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 twelfth and final Team of the Week of the 2024 season.

Games of April 29-May 5, 2024

C  Hank Penders, Jr., Eastern Connecticut State

Penders improved his batting average 40 percentage points to a team-leading .373 by batting .500 (9-for-18) with an .889 slugging percentage and .571 on-base percentage in a 4-0 week. Had four multiple-hit games, four extra-base hits, eight RBI and seven runs scored.

1B  Kevin Bushnell, Sr., Benedictine

Bushnell hit .611 and slugged 1.333 over five games for Benedictine. He finished 11-for-18 at the plate and scored 14 runs, homering four times and driving home 14. He walked twice and was hit by a pitch on three occasions.

1B  Jeff Stearnes, Jr., Sage

Stearnes continued his torrid streak to end the regular season, batting .550 (11-for-20) while hitting six home runs and driving in 15 batters for the Gators, as they clinched the Empire 8 Regular Season Championship and top seed in the upcoming E8 Tournament. Overall, he recorded a 2.091 OPS on the week.

2B  Gunner Gregg, Jr., Defiance

Gregg's big day at the plate on Sunday helped the Yellow Jackets sweep Earlham to end the season. The Defiance junior second basemen hit for the cycle for the first time in his career and the 4-for-4 performance at the plate was also his first-career four-hit game. For the week, he slugged an incredible percentage of .905 with an on base percentage of .500.

2B  Alex Vasquez, Sr., Denison

Vasquez hit .583 (7-for-12) with seven RBI's, six runs scored and a triple on the week.

SS Thomas Horan, Sr., Concordia-Morehead

Horan was 7-for-9 and drove home the game-winning run in the Cobbers' Game 2 win at Augsburg on Saturday. He helped Concordia sweep the Auggies by knocking in five runs and hitting .778 in the Cobbers' only two games of the week.

3B  Freddy Forgione, Sr., Maritime

Forgione took over the national lead in home runs with three long balls in a doubleheader sweep of Yeshiva on Friday He hit two homers in the first game to become the first player in Maritime history with 20 in a season and then belted his 21st home run of the year, a solo shot, in the second inning of Game 2. For the week he slashed .500/.545/.1.400 with six RBIs and four runs scored.

OF  Isaac Call, Jr., Bethel

Call led the Royals to a 4-1 week hitting .588 with a 1.118 slugging percentage and .611 on-base mark. Going a combined 10-for-17 at the plate, he drove in six runs with three doubles and two home runs while crossing the plate six times.

OF Josh Cofrancesco, Sr., Eastern Connecticut State

In a 4-0 week, Cofrancesco batted .563 (9-for-16) with a double, triple and home run, eight RBI and six runs scored.

OF Eric Colaco, Jr., Denison

Colaco hit .533 (8-for-15) on the week with 10 runs scored, seven runs batted in, a 4-for-4 mark on stolen bases, four walks, three doubles, a triple and a home run. With a 4-0 record on the week, Denison set a new program record for regular-season wins with 35.

OF  Jacob Kleemann, Jr., Marian

Kleemann had a big week leading Marian to four victories in NACC play. Kleemann went 10-for-18 (.556) at the plate driving in four runs and scoring a team-best nine runs. He had at least two hits in all four games including a pair of three-hit games.

DH  Brennan Fisher, Sr., Benedictine

Fisher batted .476 (10-for-21) for Benedictine with a double, three homers and 11 RBIs. He homered twice in the second game at Illinois Tech and finished the week with four hits and four RBIs in the finale against Rockford.

SP  Nick Guidas, Sr., Grove City

Guidas went 2-0 with a 0.79 ERA last week in conference play. He struck out 12 men in 11 1/3 innings while allowing seven hits and two walks. He struck out six in 5 1/3 innings Monday in a 13-1 win over W&J. Saturday, he threw six shutout innings at Chatham in an 8-1 win, as he struck out six and allowed three hits.

SP Tyler Reiter, Sr., Redlands

Tyler led the Bulldogs to a victory throwing a complete game, 8.0 innings giving up just one run on one hit with a walk, a 1.13 ERA while striking out eight. 8.0 Innings, 1.13 ERA, eight Strikeouts, one hit allowed, one walk.

SP  Riley Richard, Jr., Marian

Richard closed out a dominating season with a shutout against Lakeland. Richard scattered five hits over his 7.0 innings of work as Marian defeated the Muskies 11-0. He would punch out four hitters in the shutout and didn't allow a single runner to reach third base.

SP  Camden Thomas, Fr., Keene State

Thomas fired six shutout innings in an 8-2 league victory over Plymouth State. He allowed just one hit, which came with two outs in the sixth, and fanned 11 batters.

SP  Dawson Thomas, Fr., Allegheny

Thomas had the best outing of his freshman season against PAC-leading Washington & Jefferson, leading the Gators to a split against the top-seeded Presidents. He tossed a career-high 8.0+ innings with a career-high six strikeouts and carried a one-hit shutout into the top of the ninth.

RP  Blake Altschuler, Fr., Brevard

Altschuler recorded a two-inning save - the first of his collegiate career - to send BC to the USA South Championship Series