NESCAC Baseball Player of the Week
Aidan Stern – Trinity – Jr. – C – South Salem, N.Y.
Stern hit .500 (5-10) with five runs scored, two stolen bases, and an RBI, as well as throwing out three runners attempting to steal in a 2-1 week for the Bantams. In a twinbill with MIT, the junior posted a .667 average (4-6) with two extra-base hits, four runs scored, and a stolen base. During the nightcap against the Engineers, Stern went 3-for-3, falling a home run short of the cycle. Stern added a 1-for-4 showing with a run, a stolen base, and caught two runners stealing in a 6-2 loss to Brandeis. 

NESCAC Baseball Pitcher of the Week
Thomas Rioux – Colby – Sr. – Derry, N.H.
Rioux led the Mules to a sweep of No. 15 Endicott. In the opening game, Rioux threw six innings without allowing an earned run to earn the win in a 2-1 Colby victory.  The senior faced three batters in the first and third innings and got out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth inning with the score deadlocked at 1-1. Rioux scattered five hits while striking out four, moving to 2-0 this season.

NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst – Tyler McCord (Langhorne, Pa.) went 4-for-6 (.667) with two doubles and two walks in a doubleheader split with Ramapo. In a 5-4 walk-off win in the 9-inning second game, McCord's two-out RBI-single tied the game at 4-4 before Amherst went on to win 5-4. The senior finished the game 3-for-4 at the plate with a double, walk, RBI, and stolen base. … Junior Adrian Caron (Queensbury, N.Y.) pitched a single 1-2-3 inning in a 5-4 win over Ramapo, striking out one and earning is first victory of the season.

Bowdoin – Senior 1B/P Will Bordes (Groton, Mass.) had the go-ahead home run in the seventh inning, breaking a scoreless tie, and then earned the save with a scoreless ninth inning to lift the Polar Bears to a 2-0 win over Maine-Farmington on Sunday.

Colby – Patrick Shrake (Chicago, Ill.) collected four hits, four RBI, a double, a walk, and two stolen bases in a series sweep versus No. 15 Endicott. The junior went 1-3 in Game 1 and collected three more hits in Game 2. Shrake’s bases-loaded double in the fifth inning of the nightcap closed Colby's deficit to one run, and he scored the tying run later in the same inning.  The Mules eventually won, 11-10, in 13 innings.  Shrake has hit safely in all four games this season. 

Hamilton – Michael Tallarida (Philadelphia, Pa.) hit .545 (6-for-11) with a slugging percentage of .909 in three games for the Continentals. Tallarida singled and doubled in the second game of a doubleheader against Clarkson. The senior first baseman singled, doubled, and tripled, stole a base, was hit by a pitch, and scored three runs in a 5-4 loss in 11 innings against Oswego State. Tallarida has at least one hit in all five games this spring … Aden Soroca (New York, N.Y.) shut out Clarkson over the first five innings of the Continentals' 2-0 loss in the first game of a doubleheader. Soroca struck out seven and allowed two hits and two walks over five innings pitched.

Middlebury – Andrew Baay (Houston, Texas) had a solid performance over two contests in Georgia at Emory. In Game 2 of Saturday’s doubleheader, Baay went 3-for-6, knocked in two runs, and scored twice as the Panthers dropped a marathon 16-15 decision in 11 innings. In Sunday’s contest, the rookie logged a hit and a walk as Middlebury fell 8-4. Through four games, Baay paces the squad with five RBI and is tied for the team lead with five hits … In his lone appearance on the mound, Christian Zebrowski (Verona, N.J.) logged four innings of one-hit baseball and struck out three in an 8-4 victory over Emory. The triumph was the sophomore’s second of the campaign.

Tufts – First-year Tate Bannish (Wellesley, Mass.) made an impact in his first weekend as a Jumbo, as he hammered a pair of homers to help Tufts swept four games from visiting Hobart to open the season. Bannish hit .231 for the weekend, but two of his hits cleared the fence, while his sac fly in Game 1 of the weekend scored the game-winning run in extra innings. Bannish also homered in Game 2 on Sunday … Junior Michael O'Brien (Houston, Texas) had his best outing as a Jumbo in his first start of the season, as the southpaw went six scoreless innings against Hobart in a 3-1 win Sunday. He surrendered just six hits and no earned runs, fanning two and walking a pair to pick up the victory. 

Williams – Sophomore Ben Swank (Jupiter, Fla.) of the Williams College baseball team went a combined 3-for-7 batting, with one double and one run scored, in a doubleheader at Springfield … Classmate Lucas Asanovic (Easton, Conn.) pitched the sixth inning in the second game of a doubleheader at Springfield and did not give up a hit, and struck out one.