The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its ninth 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 2020 season.
Games of March 2-8, 2020
C Vincent Timpanelli, Sr., Ramapo
Timpanelli hit .714 in a 1-1 opening day on Sunday for the Roadrunners. Collected five hits including two doubles while his slugging percentage was 1.000. Behind the plate he collected 13 putouts and seven assists while he threw out five runners attempting to steal in the double header. After catching both games, he came into the bottom of the ninth of game two with one out and runners on first and second to close out the game with back to back strikeouts for an extra inning 10-8 victory.
1B Carson Gampell, Sr., Grinnell
Gampell was simply amazing in four games against the UW-Superior over the weekend, hitting .769 with a slugging percentage of 1.538. He was 10-of-13 at the plate with three homers, a double, eight RBIs and eight runs scored while compiling an on-base percentage of .824. Gampell also had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 19 chances as Grinnell won three of four games.
2B Brandon Beauchamp, So., MSOE
Beauchamp hit .548/.605/.839 in 36 at-bats over the last seven games as MSOE participated in the RussMatt games in Florida. The sophomore had three doubles and three triples to go along with 13 RBIs.
SS Owen Marica, So., Eastern Conn. St.
Marica batted .632 when the Warriors opened their season with a 4-1 record, with four multi-hit games. He was 12-for-19 with seven RBI, four runs, 14 total bases, a .737 slugging percentage and .650 on-base percentage. At shortstop, also handled 16 chances without an error.
3B Eric Outlaw, Sr., North Central (Ill.)
Outlaw batted .571 (8-for-14) as The Cardinals stayed undefeted on the season. He scored four and drove in five. With two doubles he slugged .714. He stole a base.
OF Alex Ashby, Jr., Louisiana College
Ashby batted .625 (5-for-8) with seven runs scored and an RBI. He had a double and home run, translating to a 1.125 slugging percentage. With four walks, he reached first at a .750 clip. He stole two bases.
OF Isaiah Hairston, Fr., Guilford
Hairston had an outstanding week for Guilford against William Peace and Randolph-Macon. He batted .727 (8-11) with five runs, three doubles, two homers and four RBI. Hairston posted a .769 OBP and slugged 1.545 for Guilford. He was perfect in the outfield no errors and one put-out.
OF Trey Hicks, Sr., Christopher Newport
Hicks hit .600 this week with three games in Myrtle Beach and Sunday's capper on the road at Gallaudet. He hit for the cycle, the fourth in program history, in his first four at-bats against New England College and capped that performance reaching base in all five plate appearances going 4-for-4 with a walk and 5 runs scored. He has a home run in each of his last three games and drove in nine runs while scoring eight times for the Captains this week. His OBP for the week was .611 and he slugged 1.467 for an absurd OPS of 2.078
DH Chris Penna, So., Rhodes
Chris Penna, catcher/designated hitter from Los Angeles, Calif. paced the Lynx offense this weekend in taking the series from Hendrix 2-1. Penna started the weekend off with a two-run home run to extend the Lynx lead in game one where they won 9-1. In game two with the Lynx trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth, Penna stepped to the plate and hit his second home run of the day, a three-run bomb for a walk-off 4-3 victory. On Sunday in the Lynx loss, Penna was 2-for-3 with a walk. On the week Penna went 5 for 11 (.456 BA) with two home runs, two runs scored and six RBI. Penna also slugged 1.000 for the week.
SP Matthew D'Ambrosia, Sr., Muhlenberg
D'Ambrosia struck out a school-record 21 batters while pitching a three-hit shutout in the Mules' 5-0 win against Lesley. He broke the previous mark of 17, set 55 years ago, and tied the Centennial Conference record for strikeouts in a game. D'Ambrosia allowed only five baserunners and struck out the side in the third, sixth, eighth and ninth, tying another school record with six consecutive Ks. He also became Muhlenberg's all-time strikeout leader when he fanned his seventh batter in the third inning, finishing the game with a career total of 218.
SP Ryan Miller, Sr., Benedictine
Miller hrew a seven-inning no-hitter against Carleton facing just one-over the minimum. He struck out nine and did not walk a batter, finishing with just 84 pitches. Miller retired the last 15 batters after an error to open the third.
SP Michael Simmerman, Sr., Alvernia
Simmerman threw the fourth no-hitter in school history in his first start of the week throwing all seven innings while allowing no runs and striking out 10 and just one walk in a 25-0 win over Finlandia. He threw an inning of relief against St. John’s.
RP Nick Tarasi, Jr., Allegheny
Tarasi needed just 19 pitches to pick up four outs and a pair of saves in Allegheny's doubleheader sweep of Ithaca on Sunday. In game one, he entered with two outs and the tying run on third, coaxing a tapper back to the mound for the final out in a in a 2-1 win. In the second game, he tossed a clean ninth of an 11-8 win with a pair of ground outs and strikeout in the three batters he faced.