The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in
its second 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 fourth Team of the Week of the 2013 season.
Through games of March 4-10, 2013
C Zac Pacanowksi, Jr., North Central (Ill.)
Pacanowksi batted .636 for the week (7-for-11) with three runs
scored and seven RBI. Pacanowksi had triples in back-to-back games
for a 1.000 slugging percentage. He had at least two hits in each
of the three games with UW-Platteville.
1B Max Rosing, Jr., Cortland State
Rosing was 8-for-10 (.800) with a grand slam and four doubles. He
had seven RBI in a 20-0 win over FDU-Florham, adding one more in an
8-5 win over RPI.
2B Jordan Swope, So., Penn St.-Altoona
Swope had a consistently productive week at the plate for the
Lions during their Florida trip, going 9-for-16 (.562) with 6 RBIs.
Swope also walked five time with a single strikeout on the week. He
stole two bases in three attemps.
SS Nick Dean, Jr., Maryville (Tenn.)
Dean had the game winning single in the bottom of the ninth for a
walk-off win over Ferrum to begin the weekend, a weekend which
Maryville swept an USA South opponent for the first time. Dean
batted .688 (11-for-16) with seven RBI. Dean scored six times and
stole three bases.
3B Fr., Brian Munoz, Rochester (N.Y.)
In the only game Rochester had in the week, Munoz hit a two-run
single in the top of the first (his first collegiate at-bat) to put
Rochester ahead, 2-0. In the eighth inning, his one-out single
moved the eventual tying run to third. In the top of the 10th, he
hit a leadoff single and came around to score what proved to be the
winning run in a 4-3 victory over Emory.
OF Evan Agnew, Sr., Huntingdon
Agnew led Huntingdon to a 3-0 week over 8th-ranked Adrian,
10th-ranked Birmingham-Southern and Illinois Wesleyan (receiving
votes). Agnew batted .556 (5-for-9) with a 1.222 slugging
percentage. He hit his first two home runs of the year. Agnew drove
in four and score four runs.
OF Pat Hirschberg, Jr., Trinity (Tex.)
Hirschberg, the SCAC Player of the Week, batted .588 (10-for-17)
in a 3-2 week for the Tigers. He had six extra base hits (four
doubles, triple and a home run) for a 1.118 slugging percentage. He
scored five times and drove in seven. Hirschberg is the first
player to repeat on the D3baseball.com Team of the Week.
OF Chris Sweeney, Sr., King's (Pa.)
Sweeney had a monster week as the Monarchs went 4-1. In five
games, Sweeney batted .619 (13-for-21), including eight extra-base
hits. Among his 13 hits, Sweeney posted three doubles, three
triples, two home runs and registered a 1.333 slugging percentage.
He added seven RBI and scored seven runs. In a 16-5 win over
Emerson, he became the first King's player in over 20 years to hit
for the cycle.
DH Chris Bernard, Jr., Southern Maine
Bernard, the LEC Player of the Week, helped the Huskies get off to
a 2-0 start by batting .500 (3-for-6) with a double and two home
runs (1.667 SLG%). Bernard had four runs scored and five RBI. He
also picked up the win on the mound in the season opener against
Mt. St. Mary hurling five shutout innings.
SP Brett Collacchi, So., Salisbury
Collacchi pitched a one-hit complete-game shutout, blanking
Gallaudet, 14-0 in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday
March 10. He allowed just three baserunners on a single, a walk and
an error. Collacchi improved to 2-0, while fanning five and
throwing just 70 pitches.
SP Clay Gartner, Jr., George Fox
Gartner out-dueled Pacific's two-time All-NWC ace, Rob Dittrick,
2-0 in the first game of a NWC road series with the Boxers. After
allowing a pair of two-out singles in the 1st, the Bruins'
right-hander no-hit the Boxers over the final eight innings,
striking out 11 and walking only two. Only two Pacific runners
advanced past first.
SP Zach Jones, Sr., McDaniel
Jones threw the Green Terror's first no-hitter in 12 years,
striking out a career-high 12 batters in a 10-0 win over Penn
State-York on Saturday March 9. He allowed just one base runner via
a one-out walk in the fifth inning.
RP Taber Watson, Jr., Chapman
In two appearances this week, Watson extended his consecutive
scoreless inning streak to 18.1 innings. The San Anselmo, CA native
earned his third and fourth saves, allowing just two hits in three
innings while striking out six.