The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its inaugural season of recognizing the top performance at each of thirteen positions from the previous week. This is the seventh Team of the Week of the 2012 season.
Games of April 9-15, 2012
C Aaron Borenstein, Sr., Johns Hopkins
Borenstein batted .435 (10-for-23) in a week where he had four RBI. He slugged three doubles with a .565 slugging percentage. Borenstein also walked three timesa .500 clip.
1B Cord Heine, Sr., Penn St.-Altoona
Heine had a consistently strong performance at the plate last week, hitting .600 (9-for-15) in four games. He hit a double and tallied at least one RBI in each contest. He totalled seven RBIs, scored seven runs, and added a triple to help the Lions go 3-1 in a pair of doubleheaders this week.
2B Jeffrey Mathers, So., Ithaca
Mathers started all three games last week with Ithaca's leading hitter out of the line-up and led the Bombers in hits (7), average (.636), on-base pct. (.714), slugging percentage (1.000) and extra-base hits (4) as Ithaca swept its weekend series at Utica. Mathers played flawless defense with no errors in 12 chances.
SS Jimmy Dercks, Sr., Rockford
Dercks was critical to Rockford's 6-1 week. Dercks hit .586 and slugged .966 for the week. The senior had 17 hits including two 4-hit game and two 3-hit games. He had 8 doubles a home run with 13 RBI.
3B Kyle Hardacker, Fr., Kenyon
Hardacker batted .667 (10-for-15) in a 3-1 week for the Lords. He had three doubles and a home run for a 1.067 slugging percentage. Kardacker scored four times and drove in nine runs.
OF Cole Cefalu, So., Wis.-La Crosse
Cefalu hit .611 (11-of-18) with four runs scored, two doubles, one home run, six RBI and three stolen bases in UW-L's four-game series sweep of UW-Oshkosh. In a game versus the Titans April 14, Cefalu had a game-winning walk-off solo home run in a 4-3 victory in the nightcap of the doubleheader.
OF Thomas Daly, Sr., Baruch
Daly batted .533 (16-for-30) as he had hits in six straight games. Daly scored 14 runs and had 13 RBI. He stole seven bases out of eight chances.
OF Billy Miller, Sr., Babson
Miller hit safely in all six of Babson's games this week, batting .542 with 13 hits, including a double and three homers, to go with 11 runs, and 11 RBI in leading the Beavers to a 5-1 record.
DH Tucker White, Jr., Southern Maine
White registered multiple hits in each of his five games this past week to sport a .476 batting average (10-for-21) with three extra base hits, and 12 RBI.
SP Ray Angelucci, Jr., Cortland State
Angelucci allowed only one hit, an infield single in the first inning, in six scoreless innings of work. He is 7-1 this spring with a 1.19 ERA in eight starts this spring.
SP Kyle Cunningham-Rhoa, Sr., Wooster
Cunningham-Rhoads tossed the second perfect game in Wooster's history and 16th in D-III history, as he set down all 21 Hiram batters he faced on Sunday. The right-hander cruised through the Hiram lineup, as a ball didn't reach the outfield until the fourth inning and he struck out four, the third-highest total of his career.
SP Brian Rauh, Jr., Chapman
Rauh struck out a career-high 16 batters and tossed a complete-game six-hit shutout against DIII's No. 19-ranked Linfield on Apr. 14.
RP Kyle Lindquist, Sr., Marietta
Lindquist, the OAC pitcher of the week, allowed just two base runners and none in scoring position in the three games he appeared this week. He retired all six hitters he faced against Heidelberg.