March 31, 2010
CollegeBaseballInsider.com National Players of the Week
National
Player
Cameron Flynn (Lexington, Ky.)
Morehead State sophomore outfielder
Flynn batted .588 (10 for 17) in four games with four home runs
and 16 RBI. Flynn had two doubles, one triple, seven runs and a slugging
percentage of 1.529. He knocked in a career-high six in a mid-week win over
Indiana. In an OVC doubleheader against Southeast Missouri State, Flynn had
three homers and nine RBI.
National
Pitcher
Randy Fontanez (Oviedo, Fla.)
USF junior right-hander
Fontanez pitched the third no-hitter in school history Friday in
a 4-0 win over Notre Dame in the Big East opener for both teams. Fontanez
registered a career-high 12 strikeouts. He walked two and two others reached on
catcher’s interference. Fontanez threw 119 pitches, of which 80 were strikes.
Regional Players of the Week
Northeast Player
Tucker Nathans (Warwick, N.Y.)
Fairfield junior second baseman
Nathans went 11 for 22 (.500) with six runs and 13 RBI. Nathans
had three doubles, three home runs, three walks, two stolen bases and a slugging
percentage of 1.045. In a victory at Hartford, Nathans went 4 for 7 with a
school-record nine RBI. He had a pair of three-run homers, two doubles and four
runs.
Northeast
Pitcher
Kent Worthington (Hagerstown, Md.)
Mount St. Mary’s senior right-hander
Worthington tossed a no-hitter against Quinnipiac on Sunday to
ensure a Northeast Conference series win for the Mountaineers. Worthington
walked five and fanned nine to record his first win of the season and his first
career complete game. No base runner reached second until the ninth inning.
Southeast Player
Jake Overstreet (Thomasville, Ala.)
South Alabama junior third baseman
Overstreet hit .526 (10 for 19) in four games with four homers,
seven runs and 12 RBI. He hit .667 (10 for 15) in a three-game Sun Belt series
at Middle Tennessee. Overstreet belted two home runs in consecutive games in
Saturday’s doubleheader, including seven RBI in a 15-0 series-clinching contest.
Southeast Pitcher
Justin Wright (Montclair, Va.)
Virginia Tech junior left-hander
Wright pitched a complete-game shutout on Friday against Wake
Forest. Wright allowed four hits, did not walk a batter and struck out six. He retired 14 of the final 15 hitters he faced,
surrendering one single during the final five innings of the 7-0 shutout. It was
his second complete game against the Demon Deacons.
Central Player
Luke Voit (Wildwood, Mo.)
Missouri State freshman catcher/first baseman
Voit batted .550 (11 for 20) in five games with seven runs and 13
RBI. Voit had five extra-base hits and posted an on-base percentage of .625 and
a slugging percentage of 1.000. He went 4 for 5 on Tuesday against Central
Arkansas with a homer and a double. Voit had a three-run homer on Saturday
against Evansville.
Central Pitcher
Brett Bochy (Poway, Calif.)
Kansas junior right-hander
Bochy recorded two wins and a save in games against Creighton and
at Baylor. Bochy pitched 9.1 innings of relief with four hits, one run, two
walks and eight strikeouts. On Sunday against the Bears, he entered a tie game
in the bottom of the ninth and worked six perfect innings, retiring all 18
batters he faced in a 14-inning win.
West Player
Brock Stassi (Yuba City, Calif.)
Nevada junior designated hitter
Stassi was retired just once in a three-game series with UC
Irvine. He batted .875 (7 for 8) with one double, three triples, one homer and
three runs. Stassi was walked intentionally three times, giving him an on-base
percentage of .909. He posted a slugging percentage of 2.125 as the Wolf Pack
took two of three from the Anteaters.
West Pitcher
Noe Ramirez (East Los Angeles, Calif.)
Cal State Fullerton sophomore right-hander
Ramirez tossed a complete-game shutout of Hawaii Friday in the
opener of a three-game series. Ramirez allowed five hits and one walk while
striking out a career-high 14 in the 3-0 win, which took just 2:20. In the
middle three innings, Ramirez fanned seven of the nine batters, including five
in a row.
Note -
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