SLIAC Baseball Players of the Week - March 27
This week's SLIAC Baseball/Diamond Sports Baseball Players of the Week are Jonathan Stepp, from Blackburn College and Ray Vogel, from Eureka College.
|
SLIAC/DIAMOND SPORTS HITTER OF THE WEEK - MARCH 27 Ray Vogel, a junior infielder, from Eureka College is the SLIAC/Diamond Sports Baseball Hitter of the Week. Vogel, from Bartonville, Ill., put together back to back four-hit games while hitting .667 with four home runs and nine runs batted in on the week. He finished 4-for-5 with two home runs and five RBI against Division I Bradley University, which followed a 4-for-5, 2 home run and 4 RBI game against Blackburn. On the week Vogel was 8-for-12 at the plate and added four runs scored. |
|
SLIAC/DIAMOND SPORTS PITCHER OF THE WEEK - MARCH 27 Jonathan Stepp from Blackburn College grabs a hold of the SLIAC/Diamond Sports Pitcher of the Week award after putting his name into the Beavers record book. Stepp, a sophomore from Georgetown, Texas, became the first pitcher in Beaver baseball history to record a no-hitter. Stepp went seven innings in a 7-0 win over Eureka, allowing no hits while walking just one batter and striking out six. |
Other Notables:
- Ethan Borrowman, Fontbonne University (Baseball) Borrowman hit .538 over three games last week, driving in six and scoring three runs.
- Austin Christian, Iowa Wesleyan University (Baseball) Christian notched a win over Blackburn, working 8 2/3 innings and allowing no earned runs and just five hits.
- Josh Fleming, Webster University (Baseball) Fleming picked up a complete game win over Greenville, throwing 7 2/3 innings and allowing no earned runs while striking out eight.
- Jimi Keating, Spalding University (Baseball) Keating worked seven scoreless innings, striking out 10 and allowing just four hits in a win over Westminster.
- Cory Steinhart, MacMurray College (Baseball) Steinhart recorded a win over Iowa Wesleyan, allowing just one hit while striking out seven through seven innings.
