INDIANAPOLIS – Hillsdale and Lake Erie both received respective selections for Great Midwest Athletic Conference Baseball Players of the Week honors for the third week of the season on Monday.  
 
Player of the Week
Steven Ring
Hillsdale
First Base/Catcher
Senior
Northville, MI (Brother Rice HS)
 
A three-game regional sweep for the defending tournament champion Chargers produced the program’s first player of the week honor this spring. 
 
Ring was arguably as hot as anyone at the dish in last year’s postseason and is trending sky high to start his senior year as a heavy thumper in the Hillsdale lineup. 
 
The DH mashed a pair of home runs and hit three doubles as part of an 8-for-13 (.615) line at the plate in just three games. He scored three runs and had an impressive RBI while posting a ridiculous 1.308 slugging percentage.
 
Ring also walked twice and reached on a hit-by-pitch sequence. 
 
Ring, a left-handed bat, had at least two hits each game against Maryville as the Chargers combined for 34 runs against the Saints. 
 
Ring homered in the series opener as part of a 2-for-5 effort with two RBI. In the doubleheader opener on Sunday, he doubled and drove in three more. Ring may have saved his best for last going 3-for-4 in game two with six RBI and his second homer of the series. 
 
He also crushed two doubles in the series final against Maryville. 
 
Through five games, Ring is leading the league with a .600 batting average (12-20) and he has 15 RBI in his 20 at-bats already. 
 
Pitcher of the Week
David Lemasters
Lake Erie
RHP
Senior
Cortland, OH (Lakeview HS)
 
Lemasters had a dominant second turn on the pitching rubber as the ace of first-year head coach Ray Skjold’s rotation. 
 
The righty had the strikeout pitch working versus Lock Haven as he finished with 14 punchouts, tied for the third most in a single game in conference history. 
 
The senior went six strong innings, departing with the Storm up 2-1 in a close contest. He gave up just one run on six hits for his first winning decision of the spring. 
 
Backed by a Trace Peterson two-run blast in the first inning, Lemasters buckled down with the run support and fanned three straight hitters in both the first and second innings after the leadoff runners reached base. 
 
He struck out the side in the sixth inning while working around a single before giving way to Chris Mutter in a save situation. 
 
Lemasters was a second team all-conference selection by the coaches in 2018, a season where he finished 3-3 with a 3.30 ERA and 72 strikeouts in 60 innings pitched.