INDIANAPOLIS – Kentucky Wesleyan and Ohio Valley both received Great Midwest Athletic Conference Baseball Players of the Week honors for the North Division as announced on Tuesday.
 
More teams around the league were able to make their season debuts as many programs gear up for Spring Break trips to warmer climates.
 
Ohio Valley headlines the top of the South Division with six wins, including five in a row for the Fighting Scots and reigning conference coach of the year Chad Porter.
 
South Division Player of the Week
Ostin Clark
Kentucky Wesleyan
First Base
Junior
Delphi, IN (Rend Lake College)
 
Clark has had a chance to perfect his home run trot early in the spring for the defending conference champion Panthers, doing so twice vs. Midwest Region foe Wayne State.
 
Clark was 3-for-3 and walloped a pair of homers in game one of a doubleheader while driving in three.
 
His first, a two-run shot, scored cleanup hitter Joseph Burke after he reached to lead off the second inning on a hit-by-pitch. After singling in his next at-bat in the third inning, he left the park once again in the fifth, a solo shot in left field.
 
Clark is now hitting .421 (8-19) through seven games with a double, four runs scored, two home runs and three RBI.
 
South Division Pitcher of the Week
Matthew Carey
Ohio Valley
Left-Handed Pitcher
Senior
Wilmington, OH (Wilmington HS)
 
With 114 pitches, Carey tossed a complete game, 12-strikeout gem to start off a series sweep against Urbana. He gave up just four hits and allowed an unearned run as OVU won by an 8-1 final.
 
Carey issued just one walk as he punched out the first two batters he faced. He also retired the first two hitters he saw on strikes in both the fifth and sixth innings and didn’t allow a hit until one out in the fourth inning.
 
The deceptive lefty Carey now sports an impressive 11.37 K/9 ratio in 19 innings of work. His ERA sits at 1.89 and he’s logged 24 strikeouts as opposed to just four walks.
 
This is Carey’s second career conference pitcher of the week honor.