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 eighth Team of the Week of the 2023 season.
Games of April 3-9, 2023
C Logan Smith, Sr., Randolph-Macon
Smith went 7-for-9 in two starts (.778) behind the plate with 1.333 slugging percentage. He had two doubles and a home run. Smith scored four runs and drove in in four.
1B Dane Camphausen, Sr., Wooster
Camphausen went on a tear, slashing .579/.667/1.368 during a five-game stretch for the Fighting Scots. Camphausen went 11-for-19 on the week with 11 RBI, 10 runs, five walks, four homers, and three doubles. He became the 15th player in program history to hit 30 career homers in Saturday's doubleheader with Wittenberg.
1B Luke Porter, So., Grinnell
Porter tied a school record by blasting three home runs in a 12-7 victory over Monmouth Saturday. Porter played a big part in the Pioneers' three-game sweep of the Fighting Scots, as he hit .667 (6-of-9) with four homers, a double, seven RBIs and six runs. Those figures accounted for a blistering 2.111 slugging percentage. Additionally, Porter posted a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 30 chances.
2B Joseph Rende, Sr., Rochester (N.Y.)
Rende led the Yellowjackets in almost every hitting category across four games against Cortland and Clarkson this past week, batting a team-high .615/.618/1.154 with two walks, two doubles, a triple, a home run, six runs scored and five RBI.
2B Noah Campanelli, Sr., St. John Fisher
Campanelli played in five games, having 21 at bats with 11 hits (.524). Campanelli scored 10 runs and seven RBIs. He had three doubles and a triple.
SS Joe Olsavsky, Jr., John Carroll
Olsavsky tallied seven RBI in nine AB during a home sweep of Capital. He batted .667 with a double and four stolen bases.
3B Jack Halloran, So., Emory
Halloran had a monster weekend during the Eagles' record-breaking series sweep over Brandeis. Halloran went 13-for-18 (.722) with 15 runs, five home runs, three doubles, 19 RBI and established four different program records. Halloran had three hits or more in three of the four wins, including a 5-for-5 game on Saturday where he launched three home runs, drove in nine and scored five runs, becoming just the second Eagle ever to hit three home runs in a single game.
OF Max McCallum, So., Loras
MaCullum led the Duhawks to a DH sweep of their crosstown rival University of Dubuque on Thursday. Also had two of the team's seven hits at No. 10 UW-Whitewater the next day. He batted .500 (8-for-16) with two home runs. He scored five times with six RBIs.
OF Jason Mendler, Fr., Chris. Newport
Helped lead CNU to a record-tying 28 runs against Eastern Mennonite. In the sixth inning, Mendler led off with a double and scored three batters later. As the Captains batted around, Mendler stepped in with the bases loaded later in the inning and delivered his first career home run, a grand slam, to help CNU register it's second 11-run inning of the game (a program record).
OF Ellis Schwartz, Sr., Emory
Schwartz went 9-for-18 (.500) and had a home run in three straight games during Emory's record-breaking series sweep over Brandeis. Schwartz finished the weekend with 12 runs scored, three doubles, a triple three home runs, 11 RBI and three stolen bases. In Emory's record-setting doubleheader on Saturday where the team scored 62 runs, Schwartz collected seven hits, two home runs and nine RBI. He finished a single shy of the cycle in the first game and a triple shy of one in the second game of the afternoon.
DH Dylan Maria, Jr., Rowan
Maria totaled 16 RBI and 3 HR in No. 19 Profs' 5-0 week, which included 4 NJAC wins. Maria batted .476 (10-for-21) with three doubles and three home runs. He scored seven runs and drove in 16. He also threw one inning of relief in both the 17-2 win vs. NJCU and the 14-1 win over Montclair.
SP Matthew Aukerman, Sr., John Carroll
Aukerman tossed a no-hitter on Saturday in a 14-0 win over Capital. Just the 3rd no-no in program history, and done so on a day which John Carroll celebrated 50 years of baseball. Allowed just 2 walks against 6 strikeouts while upping his record to 6-0. One of the best starters in the OAC this year, ranking 2nd in ERA (1.63), strikeouts (54), and IP (49.2). Just the third D3 pitcher to throw a 9 inning no-no this season.
SP Sam Lavin, Jr., St. Olaf
In his lone start of the week, Lavin threw six no-hit innings with no walks and 10 strikeouts to earn the win in St. Olaf's 1-0 game-one victory at Saint Mary's on Saturday. The junior faced the minimum of 18 batters in the game, as the only batter to reach base did so on an error in the fourth and then was caught stealing.
SP Jackson Teer, So, Trinity (Tex.)
Teer finished off Trinity baseball's three-game SCAC weekend sweep of the University of Dallas by earning a 10-0 shutout victory in the series finale on Sunday. Teer combined with teammate Harrison Durow in tossing a three-hit shutout to clinch the series sweep. Teer allowed just two hits over eight innings of work, striking out a career-high 12 batters for his team-leading sixth victory. This season, Teer also leads the team with 51 strikeouts in 49.2 innings and is holding teams to a .199 batting average against him.
RP Kenny Garza, Jr., Texas-Dallas
Garza kept the Comets in the game against Howard Payne after the starter allowed six runs in a third of an inning. Garza retired all but one batter he faced and recorded 16 consecutive outs over 5.2 innings with five strikeouts and giving up just one hit. The Comets managed to tie the game 6-6 with Garza in before eventually losing 10-8.