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 seventh Team of the Week of the 2015 season.
Games of March 23-29, 2015
C Hayden Tsutsui, Jr., Carleton
In the Knights' three games last week to conclude the squad's trip to Arizona, Tsutsui had a trio of multi-hit games as he batted .750 (9-for-12) with three doubles and his fourth home run of the year, wrapping up the week with a .786 OBP and 1.250 slugging percentage. He become Carleton's all-time hits king last week in just his Junior year.
1B Simon Rosenbaum, Jr., Pomona-Pitzer
Rosenbaum hit .600 (9-for-16) on the week, including .636 (7-11) in a key three-game series with first place Occidental. He also drew five walks for an on-base percentage of .700 and stole three bases. Rosenbaum had five extra-base hits (four doubles and a home run) for a 1.067 slugging percentage.
2B Landon Packard, Pacific Lutheran
Packard hit home runs in each of Pacific Lutheran's two wins in the series and drove in five of the Lutes' nine runs between those two games. He totaled five hits in 10 at bats (.500) to go with the two homers, three runs scored and a double as Pacific Lutheran won its sixth straight NWC series
SS Corey VanDomelen, Sr., Linfield
VanDomelen smacked four extra-base hits, including his first career home run, as part of a 9-for-12 (.750) performance. Extending his hitting streak to nine games, he was the only Wildcat to register multiple hits in all three games, registering a .750 on-base percentage and 1.250 slugging percentage. He drove in four runs while playing a defensively flawless weekend at shortstop.
3B Keith Shumaker, Sr., Millsaps
Shumaker helped lead the Majors to a 6-0 week with sweeps of Chicago and Centre. The senior extended his hitting streak to 13 games, including three three-hit games this past week. Shumaker hit .500 (12-for-24) and reached base 17 times in 29 plate appearances (586). He drove in six runs and scored 11. Five of his 12 hits went for extra bases.
OF Vinny Bomasuto, Sr., Cortland State
Bomasuto went 3-for-4 with a triple, five RBI and three runs scored in Cortland's lone game, a 15-11 win at Rochester. His two-run triple tied the game at 11-11 in the top of the eighth.
OF Chase Burrow, Jr., Mary Hardin-Baylor
Burrow batted .579 (11-for-19) In Saturday's 17-16 victory over Louisiana College, he hit a walk-off solo homer and tied an ASC single-game record with six hits in that game. He scored 11 runs and drove in eight more during a 4-0 week.
OF Tyler Hoare, Sr., Castleton State
Hoare helped Castleton State to a sweep of Colby. In the two-game series, the senior outfielder went 4-for-8 (.500), including one double and one home run, He drove in three and scored three runs.
DH Brian Hernandez, So., Emory
Herandez played in four games and made two starts during the week for the Eagles. He went six-for-eight (.750) with five runs scored and four RBIs, including a double and three walks. He drove in the game-winning run with a walk-off single in a 9-8 win over LaGrange and came off the bench and picked up a RBI base hit in his only at bat against Chicago.
SP Cason Adams, So., Texas-Tyler
Adams was historic in his outing last Saturday against Hardin-Simmons, throwing the second no-hitter in program history. Adams was nearly perfect, retiring 21 of 23 batters, allowing just two walks in seven innings on the mound and struck out nine batters in the team's 4-0 win.
SP Connor Alberhasky, Sr., Coe
Alberhasky threw the third recorded no-hitter in Coe history. Alberhasky struck out five and walked one batter, He threw a season-low 60 pitches in the no-hitter.
SP Blake Glauben, Jr., Rhodes
Glauben threw 11 innings on the week without giving up a run. He threw a one hitter in a nine inning complete game shutout in a 1-0 win over conference rival Berry. In the game, Glauben walked two and struck out six. On Wednesday the junior came in relief against Chicago and threw the final two innings, giving up two hits and striking out two for the save. His opponents hit .086 on the week.
RP Nick Quattro, Jr., Endicott
Quanttro struck out 13 batters in 10.2 innings, all in relief. He no-hit Eastern Nazarene over 6.2 innings in game two of a doubleheader that went into the 11th inning, earning his second win of the day. He got four outs against No. 12 Southern Maine as he inherited runners in scoring position with a 2-1 lead and no outs, stranding the go-ahead run.