David Stechow of the Kalamazoo College baseball team was named the SAAC Men's Hornet of the Week on Wednesday (Apr. 12).
Kalamazoo played four games this past week with a single game against Albion (Apr. 3), another single game at Trine (Apr. 7), and then a doubleheader against Trine (Apr. 8) to finish out the series. The Hornets defeated the Britons 13-6 and then were defeated by the Thunder 7-3 before sweeping the doubleheader over Trine 14-3 and 14-4 to take the series.
Stechow led the team at the plate with a .538 (7-13) batting average, a .611 on-base percentage, and a .692 slugging percentage. In addition to his seven hits, he walked twice, had two pitches hit him, and had a sacrifice fly. Two of his seven hits went for extra bases with two doubles while driving in 12 runs and scoring five times himself. Stechow had three games with four RBI, one against Albion and twice during the Trine doubleheader. In the field, he had 14 putouts, six assists, and a .909 fielding percentage at second base. On the season, Stechow is hitting .357 with 25 hits, four doubles, 23 RBI, 21 runs scored, 10 walks, nine strikeouts, and 10 stolen bases in 22 games.
Earlier this week, Stechow was named the MIAA Baseball Player of the Week for the first time in his career. He has appeared in 47 games at the plate and has a career slash line of .323/.481/.384. In addition, he has collected 32 hits with four doubles, a triple, 25 RBI, 27 runs scored, 18 walks, and 11 stolen bases. Stechow also appeared on the MIAA Academic Honor Roll last season.
The Hornets have a busy week after already playing a single game at Hope on Monday (Apr. 10) and a doubleheader at Albion on Tuesday (Apr. 11), and then still have a single game at home against Hope on Wednesday (Apr. 12), a single game at home against Calvin on Friday (Apr. 14), and a doubleheader at Calvin on Saturday (Apr. 15).
2022-23 Men's Hornets of the Week
David Stechow, Baseball
Casey Johnson, Tennis
Harrison Poeszat, Baseball
Braden Mussat, Baseball
Jacob Davis, Baseball
Logan Gillis, Lacrosse
Harrison Poeszat, Baseball
Sam Ankley, Diving
Josh Decker, Basketball
Peter Fitzgerald, Tennis
Josh Decker, Basketball
Sam Ankley, Diving
Oliver Tye, Swimming
Ty Horky, Basketball
DJ Courtney, Basketball
Caleb Caul, Basketball
Ty Horky, Basketball
Sam Ankley, Diving
Josh Decker, Basketball
Lukas Broadsword, Basketball
Sam Ankley, Diving
Jonah Spates, Football
Payton Fleming, Football
Zach Butters, Swimming
Ben Pickrel, Swimming
Tyler Omness, Golf
Josh Nichols, Football
Lance Taylor, Football
Bubba Wilson, Football
Ian Burr, Football