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 eleventh Team of the Week of the 2023 season.
Games of April 24-30, 2023
C Holden Philippus, Sr., Texas Lutheran
Philippus hit .667 (6-for-9) and scored five runs on the weekend including a home run to lead Texas Lutheran to sweep of Southwestern and regular season championship.
1B Quinten Perilli, Fr., Elizabethtown
Perilli helped the Blue Jays take the lead against RV PSU-Harrisburg and scored the walk-off walk run against Penn St.-Harrisburg. He batted .667 (10-for-15), drove in eight and scored nine. With his four home runs, he is tied for second in Etown program history with nine home runs on the season.
2B Conner Butler, Sr., Roanoke
Butler was a big part of a Saturday sweep of No. 10 Randolph-Macon. He batted .500 (9-for-18) with 12 RBIs and seven runs scored. Half of his hits were for extra-bases, two doubles and three home runs.
2B Justin Swanson, Jr., North Park
Swanson hit the go-ahead double in the ninth inning at Elmhurst to secure a series sweep as he had an extra-base hit in each of his past four CCIW games. He batted .500 (8-for-16) with nine RBIs and seven runs scored. He played errorless ball in 18 chances on the week.
SS AJ Sanders, Jr., Franklin
Sanders batted .769 (10-for-13) with a home run, 11 knocked in, seven runs scored and three stolen bases for Franklin over three games this past weekend. He hit for the cycle in game one against Bluffton on Saturday, finishing 5-for-6 with 7 RBI and four runs scored in an 18-8 win.
3B Josh Dezenzo, Fr. Washington & Jefferson
Dezenzo totaled five hits, six RBI and three runs scored in the sweep of the Tomcats. Dezenzo had three extra base hits including a pair of home runs Saturday in his return to the lineup. He slugged 1.500 and compiled a .625 batting average while totaling 12 bases.
OF Garrett Callaghan, Sr., Ithaca
Callaghan hit .545 (6-for-11) in three games for Ithaca last week as he collected four home runs, seven RBI, six runs and three walks.
OF Hunter Cole, Sr., Randolph-Macon
Cole batted .545 (6-for-11) with .667 on-base percentage, 1.727 slugging percentage and OPS of 2.394. All six hits were for extra bases with three home runs, two doubles and a triple. Despite losing two games on Saturday to Roanoke, he reached base 8 times in 10 plate appearances.
OF Adam Mieczkowski, So., Cortland
Mieczkowski batted .538 (7-for-13) with four homers, a triple, a double, a walk, 12 RBI and five runs scored in a three-game sweep at Plattsburgh as Cortland clinched the SUNYAC regular-season title. Mieczkowski's four homers came in the one of the nation's largest parks (350 down the lines, 385 in the alleys, 402 to center).
OF Alex Shane, Fr., Johns Hopkins
Shane was scorching hot at the plate in two games for the Blue Jays last week, batting 6-for-7 (.857), with five of those hits going for extra-bases, six runs scored and 7 RBIs. Shane had a career-high five RBIs with a double and a triple in JHU's 22-5 game one win over Gettysburg.
OF Aidan Warren, Jr., Schreiner
In a week where Warren hit for the cycle against the University of Dallas, he slashed .600/.667/1.467. Seven of his nine hits were of the extra base variety (three doubles, two triples, two home runs). He drove in nine and score eight in four games.
DH Chase Maifield, Sr., Augustana (Ill.)
Maifield was responsible for 12 runs (five scored, seven RBIs). He slashed .643.722.929 with nine hits in 14 at-bats.
SP Ryan Green, Sr., Concordia Wisconsin
Green stole the show for the Falcons in game one as he threw the complete game no-hitter. In the win, Green faced 22 total batters, striking out four. The no-hitter is the first for CUW since March 12th, 2022, when the Falcons beat Bethany Lutheran 5-0. With the win, Ryan Green's record on the season improves to 4-1 overall and 3-1 in conference play.
SP Austin Richardson, Sr., Illinois Tech
Richardson pitched a 7-inning complete game shutout, allowing only one hit while striking out 15 batters (ties a career-high) in the Scarlet Hawks 10-0 victory over Rockford. Richardson did not walk a batter, and only faced one batter over the minimum, with a 19.29 K/9 rate.
SP Andrew Schaeb, So., Marymount (Va.)
Sophomore lefty Schaeb made history on Saturday, pitching the second no-hitter in Marymount baseball history, first by a single pitcher. Going the distance, he punched out eight Cavaliers on the way to the historic win.
SP Gabe Van Emon, Sr., Endicott
Van Emon broke the single-game strikeouts record against Wentworth on Saturday with 14 punchouts in a 2-0 victory for the Gulls. Van Emon went the distance in the contest only allowing two hits and just one walk. Nine of his program record 14 strikeouts were looking. The complete-game shutout also was the first of his career.
SP Shane Van Dam, Fr., Cortland
In just his second start of the season, Van Dam allowed only two hits with no walks and 11 strikeouts in five scoreless innings in a 15-2 win at Plattsburgh. The win was part of Cortland's three-game sweep of the Cardinals to clinch the SUNYAC regular-season title.
RP Tyler Dasilva-Medeiros, Sr., Bridgewater St.
Dasilva-Medeiros recorded a pair of saves in two appearances out of the bullpen for the Bears last week. Retired six of the seven batters he faced including four strikeouts. Notched a save in a 9-6 MASCAC win over Mass. Martime picked up his eighth save of the season in a 2-1 conference win over Worcester State.
RP Zach Nichols, Sr., Wheaton (Mass.)
In three appearances, Nichols recorded a pair of saves and did not allow a run in four innings, while giving up just one hit to hold opponents to a paltry .077 (1-13) batting mark to go with eight strikeouts and one walk. The left-hander retired all six batters he faced, including five by strikeout, to preserve a 6-1 victory over United States Coast Guard Academy on April 25. Nichols set down all three batters he faced, while fanning one to earn the save in a 4-1 win over Babson College on April 28 and came back the next day to hurl a scoreless ninth, while striking out two and allowing a walk and a single to nail down a 2-1 victory at Babson and come away with his second save in as many days.