DALLAS (NCBWA) – Webster University's Jeff
Kammer and St. Joseph's College of Long Island's
Josh Outsen headlined another impressive week
of performances to earn Division III National Collegiate
Baseball Writers' Player of the Week accolades for the
period of April 20-26.
Kammer, a senior catcher/infielder from Chesterfield, Mo.,
hit better than .700 and adorned a slugging percentage of over
1.200 as the Gorlocks locked up a St. Louis Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference tournament bid with three wins. He started
the week with a two-for-five game against Greenville, driving in
a pair of runs. He followed with a four-for-four performance
against Division I Illinois State, plating three runs. Kammer
then exploded in a double header against Eureka, going
six-for-eight with six RBIs and two home runs. On the week,
Kammer was 12-for-17, a .706 batting average, with 11 runs
batted in and six runs scored. In addition, the SLIAC Hitter of
the Week slugged 1.235 on the week and had a .722 on base
percentage.
Outsen, a sophomore from Lindenhurst, N.Y., tossed a perfect
game on Apr. 24 as St. Joseph's-L.I. registered an 11-0 win over
Yeshiva. The Skyline League Pitcher of the Week struck out 12 in
the seven-inning contest and lowered his earned run average to
1.17 on the year.
Honorable Mention Hitters: Donnie Waters,
Jr., INF, Rose-Hulman: Helped the Engineers remain atop the HCAC
standings with a perfect 5-0 mark last week. Finished 14-for-19
(.737) at the plate with two doubles, one home run, seven runs
scored, and two RBIs as RHIT beat Anderson, Greenville, and
swept a three-game series with Bluffton. Waters had a string of
nine consecutive at-bats with a hit in the Bluffton series,
finishing the week with a .773 on-base percentage and a slugging
percentage of 1.000 ... Devin Van Winkle, So., 1B, Ohio
Wesleyan: Hit .524 (11-of-21) with five doubles, three homers,
eight runs scored and 16 RBIs in six total games last week. In
OWU's 12-7 win over regional-power Marietta April 23, Van Winkle
tied a pair of single-game program records with three home runs
and eight RBIs, while his 15 total bases in the game established
a new program standard.
Honorable Mention Pitchers: Dan Scheibe,
Sr., RHP, Whitworth: Threw the first nine-inning no-hitter by a
Whitworth pitcher in the metal bat era to forever trademark the
Pirates' debut in the inaugural Northwest Conference Tournament,
a 2-0 win over No. 14 Linfield April 25 at PLU Field. He totaled
11 strikeouts against two walks and one hit by pitch. He had a
stretch of 19 consecutive batters retired during the outing and
recorded a double-digit strikeout total for the fifth time in
2015 while tossing his first complete game of the year ... Jeff
Singer, Sr., LHP, Rutgers-Camden: Pitched the seventh no-hitter
in RUC program history during a 7-0 NJAC victory over Montclair
State April 23. He put in a nine-inning complete game, striking
out ten batters and walking four during the 7-0 victory.
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2015 NCBWA Division III Players of the Week:
• Feb. 22: Connor Savage, Puget Sound (Hitter); Clayton Freimuth, Frostburg State (Pitcher)
• March 8: Nick Bornhauser, Concordia (Hitter); Paul Henshaw, Kenyon (Pitcher)
• March 15: Neal Krentz, Case Western Reserve (Hitter); Brandon Smalling, Earlham (Pitcher)
• March 22: Jordan Nieman, Manchester (Hitter); Eric Morell, LaGrange (Pitcher)
• March 29: Chase Burrow, Mary Hardin-Baylor (Hitter); Connor Alberhasky, Coe and Cason Adams, Texas-Tyler (Pitcher)
• April 5: Donovan Pogue, Thomas More (Hitter); Nate Burns, Lancaster Bible (Pitcher)
• April 12: Walker Breard, Cornell College (Hitter); Tyler Krolikowski, College of Mt. St. Vincent's (Pitcher)
• April 19: Ban Sawyer, Alvernia and Conrad Ziemendorf, Cortland (Hitter); Conner Johnson, Castleton State (Pitcher)
• April 26: Jeff Kammer, Webster (Hitter); Josh Outsen, St. Joseph's College (Pitcher)
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