SXU's Massingale, TCC's Hutcherson Pick Up Baseball Weekly Honors
CHICAGO --- Saint Xavier University's Justin Massingale (Carbondale, Ill.) and Trinity Christian College's Jacob Hutcherson (Winona Lake, Ind.) have both claimed their first Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball weekly awards, the league office announced on Tuesday. Massingale was named the CCAC Player of the Week with Hutcherson netting Pitcher of the Week accord for their play during the seven-day period ending April 14.
Massingale batted .464 (13-for-28) with seven of his hits going for extra bases for a .964 slugging percentage. He recorded three doubles, one triple and three home runs, while also driving in nine runs and stealing five bases. He registered a .543 on-base average, as well, with his four walks.
The junior utility player hit safely in seven of his eight games played last week with five multi-hit contests, including four straight to close out the week. He also had a pair of multi-RBI games.
Massingale concluded the week going 3-for-4 with two runs scored, a double and a triple in an 11-3 win over Judson University on Saturday. For the weekend series against the Eagles, he went 9-for-16 (.563) with five runs batted in, three of which came in a 16-2 victory on Friday. He also had a two-hit game in a 9-7 victory over Olivet Nazarene University last Tuesday.
Saint Xavier went 6-2 on the week – all league contests – and is 24-19 overall and 17-9 against the rest of the conference teams.
Hutcherson allowed only one run in his 11 1/3 innings of relief work for a 0.79 earned run average last week. In his two games, he struck out 11 batters against six walks and eight hits.
The senior earned the victory in a 10-9 win over St. Ambrose University last Tuesday when he threw 5 2/3 innings of no-hit ball. He struck out eight batters on that day opposite four walks.
Hutcherson's other appearance also went 5 2/3 innings in a 5-2 setback to Olivet Nazarene on Saturday. That day, he gave up just the one run with three strikeouts, two walks and eight hits allowed.
Trinity Christian splits its six decisions on the week. The Trolls are 21-19 overall and 13-9 in league affairs.
Other Player Nominees: Jack Dupuis (Olivet Nazarene), Kekoa Ogawa (Roosevelt), Jake Klepacz (St. Francis), Anthony Pohl (Indiana South Bend), Michael Machnic (Calumet St. Joseph), Preston Moore (Trinity Christian).
Other Pitcher Nominees: Jimmy Fairley (Saint Xavier), Michael Freitas (Olivet Nazarene), Andrew Davenport (Calumet St. Joseph), Sergio Marchizza (St. Ambrose), Sean Michalak (St. Francis), Andrew Parker (Indiana South Bend).