The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its third 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 third Team of the Week of the 2014 season.
Games of February 24 - March 2, 2014
C Jordan Swisher, Jr., Case Western Reserve
Swisher was 5-for-7 (.714) in a two game set with Denison and Marietta. In the game with Denison, he missed hitting for the cycle by just a double and drove in a career-high five runs.
1B Simon Rosenbaum, So., Pomona-Pitzer
Rosenbaum went 8-for-8 with 10 RBI this week. Of his eight hits, five drove in runs while three were leading off innings to set the table. He also had a walk and a HBP to his credit for a .909 OBP and four extra-base hits for a 1.750 slugging percentage.
2B Alex Longernecker, Jr., Moravian
Longernecker helped Moravian open its spring trip with a doubleheader sweep of Heidelberg. Longernecker was 7-for-10 (.700) in the twinbill with two doubles, two triples, six runs scored and five RBIs. Longernecker tied the school record with a pair of triples in the opening game that the Greyhounds won 16-14 in 13 innings, tying the longest game in school history.
SS Travis Lodge, So., Randolph-Macon
In four games Lodge was 7-for-17 (.412) and with four doubles, and a .647 slugging percentage. He had three RBI and scored six runs. he was .955 in the field with 19 assists.
3B Corey Wallace, Sr., Guilford
Wallace sparked the Quakers to a doubleheader sweep at Virginia Wesleyan with a 7-for-11 (.636) week. He had three homers, six runs scored and 11 RBI on the day, becoming the 12th player in D-III to hit two grand slams in the same game.
OF Nick Fisher, Sr., Linfield
Fisher had a monster weekend at the plate, hitting 4-for-8 (.500) with a double, triple and home run for a team-high seven RBI. He scored five times.
OF Collin Nilson, Jr., Pacific Lutheran
Nilson hit .571 (4-for-7) in a doubleheader sweep of Willamette to open NWC play. His first home run of two on the day drove in the game-winning run in the first game of the doubleheader,. He followed his game one heroics with four RBI in the second game.
OF Wes Peacock, Jr., Emory
Peacock hit .667 (6-for-9) with a double, two home runs and 11 runs batted in over three games, all wins, for the Eagles last week. He scored five times.
DH Mike Fahy, Sr., St. John Fisher
Fahy led the Cardinals to a 3-1 start, batting .429 (6-for-14). He scored twice and drove in one run. Fahy had two stolen bases in four attempts.
SP Chris Bishop, Jr., Pacific Lutheran
Bishop threw the first nine-inning no-hitter in Pacific Lutheran history Saturday in a NWC road win over Willamette. Bishop allowed only two base runners while throwing the Lutes' first no-no since Joel Barnett's seven-inning no-hitter in 1993.
SP Ryan Kramer, Sr., Dickinson
Kramer tossed seven scoreless innings to earn a 4-0 win in the season opener against Fitchburg State on Saturday night. The senior scattered just three hits, surrendered just one walk and recorded eight strikeouts on the night.
SP Jake Perkins, So., Ferrum
Perkins pitched a nine-inning no-hitter against Maryville on Saturday, his second no-hitter of the season. He allowed just two baserunners on a walk and a HBP. Perkins struckout 11 batters.
RP Chris Soltys, Sr., Moravian
Soltys had the longest outing of his career, tossing 5.2 innings of relief to earn the victory in the Greyhounds 16-14, 13-inning win over Heidelberg. Soltys also had a career high eight strikeouts in just his fifth career outing of five innings or more.
March 4, 2014