The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its fourteenth 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 first Team of the Week of the 2025 season.
Games of February 1-16, 2025
C Ian Guthrie, Sr., Hendrix
Guthrie slashed .714/.750/1.000 in the first two games for Hendrix. In seven at-bats, he scored three times and drove in one. He had one stolen base.
1B Will Heron, Sr., Lewis & Clark
Heron tied the NCAA DIII record for home runs in a single-game (four) to help lead Lewis & Clark to a 2-1 series win over Whittier. The senior finished the weekend hitting .500 (7-for-14) and led the team with four home runs, seven runs scored and 10 RBI. He slugged 1.357 over the three games and added two walks for a .563 on-base percentage. He is the 23rd player in NCAA DIII history to hit four home runs in a single-game and is tied for 13th with 16 total bases in one game.
2B Joseph Coon, Jr., Ozarks (Ark.)
Coon batted .500 (7-for-14) in three games for the Ozark Eagles. He hit two home runs and two doubles to go with four runs scored and nine RBIs.
SS Evan Sykes, Jr., Greensboro
Sykes jump started the Pride's season batting .583 (7-for-12) with seven runs scored and five RBIs. He slugged 1.333 as he had five extra-base hits (two doubles, two triples, one home run). He stole one base in Greensboro first three games.
3B Cooper Berry, So., Pomona-Pitzer
Berry had a monster series for the No. 8 Sagehens as they took two of three games from No. 10 East Texas Baptist. Berry went 9-for-18 over five games with four home runs and 12 RBIs. He scored six runs.
OF Kash Durkin, Jr., Texas Lutheran
Durkin led the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs offensively in his first action as a Bulldog. The Blinn College transfer hit a blistering .615 (8-for-13) with two homers and six RBIs and five total extra base hits.
OF Trent McCown, Jr., Texas-Dallas
McCown batted .667 (6-for-9) with five walks as Texas Dallas opened their final season at the DIII level. He scored nine runs and drove in 10. He hit four home runs in three games to give him a 2.000 slugging percentage.
OF Joe Plaskett, Jr., Whittier
Plaskett had 11 hits (20 AB) in five games for a .550 batting average. He hit two doubles and four home runs (1.250 slugging percentage) as he drove in seven runs. He scored five runs.
DH Evan Scott, Sr., Millsaps
Scott had an immaculate weekend to open the season, helping the Majors to a 4-0 start. He batted .700 (7-for-10), with two homers, 10 RBIs, seven walks and scored five runs. He also tallied a .789 on-base percentage, two doubles, two steals, was hit by a pitch and totaled 15 bases.
SP Otto Franz, Sr., Concordia (Texas)
In game two of a series sweep where the Concordia Texas earned a 15-2 victory in seven innings against Howard Payne, Franz pitched a masterpiece as he earned the win with six strikeouts and allowed only one hitter on-base in 5.0 innings.
SP Ian Swanson, Fr. Methodist
Swanson is off to a terrific start in his collegiate career. In two appearances, with one start, he has a 1-0 record to go along with his 0.00 ERA through eight total innings of work. He has given up just three hits and has compiled a team-leading 13 strikeouts, while surrendering two walks. In his collegiate debut against Roanoke College, he pitched 3.0 scoreless relief innings, gave up one hit, and struck out a game-high seven batters. He followed that up by making his first-ever collegiate start against Hood College. In that game, he pitched 5.0 innings, allowing two hits & two walks, while producing a game-high six Ks.
SP Owen Wojciechowski, Fr., Roanoke
Wojciechowski was spectacular in his first two games of his Roanoke career. He started two games and did not receive a decision in either. on February 9th he pitched 6.0 innings, allowing one hit and striking out five. He got his second start where he went 5.2 innings with five hits allowed and ten strikeouts. He did not allow a walk in either outing.
RP Christian Williams, Sr., Christopher Newport
In two appearances against Messiah, Williams captured the win in game two and earned a save in game three. Closing out the eighth inning against the Falcons in game two, Williams stranded a baserunner with a pair of pop ups. Then, in a one-run game in game three, the lefty came on in the top of the ninth for his first save of the year. He worked around a one-out walk and slammed the door with a strikeout and lazy looper to second to clinch the series sweep.