The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its eleventh 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 eighth Team of the Week of the 2022 season.
Games of March 28-April 3, 2022
C John Mulready, So., Endicott
Mulready slashed .583/.583/1.583 in three games for the Gulls. He was 7-for-12 with four home runs, six RBI and four runs scored. Defensively, Mulready was perfect in the field (38 putouts, 1 assist) and caught his only would-be base stealer.
1B Mark Kirkland, Sr., Redlands
Kirkland had a big weekend for Redlands as he went 11-for-15 with three doubles, a triple, five runs scored, seven runs batted in along with hitting .733, an OBP of .750 and slugging 1.067. He totaled 16 bases with four extra base hits and defensively was perfect with 21 putouts, a double play and two assists.
2B Jack Millen, Fr., Merchant Marine
Millen had a monster week at the plate for the Mariners, hitting .714 (10-for-14) with four doubles, seven RBI and five runs scored, while also swiping three bases on three attempts.
SS Blake Greenly, Jr., Lancaster Bible
Greeley batted .769 (10-for-13) in three games. He hit three doubles and three home runs for a 1.693 slugging percentage. He drove in eight and score six.
3B Luke Broadhurst, Sr., Eastern Connecticut State
Broadhurst raised his batting average 70 percentage points with a 7-for-10 (.700) week in three Warrior victories, which included four home runs, ten RBI, eight runs scored and a 1.900 slugging percentage.
OF Jacob Charon, Sr., Lawrence
Charon smacked four homers in Lawrence's doubleheader sweep of Grinnell on Saturday and went 6-for-10 (.600) with nine runs batted in and six runs scored in the three-game series with the Pioneers. Charon now has ten home runs on the season breaking the Lawrence season record just 14 games into the campaign.
OF Luke Leavitt, So., Mass.-Boston
Leavitt hit a career-best .800 in the Beacons 2-2 week, He combined for eight hits in 10 at-bats and had three run scored, eight RBI, one double and one home run, He was walked once and stole three bases and struck out only once.
OF Jalen Ping, Jr., Illinois Wesleyan
Ping led the Illinois Wesleyan University offense this week. For the week, he accumulated a whopping .714 average (5-for-7), five runs, three doubles, eight RBI, and a 1.143 slugging percentage.
OF Aaron Whitley, Jr., Rochester
Whitley combined to go 5-for-6 (.833) in a doubleheader sweep over Vassar on Saturday, Rochester's lone action of the week. The junior outfielder added a double, triple, five runs scored, two RBI and four stolen bases in the sweep. Whitley combined to reach base 8 out of 9 (.888) times from the leadoff spot in Rochester's lineup. He also added a home-run robbing catch in the first game, a 7-4 UR win.
DH Daniel Rogers, So., Loras
Rogers had a hot bat for the Duhawks in five games during the week with 12 hits (22 at-bats) and a .545 batting average. He had five extra base hits (three doubles, two home runs), driving in seven and scoring six.
SP Tyler Horvat, Jr., Washington & Jefferson
Horvat totaled 15 scoreless innings last week for the Presidents. Horvat picked up PAC victories over Chatham and Bethany during a 7-0 week for W&J. The junior righty allowed just two hits and struck out four over 6.0 innings against Chatham Tuesday. Horvat recorded a complete game shutout Saturday against Bethany. He struck out five and allowed four hits against the Bison. Horvat limited the opposition to a .125 batting average and did not issue a walk last week.
SP Stephen Sewruk, Sr., Benedictine
Sewruk tossed seven shutout innings against Marian, allowing just two hits with a walk and striking out nine to earn his first win of the season in the conference opener.
SP Ismael Tatis, So., John Jay
Tatis fired a no-hitter in an 11-0 victory at the University of Valley Forge. The sophomore threw seven innings and did not allow a run and struck out four.
SP Casey Trapp, Jr., Saint John's (Minn.)
Trapp struck out a career-high 13 batters in a complete-game shutout (6-0) as Saint John's completed a MIAC-opening sweep of Concordia on Saturday. Trapp allowed two hits and two walks in the 112-pitch shutout and had a no-hitter through the first 4.2 innings. The 13 strikeouts were the most by a Johnnie pitcher since Michael Crees struck out 13 against Bethany Lutheran in 2006.
RP Chris Hess, Jr., Centenary (N.J.)
Hess provided a big lift out of the bullpen on Friday against Neumann. He entered a two-run game with a runner on third and no outs and kept that runner from scoring. He went two innings to earn the save and did not allow a hit or a run while allowing two runners to reach via a walk.
RP Sam Mathews, Sr., Marietta
Matthews helped No. 1 Marietta to a 4-0 week including two wins over No. 21 Denison. Mathews pitched in two games, both against Denison, getting a 4.0 inning save in the first game and a 5.0 relief win in the second game. Opponents hit just .143 against him getting only 4 hits in 9.0 innings of work to go along with 0 walks and 7 strikeouts.