INDIANAPOLIS – The postseason is calling for programs in the final stretch of the regular season as Ohio Dominican and Trevecca Nazarene collected Great Midwest Athletic Conference Baseball Players of the Week honors.
 
TNU and ODU are two of six teams to wrap up their place in the conference tournament at PRASCO Park in Mason, Ohio. Additionally, Kentucky Wesleyan, Walsh, Tiffin and Cedarville, are also playoff locks.
 
Player of the Week
Alex Brill
Ohio Dominican
OF/RHP
Sophomore
Amherst, OH (Firelands HS)
 
Brill powered the Panthers to a 6-0 week that included 11 hits, including seven for extra bases as Ohio Dominican became one of the first teams to clinch a playoff berth.
 
The Panthers took down the other Panthers, conference preseason favorite Kentucky Wesleyan, by scores of 7-5 and 4-2, before bringing out the brooms vs. Lake Erie for the weekend sweep.
 
Brill homered and doubled six times to go with eight RBI, seven runs scored and also swiped four bases.
 
Brill leads the league in runs scored with 42 and has a slugging percentage of .681, fourth among all players. His 14 doubles ranks second and his RBI total is also top 10 in the conference with 33. He is tied for third with nine homers.
 
Pitcher of the Week
Alex Clouthier
Trevecca Nazarene
LHP
Junior
Highlands Ranch, CO (Mountain Vista HS)
 
Clouthier pitched a seven-inning complete-game shutout against the powerful Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers, allowing only four hits and no walks while striking out two. The Highlands Ranch, Colo., native only needed 72 pitches to complete the game.
 
The effort helped the NBCWA 23rd-ranked Trojans to a four-game split with the Great Midwest second place and conference preseason favorite Panthers, retiring the first eight batters of the game before giving up singles in the third, fourth, and fifth innings.
 
The junior lefthander worked around a single in the seventh. Not one of the four Panthers to reach base advanced past first base in the 3-0 victory.
 
Clouthier is now 3-1 on the season. Of his seven appearances he has five starts. In his 31 innings pitched, he has allowed 37 hits with two walks and 13 strikeouts.