For Immediate Release
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
NSIC Media Relations

#23 Jack Hines (IF, 6-2, 205, So.,  Willowbrook, Ill. / Willowbrook HS) - Augustana
- Logged 10 hits across Augustana's five wins last week against Upper Iowa and Sioux Falls
- Held a batting average of .625 (10-for-16) over five games
- Led the team with 14 RBI, three home runs and one triple
- Scored seven runs for the Vikings and held a 1.313 slugging percentage

#21 Luke Tupy (LHP, 6-5, 195, R-Fr., New Prague, Minn. / New Prague HS) - St. Cloud State
- Threw his second consecutive no-hitter, and the third no-hitter in 8 games for SCSU
- Struck out 13 batters and allowed just one walk in a 10-0 seven-inning win over Minnesota Crookston
- It was Tupy's second consecutive no-hitter, after throwing a perfect game against Northern State on April 21
- It was also the eighth no-hitter under head coach Pat Dolan and the eighth since at least 1995
- Named NSIC Pitcher of the Week for the second week in a row

Other Top Performances - Player
#34 Ross Indlecoffer (MSU) started and played in all five games last week for the Mavericks. He was second on MSU in batting average (.529) and on-base percentage (.579). He had nine hits, including a team-high three doubles and three home runs throughout the week. He tied for the Mavericks' led in RBI (10) as well on the week. He led the Mavericks with a 1.235 slugging percentage over the course of the five games and owned a team-high 21 total bases. He owned perfect 1.000 fielding percentage with 28 putouts and two assists at first base throughout the week.
#2 James Martin (UMary) went 6-for-15 over five games with a double, three runs scored and three runs batted in for a line of.400/.550/.467 for am OPS of 1.017. He drove in three runs, doubled and scored a run in the Marauders 5-0 win over Northern State. The 2021 NSIC Gold Glove 2B is hitting .341/.408/.563 for a .971 OPS with 28 runs scored, eight doubles, three triples, six home runs and 28 RBIs.
Matt Malone (MINOT) led the team in hits (3) and RBI (2) in their two games on Sunday at Minnesota Duluth.
#14 Karson Hesser (NSU) lead Northern State with a .353 batting average against Bemidji State and UMary this past week. In five games he went 6-for-17 with three RBI, two runs scored, and three stolen bases. In the series finale against the Marauders, he went 3-for-4 with three RBI, and two stolen bases.
#2 Keenan Wenzel (SMSU) helped SMSU to a 4-0 week batting .438 (7 of16) with a home run, a double, six runs scored and 11 total bases. He had a .688 slugging pct. and an on-base pct. of .444. Wenzel belted a 2-run homer in the fifth inning versus UMary on Wednesday to extend SMSU's lead to 5-2. He was 2 for 3 with a double and three runs scored in SMSU's come-from-behind 8-7 win over Bemidji State in game one on Sunday, including getting hit by a pitch in the seventh inning and scoring the game-tying run. In the second game versus BSU, he had a career-high three hits with two RBIs and a run scored. He also had no errors with five assists and seven putouts in the four games.
#22 Sam Riola (SCSU) continues to be excel at the plate during the Huskies' 17-game win streak, as he hit .417 (5-for-12) with a home run and 2 RBI in four wins over Minnesota Duluth and Minnesota Crookston. Riola blasted his 16th home run of the season against Minnesota Crookston in the second game of a doubleheader to extend his lead in the conference home run race. Riola stole three bases over the week to add to his total to 26, second-most in the NSIC.
#12 Samuel Grushkin (UIU) hit .412 this past week with seven hits including two doubles and two home runs to register a slugging percentage of .882 and an OPS of 1.326. He was one of four Peacocks to hit above .300 in their opportunities at the plate; the team scored 37 runs in five games against No. 22 Augustana and No. 16 Minnesota State.

