six runs scored, five RBI, three walks, and a HBP for an .700 OBP for the week. He struck out once all week.
2B Nick Pett, Fr., Wooster
Pett had quite a week for the Fighting Scots as he earned a spot in the starting lineup at 2B. On the week Pett was 8-for-13 (.615) with seven runs, three RBI, and four hits for extra bases (two doubles, triple, and home run). He earned the save in the Scots' 5-3 nightcap win, recording the final two outs in his collegiate pitching debut.
SS Jake Bilotta, So., Rockford
Bilotta had multiple hits in four of Rockford's five games this past week. He posted a .450 batting average (9-for-20), a .538 on-base percentage and a .900 slugging percentage. Bilotta tallied six extra-base hits, four doubles, a triple and a home run, and scored eleven runs, while driving in five more. He also had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage out of twenty total chances at shortstop.
3B Sam Beers, Sr., Concordia Wisconsin
Beers hit .581 (18-of-31) over seven games last week, blasting six home runs and three doubles in the process while driving in 14 and scoring 13 runs of his own. He finished the week with a .588 on-base percentage and a 1.258 slugging percentage. Beers had multiple hits in six of the seven games.
OF Steven Diaz, Sr., Westminster (Mo.)
Diaz helped the Blue Jays to a three-game sweep of Eureka over the weekend as the senior outfielder went 6-for-12 (.500) at the plate with five home runs and eight runs batted in during the series. For the week he finished with three multi-hit games and a 1.750 slugging percentage while also picking up a stolen base and scoring five times.
OF Adam Kelly, Sr., Keystone
Kelly set a new single-game program-record with four homers against Clarks Summit in game two on Saturday. He finished the week 11-for-18 (.611) with a triple, two doubles, four home runs, 14 RBI, and eight runs.
OF Chris Marshall, Fr., Albion
Marshall batted .643 (9-for-14) last week. He had three home runs, 11 RBI and seven runs scored. Marshall slugged 1.286 and got on base at a .737 clip.
DH Daniel Spencer, Sr., Denison
Spencer hit .889 on the week (8-for-9) with a .923 on base percentage and a 1.222 slugging percentage. Finished with eight hits, seven RBI's, five runs scored, four walks and three doubles.
SP Jack Johnson, Sr., Juniata
Johnson threw a complete-game two-hitter while striking out nine batters in a win over Drew. He sat down the Rangers 1-2-3 in the second through the seventh innings during the game as he befuddled the Drew batters all afternoon.
SP Connor McHugh, Jr., St. John Fisher
McHugh went 2-0 on the hill for the Cardinals as Fisher clinched at least a share of the Empire 8 regular season title. McHugh was nearly untouchable, allowing two hits and no runs over 10 innings of work. The left-hander finished the week with nine strikeouts and held opposing hitters to a .063 batting average. Against Russell Sage on Sunday, McHugh threw a complete-game shutout and finished with five strikeouts.
SP Garrison Paillet, Fr., Thomas
Paillet tossed a complete-game (7-inning) no-hitter against NVU-Lyndon on Saturday. He struck out eight batters and walked only two in the 2-0 win.
SP Stephen Sewruk, Sr., Benedictine
Sewruk struck out 15 and allowed just two hits in a seven-inning shutout at St. Norbert, one of three shutouts from Benedictine on the weekend. He struck out the side three times to help Benedictine grab hold of first in the conference.
RP Logan Nickel, Fr., Anderson
Logan Nickel racked up three saves in three appearances for the Ravens last week. Nickel tossed 8.0 scoreless innings and allowed zero hits, issued a walk and fanned 10 batters. He recorded a four-inning save in game one against Bluffton, yielding a walk and striking out 6. Nickel went one inning in game one against Defiance, allowing zero hits, zero walks and striking out one. He then came back for game two against Defiance, throwing three innings and giving up zero hits, zero walks, while punching out three.