2014 ODAC Baseball Players of the Week
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Keegan Dolan, Washington and Lee, Sr., Outfielder
April 21, 2014Dolan, a senior from Bethesda, Md., put together a strong week in helping the Generals to a 4-2 week against ODAC foes to secure the fourth seed in the upcoming ODAC Baseball Tournament. Dolan had at least one hit in all six contests, going 10-for-29 overall with a double, three homers, eight runs scored and seven runs driven in. He also stole a pair of bases and took care of 23 total chances in the outfield without an error. Dolan finished the regular season with a 3-for-6 day with two homers and five RBI as the Generals came back for a 9-5 win over Virginia Wesleyan. The two dingers give him an ODAC-best 10 on the year, breaking the W&L single season record. He's now fourth the Generals' career lists with 17 homeruns. He's also fourth with 31 career steals. This season, Dolan is batting .364 with 32 RBI. -
Darrell Thompson, Shenandoah, So., Pitcher
April 21, 2014Thompson, a sophomore from Stephens City, Va., tossed a complete game shutout in a 9-0 win over Bridgewater, helping the Hornets to the top seed in the upcoming ODAC Baseball Tournament. The southpaw gave up just six hits and fanned a season-high 12 batters with two walks in nine innings on the hill. He picked up his eighth win, which also marked the seventh victory against league foes. Both totals rank atop the ODAC. His 64 strikeouts also lead the ODAC, while his 2.38 earned run average sits eighth.
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Corey Wallace, Guilford, Sr., Third Base
April 14, 2014Wallace, a senior from Rockingham, N.C., put together a strong quintet of games as Guilford went 5-0 with a pair of ODAC wins last week. Wallace went 13-of-22 (.579) from the dish iwth seven extra-base hits including four doubles, two triples and a homer. He drove in 13 runs and scored seven times. He had at least two hits in each game, including a 2-for-5 day with five RBI in a 15-0 win over William Peace. He had three RBI apiece in wins over Greensboro (9-6) and Lynchburg (8-7). He capped his week with a 4-for-5 hitting display with two RBI in a 11-2 victory at Emory & Henry. Wallace is sixth in the ODAC in batting (.418) and second in slugging (.740). His six triples, nine homers and 108 total bases all lead the conference. He is second with 48 RBI.
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Vince Claudio, Shenandoah, Sr., Pitcher
April 14, 2014Claudio, a senior from Forest, Va., earns his second weekly award of the season after posting a pair of wins last week. Claudio opened the week by tossing seven strong innings in a 7-1 win over Frostburg State. He gave up one run on six hits with three walks and five strikeouts. Claudio then returned to the hill over the weekend at Virginia Wesleyan. He pitched the Hornets to a 4-1 win over the Marlins, working 7.1 innings on the bump. He again game up just one run on five hits with four walks and four punchouts. Claudio is now 6-1 with a 3.78 earned run average in 47.2 innings of work.
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Justin Petock, Bridgewater, So., Third Base/DH
April 07, 2014Petock, a sophomore from Woodbridge, Va., helped lead the Eagles to a 6-0 week that included four conference victories. Petock went 9-for-25 in the six wins, collecting at least one hit in each game. Among his nine knocks were a double and homer, helping him to 11 runs batted in and six runs scored. He drove in five runs and had a pair of hits in the Eagles 12-6 win over Shenandoah. He also had multiple RBI in game one of a doubleheader sweep of Hampden-Sydney, hitting a three-run homer towards a 9-6 victory. Petock is batting .337, tops among BC's starters.
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Brandon Miller, Lynchburg, Jr., Pitcher
April 07, 2014Miller, a junior from Vesuvius, Va., recorded back-to-back complete game victories last week for the Hornets. He opened with nine full innings to earn an 8-1 win over Eastern Mennonite. He gave up the one run on five hits without a walk. He fanned seven Royals. He struck out seven Yellow Jackets over the weekend as Lynchburg topped Randolph-Macon, 16-0. Miller again went all nine frames, shutting out R-MC on seven hits while walking a pair. Miller has won a conference-best seven games against three losses. He boasts a 2.58 earned run average covering an ODAC-high 66.1 innings of work.
