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 third Team of the Week of the 2023 season.
Games of February 27-March 5, 2023
C Jack Anderson, Sr., Case Western Reserve
Anderson hit .600 with five extra-base hits (three doubles, triple, home run) over four games for the Spartans last week. Anderson went 9-for-15 with five runs scored, three RBIs and a stolen base. He slugged 1.133 over the four games with a .625 on base percentage.
C John Mulready, Jr., Endicott
Mulready got his 2023 campaign off to a hot start last week as he helped the Gulls earn a 7-0 season-opening win over Salem State on Friday. Mulready was perfect at the plate in the contest, going 4-for-4 with one run and one RBI. He had one extra-base hit, a triple, and produced his 15th career multi-hit game.
1B Avery Carnicom, Sr., Alma
Carnicom had an outstanding week of games. In five games, he batted .800 (16-for-20) with two doubles and four home runs. He scored nine runs and drove in 11. Carnicom broke a 34-year old Alma College career home run record against Centenary (La.).
2B Josh Bohn, Sr., Denison
Bohn hit .500 (3-for-6) with six RBIs, two runs scored and a home run during No. 12 Denison's two games at the Derby City Classic.
SS Ben Hopper, Sr., Bethany Lutheran
Hopper batted .636 (7-for-11) in two games with three doubles and a triple. He scored seven times and drove in three. He set a new program record in the Bethany's season opening 29-19 win over Otterbein with six hits and tied school records in the contest with six runs scored and three doubles
3B Jacob Evangelista, Jr., East Texas Baptist
Evangelista had a strong series vs. CTX in a battle for the top of the ASC. He batted .636 with 7 hits, two doubles, four runs scored and six RBIs. In the series he was walked three times and only struck out once in 11 appearances at the plate.
OF Josh Hernandez, Sr., New Jersey City
Hernandez and the Gothic Knights played just one game last week, a 17-4 romp at Centenary on Thursday. Hernandez mashed once again as he was 4-for-5 (.800) with seven runs batted in to go with a triple and a pair of home runs, including his first grand slam of the season and third of his NCAA career. Hernandez scored four runs as well.
OF Logan McCoy, Jr., Central (Iowa)
From the leadoff position, McCoy hit .727 (8-for-11) with an 1.891 OPS. He scored seven times while driving in four more. He reached base 12 of his 15 plate appearances while adding a trio of stolen bases.
OF Andrew Parker, Sr., Baldwin Wallace
Parker has been on a tear to start the Snowbird Classic. He was 5-for-11 (.455) with every hit being an extra base hit. In three games, he has hit four home runs and driven in 10 RBIs. He also scored six runs and had a perfect fielding percentage.
OF Eric Recchia, So., Rutgers-Newark
Recchia slashed .700/.727/1.200 on the week in ten AB in three games. He scored once and drove in seven.
DH Vincent Eramo, Sr., Fitchburg St.
Eramo batted .545 (6-for-11) with two home runs, a double, triple, eight RBI, three runs scored, five walks and three stolen bases in a 4-0 week for the Falcons.
SP Jacob Bell, Sr., Shenandoah
Bell retired the final 11 hitters he faced in a win against Oswego State. in his eight innings, he set the Lakers down in order in the first, second, third, sixth, seventh, and eighth innings.
SP Matt Josselyn, Gr., Bridgewater St.
Josselyn tossed the second perfect game in Bridgewater State history as the Bears opened the 2023 season with a 4-0 victory over Rivier in South Carolina. He retired all 21 batters he faced with 13 strikeouts. Only two balls left the infield, a fly out to center in the third and a fly out to right in the sixth.
SP Nathan Mankoski, Fr., Pitt.-Greensburg
Mankoski set a school record for strikeouts with 15 and pitched a seven inning no-hitter against Martin Luther. It was the first no-hitter in program history. He pitched one inning on Tuesday where he gave up his only hit in the week against Washington and Jefferson. He walked nobody in his total eight innings pitched.
RP James LaBruno, So., Cortland
LaBruno earned a save in Cortland's 11-2 win Saturday at nationally 11th-ranked Shenandoah. He pitched four hitless and scoreless innings with one walk and six strikeouts.