The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its twelfth 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 Twelvth and final Team of the Week of the 2023 season.
Games of May 1-7, 2023
C Vincent Eramo, Sr., Fitchburg St.
Eramo batted .529 (9-of-17) with three doubles, four home runs, five runs scored, 12 RBI and a stolen base over four games for the Falcons. He set the Falcons single season RBI record with 52 RBI, while tying the program record for home runs in a career (21) as well as setting the Falcons All-Time record for total bases at 270.
C Jett Wedekind, Sr., Aurora
Wedekind led Aurora to a 6-0 week and a clinching of the 2023 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference regular season crown. He played in five of the six games, hitting .450 (9-for-20) with five home runs, two doubles to slug 1.300 while driving in 10 runs, scoring 10 runs with a .542 on-base.
1B Quinten Perilli, Fr., Elizabethtown
Perilli slashed .778/.833/1.667 on the week in two games for the Blue Jays. Fout of his seven hits (9 AB) resulted in extra-bases (two doubles, two home runs). He score five and drove in another five on the week asa Elizabethtown locked up the No.1 seed in the conference championship.
2B Adam Cootway, Jr., UW-Whitewater
Cootway was the 10th player to hit for the cycle in WIAC history and he added a bonus home run the game he did it. In a doubleheader against Platteville, he was 8-8 with 3 HR, 12 RBI, 7 runs scored. For the week he batted .724 (21-for-29) with 19 runs and 26 RBIs in seven games. With 10 extra-base hits (two doubles, two triples, six home runs) he slugged 1.552.
SS Jake Miller, Gr., East Texas Baptist
Miller had a career weekend helping ETBU to their first ASC Tournament Championship hitting .550 (11-for20) in six games with 15 RBI, 5 doubles, and a grand slam. He had a .950 slugging percentage and scored six times.
3B Dylan Mackenzie, So., Cortland
Mackenzie batted .500 (5-for-10) with three homers, two doubles, a walk, 13 RBI and five runs scored during a 3-0 week for the Red Dragons, In an 11-1 win over Mount Saint Mary on Tuesday, Mackenzie drove in seven of Cortland's first eight runs with a three-run homer in the fourth and a grand slam in the fifth. Mackenzie also hit a grand slam and finished 2-for-3 with a homer, double, five RBI and three runs in a 16-4 win over Moravian on Saturday.
OF Adam Mieczkowski, So., Cortland
Mieczkowski hit .667 (6-for-9) with two homers, two walks, eight RBI and seven runs in three Cortland victories. He homered in each game of a doubleheader sweep of Moravian, increasing his team-high total to 11 homers on the season. He finished the twinbill a combined 5-for-8 with seven RBI, and earlier in the week was 1-for-1 with two walks, a HBP and three runs scored in a win over Mount Saint Mary.
OF Alec Reilly, Sr., Christopher Newport
In the Captains' lone contest of the week, Reilly provided nearly all of the offense in an 8-2 win over second-ranked Salisbury. Reilly delivered a two-run single in the bottom of the first to get things started before adding two more singles and a walk in the middle innings. In the bottom of the eighth, Reilly stepped in with the bases loaded and hammered a grand slam over the scoreboard in right field to give CNU an 8-2 advantage. He finished 4-for-4 with a career-high 6 RBI and two runs scored while adding a walk to reach in all five of his plate appearances.
OF Aaron Whitley, Sr., Rochester
Whitley led the Yellowjackets to a two-game sweep over Bard in the Liberty League Crossover Series over the weekend. The senior outfielder hit .875 (7-for-8) with 6 runs score, 2 doubles, 2 home runs and 4 RBI. Whitley was also 4-for-4 in stolen base attempts, slugged 1.875 and had an .889 OBP.
DH Mitchel Johnson, So., Catholic
Johnson was instrumental in Catholic's three-game set at Juniata this weekend. Johnson tallied six hits on for the weekend (batting .462), five of them doubles, plus he drove in six runs and scored four more for the Cardinals. Johnson broke the single-season record for doubles in Catholic history, reaching 21 for the season.
SP Adam Biewen, Jr., Gustavus Adolphus
Biewen had the best pitching performance of his collegiate career on May 2nd, tossing a complete-game shutout against then-conference leading Bethel. Biewen allowed just two hits in the nine-inning shutout while striking out eight batters. Biewen, who did not walk a single batter in the 8-0 win.
SP Drew Bryan, Jr., Chicago
Bryan struck out 15 in a dominating performance to lead the Maroons to a 1-0 victory at Lawrence. The win clinched the #3 seed in the Midwest Conference Tournament. Bryan spun another gem as he ran his scoreless streak to 17.2 consecutive innings. The righthander rang up 15 batters in 7.2 innings of work, which matched his season high that he established versus Illinois College on April 7. In total, the junior struck out 54 percent of the batters he faced.
SP Charlie Fleming, Sr., Denison
Fleming (9-1) threw the third no-hitter in the history of Denison baseball and the first since 2005 during a 14-0 win over Waynesburg on Saturday. Fleming recorded 15 straight outs after walking the first batter of the game and finished with seven 1-2-3 innings, three walks and 10 strikeouts.
RP Jason Hughes, Jr., Immaculata
Hughes earned the win in the first game of the doubleheader vs Marymount on May 6th, throwing a pre-determined three and two-thirds allowing no hits, no runs, walking one, and striking out six. Pitched one inning of scoreless relief against Arcadia on May 2nd earning a save, allowing no hits, no runs, and striking out one.
RP Connor Susman, Jr., Central (Iowa)
Susman made his second career appearance in the bottom of the ninth against Cornell and had 12 strikeouts in five hitless innings of relief. He allowed one walk and two base runners reached on errors. Susman got Central through the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th innings of a 15-inning win in what was supposed to be a seven-inning game.