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 twelvth and final Team of the Week of the 2025 season.
Games of April 28-May 4, 2025
C Ethan Daddabbo, Jr., Ithaca
Daddabbo appeared in all three games during a 2-1 week for Ithaca and made one start, but he went 5-for-8 (.625) at the plate with six RBI, two doubles and a home run. He was also perfect on defense with 18 total chances.
1B Zach Johnson, Jr., MUW
Johnson had two big games last week in his starts. He batted .500 (6-for-12) with three home runs, a double and a triple. He scored six runs and drove in eight.
1B Jaired Lehman, Sr., Mount Union
Lehman went off last week, batting .545 (6-for-11) with nine RBIs Four of his hits went for extra-bases with a double and three home runs. He scored five runs.
2B Mason Kirchberg, Sr., UW-Oshkosh
Kirchberg hit .600 (9-for-15) with a .632 on-base percentage and a 1.267 slugging percentage as the Titans completed their fourth four-game sweep of a WIAC opponent this season in Menomonie last week. He recorded eight runs and seven RBIs against the Blue Devils with a double, three home runs, two walks, a hit by pitch, and four stolen bases.
SS Jackson Sgro, Fr., Haverford
Sgro delivered a breakout performance during the most important week of the season, helping propel Haverford to the Centennial Conference championship game for the first time since 2019. The first-year shortstop was electric across four postseason games, hitting .529 (9-for-17) with eight runs scored, nine RBIs, two doubles and three home runs. He slugged an eye-popping 1.176 and recorded a .619 on-base percentage.
3B Connor O'Connell, Jr., Rose-Hulman
O'Connell was exceptional for the Fightin' Engineers as they went 3-1 on the week with a win over Wabash and a series win over Transylvania 2-1. O'Connell finished the week 10-for-16 at the plate for a .625 batting average with five runs scored and six RBIs. O'Connell also totaled one double, two triples, and one home run to help the Fightin' Engineers earn a top-three seed in the HCAC Tournament.
OF George Betevis, Sr., Benedictine
Betevis matched a conference record by hitting three homers in a non-conference game at Carthage. He finished the week hitting .571 (16-for-28) with nine doubles, three homers, 13 RBIs, 13 runs scored and a HBP. With 34 TB over five games he slugged 1.214 with an OBP of .567.
OF Jacob Harris, Jr., Johns Hopkins
Harris lead Hopkins to third straight championship. Went 10-for-13 (.769) across the weekend, driving in 13 runs, scoring seven and racking up three home runs, a double, a triple and a walk. Hit two home runs and tied a tournament record with nine RBI in championship game.
OF Joe Lukancic, So., Aurora
Lukancic hit .526 on the week going 10-for-20 with two home runs, a triple, a double, scored 10 runs and drove in six. He had a 1.000 slugging for the week and .500 on-base.
OF Blaine Waltimyer, Jr., Penn State Harrisburg
Waltimyer was the offensive catalyst for Penn State Harrisburg in a pair of playoff victories on Friday afternoon. In two games, the leadoff man went 5-for-7 and slashed .714/.556/1.286 with a 1.842 OPS. Across the pair of wins, the outfielder homered, doubled, drove in seven runs, scored four more and had two sacrifice flies.
DH Eli Somers, Sr., Stevens
Somers hit .571 (8-for-14) with 2 homers, a double, a triple and eight runs batted in over four games as Stevens went 3-1 on the week. He also score eight runs.
SP Trent Ash, So., Bethany Lutheran
Ash recorded his program-record 10th win of the season in dominant fashion Friday night, striking out 16 batters in a 2-0 victory over UW-Superior. The sophomore was in complete control throughout, allowing just four hits over 8.1 innings of work. With the win, he becomes one of only two players in NCAA Division III with at least 10 wins and no losses this season.
SP Brayden Clark, Gr., Salve Regina
Clark spun a complete-game, four-hit shutout in the opener against WPI on Friday while striking out a career-high 15 batters. He only faced three batters over the minimum (30).
SP Brit Kostura, Jr., Baldwin Wallace
Kostura no-hit John Carroll in BW's 2-0 victory in game two to complete the series sweep and lock up the third seed in the conference tournament. He finished the complete game by retiring 26 of 29 batters with only three walks and seven strikeouts. It was only the fifth no-hitter in BW history
SP Tyler Noel, Jr., Hilbert
Noel tossed five scoreless innings of 2-hit ball and struck out three on Thursday afternoon against Pitt-Bradford to finish the week with a 0.60 WHIP.
RP Nick Hanson, Gr., Cortland
Hanson earned his second save of the season after pitching the final three and two thirds innings in a 9-4 win over New Paltz, a crucial victory for the Red Dragons that helped lead to the team clinching the SUNYAC regular-season title later in the week. He entered in the top of the sixth with Cortland holding on to a 4-3 lead and gave up just one unearned run on four hits with four strikeouts and no walks the rest of the way.
RP Colin Leyner, Sr., Ithaca
Leyner made two appearances out of the bullpen for Ithaca and stuck out nine batters over 6.0 innings pitched and allowed just three hits and one unearned run. Leyner began the week with two strikeouts in one inning against No. 12 Brockport, but his impact was felt in the Liberty League Crossover Series as he entered in relief after the second game against Vassar was suspended and he proceeded to throw 4.0 shutout inning with just one hit allowed and seven strikeouts to earn the save.