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Michael Paul, Shenandoah, Jr., Third Base
March 31, 2014Paul, a junior from Red Hill, Pa., strengthened his grip on the ODAC batting lead on the way to picking up his third straight weekly award. Paul hit .556 in three Hornets' wins, going 10-for-18 from the dish with two doubles, three homers and 15 runs batted in. He also scored seven times and racked up a 1.167 slugging percentage. He had four hits each in wins over Dickinson (14-5) and Virginia Wesleyan (21-5), adding seven RBI against DC. Both of his knocks in an 18-7 win over Franklin & Marshall left the yard. For the season, Paul leads the ODAC in batting average (.495), RBI (46), total bases (78) and slugging (.839). He's tied for first in homers (7).
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Kyle Henshaw, Bridgewater, Sr., Pitcher
March 31, 2014Henshaw, a senior from New Kent, Va., put together a strong outing in leading the Eagles to a 5-1 win at home over Christopher Newport. Henshaw fired seven innings, giving up one unearned run on five hits with one walk and three strikeouts. He is now 3-1 on the season, lowering his earned run average to 1.29 to take over third in the ODAC.
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Michael Paul, Shenandoah, Jr., Third Base
March 24, 2014Paul, a junior from Red Hill, Pa., picks up his second straight weekly award after collected four multi-hit games in the Hornets' 3-2 week. Paul extended his hitting streak to 21 straight games, dating back to the opening contest of the 2013 ODAC Baseball Tournament. He went 11-for-21 (.524) this week with a homer, eight RBI and eight runs scored. He also walked four times towards a .577 on-base percentage. He a had a pair of three-hit games, including a 3-for-5 effort with four RBI in a 21-6 win over EMU to begin the week. He had one RBI in each game thereafter. Paul currently leads the ODAC in batting average (.480), slugging (.750) and RBI (31). He is second with a .556 OBP and 29 runs scored.
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Tom Concklin, Washington and Lee, Fr., Pitcher
March 24, 2014Concklin, a freshman from Hinsdale, Ill., led the Generals to a 7-0 win over Roanoke last week. Concklin fired 7.2 shutout innings to earn his second win of the season. He lowered earned run average to 1.17, tying teammate Kyle Tipping at the top of the ODAC charts. Against RC, he scattered six hits while walking one and fanning four. He is now 2-1 on the season in seven appearances (three starts).
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Michael Paul, Shenandoah, Jr., Third Base
March 17, 2014Paul, a junior from Red Hill, Pa., helped the Hornets to a 5-1 week by batting .423 (11-for-26) and reaching base in all six games played. Paul smacked six doubles and two homers among his 11 hits, scoring 10 times and driving in 14 runs. He also walked five times towards a .531 on-base percentage, and racked up an .885 slugging percentage. He had three multi-hit games, including a 3-for-6 showing with three doubles and four RBI in a 15-12 win over Hampden-Sydney. He went 3-for-3 with a double and homer to go with four more RBI in a 13-10 triumph over SUNY-Cortland. Paul is currently third in the ODAC in batting (.463) and OBP (.547), while leading the league in slugging (.796). He's fourth with 21 runs scored.
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Drew Crawford, Guilford, Jr., Pitcher
March 17, 2014Crawford, a junior from Newport, Tenn., helped the Quakers to their first sweep of Washington and Lee University since 2008 by firing eight strong innings in game two of their doubleheader. Crawford scattered six hits and allowed two runs without walking a batter. He fanned three Generals and retired 17 of the last 18 batters he faced, including 16 straight. Crawford is now 2-2 on the season with a 4.65 earned run average in covering six appearances (four starts) and 31.0 innings of work.
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Ryan Hedrick, Eastern Mennonite, Fr., Catcher/Outfielder
March 10, 2014Hedrick, a freshman from Bridgewater, Va., helped the Royals to a 4-1 week that included three wins in one day (March 7). Hedrick was 7-for-19 (.368) with five runs scored and seven driven in. He also stole a pair of bases and walked twice towards a .409 OBP. He hit safely in all five contests, collecting a pair of two-hit games. He went 5-for-11 on EMU's three-win day, driving in seven runs. Hedrick is now batting .322 with 20 RBI on the season.
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Nick Corbin, Bridgewater, Sr., Pitcher
March 10, 2014Corbin, a senior from Staunton, Va., put together a nine-inning complete game effort in the Eagles 5-1 conference win over Guilford College. Corbin scattered seven hits and walked three batters while surrendering just one unearned run. He fanned a pair of Quakers along the way. Now 3-0 on the season, Corbin has thrown 18 innings without allowing an earned run.
