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 second Team of the Week of the 2025 season.
Games of February 17-23, 2025
C Ethan Crawford, Sr., Grinnell
Crawford started the season on a dominating note, hitting .571 with a 1.571 slugging percentage in a split of Illinois Wesleyan University. He was 4-of-7 at the plate with six RBIs, two homers and a double.
1B Dane Camphausen, Sr., Case Western Reserve
Camphausen matched the NCAA Division III records for home runs in a game and an inning during a huge opening weekend for the 14th-ranked Spartans. He finished the weekend batting .643 (9-for-14) with five runs, five home runs, and 11 RBIs, while slugging 1.714 with a .643 on-base percentage and extending his hitting streak to 21 games, dating back to last season. Camphausen is also the active Division III leader in home runs with 49, including 18 in just 43 games as a Spartans.
2B Cam Jerrett, Sr., Clarkson
Jerrett batted .667 (8-for-12) as Clarkson opened the season. He slugged 1.000 with four double. He scored two runs and drove in seven.
SS Gibby Sullivan, Jr., Bates
Sullivan hit an even .500 (4-for-8) over the first three games of the season while playing flawless defense at shortstop, a position he hadn't played since his rookie season at Bates. His go-ahead, two-out, two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning on Saturday gave Bates a 4-3 seven-inning win over Ferrum in game two of their doubleheader and was one of two extra-base hits (double, home run). He score three times and had three RBIs.
3B Michael Aikawa, So., Lewis & Clark
Aikawa reached the first eight times he stepped to the plate to help lead Lewis & Clark to a doubleheader sweep of reigning NWC Tournament Champion Willamette University on Saturday. The sophomore third baseman went 6-for-7 (.857) with three doubles, two walks and a hit by pitch in a pair of 8-7 victories, He tacked on two runs, two RBI and a stolen base.
OF Jack Gold, So., Pomona-Pitzer
Gold hit a home run in every game against Chapman to go with two doubles in the Sagehens sweep over the Panthers. First sweep over Chapman since 2009. He collected six hits (.545) in three games with nine runs and eight RBIs.
OF Brendan Henn, Sr., Penn State Harrisburg
Henn had a monster start to the 2025 campaign, slashing .571/.625/1.143 with a 1.768 OPS in three victories across Penn State Harrisburg's opening weekend. Across three games, Henn racked up eight hits and 16 total bases thanks to a home run, two triples and a double. He drove in seven runs and scored five more, adding two walks and a stolen base.
OF Marc Quarrie, So., Muhlenberg
Quarrie went 5-for-8 with two doubles, a home run, two stolen bases, seven runs scored and four RBI as the Mules split a season-opening doubleheader at Rutgers-Newark. He hit .625 in the two games with an OPS of 2.000.
DH Ty Clifton, Junior, Capital
Clifton led the Comets to a two-game sweep over Chatham with wins of 10-7 and 6-4. Across the two games Ty slashed .556/.636/1.222. In game one, he was 3-for-4 with a double, 1 RBI, two walks and two runs scored. In game two, Ty went 2-for-5 with a home run, a triple, four RBIs and one run scored.
SP Nick Jessen, Sr., Cortland
Jessen allowed three hits and one run with two strikeouts and two walks in six innings in nationally 15th-ranked Cortland's 7-1 win over 11th-ranked Christopher Newport at the D3 Showcase in Greensboro, N.C.
SP Dakota Palmer, Concordia (Texas)
Palmer was nothing short of stellar in the 11-0 game two victory over Schreiner. Palmer earned his first win of the season with a three-strikeout, 0.00 ERA (.86 WHIP) outing for the Tornados. Palmer only allowed four hits and six batters on-base in 7.0 innings of action.
SP Justin Ritz, Sr., Mary Washington
Ritz earned his second win of the season as the Eagles defeated Hanover. He pitched 5.0 innings and extened his streak of no hit inning to nine this season. He walked two and struckout six.
SP Jacob Rocky, Sr., Marietta
Rocky started and got the win in Marietta's 9-1 victory over No. 11 Christopher Newport. He pitched 7.0 shutout innings scattering five hits. He walked two and struck out four.
RP Dylan Beers, Sr., Cortland
Beers tossed four and two thirds innings of hitless relief with seven strikeouts and one walk in a 2-1 loss to nationally ranked Lynchburg.
RP John Francesconi, So., Gettysburg
Francesconi pitched the final four innings, earning the win, to finish off a sweep of Penn College this weekend. He allowed no runs on two hits. He struckout five