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 sixth Team of the Week of the 2023 season.
Games of March 20-26, 2023
C Justin Fogel, Jr., Penn St.-Abington
Fogel helped his squad go 3-1 on the week, including a trio of conference wins. The junior registered a hit in all four games, finishing the week with an average of .706 (12-for-17). Over that span, he tacked on seven extra-base hits, including four doubles, two home runs and a triple. Offense was on the Yardley, Pa. native's mind as he racked up 13 RBI as well as nine runs scored. His top outing came in game one against Wells as he went 5-for-6 with five RBI.
1B Danny Sheeler, Jr., Salisbury
Danny Sheeler slashed .538/.684/1.308 with two doubles, one triple, two home runs, four RBIs, eight runs scored and three stolen bases across the Sea Gulls' four wins for the week. With eight home runs this season Sheeler has already surpassed his total from 2022 (seven).
1B Bo Yaworski, So., Mitchell
Yaworski did a little bit of everything for Mitchell, who posted a 5-0 record on the week. Yaworski slahed .471/.625/.882 with two doubles, one triple, one home run, and just two strikeouts. He added 11 runs scored, 10 RBI, and seven walks while playing a stellar first base. he recorded at least one base hit in all five games and had more than one hit in three of the five games played.
2B Tommy Shaw, Jr., Millikin
Shaw batted .455 (5-for-11) in a three game week. Along with a double and home run, he drove in eight runs and scored six. He was perect in the field in 15 chances.
SS Justin Reed, Sr., Anderson
Reed went 9-for-19 with three homers, two doubles, a triple, 10 RBI's and seven runs as Anderson went 3-1 on the week. He contributed a .474 batting average, a .500 on-base percentage and a 1.158 slugging percentage.
3B CJ Demers, So., Gordon
Demers went an astounding 18-for-20 (.900) on the week in for games. He had back-to-back five hit games and had a career high six RBI against Mass. Maritime. Four of his hits when for extra-bases (three doubles, home run) and he had nine RBIs and 10 runs on the week.
OF Dane Goodman, Sr., Whittier
Goodman recorded multi-hit games in three of Whittier's four contests this week, including three-hit- and four-hit outbursts. Goodman's hot bat led the Poets to two wins this week, delivering Whittier's first series victory of the season over Pacific Lutheran. This week, he went 10-for-15 (.667) with nine runs, three doubles, two home runs, 10 RBI and two walks.
OF Cameron Hyder, Sr., Salisbury
Hyder put a charge in the Sea Gulls from the leadoff slot, slashing .600/.619/1.067 with a double, two homers, six runs and 10 RBIs over Salisbury's four wins for the week. In the second game of a Sunday doubleheader against Haverford, Hyder blasted a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh and put SU on top again in the eighth with a two-run single.
OF Avery Neaves, Sr., Lynchburg
Neaves powered Lynchburg to a 3-0 week with hit two homers against W&L reaching the 30-career home run mark, slugging 1.231. He batted 8-for-13 (.615), drove in 14 runs and scored seven runs.
DH Zack Peck, So., Mt. Aloysius
Peck had an all-time week, at the plate. While producing two, multi-hit games, he hit .462 (6-for-13) on the week and clobbered four home runs in three games. While hitting the ball out of the ballpark, he drove in 12 total runs and scored five times. He slugged 1.385 for the week and got on base at a .500 clip.
SP Dylan Beers, So., Cortland
Beers threw a no-hitter as Cortland defeated visiting Oswego, 10-0, in the opening game of a SUNYAC doubleheader Friday. He struck out 12 batters in the game, which was called after seven innings due to the 10-run rule, and he missed a perfect game by just one batter when he issued a walk with one out in the sixth inning. The no-hitter is the 21st in Cortland's program history and the first since 2018.
SP Matt Moore, Jr., UW-Eau Claire
Moore pitched a no-hitter against Bard on March 21 at the RussMatt Invitational. He struck out 10 across the nine-inning complete game and walked two. It was the first no-hitter since the UW-Eau Claire program was revived in 2021, and the first shutout of the season for the Blugolds.
SP Aidan Reichek, Fr., Centenary (La.)
Freshman RHP Aidan Reichek threw a no-hitter in game two of Centenary's SCAC doubleheader on Saturday against Dallas, an 18-0 run-rule victory in seven innings, at Shehee Stadium. The no-hitter is the first thrown since Matthew Devillier held Austin hitless on April 20, 2018 at home. He faced 24 batters and threw 70 pitches (50 strikes), did not walk a batter and struck out seven.
RP Brandon Epstein, Sr., Salisbury
Epstein tossed five scoreless, hitless innings across three of the Sea Gulls' three victories for the week. In the front end of a Sunday doubleheader against Haverford, Epstein closed out the final three innings to pick up the win.