Other Top Performances - Pitcher
#20 Tanner Brown (AUGIE) pitched 6.1 innings in the 2-0 victory against Sioux Falls. He struck out 13 of the 20 batters that he faced. He held the Cougars to just two hits in 6.1 innings. He holds a 7-0 record which is two  wins shy of breaking the all-time pitching wins record at Augustana and the 23rd win of his career.
#13 Austin Wagner (UMary) allowed just three hits and one earned run in a 7-inning complete game 4-2 win over Northern State. He struck out five and didn't allow a walk.  retired the final 13 hitters of the game... now 12th in nation in strikeouts to walks ratio (6.83), 16th in strikeouts per 9 innings (12.80) and 26th in WHIP (1.02).
#4 Nathan Culley (MSU) shutout the Upper Iowa Peacocks in five innings of work in sixth start of the season to improve to 4-1 on the year. He gave up four hits in ninth appearance of the season. He had six strikeouts and issued a pair of walks in the contest. He owned the best opponent batting average (.211) of any Maverick starter during the week. - Guided the Mavericks to an 11-8 victory over Upper Iowa in game two out of three in the series (May 2).
Dominick Parkhurst (MINOT) struck out four batters and allowed just two runs in 7 1/3 innings work on the mound for the Beavers in their doubleheader at Minnesota Duluth on Sunday.
#40 Max Otto (NSU) pitched 13.0 scoreless innings this past week against Bemidji State and UMary. Against the Beavers he earned his sixth win of the season in a complete game, allowing only three hits and striking out six batters. He closed the week with another dominant performance against UMary, allowing only four hits and striking out four batters. In the two games he allowed only one extra base hit, and opposing batters were held to a .163 batting average.
#17 Ansen Dulas (SMSU) was dominate in Sunday night's start versus Bemidji State, allowing just a bunt single, through eight innings in an 8-1 win over BSU. He finished tossing a career-high 8 2/3 innings with a career-high 14 strikeouts and allowed just three hits and one run. Dulas had a no-hitter for 5 1/3 innings before a bunt single broke the no-hit bid. He allowed two singles in the ninth to lose his shutout bid. He has pitched six or more innings in his last three starts.
Trevor Koenig (SCSU) threw a no-hitter in SCSU’s 3-0 win over Minnesota Duluth to extend the Huskies win streak to 14 games (now at 17).  Koenig struck out five on 88 pitches in his seven-inning gem. A fifth-inning HBP was the lone blemish in the game. The no-no was the second in a stretch of three no-hitters in eight games for the Huskies, the seventh in the head coach Pat Dolan era, and the seventh since at least 1995 for SCSU.
 
NSIC Baseball Players of the Week
2/8/22
Player:  #29 Ben Thoma - Minnesota Crookston
Pitcher:  #33 Jake Dykhoff  - Minnesota Crookston
2/15/22
Player:  #2 JT Mix - Augustana
Pitcher:  #33 Jake Dykhoff  - Minnesota Crookston (2)
2/22/22
Player:  #4 Noah Christenson - Sioux Falls
Pitcher: #40 Max Otto - Northern State
3/1/22
Player: #11 Ben Prediger – University of Mary
Pitcher: #13 Austin Wagner – University of Mary
3/7/22
Player: #6 Colin Lynam – Wayne State
Pitcher: #9 RJ Martinez – Minot State
3/14/22
Player: #5 Nick Altermatt - Minnesota State
Pitcher: #15 Nicolas Herold – Winona State
3/22/22
Player: #4 Jaden Werner – Concordia-St. Paul
Pitcher: #6 Luke DeGrammont – Concordia-St. Paul
3/29/22
Player: #14 Drey Dirksen – Augustana 
Pitcher: #20 Tanner Brown – Augustana 
4/5/22
Player: #3 Mikey Gottschalk- Minnesota State
Pitcher: #9 RJ Martinez – Minot State (2)
4/12/22
Player: #2 Declan Buckle- Minot State 
Pitcher: #40 Will Lavin - Bemidji State
4/18/22
Player: #7 John Nett  – St. Cloud State
Pitcher: #28 Seth Miller – Augustana
4/26/22
Player: #3 Carter Howell  - Augustana
Pitcher: #21 Luke Tupy - St. Cloud State
5/3/22
Player: #23 Jack Hines - Augustana
Pitcher: #21 Luke Tupy - St. Cloud State (2) 

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