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Corey Wallace, Gulford, Sr., Infielder
March 03, 2014Wallace, a senior from Rockingham, N.C., accounted for 17 of the 28 runs Guilford scored in a doubleheader sweep of Virginia Wesleyan. Wallace went 3-for-5 in game one, smacking a homer, scoring three runs and driving in three more with a walk and a stolen base in a 13-10 win. He followed that with a 4-for-6 efffort in a 15-4 triumph. In that game, Wallace scored three runs and belted two grand slams to become the 12th player in NCAA Division III history to hit two grand slams in the same game. He is the first to do it since 2004. He drove in eight runs in that game, giving him 11 for the weekend. Wallace currently leads the ODAC in triples (3), homers (5), RBI (27) and total bases (48). He's second in hits (25) and third in runs scored (16).
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Vince Claudio, Shenandoah, Sr., Pitcher
March 03, 2014Claudio, a senior from Forest, Va., picked up a pair of wins in 13.2 innings of work last week, his first innings of the season. He opened with seven shutout innings towards a complete game one-hitter with one walk and 12 strikeouts in a 3-0 victory over Susquehanna. He followed that with 6.2 innings on the bump in a 19-2 win over Roanoke. He gave up two unearned runs on two hits withe four walks and six strikeouts.
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Adam Posey, Eastern Mennonite, Sr., 1st Base/Pitcher
February 24, 2014Posey, a senior from Poquoson, Va., jumpstarted the Royals' offense from the leadoff spot in Eastern Mennonite's 5-0 week. Posey hit .684 (13-of-19) while reaching base in 16-of-22 plate appearances towards a .739 on-base percentage. He had a pair of three-hit games in addition to a 4-for-4 showing in the week's final contests against Mt. St. Vincent (8-4). Posey registered five doubles and a triple in addition to beling a homer. He drove in 11 runs, including six in a 12-8 triumph over Juniata. He also scored nine runs and walked three times. Posey is currently batting .556 on the season, second in the ODAC.
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Nate Plein, Washington and Lee, Sr, Pitcher
February 24, 2014Plein, a senior from El Cajon, Calif., appeared in three games this past week, earning a win and a save in nine innings pitched. He opened the week with a scoreless inning with a strike out to save a 5-2 win over N.C. Wesleyan. After pitching an inning of relief in a 5-4 loss to Averett, Plein was nearly perfect in defeating Maine-Presque Isle, 12-0. He went the distance in the first game of a pair of seven-inning contests (doubleheader), giving up just one hit without a walk and striking out three batters. The shutout is the first of his collegiate career and improves his season record to 2-0 with a save in 11.2 innings of work.
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Bay Liskey, Bridgewater, So., Designated Hitter
February 17, 2014Liskey, a sophomore from Bridgewater, Va., hit .625 in the Eagles' season-opening sweep at N.C. Wesleyan. In game one, Liskey went 3-for-5 with two doubles, two runs scored, a RBI and a stolen base to help BC to an 8-1 win. In Bridgewater's 5-3 victory in game two, Liskey went 2-for-3 with two more runs scored. He also smacked his first homer of the season.
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Ty Hill, Emory & Henry, So, Pitcher
February 17, 2014Hill, a sophomore from Knoxville, Tenn., picked up his first win of the year in game two of the Wasps doubleheader at Berry College. Hill went the distance with seven strong innings in the 4-1 win. He gave up one run on four hits with two walks. He fanned four Vikings.
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Wil Parsons, Lynchburg, Jr., 2B/SS
February 10, 2014Parsons, a junior from Lynchburg, Va., smacked six hits in his first eight at bats to lead LC to an early season sweep of Averett. In a 17-4 season-opening triumph, Parsons went 5-for-5, setting career-highs in hits and with five runs scored. He belted a pair of doubles and drove in three runs while also drawing a walk. In a much tighter second game, Parsons went 1-for-3 as he came around to score the winning run in a 3-2 victory over the Cougars.
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Justin Morrison, Guilford, Jr., Pitcher
February 10, 2014Morrison, a junior from High Point, N.C., posted a win and a save while throwing 10.1 innings over three games to start the season for the Quakers. He picked up his victory in an 11-0 triumph over NCAA Division II Bluefield State. He tossed six scoreless innings, allowing one hit and a walk while fanning seven. He picked up his first save of the year on Saturday against Berry College, preserving a 10-9 win with 1.1 innings of work. He gave up two runs in that stint, the same amount he surrendered in three innings during his opening outing at Piedmont. He fanned three in that appearance.
