Senior designated hitter Alain Picard (Ste.-Foy, Quebec/St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.)) of Maine is the America East Player of the Week. Junior Steve Emmerthal (Jewitt City, Conn./St. Bernard) of Albany is the America East Pitcher of the Week. Designated hitter/Pitcher David Wood (Coram, N.Y./Longwood) of Stony Brook is the America East Rookie of the Week. The awards were announced April 28.
Picard had a .650 on-base percentage for the week, and a 1.000 slugging percentage, as he tallied 10 runs scored and eight RBI on 12 hits. He also hit his fourth and fifth home runs this season, with two solo shots in the first and fourth games of the weekend series with Binghamton. In the third game of the series, Picard was 3-for-4 with a two-RBI double, and in the second game of the April 27 twin bill, he was 3-for-4 with a two-RBI single and a solo home run for three RBI. Against Husson (April 23), Picard drove in the go-ahead run with a two-RBI single when Maine was trailing 2-1 in the fifth.
Emmerthal evened his record at 4-4 with a one-hit shut out of Vermont on April 27. The junior right-hander faced two batters over the minimum (a first inning walk and a third inning double) to help Albany split a doubleheader with Vermont. He struck out six and walked one in pitching Albany’s first shutout of the season.
Wood produced an outstanding all-around performance last week for the Seawolves, helping the Seawolves to a 3-0 week. Wood finished the week batting .667 with six at-bats in which he produced four hits, four RBI and tagged two home runs. One of his RBI was a game-winning home run in the bottom of the eighth that lift the Seawolves past NY Tech, 6-5 (April 25). Wood turned around Sunday (April 27) and went the distance against the Pace Setters. Wood pitched seven innings of shutout baseball, allowing just four hits and striking out seven. He now leads Stony Brook with five wins in 2003.