Thomas Evans, Hilbert College, Baseball (Player)
Evans was electric yet again this past week for Hilbert, hitting home runs in three of the Hawks' four games to help lift Hilbert to a 3-1 record. On Wednesday afternoon, Evans hit a pair of home runs at Alfred State. Then, he followed it up with a pair of home runs against Penn State Altoona, including a walk-off two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of game two. After trailing 15-6 by the middle of the ninth, Hilbert rallied for the 16-15 win off Thomas' home run. Evans finished the week batting .571 with an astounding 1.643 slugging percentage and 2.310 OPS. The junior finished the week with eight hits including three doubles and four home runs. Evans scored nine runs, added seven RBI, drew a pair of walks and stole a base as well. Defensively, he posted a 1.000 fielding percentage, making 16 putouts over 16 total chances. Evans now leads the AMCC in runs scored (45), triples (5), extra base hits (30) and stolen bases (12).
PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Hilbert OF Thomas Evans was electric yet again this past week for Hilbert, hitting home runs in three of the Hawks' four games to help lift Hilbert to a 3-1 record. On Wednesday afternoon, Evans hit a pair of home runs at Alfred State. Then, he followed it up with a pair of home runs against Penn State Altoona, including a walk-off two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of game two. After trailing 15-6 by the middle of the ninth, Hilbert rallied for the 16-15 win off Thomas' home run. Evans finished the week batting .571 with an astounding 1.643 slugging percentage and 2.310 OPS. The junior finished the week with eight hits including three doubles and four home runs. Evans scored nine runs, added seven RBI, drew a pair of walks and stole a base as well. Defensively, he posted a 1.000 fielding percentage, making 16 putouts over 16 total chances. Evans now leads the AMCC in runs scored (45), triples (5), extra base hits (30) and stolen bases (12).
BEST OF THE REST: PS-Altoona OF Tyreke Green continued his hot hitting for the Lions in a 2-2 week of AMCC play, as he combined to go 4-for-8 with five RBI, three runs scored, one home run, one double, and one stolen base against La Roche, before going 3-for-10 with five runs scored, four RBI, two doubles, two stolen bases, one home run, and one walk at Hilbert...PS-Behrend INF Mac Ciocco had a .583 average behind seven hits and three RBIs, as he went 3-for-4 in an 8-2 win over Pitt-Bradford and then tallied a pair of hits in a 9-4 win over Pitt-Greensburg...Mount Aloysius INF Troy Emmert had three multi-hit games for the Mounties, helping them to a 2-2 week, as he went 2-for-4 in each end of their sweep against Pitt-Greensburg, picking up a double in both contests and scoring a run, while driving in four runs on the day, he then added two more hits, including a double, while scoring twice against Alfred State...Pitt-Greensbrg P/1B Colin Solinski hit two home runs and batted .500 on the week in which the Bobcats played in four conference games, he had seven RBI and five walks with an On Base Percentage of .632, while also scoring seven runs...Alfred State 1B Nick Serce continued his dominant season with a solo shot to make the score 3-0 in Game 1 before hitting another mammoth home run that cleared the center field wall in game 2, as he hit .333 with three homers in four games.