Vermont’s Kyle Brault (Milton, Vt./Milton) is the America East Player of the Week, while Maine’s Scott Robinson (Ajaz, Ontario/Pickering) earns Pitcher of the Week honors. Hartford’s Weston Szymanski (Mt. Airy, Md./South Carroll) and UMBC’s Eddie Bach (Columbia, Md./Atholton) share the America East Rookie of the Week honor. The accolades were announced Monday (May 1).
Brault went 8-for-17 (.471) with three doubles and five RBI as Vermont took three-of-four at Albany to move into first place in America East. He went six-for-nine in last two games, both Vermont wins, with five RBI. Already UVM’s career home run leader, after four RBI on Sunday Brault became the school’s all-time leader in runs batted in with 143. Brault also had a grand slam homer last Tuesday at Dartmouth. Now hitting .447 in conference games, he leads the Catamounts with .349 average, 15 doubles, seven home runs and 38 RBI.
Robinson had a record-setting week for the Black Bears. On Wednesday, he pitched the ninth inning in Maine’s 4-3 win over Holy Cross to earn the 19th save of his career, tying him for the school record for career saves. It was also his 78th career appearance, setting the school record for career appearances. On Friday, Robinson pitched the opener of the Binghamton series where he threw a nine-inning shutout allowing just four hits in a 4-0 win. It was the first complete game shutout for the Black Bears this season. Robinson retired the last 18 batters of the game in order and picked up his team-leading seventh win of the season in the game.
Szymanski pitched a four-hit shutout in the Hawks second game of a four-game series with UMBC. His win last week was a complete-game seven inning outing in which he struck out four Retrievers, forced 10 into fly outs and five into groundouts. His only other appearance last week was a single inning of work in the Hawks’ mid-week game at Connecticut. In that game he faced only three batters and sat all of them down by virtue of two fly outs and one ground out. For the season, Szymanski leads the team with a 3.42 ERA and a 4-4 overall record.
Bach pitched a complete game no-hitter against Hartford, striking out four in 6.0 innings. Bach, however, took the loss in the game with one run scored on an error, two stolen bases and a wild pitch. Bach in the six innings faced 20 batters and allowed three runners on by virtue of walks. The rookie with four strikeouts increases his single-season mark to 55 strikeouts; ranking tied for first in the conference standings.