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 tenth Team of the Week of the 2016 season.
Games of April 11-17, 2016
C Eric Hamilton, Jr., Oswego State
Hamilton batted .500 (5-for-10) with four RBIs and five runs scored. With his two home runs, Hamilton tied the school record for the most single season home runs with 11. He played errorless defense on the week.
1B Donovan Pogue, Sr., Thomas More
Pogue helped lead the Saints to a 4-1 record last week, including a 4-0 record against PAC opponents. He batted .750 as he was 12-of-16 with three home runs, a double, 10 runs scored and 11 runs batted-in. Pogue was walked five times and was hit by a pitch once for a .818 on-base percentage, while putting together a 1.375 slugging percentage.
2B Benjamin Bavly, Fr., Brandeis
Bavly led the Judges in hits as he batted .522 (12-for-23), total bases as he slugged .826 and tied for the team lead with six RBIs. He had two doubles, a triple and home run. Bavly scored five times.
SS Nick Swim, Sr., Castleton
Swim pushed his hitting streak to 16 games this week in leading the Spartans to a 5-0 week. He batted .667 (14-for-21) over five games with four doubles, one grand slam, 15 RBIs and nine runs scored. He also posted 1.000 slugging percentage and a .667 on-base percentage with two walks, one sacrifice fly and two stolen bases.
3B Zach Ellenthal, Sr., Colby
Ellenthal hit .647 (11-for-17) for the week and had five extra-base hits (four doubles, triple) in a 4-2 week for the Mules. He had a 1.000 slugging percentage and a .667 on-base percentage. He scored four runs and drove in eight.
OF Jamie Ball, Sr., Hardin-Simmons
Ball had a big weekend series against Louisiana College going 6-for-11 (.545) with a double, a triple, and a home run (1.091 slugging). He drove in nine runs and scored six times.
OF Waylon Bemboom, Sr., St. Thomas (Minn.)
Bemboom hit .643 (9-of-14) to lead the Tommies' 4-0 week that kept them atop the conference standings. The senior has hit safely in 14 consecutive games Last week he reached base in 10 of 17 plate appearances with six RBIs, eight runs scored, two sac flies and three stoles bases.
OF Michael Evan, So., Concordia Texas
Evan was instrumental in all three of Concordia's victories over the weekend, but his two RBI hits in Saturday's opener proved to be enough to win that contest. Evan racked up two doubles and a triple as he batted .800 (8-for-10). He scored three with six RBIs.
DH Colton Parker, Jr., Hardin-Simmons
Parker had an impressive weekend against Louisiana College, going 7-for-10 (.700) with five home runs (2.200 slugging percentage). Four of the five were solo shots and the other a two-run shot. He scored seven times and drove in eight runs in the three game set.
SP Felix Baez, Sr., Keystone
Baez tossed the first Keystone no-hitter since 2012 on Friday by holding Marywood hitless in the Giants' 1-0 win in the nine-inning game between the local rivals. The senior righthander struck out 16 batters on the day, the third-most in a single game in program history to earn the complete game shutout win.
SP Bryan Roberts So., Wabash
Roberts tossed a seven-inning no hitter Wednesday in a 4-0 win at Wittenberg. He struck out seven batters. Two errors and a hit batsman prevented the perfect game for the righthander.
SP Tanner Wilt, Sr., La Roche
Wilt had one of the best pitching performances in La Roche history in the Redhawks' 4-0 win over Medaille. He allowed just one hit (to the first batter of the game) on Saturday while striking out 13 in a complete game win.
RP David Otero Jr., So., Farmingdale State
Otero Jr. was 3-0 in four relief appearances where he allowed one hit and no runs in 7.0 innings pitched. In game one vs. St. Joseph's-LI, he threw three scoreless innings with two strikeouts. Otero Jr. pitched the final 1.2 innings and struck out three in game one at Mount Saint Vincent and threw the final 2.1 innings, striking out four in game two versus Old Westbury. He held opposing batters to a .048 average.
April 18, 2016