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 fifth Team of the Week of the 2023 season.
Games of March 13-19, 2023
C Matt Falk, Sr., Mitchell
The senior from Enfield, Conn., continued his hot start to the season, slashing .429/.636/.929, helping guide Mitchell to a 3-2 record across five games in Florida. The catcher hit his third home run of the season, drove in seven runs, worked eight walks, and scored five runs. Falk collected a pair of triples, tallied 13 total bases, and leads the Mariners with 22 RBI through the first 11 games of the season.
C Charlie Glennon, Sr., Denison
Glennon hit .500 (8-for-18) with a .640 on base percentage and a .944 slugging percentage during a 3-1 week for the No. 13 Big Red. He finished with nine runs scored, seven RBI's, three doubles, a triple, a home run and three walks. Glennon tied the Denison record for runs scored in the game.
1B Noah Leib, Jr., Denison
Leib hit .588 (10-for-17) with a .696 on base percentage and a 1.294 slugging percentage during a 3-1 week for the No. 13 Big Red. He finished with 10 RBI's, seven runs scored, six walks, three home runs, three doubles and a stolen base. Leib broke the Denison record for total bases (13) in a marathon game with Arcadia.
1B Anthony Raimo, Sr., Keystone
Raimo finished Keystone's 6-1 week hitting .522 (12-for-23) with four homers, 15 RBI, 10 runs and two doubles. Raimo had a slugging percentage of 1.130 with a .647 on-base percentage.
2B Justin Swanson, Jr, North Park
Swanson batted .538 (7-for-13) and slugged 1.308 last week. He score three times and accounted for eight RBIs. Two of his three home runs of his homers put his team ahead. He was perfect from the field in 24 chances.
SS Cavan Brady, Sr., Wheaton (Mass.)
In five games, the senior hit safely in all five contests, including three outings with three or more hits, while knocking in 10 runs, scoring eight times, smacking a pair of doubles, a triple and a home run. The shortstop batted .571 (12-for-21) and slugged .905 for the week to go with a .600 on-base percentage as part of a 1.505 OPS and struck out just once in 24 plate appearances.
3B James Murphy, Jr., St. John Fisher
Murphy batted .667 (4-for-6) in two games. He hit a double and two home runs. He score twice and drove in five during the week.
OF Quinn Blackman, Jr., Rhodes
Blackman paced the Lynx offense that led to a 5-0 record on the week. On the week Blackman had a slash line of .647/ .714/ 1.235 driving in 13 runs, scoring nine times and adding three home runs and a double.
OF Ben Lea, So., East Texas Baptist
Lea hit .727 in four games last week with eight hits as four were for extra base hits in one home run, one triple, and two doubles. He had three RBI and a 1.364 slugging percentage.
OF Gabe O'Brien, Jr., UW-Whitewater
O'Brien led UWW to a perfect 4-0 start on the season at the Studer's Blue Wahoo Challenge. He batted .714 (10-for-14) with four hits going for extra-bases (three doubles, home run). He scored seven and drove in nine.
DH Alexis Castillo, Sr., Baldwin Wallace
Castillo led the Yellow Jackets offense that produced 27 runs in two games this past week. Castillo went 6-8 at the plate while driving in six runs and scoring runs. He posted a .750 average, a 2.000 slugging percentage and a .800 on-base percentage. Against Case Western, he went 4-5 with two home runs and a double.
SP Tyler Horvat, Sr., Washington & Jefferson
Horvat tossed a one-hit shutout and struck out eight in a 10-0 conference win over Geneva Wednesday. After a one-out double in the first inning, Horvat allowed just one more base runner the rest of the game, which came on an error, and retired the last 16 batters in order. For the week, he struck out 13, walked just one. In addition to his shutout, Horvat reached base in all nine plate appearances against Geneva, scoring five runs and stealing two bases.
SP Gavin Kinworthy, So., Fontbonne
Kinworthy struck out a career-high 15 batters in a win over Eureka, including sitting down nine of the first 12 hitters by strikeout.He allowed three hits and walk none in his only outing of the week.
SP Jackson Teer, So., Trinity (Texas)
Teer led Trinity's 19th-ranked team to a 3-0 weekend against Austin College to open SCAC action, including a pair of shutouts to start the series. Teer pitched a seven-inning no-hitter in a 10-0 game two victory, recording nine strikeouts and walking just one batter. After a second-inning walk that was the only thing that kept him from a perfect game, Teer retired 16 consecutive batters to close out the Tiger victory.
RP Nolan Shannon, Jr., North Central (Ill.)
Shannon has not allowed a hit or a run in his 8.2 innings on the year. Is 3-0 with two saves. Had a 0.00 ERA last year in 7.2 innings before an arm injury last season. Last week he threw 3.0 innings without allowing a base-runner as he saved two games.