Feb. 25, 2015
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MSUB’s Reinschmidt Earns National Honor, GNAC Play Starts This Weekend
PORTLAND, Ore. – Montana State Billings’ Luke Reinschmidt
was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers
Associations National Player of the Week Wednesday.
Reinschmidt becomes just the second player in GNAC history
to record this honor, joining former Western Oregon and
D2baseballnews.com National Pitcher of the Year, Grady
Wood.
In eight games last week the centerfielder hit .364 with three
doubles, one triple and four home runs in 12 hits.
Reinschmidt played a part in almost a quarter of the 57 runs
scored by MSUB in series against Azusa Pacific, Dixie State
and Minot State.
"This is a great honor for Luke and our program," MSUB head
coach Rob Bishop said. "He deserves this honor with the
week that he put together on the road."
The Yellowjacket junior won GNAC Player of the Week and
the NCBWA West Region Player of the Week honors before
his national selection.
Reinschmidt and the Yellowjackets top-ranked offense will
start conference play this weekend, facing the GNAC’s best
pitching team in Central Washington.
The Wildcats are holding batters to a .203 average in their
eight games played so far while striking out a whopping 9.74
batters each contest.
The Yellowjackets counter this with a GNAC-best .320 batting
average while leading the conference in every major hitting
category including slugging percentage, on-base percentage,
hits, runs scored and home runs.
In a rematch of the opening game of the 2014 GNAC
tournament, Saint Martin’s hosts Western Oregon in its first
conference series of the year.
The Saints are coming off their first sweep of the year,
against Concordia, while the Wolves recently took two
games from Lewis-Clark State, the second-ranked team in
the NAIA.
Northwest Nazarene has another week before it begins
conference play. The Crusaders are preparing for next
seasons conference schedule in the meantime by visiting
2016 GNAC foe, Concordia, Friday and Saturday.
Standings and Schedule
GNAC
Team
Central Washington
Northwest Nazarene
Saint Martin’s
MSU Billings
Western Oregon
W
0
0
0
0
0
L
0
0
0
0
0
Overall
W
5
7
6
3
4
L
3
6
8
9
12
S
L1
W2
W4
W2
W1
UPCOMING GAMES
FRIDAY, FEB. 27
Northwest Nazarene at Concordia (DH), 1 p.m./4 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEB. 28
Western Oregon at Saint Martin’s (DH), 12 p.m./3 p.m.
Montana State Billings at Central Washington (DH), 12 p.m./3 p.m.
Northwest Nazarene at Concordia (DH), 1 p.m./4 p.m.
SUNDAY, MARCH 1
Western Oregon at Saint Martin’s (DH), 12 p.m./3 p.m.
Montana State Billings at Central Washington (DH), 12 p.m./3 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
Whitworth at Central Washington (DH), 12 p.m./3 p.m.
Montana State Billings at Cal Baptist, 6 p.m.
Around the GNAC
Montana State Billings Brady Muller moved into the top 10
in the GNAC all-time in strikeouts after tying his career-high
with 11 last week against Minot State. He currently stands
at 172. Saint Martin’s Chandler Tracey also moved into the
top 10 all-time in runs scored with 117.
Western Oregon’s Matt Taylor recorded his second and
third three-RBI games of the season last week and is now
tied for the conference lead in that category. In the Wolves
two wins over Lewis-Clark State, Taylor drove in six runs on
seven hits with two doubles.
The Yellowjackets Reinschmidt was named the GNAC Player
of the Week after hitting four home runs and 13 RBI’s last
week. Western Oregon starter Michael Bennett was
selected Pitcher of the Week after shutting out Lewis-Clark
State. In a little over five innings of work, Bennett struck
out five while allowing only four hits.
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