INDIANAPOLIS – Trevecca and Alderson Broaddus hauled in Great Midwest Athletic Conference Baseball South Division Players of the Week honors as the league schedule officially started over the weekend.
Trevecca emerged with the top record in the South Division at 3-1. The Trojans swept Malone and split a two-game set with Walsh. Kentucky Wesleyan beat Walsh for the Panthers’ two wins but ran into a buzzsaw of pitching against the combo of Malone’s Roscoe Blackburn and Joshua Hurford.
Cedarville and Ohio Dominican are finishing up their two-game slate today with the Yellow Jackets splitting against a tough Lake Erie squad from the North Division. Alderson Broaddus went 1-3 while Davis & Elkins and Ohio Valley are seeking their first conference win.
South Division Player of the Week
Sam Mang
Trevecca
Catcher/First Base
Junior
Woodstock, GA (Woodstock HS)
Mang has been on a power binge of his own as the Trojans improved to 12-10 overall through the first weekend of conference play. The junior slugger is in good company among the league leaders in home runs with previous divisional athletes of the week Joseph Burke (KWC) with 12 and Chuck Hooker (ABU) with seven.
His weekly line was a .385 batting average with two home runs, a triple, four runs scored and three RBI.
Mang left the yard two more times for a season total of nine and upped his RBI total to 26, a number that has him ranked fourth in the conference.
He launched a solo shot, his eighth of the spring, in game two of the doubleheader against Walsh.
Mang produced more power to close the series vs. Malone while catching in game two. He homered and tripled as part of a 3-for-3 day at the plate. He drove in two and scored three times as the Trojans swept the Pioneers.
Mang is now hitting a team-leading .338 on the season in 19 games with 23 hits, 13 of those going for extra bases.
South Division Pitcher of the Week
Zach Salmon
Alderson Broaddus
RHP
Junior
Pittsburgh, PA (West Mifflin HS)
Salmon went the distance in dominant fashion to set the scene for a Battlers’ extra-innings victory against Findlay. The talented righty was locked in a pitcher’s duel with the Oilers’ Mark Delas in a low-scoring affair each team was vying for their first conference victory.
Salmon threw nine full innings and gave up just one run on two hits. He struck out nine and walked two, facing just seven batters over the minimum.
Salmon earned the winning decision as the pitcher of record following the go-ahead RBI triple from Tyler Amedure in the top of the 10th inning. Dylan Rotz tossed a clean 10th inning to preserve the 2-1 win for the save.
Salmon has a 1-2 win-loss record in four starts. He has thrown a team-high 21.2 innings and struck out 17 to post an ERA of 4.57. He is holding hitters to just a .205 batting average.