The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its tenth 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 ninth Team of the Week of the 2021 season.
Games of April 19-25, 2021
C P. Kalinski, Jr.. Wash. & Jeff.
Kalinski recorded hits in 11 of his 15 at-bats during No. 7 W&J's four-game sweep of Franciscan. The junior catcher compiled a .733 batting average with 10 runs scored, seven RBI and 13 total bases during the series with the Barons. He also had two doubles and two stolen bases.
1B Jake Nardone, So., Endicott
Nardone was a force to be reckoned with in Endicott's doubleheader sweep over Wentworth on Saturday. In game one, Nardone went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, three RBI, and a homer. He followed that performance up in game two (13-3 win) with a 2-for-2 day to go along with three runs scored, two homers, six RBI and two walks. Nardone tied the Gulls' single-game record for home runs with two, while his six RBIs rank tied for sixth all-time in a single-game.
2B Javier Rosa, Sr., McMurry
Rosa tied the single game school record twice this week with two five-hit games. He had 12 hits in four games this week, an average of three per game, with three homers and a double. Scored eight runs and drove in 10 runs. Rosa slashed .632/.650/1.158 for the week. He also had just one error with nine putouts and nine assists in the field for a .947 fielding percentage.
SS Colin Kelly, Sr., Union (N.Y.)
Kelly led the charge for Union in Saturday's sweep of Skidmore, going 5-for-7 (.714) with two homers, six runs batted in and three runs scored. With his second homer of the day broke a tie with James Griglun '04 to become the school's all-time leader with 19 career long balls, while also putting himself in a tie for first place in career RBIs at Union.
3B Daniel Coleman, Sr., Cortland
Coleman batted .727 (8-for-11) with four homers, two doubles, a walk, 14 RBI, six runs scored, a 2.000 slugging percentage and a .786 on-base percentage during a 3-1 weekend for the Red Dragons. In a 22-1 win over Oneonta Saturday, Coleman became the first Cortland player since 2007 to hit three homers in a game and finished 4-for-4 with seven RBI. Coleman also handled six fielding chances over the weekend with no errors.
OF Joe Casale, Fr., Adrian
Casale was a tough out with an eye-popping .833/.786/1.167 slashline to lead an Adrian offense that produced 39 runs in a four-game sweep of conference foe Alma. He also had four runs batted in, and finished his week with 10 consecutive hits in as many at-bats.
OF Michael Ciccotelli, So., New England College
Ciccotelli hit .600 as the Pilgrims swept four games against conference foe Lesley. Five of his nine hits were doubles, and he drove in 12 runs for NEC. He added a stolen base and scored seven runs. Ciccotelli finished the week with a .933 slugging percentage and a .625 on-base percentage.
OF Zach Perkins, So., Washington and Lee
Perkins contributed at the plate and on the mound in W&L's 3-0 week in ODAC play last week. In total at the plate, Perkins batted .667 (8-12) last week, with a .667 on-base percentage and a 1.000 slugging percentage, with two doubles, a triple, eight RBI, eight runs, two walks and a stolen base. On Wednesday, Perkins pitched eight innings, struck out nine, walked one and allowed three earned runs on eight hits to pick up the win over Eastern Mennonite.
OF Miles Reid, Jr., Tufts
Reid was 5 for 8 (.625) with 13 total bases (1.625 Slg) in Tufts' doubleheader sweep of Bates on Saturday. He had 2 doubles, 2 home runs, 5 RBIs, 4 runs, a walk and stole a base.
DH Joe Barcia, So., Bard
Barcia was a menace throughout a four-game Liberty League series against Vassar, hitting three triples and a home run on Friday at Bard, then adding a pair of doubles the next day at Vassar. He slashed .421/.421/1.000 on the week. Barcia scored six and drove in six.
SP Peyton Hood, Sr., Spalding
Hood no-hit Blackburn on senior day. The right-hander from Louisville, Ky. struck out 12 batters and walked three in a 9.0 complete game effort. The no-hitter is the first in seven years, the last coming from Javier Guerra on March 30, 2014.
SP Tate Ostrowski, Jr., Grove City
Ostrowski threw a perfect game Friday in game one of Grove City's doubleheader sweep of Bethan. He struck out 10 while retiring all 21 men faced. This was his second straight shutout and Ostrowski improved to 6-1.
SP Brock Weirather, Sr., Grinnell
Weirather tossed just the third perfect game at the NCAA Division III level this season, and 18th since 2007, with his gem against Knox College Sunday. Weirather needed just 83 pitches to complete the 13-0, seven-inning victory. He struck out 14 batters, the fifth-highest total in Grinnell history, and the perfect game was just the second ever at Grinnell. Weirather helped himself at the plate, too, as Grinnell won all four games against Knox. He hit .563 in that span, going 9-of-16 with a homer, triple, double, eight RBIs, seven runs scored and .938 slugging percentage.
RP Xavier Marmol, Jr., Salisbury
Marmol helped turn the tide in the third-ranked Sea Gulls' game two win at St. Mary's (Md.) on Friday. Marmol inherited and stranded two runners in the third inning and only allowed two runners to reach during the rest of his outing. He earned his first win of the year with 5.2 innings of scoreless, one-hit ball, hitting one batter and walking none while striking out six. Marmol's steady hand helped Salisbury turn a 3-2 hole into an 11-3 victory.
RP Sam Mathews, Jr., Marietta
Matthews won two games last week, both one run games, in relief. He only allowed two runners into scoring position, both at second base. In the first game of series against Muskingum, he faced one batter over the minimum in his five inning appearance.