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 fourth Team of the Week of the 2024 season.
Games of March 4-10, 2024
C Harrison Poeszat, Sr., Kalamazoo
Poeszat was 7-for-9 with runners on base and 5-for-6 with two outs as he batted .615 (8-for-13) on the week. He had three extra-base hits (a double, two home runs) as he slugged 1.154. He scored four runs and drove in 15, leaving just two runners on base in the 3-0 week for the Hornets.
1B Isaac Kim, Jr., Pomona-Pitzer
Kim had a monster week for the Sagehens. He batted .733 (11-for-15) with an even 1.000 slugging percentage with four doubles. He scored five runs and drove in nine as the team vaulted into the Top 25 this week.
2B Matt House, Gr., Shenandoah
House was part of a conference opening sweep of Hampden-Sydney. The second baseman hit .429 (6-for-14) and slugged .643 on the week. House drove in four runs and scored six.
SS Brayden Quincel, Sr., Otterbein
Quincel hit safely in every game as Otterbein went 5-1 at Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic, including solid wins over Alvernia and Rhode Island College. He hit .526 overall (10-for19) and scored six times. He had five multi-RBI outings with a total of 11 on the week.
SS Gregory Tashik, So., Manhattanville
Tashik hit .700 (7-for-10) as the Valiants opened up the season in Myrtle Beach at the Ripken Experience. The sophomore collected seven hits in his pair of starts, driving in seven runs and scoring three. Five of his base hits went for extra bases as Tashik hit three doubles and a pair of triples.
3B Patrick Gillen, So., Calvin
Gillen assisted the Knights to a 6-1 record over the week during the team's trip to Florida. In seven games played, He averaged .485 (16-for-33) and totaled seven home runs. Gillen put up a slugging percentage of 1.242 with 13 runs and 20 RBIs. He also had a .528 OBP over seven games and was perfect in the field.
3B Trevor McAndrews, Fr., Emory
McAndrews went 6-for-8 (.750) and drove in six RBIs as Emory went 2-0 over Covenant and Huntingdon. McAndrews drove in three RBI in both wins while collecting multi-hit efforts in both games.
OF Aidan Hawley, Sr., Roger Williams
Hawley put us a slash line of .727/.7781.273 in four games last week. He had eight hits in 11 at-bats with six walks seven runs and six RBIs. Against Stockton Hawley hit for the cycle.
OF Marcus Johnson, Jr., Montclair St.
Johnson went 10-for-19 (.526) with seven runs and 10 RBI in a 4-0 week for the Red Hawks. He added three doubles, and three home runs. as part off a 1.158 slugging percentage.
OF Eric Recchia, Jr., Rutgers-Newark
Recchia helped the Scarlet Raiders go on a three-game win streak he batted .500 (5-for-10) to go along with eight runs, six RBIs and a trio of homers. He walked twice and was 2-2 in stolen bases.
DH Aiden Mitchell, Fr., Drew
Mitchell batted .444 (8-for-18) and slugged 1.056 in a 5-1 week for the Rangers at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational. He smacked five extra-base hits (one double, two triples, two home runs), racked up 10 RBIs, and scored six runs. For good measure, he led the team in stolen bases for the week, finishing 4-for-5.
SP Connor Arnold, Jr., Transylvania
Arnold picked up his first win of the season in a victory against Westminster as he worked seven innings with 5 strikeouts, allowing just one hit and a walk.
SP Jonas Ceballos, So., Austin
Ceballos was lights out for Austin in his lone appearance last week, throwing a complete game, seven-inning shutout over visiting Blackburn. Ceballos earned the win after giving up just three hits, with two of those coming in the final inning, while striking out 13 batters against only one walk. Ceballos finished the game with a 0.57 WHIP and a 16.71 strikeouts-per-nine rate.
SP Sayers Collins, Gr., East Tex. Baptist
Collins went eight innings for the the win over #14 La Verne allowing no runs, two hits, with four strikeouts. Collins retired the first seven batters of the game and had a no-hitter through five innings before giving up a hit in the sixth inning.
SP Andrew Kurcz, Gr., Benedictine
Kurcz threw seven shutout innings in a victory over St. John Fisher. he allowed just two hits and did not walk a batter while striking out six in the spring trip opener for unbeaten Benedictine, throwing 90 pitches.
RP Jeremy Klick, Sr., Saint John's (Minn.)
Klick recorded his first collegiate save last week, allowing one hit with a .067 opponent batting average and 10 strikeouts in five innings across two appearances. He gave up the lone single with four strikeouts in three innings of SJU's eventual 8-3, 13-inning loss to Heidelberg on March 4th and struck out all six batters faced for the save in the Johnnies' 5-1, game-one victory over Baruch on March 8th.