Binghamton’s Pat Haughie (St. James, N.Y./Smithtown) is the week’s America East Player of the Week, while teammate Scott Diamond (Guelph, Ontario/Centennial Univ.) shares the America East Pitcher of the Week honor with UMBC’s Tom Schlein (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake). University of Maine’s Kevin McAvoy (Brewer, Maine/Brewer) is this week’s America East Rookie of the Week. The accolades were announced Monday (March 13).
Haughie smacked three home runs in a weekend series at Delaware State, doubling his career home run total. He went three-for-three with two home runs and five RBI in the season-opening win and then added a pinch-hit, two-out, two-run double in game two. Haughie added another home run and three runs scored in Sunday’s twinbill.
Diamond picked up where he left off from his America East Rookie of the Year campaign, tossing five shutout innings to beat Delaware State. He struck out five, walked one and allowed just two singles.
Schlein, a sophomore relief pitcher, came in to win two games to date this season and holds a 1.04 ERA in three appearances. Against Navy last week, Schlein pitched 5.0 innings, allowing one earned run and seven hits with one strikeout in the Retrievers 7-6 win. This past weekend Schlein entered the game against Manhattan in the fifth inning with two on and UMBC leading 7-5 with one out. Manhattan on a single scored two runs to tie the game, neither of which was credited to Schlein as the lefty was able to get UMBC out of the jam. Schlein went on to pitch the final two innings, including striking out the number three and four hitters in top of the seventh to earn the win. In the game, Schlein allowed three hits with no runs scored in 2.2 innings while striking out three.
McAvoy leads the Black Bears in hitting with a .444 batting average and also leads the team in runs batted in with 12. McAvoy has a .667 slugging percentage and had 11 RBI in three games against Penn. McAvoy hit his first career home run and it was a grand slam in Maine’s game against Penn on March 11 He has recorded a hit in seven of the eight games that he has played in.