The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its fourth 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 sixth Team of the Week of the 2015 season.
Games of March 16-22, 2015
C Brian Bohman, So., Penn St.-Behrend
Bohman had a tremendous doubleheader for Penn State Behrend this weekend at Centre. For the day he went 6-for-9 (.667) from the plate with a double, triple and two home runs. He drove in four and scored three times.
1B Connor Bertsch, Jr., Concordia (TX)
Bertsch's breakout season continued last week he hit .556 (5-for-9) with two doubles, and a pair of home runs. Bertsch racked up 13 total bases, which translated to a 1.444 slugging percentage, and he reached base at a .714 clip. Bertsch scored six runs, walked five times and and he drove in five runs.
2B Connor Griffin, Jr., Cortland St.
Griffin stepped in as the starter at second base after an injury to another player and helped Cortland sweep a three-game SUNYAC series versus New Paltz. Griffin finished the week with a .538 batting average (7-for-13), eight RBI, three runs, a walk and two hit-by-pitches, and handled all his fielding chances without an error.
SS Nick Palmiero, Sr., Rensselaer
Palmiero drove in a team-high eight runs last week, all of which coming in a doubleheader sweep of Skidmore on Sunday. For the week he was 6-for-14 (.429) with seven walks. He scored nine times to go with a double, triple, and home run.
3B Jeff Kammer, Sr., Webster
Kammer helped lead a Webster offensive explosion. Kammer batted .692 on the week, going 9-for-13 with four doubles, a home run, and five RBIs. He also swiped two bases. Kammer had an OBP of .733 and a slugging pct. of 1.231 for the week.
OF Tyler Kent, Jr., Otterbein
Kent was 9-for-14 (.643) in a week where he hit for the cycle against Wittenberg and drove in the game-winning run in 11th inning against La Roche by legging out infield single. Kent scored five times and drove in four.
OF Bryan Mitchell, So., Thiel
Mitchell hit .600 (6-for-10), slugged 1.200 (12 total bases), and got on base at a .692 clip. He scored seven runs and had five RBI. Mitchell was a double away from hitting for the cycle in the second game of a doubleheader against D'Youville.
OF Ryan Medeiros, Sr., UMass-Dartmouth
Medeiros batted .500 (7-for-14) with six runs scored and eight RBI to help UMass-Dartmouth post a 2-2 record this past week. The senior centerfielder recorded four doubles and a home run to sport a 1.000 slugging percentage, while drawing four walks to increase his on-base percentage to .632.
DH Scott Hilbrandt, Fr., New York University
Hilbrandt hit .600 (3-for-5), a .750 OBP and notched a 1.200 slugging percentage during a pair of victories on the road over Cairn. The rookie started the first game at DH and the nightcap behind the plate for the Violets. Hilbrandt totaled four runs, four RBIs, three walks, and his first-career home run.
SP Aaron Aleman, Sr., Texas Lutheran
Aleman was dominant against the No. 13-ranked Tigers. Aleman allowed just four hits and struck out five in the complete game effort. It is the first time Trinity has been shutout in a conference game since a 5-0 loss on March 26th, 2011 to Hendrix.
SP Kyle Connelly, Jr., Concordia-Moorhead
Connelly pitched a 1-hit complete-game shutout against Nebraska Wesleyan in his only outing of the week. Connelly lost his no-hit bid with two outs in the sixth inning. He didn't walk a batter and struck out five.
SP Eric Morell, Jr., La Grange
Morell pitched La Grange's first ever nine-inning no-hitter and first since 2009. He walked four and struck out seven batters in the win over William Peace.
RP Matt Cronin, Fr., Mass.-Dartmouth
Cronin did not allow a hit in 2.1 innings of scoreless relief over the course of two appearances. In a game with Ramapo, he entered with two runners in the eighth and retired all four batters he faced to earn his first collegiate save. Cronin pitched a scoreless ninth against Western New England.