Feuerman, Felsenthal Named Baseball Players of the Week

Posted: Apr 07, 2014

Austin Feuerman, Ursinus; Drew Felsenthal, Gettysburg

Player of the Week
Austin Feuerman, Ursinus
Freshman, DH
Columbia, Md. / Atholton HS

Feuerman hit .526 in six games, scoring four runs and driving in four. Five of his 10 hits went for two bases and he had three multi-hit games in a 4-2 week.

Pitcher of the Week
Drew Felsenthal, Gettysburg

Senior, RHP
Mt. Kisco, N.Y. / Horace Greeley HS

Felsenthal went 2-0 while throwing 14 scoreless innings and striking out 17 in a pair of Centennial Conference victories. In the team's 11-0 conference-opening victory over Franklin & Marshall, he allowed just four hits and one walk over seven innings while striking out six. Felsenthal also fired seven shutout innings in a 9-1 win at Ursinus, making a career-high 11 strikeouts while yielding five hits and four walks.

Around the Conference

Gettysburg ran its win streak to 16 games with a 5-0 week that included twinbill sweeps of Swarthmore and Ursinus. Senior 3B Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa.) drove in four runs in the two wins against the Bears and pulled into a tie with Mike Luteran '04 for third on the Bullet career list (108). Junior Scott Zanghellini (Randolph, N.J.) has hit safely in 15 straight games. Freshman LHP Rich Power (Toms River, N.J.) struck out 11 Garnet hitters - the most by a Gettysburg hurler since Ryan Taylor '13 fanned 12 vs. Muhlenberg last spring. Drew Felsenthal (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.) leads the Conference with five mound wins (5-1) and is second with 42 strikeouts.

Haverford and Dickinson played a 16-inning game on Saturday that equaled the second-longest in Centennial history. Sophomore OF George Hatamiya (Davis, Calif.) drove in OF Nick Miranda (New Hope, Pa.) with the game-winning run for the Fords in a record-setting matchup. Miranda's nine at-bats sets a Centennial mark, while the 84 plate appearances for each team, along with the 168 combined also established Conference records. The teams combined for 50 hits in the contest.

Longest Centennial Baseball Games
18, Dickinson (3) vs. Ursinus (2), April 13, 2003
16, Haverford (17) vs. Dickinson (16), April 5, 2014
16, Emory (3) vs. Haverford (2), March 7, 2009
15, Ursinus (5) vs. New Jersey (3), March 21, 2009

Haverford junior RHP Tommy Bergjans (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) fanned eight Hopkins batters in eight innings in a 5-1 win vs. the Blue Jays. He is now in second place on the school's career strikeout list (203) and is the 15th Centennial hurler to register 200 punch-outs.

Washington College junior OF Scott Matthews (Goshen, N.Y.) leads the Centennial in runs (27), hits (34), doubles (12), home runs (4) and extra-base hits (19).

Johns Hopkins started the Centennial campaign at 0-4 for the first time in history. The Blue Jays posted win #1 with a 7-6 triumph over Haverford in Sunday's nightcap.

McDaniel limited Franklin & Marshall to just one run while racking up 14 of its own in a twinbill sweep. Sophomore RHP Zach Kronick (Schenectady, N.Y.) twirled a complete-game, seven-hit shutout in the opener, while senior RHP Andrew Monger (Ellicott City, Md.) went eight innings for the victory in game two. Soph DH Marty Windisch (Manchester, Md.) had five hits, driving in three runs and scoring three more.

Muhlenberg has a three-game CC win streak for the first time since 2011 after a win over Washington College and a sweep of McDaniel. Senior 3B John Scuderi (Old Brookville, N.Y.) went 3-for-4 with a double, a stolen base and three runs scored vs. the Shoremen. He needs three more runs to become the 10th Mule to record 100 in his career. The pitching staff held the Green Terror to just two runs over 18 innings - the fewest allowed by 'Berg in a twinbill sweep since 2001. The wins were also the Mules' first two in Westminster since 1993, before the formation of the Centennial. Juniors David Anderson (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Nick Gies (Pennington, N.J.) picked up the wins.

Swarthmore soph Roy Walker (York, Pa.) delivered a game-winning, pinch-hit RBI double in the top of the ninth and lift the Garnet past Dickinson, 3-2.

Ursinus equaled its Conference win total from 2013 (3) with a doubleheader sweep of Washington College. Sophomore RHP Vince Piccioni (Havertown, Pa.) improved to 4-0 in the opener, while junior RHP Alex Manacher (Lancaster, Pa.) tossed a complete-game, three-hit shutout in the nightcap.

Previous Players of the Week
February 24: Danny Usewick, Muhlenberg, Jr., IF; Andrew Monger, McDaniel, Sr., RHP
March 3: Marty Windisch, McDaniel, Soph., IF; Ryan Kramer, Dickinson, Sr., RHP
March 10: Richie Carbone, Johns Hopkins, Sr., OF; David Anderson, Muhlenberg, Jr., RHP
March 17: Rob Anderson, Franklin & Marshall, Sr., OF; Patrick O'Grady, Gettysburg, Sr., OF; Harley Moore, Dickinson, Jr., LHP
March 24: Colin McCarthy, Johns Hopkins, Jr., OF; Harley Moore, Dickinson, Jr., LHP
March 31: Scott Matthews, Washington College, Jr., OF; Casey Fox, Haverford, Jr., RHP
April 7: Austin Feuerman, Ursinus, Fr., DH; Drew Felsenthal, Gettysburg, Sr., RHP