D3baseball.com Team of the Week
REDLANDS, Calif. - D3baseball.com announced their Team of the Week Wednesday for the eighth time this season for games played between March 28-April 3 and University of Redlands senior Mark Kirkland (Redlands, CA) was recognized as the top First Baseman in Division III.
Mark helped guide the University of Redlands to a SCIAC series win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) thanks to a doubleheader sweep 16-6 and 11-6. Kirkland hit .733 for the week with an on-base percentage of .750, and a slugging mark of 1.067. He logged 11 hits, scored five runs, connected for three doubles, a triple, and added a home run to go along with seven RBI's. In-game one of the double-header, he notched five hits and is now the 23rd player in school history to record five hits in a single game.
He joins senior catcher Matthew Brumbaugh (Chula Vista, CA) as the only two SCIAC players to land on a d3baseball.com Team of the Week this season. Brumbaugh was selected back on February 23 as a catcher.
The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its tenth season of recognizing the top performers at each of nine positions from the previous week. Players are selected from nominations from their school's sports information directors. This is the eighth Team of the Week of the 2022 season.
Redlands returns to the diamond for a non-conference series with Lewis & Clark this weekend, April 8-9. They host the Pioneers for a single game on Friday (3:00pm) and will return to The Yard for a doubleheader on Saturday (11am/2:30pm).