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 ninth Team of the Week of the 2023 season.
Games of April 10-16, 2023
C Austin Barry, Sr., East Texas Baptist
Barry had a career week batting .667 (8-for-12) with four home runs and 14 RBI creating a 1.833 slugging percentage. His hitting was a major part in ETBU taking their fourth straight ASC series.
C Justin Fogel, Jr., Penn St.-Abington
In a 2-2 week for the Nittany Lions, Fogel batted .625 (10-for-16) with 10 runs, 14 RBI, and six home runs. He had at least one home run in each game this past week and leads the team with 14 home runs and is now second all-time in program history with 24 homers.
1B Jake Nardone, Sr., Endicott
Nardone led Endicott to a 4-0 (2-0 CCC) week behind a .583/.706/1.667 slash line. The senior first baseman compiled five runs, seven hits - including two doubles, one triple, and three homers, 10 RBI, five walks, and one stolen base. In the field, Nardone was perfect on 31 total chances (all putouts).
2B Michael Galanos, So., Wabash
Galanos drove in the winning run for the Little Giants in the bottom of the ninth inning on Saturday and hit .600 over four games for the week. Galanos delivered nine hits in 15 at-bats with nine RBIs and five runs scored for the week.
SS Justin Reed, Sr., Anderson
Reed went 11-for-21 with a .524 batting average, five doubles, two homers, 10 RBI's and 12 runs as Anderson went 3-2 on the week. Reed also posted a .538 on-base percentage and a 1.048 slugging percentage.
3B Freddy Forgione, Jr., SUNY Maritime
Forgione hit five home runs (including at least one in each game) and added two doubles in Maritime's doubleheader sweeps of Mount St. Mary and Manhattanville. He went a combined 9-for-17 (.563) with 13 RBIs and nine runs scored in the four games. He ripped a RBI double for his 100th career hit in the fourth inning of game two against the Valiants.
OF Matthew Cooper, Sr., Johns Hopkins
Cooper put together an excellent week at the plate, going 11-for-17 (.647) with three homers, seven runs scored and 11 RBI. Cooper had multiple hits in all four games last week with six of those hits going for extra-bases.
OF Dominick Curcio, So., Aurora
Curcio hit .727 (8-for-11) over a 4-0 week for Aurora with sweeps at Marian and at MSOE. He had a 1.091 slugging and .833 on base with a home run, double, eight runs scored and 10 runs batted in. He also walked six times.
OF Andy Gravdahl, Sr., Concordia-Moorhead
Gravdahl became the all-time hit leader for Concordia last week after leading the Cobbers to a perfect 6-0 record. Gravdahl had at least three hits in 5 of the Cobbers' 6 games. Gravdahl broke head coach. and former Philadelphia Phillie Word Series Champion, Chris Coste's record for hits in a career. On the week, Gravdahl hit .604 (17-for28), had a 1.74 OPS with nine extra-base hits and 10 RBI.
OF Howie Hatton, Sr., Crown
Hatton went 7-for-9 on the weekend totaling five RBIs, two doubles, a home run, eight walks, and nine runs scored. Hatton continues his dominant streak as he raised his NCAA division 3 leading batting average to .557.
DH Matt Curtis, Fr., Ithaca
Curtis went 5-for-8 (.625) in two games for Ithaca last week as all five hits went for extra bases. Entering as a pinch hitter against St. John Fisher, Curtis finished the game 2-for-3 with a double, home run, two runs and one RBI. He then went 3-for-5 with three RBI, two runs, two doubles and a homer against Union in the second game of a doubleheader.
DH Griffin Wolf, Fr., Anderson
Wolf went 12-for-21 with a .571 batting average, two homers, 15 RBI's and eight runs as Anderson went 3-2 on the week. He also posted a .600 on-base percentage and a .952 slugging percentage.
SP Harrison Boushele, Jr., Augustana (Ill.)
Boushele pitched an 8.0 inning complete game, scattering three hits and walking one. He struck out 11 batters in a 10-0 win over Carthage.
SP Dan Driscoll, So., Eastern Conn. State
Driscoll, a first-year transfer from Mitchell threw the team's first shutout of the season, allowing three singles over nine innings in a 2-0 second-game Little East Conference victory over the LEC pre-season favorite Southern Maine to complete a sweep. He struck out five without a walk to improve to 6-1 on the season and lower his ERA to 1.09.
SP Alex Margot, So., Penn St.-Abington
In his only appearance/start of the week, Margot flirted with a no-hitter as he was one out away before giving up a hit in the top half of the seventh inning against St. Mary's College. He finished with a career-high 12 strikeouts in a complete game shutout victory.
SP Dylan Weber, Sr., Christopher Newport
Weber put together one of the finest pitching performances in program history with a complete game, two-hit shutout against Virginia Wesleyan. He struck out 12 and did not issue a walk. Weber retired the first 16 batters he faced and faced the minimum through the first 22 batters as he set a program record for the fewest batters faced in a complete game effort with only 28, just one over the minimum for the 9-inning game.
RP Jack Bachmore, Sr., Lynchburg
Bachmore tallied his seventh save of the season with a three-inning outing to close the game against Pfeiffer. He struck out seven while facing 11 batters (21.00 K/9) and lowered his ERA to 1.30 for second-best mark in ODAC.
RP Zach Nichols, Sr., Wheaton (Mass.)
In his only appearance of the week, Nichols retired all six batters he faced and fanned three batters at MIT on April 15.