D3baseball.com Team of the Week

The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its fifth 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 2016 season.

Games of February 29-March 6, 2016

C  Chris Hill, Jr., North Central (Ill.)

Hill hit for the cycle in North Central's 11-0 win in game one of a doubleheader against Carleton and followed up with two home runs in North Central's 12-4 win in game two over the Knights. He batted .462 (6-for-13) on the week.

1B  Kam Bruner, Jr., Spalding

Bruner helped Spalding to a pair of wins over No. 25 Heidelberg. At the plate, the first baseman hit .500 (2-for-4), and reached base five times by base on balls for a .800 on base percentage. Bruner also hit his way to a 1.250 slugging percentage, while driving in four RBIs and scoring three runs. In Friday's game, Bruner hit a walk-off single to the right-center wall scoring Korie Vire from second to give the Golden Eagles a 7-6 win in the 12th inning. In the field, Bruner went error free on the week and helped the Golden Eagles turn two double plays, including a 6-3 double play to end the top of the 12th inning of Friday's win.  

2B  Al Marolt, Sr., St. Scholastica

In Sunday's season-opening 6-2 victory over Bethel (Minn.), Marolt recorded a career-high five RBIs, including a grand slam home run and a RBI double. Marolt finished the day 2-for-3 (0.667).

SS  Ryan Dorow, Jr., Adrian

Dorow led the Bulldogs with an .800 slugging percentage as Adrian started 2-1 on the season. He homered in two straight games and added a double on the week as he finished the week with a .333 (5-for-15) batting average. he was perfect in the field with 15 chances without an error.

3B  Eric Hamilton, Jr., Oswego State

Over the course of the weekend Hamilton went 9-for-14 (.643) with five home runs, two doubles, 14 RBI and six runs scored. On Saturday, the junior lead Oswego to a 15-6 win over No. 4 Salisbury. In the game he tallied six RBI on a grand slam, solo home run and a sacrifice fly. In the doubleheader sweep on Saturday against Wesley, Hamilton homered three times while collecting 8 RBI.

OF  Bailey Lewis, Fr., Catholic

Lewis stepped to the plate 12 times for Catholic and delivered seven safeties for a .583 batting average. He scored two runs and drove in nine. Lewis slugged .917 as three of his hits were for extra bases (two doubles, triple).

OF  Ryan Olive, Jr.,  Rhodes

Olive was 7-for-10 (.700) at the plate with three doubles, a home run, six RBIs, and eight runs scored as Rhodes swept Sewanee this past weekend. Olive had a slugging percentage of 1.300 and also drew four walks on the weekend to go with a stolen base.

OF  Austin Winkles, Sr., Ferrum

Winkles batted .474 (9-for-19) in five games last week with two home runs, seven RBI and a 1.000 slugging percentage. He helped Ferrum to a three-game sweep of USA South preseason favorite Methodist to open league play at 3-0. Winkles posted a career milestone March 1 at home when he hit for the cycle in a 8-1 win over Lynchburg with a single in the first inning, a two-run homer in the second, a triple in the sixth and a double in seventh.

DH  Josh Warbington, Sr., East Texas Baptist

Warbington batted .500 (5-for-10) with a double and three home runs in a three-game series versus McMurry. He scored three times to go with eight RBIs.

SP  Scott Hall, Sr., Gordon

Hall held Anna Maria to only one hit and three total base runners, two of which came due to errors. He struck out 13 in a complete-game shutout.

SP  Daniel Imbro, Sr., Hendrix

Imbro threw a one-hit, complete game shutout in the Warriors' 7-0 win over North Park on Saturday. Imbro struck out two and only faced two batters passed the minimum. He threw 90 pitches in the first complete game shutout effort of his career.

SP  John Ruhlman, Jr., Roanoke

Ruhlman threw the first no-hitter in Roanoke program history in a conference contest against an Eastern Mennonite team that was hitting .360 heading into the game. Ruhlman also had 10 strikeouts on the day.

RP  Adam Emerson, Sr., Chris. Newport

Emerson retired all five batters he faced this week, striking out four of them. He earned a three-out save against Bridgewater (Va.), improving to 3-for-3 in save opportunities this season with a pair of strikeouts. Then, in a pivotal moment against Neumann, he was called on with two on and one out in the top of the 9th. With a runner 90 feet from home and the Captains already trailing by one, he struck out back-to-back hitters to escape the jam. The CNU offense then picked up two runs in the bottom half to walk off winners and hand Emerson his first victory of the year.