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 seventh Team of the Week of the 2025 season.
Games of March 24-30, 2025
C Andy Rivas, Sr., Keystone
Rivas batted .786 (11-of-14) with five doubles, two home runs, and 11 RBI in four games this week. He had a slugging percentage of 1.571 and a .789 on base percentage.
1B Graham Kasten, Fr., Concordia Wisconsin
Kasten had a blistering week at the plate with 10 hits in 15 at bats (.667). Five hits went for extra bases (three doubles, two home runs). He scored 12 runs and had 10 RBI in the four-game stretch. He had a hit in all four games and at least two runs in every game.
2B Cooper Kuriger, So., Rhodes
Kuriger slashed .500/.636/1.125 in three games this week. He had four hits (two doubles, home run) to go along with three walks. He scored two runs and had 5 RBIs. He was perfect in the field with 22 changes without an error.
SS Collin Callahan, Sr., Carthage
Callahan hit three home runs in two games to go with a double as he slugged 1.417 on the week. He had seven hits in 12 at-bats (.583). He accounted for 11 runs, scoring six and driving in five.
3B Jake Schelonka, Sr., St. Scholastica
In the Saints doubleheader versus Bethel, Schelonka went 4-for-7 (.571) from the plate with 2 home runs (1.429 slugging), four runs and three RBIs.
OF Dominick Curcio, Sr., Aurora
Curcio hit .500 (8-for-16) on the week for Aurora with two home runs, three triples and a double while scoring nine runs and driving in nine. In a 28-18 win at Wisconsin Lutheran, he went 6-6 with three triples and a home run while scoring six runs. The six hits, three triples and six runs scored all set single game records for Aurora.
OF Harry Leipold, So., Maritime (N.Y.)
Leipold went a combined 6-for-8 (.750) with eight RBIs and six runs scored in the Privateers' doubleheader sweep at Old Westbury on Sunday.
OF Andrew Rajkovich, Sr., UW-La Crosse
Rajkovich hit .714 (10-of-14) with five home runs, 11 runs, 13 RBI, three walks, one double and one stolen base in UWL's four game sweep of UW-Stout. He hit home runs in all four games while recording four multiple-hit contests and scoring at least two runs in all four games.
DH Andrew Mazzone, Gr., Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Mazzone hit .545 (6-for-11) and homered in all three games of a series against No. 2 La Verne, as the Stags took two out of three. He accounted for five runs scored and seven RBIs.
DH Nate Sommerfeld, Sr., North Park
Sommerfield had four extra-base hits last week (two doubles, two home runs). He drove in nine runners on the week and was 6-for-13 (.462) with five runs scored.
SP Sam Fairhurst, So., Catholic
On Sunday, Fairhurst broke the record for strikeouts in a Landmark Conference game, punching out 17 Wilkes Colonels in a 9-0 victory for Catholic. Fairhurst went a career-high 8.1 innings, allowing just three hits and no runs to earn his third victory of the season.
SP Luis Misla, Sr., Cortland
Misla tossed a four-hit shutout with one walk and a career-high 16 strikeouts in a 6-0 win over visiting New Paltz on Friday. He's the fifth player in program history to strike out at least 16 batters in a game and finished one strikeout short of tying single-game record of 17.
SP Dalton Pickett, Sr., LeTourneau
Pickett was masterful in a seven-inning no-hitter of Mary Hardin-Baylor in a 5-0 game three victory. The right-hander retired the first 15 batters he faced and only allowed two baserunners the entire game. Pickett faced the minimum (21) and struck out seven. It was the first YellowJacket no-hitter since 2023 and the fourth in program history.
SP Jack Walsh, So., Coe
Walsh continued his dominant sophomore season on the bump for the Kohawks, securing his third win of the year with a complete-game, one-hit shutout against Central. He allowed just two base runners en route to the victory, surrendering one walk.
RP Jack Colyer, Jr., Ithaca
Colyer entered in the second inning as the Bombers trailed Clarkson, 4-0, at that time and he proceeded to throw 7.0 innings of relief and allowed just one hit and no walks with six strikeouts. Colyer would earn the victory as the Bombers came back to win, 6-4.
RP Brendan Cruz, So., Washington & Jefferson
Cruz pitched 5.0 scoreless and hitless innings across two games for W&J with four strikeouts and one save in a four-win week on the mound. Cruz first saw action on the mound against Thiel, pitching 2.0 scoreless and hitless innings to close out the 13-3 win in game two. Against the Yellow Jackets, Cruz picked up a save in 3.0 innings of relief with two strikeouts in a 6-2 win, not allowing a baserunner. Offensively, Cruz picked up two hits with a three-run homer against Waynesburg that broke the game open and gave W&J their game-winning lead in the top of the sixth.