CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –
With the first weekend of baseball completed, the Maine Black Bears and Stony
Brook Seawolves claimed the first America East weekly honors, the conference
office announced Monday.
Maine junior Colin Gay was named Player of the Week, while
Stony Brook junior Frankie Vanderka was named Pitcher of the Week and freshman
Daniel Zamora was named Rookie of the Week.
Gay (Franklin, Mass.) batted a league-best .444 to lead the
Black Bears in a four-game series against Auburn. He collected eight hits in 17
at-bats, with four of those eight hits going for extra bases (three doubles and
a home run), for a .778 slugging percentage. The junior also scored three runs
and drove in three more, while going perfect in the field on 14 chances.
Stony Brook’s Vanderka (Levittown, N.Y.) tossed six
scoreless innings at Florida International, scattering just four hits. He did
not allow more than one baserunner in any of the six innings, holding FIU to
0-fo-6 with runners on base. Vanderka also struck out two batters while
allowing just one leadoff batter to reach on his way to a no decision.
Seawolves’ freshman Zamora (La Puente, Calif.) had a
tough-luck loss in Stony Brook’s 1-0 defeat at Florida International. Making
his collegiate debut, Zamora pitched six inning, scattering five hits while
walking one and striking out six. Five of his six punch-outs caught batters
looking, as he threw 56 of his 83 pitches for strikes.
2013 America East Baseball Weekly
Award Winners
Feb. 18 –Player of the Week: Colin
Gay (Maine); Pitcher of the Week: Frankie Vanderka (Stony Brook); Rookie of the
Week: Daniel Zamora (Stony Brook)