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 tenth Team of the Week of the 2021 season.
Games of April 26-May 2, 2021
C Ryan Goodall, Fr., TCNJ
Goodall had a massive week as the Lions went 4-0 with sweeps of Rutgers-Camden and Kean. Goodall hit .722 (13-for-18) with four home runs, 10 RBIs and nine runs scored. Goodall added a double and a triple to post a slugging percentage of 1.556. He also walked three times to push his on-base percentage to .762.
C Brittan Kittle, Sr., Penn College
Kittle went 5-for-8 with a double and three home runs. He scored four and drove in six as he slashed .625/.600/1.875. Kittle was perfect behind the plate wit no errors and throwing out both runners who attempted to steal.
1B Jack Barry, Sr., York (Pa.)
Barry had another big week as he hit. .467 (7-for-15) in the Spartans' 3-1 week. Barry's big week included breaking the school's career home run record and the school's single season home run record. For the week, Barry had eight RBI, seven runs scored, four home runs, and two walks.
2B Trey Haley, So., Case Western Reserve
Haley batted .636 (seven-for-11) to help lead the Spartans to a doubleheader sweep at Franciscan University on Sunday afternoon. Among Hale's seven hits were two doubles and a home run. He also scored five runs and drove in four, while notching a 1.091 slugging percentage and a .636 on base percentage.
SS Seth Betts, Sr., Crown (Minn.)
Betts had a quite a week at the plate, with four home runs, three doubles, a triple, 13 runs, seven RBIs, 12 hits. If that's not enough, on the basepaths, he stole seven bags in seven attempts and pitched a nine-inning shutout against UW-Superior.
SS Jake Reinhardt, North Park
Reinhardt has experienced a power surge in the last nine game, hitting 12 home runs in that stretch after hitting two in his first 24 games this season. This week, eight of his 12 hits were home runs as he batted .429. He scored 11 runs and drove in a season high 21.
3B Connor Blake, So., Illinois Tech
Blake engineered a Scarlet Hawks offense that took 3-of-4 games from Benedictine (Ill.) on the weekend (May 1-2). He registered a .714 (10-of-14) batting average with three doubles, two home runs, 10 RBI, eight runs scored and five walks. Blake finished the week with a .750 on-base percentage and a 1.357 slugging percentage.
OF Jakob Hoffman, Fr., Franklin & Marshall
Hoffman batted .625 and got on a base at a .667 clip as the Diplomats swept Gettysburg to remain in the hunt for the Centennial Conference Championship. Of Roche's five hits, three were triples as he also drove in two runs and scored three more during the doubleheader.
OF Cooper Holewinski, So., Edgewood
Holewinski belted two grand slams in one game and drove in 14 runs in Saturday's doubleheader sweep at Wisconsin Lutheran. In the opener he had the two grand slams and finished the game with nine RBI. He added two triples and five RBI in game two. He finished the weekend series with a .500 batting average, 16 RBI, and eight runs scored.
OF Benjamin Stawicki, Sr., Case Western Reserve
Stawicki drove in seven runs over two games to lead the Spartans to a sweep of a doubleheader at Franciscan University on Sunday afternoon. Stawicki went six-for-eight (.750) with two runs scored, three doubles, seven RBIs and a walk, notching a 1.125 slugging percentage and a .778 on base percentage. He drove in a run in six of his nine plate appearances, going five-for-seven (.517) with runners in scoring position.
OF Aaron Whitley, So., Rochester (N.Y.)
Whitley was again a sparkplug at the top of the order for Rochester during a 4-2 week on the diamond. The sophomore outfielder hit .448 (13-for-29) with nine runs, six doubles, two home runs and a team-best 11 RBI. He added two walks, one hit by pitch and was 5-for-5 in stolen base attempts. He slugged .862 for the week and reached base by a .500 clip.
DH Kevin Bushnell, Jr., Benedictine (IL)
Bushnell had four multi-hit games for Benedictine and a pair of multi-homer contests to go with five multi-RBI contests. He batted .440 with six homers and 17 RBIs.
SP Brendan McFall, Jr., Tufts
In a "winner takes all" for the NESCAC East pennant in game two of Sunday's doubleheader between Tufts and Trinity, McFall was brilliant with a two-hit shutout in a 1-0 Jumbo victory. He struck out nine and did not walk anyone in the nine-inning game. He did not allow a Trinity runner to reach second base.
SP Joe Raab, Sr., Merchant Marine
Raab tossed his first-career no-hitter in a 4-0 win over Farmingdale State on Saturday. The lefty hurled 7.0 hitless innings with seven strikeouts. Over his last two starts (14 innings pitched), he has only allowed one hit. Raab is now 4-1 on the season with five complete games and three shutouts. He lowered his season ERA to 0.77 and he has a Skyline-leading 43 strikeouts.
SP Ryan Yerby, Sr., RPI
Yerby threw a no-htter against Ithaca College on Saturday afternoon, leading RPI to a 4-0 victory in Game 1 of a doubleheader. Yerby struck out five and walked four, while throwing 89 pitches in RPI's first no-hitter since Ryan Washburn. Yerby set the Bombers down in order four times, including each of the last three innings to secure the historic victory.
RP Harry Orth, So., Wis.-Oshkosh
Orth recorded a save during each of his two WIAC appearances against UW-Platteville. Orth pitched a total of four innings and held the Pioneers scoreless. He allowed just one hit and struck out four batters while inducing a pair of infield double plays. During UW-Oshkosh?s 11-3 road victory over UW-Platteville on April 28, Orth pitched three scoreless innings. He allowed just one hit while striking out three batters. Orth faced only eight batters as he benefited from a ninth-inning double play. In the Titans? 12-2 home win over the Pioneers on May 1, Orth pitched one scoreless inning. He entered the game with two runners on base in the seventh inning and retired the two batters he faced through a strikeout and an inning-ending double play. UW-Oshkosh then scored seven runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to win the game by the 10-run rule.