2001 Baseball Players of the Week

May 14, 2001
Jabe Bergeron, Williams
(Freshman, 1B - Keene, N.H.)
Bergeron finished 6-for-14 with three RBI as the Ephs won all three of their games to capture the NESCAC title. He also pitched one inning of scoreless relief.

May 7, 2001
Kevin Brunelle, Colby
(Sophomore, SS - Augusta, Maine)
Brunelle hit .625 (10-for-16) in a 3-1 week for Colby. He hit two doubles and one home run, scored five runs, and drove in seven runs. He also made several strong plays at shortstop.

Jon Lee, Tufts
(Sophomore, P - Manhasset Hills, N.Y.)
Lee allowed just one hit and no runs in 10 innings of work during the week. He shut down Eastern Connecticut, the second-ranked team in New England, on no hits in a three inning stint on Tuesday. He threw a one-hitter in a 2-0 win over Babson on Sunday to improve to 6-1 overall and lower his earned run average to 1.86.

April 30, 2001
Dan Callahan, Tufts
(Junior, RF - Medfield, Mass.)
Callahan finished a three-game series against Bowdoin with eight hits in 11 at-bats and seven runs batted in. He went 3-for-3 with two home runs and four RBI in an 8-7 Jumbos win on Friday. He went 3-for-4 with another home run and three RBI in a 6-5 win in the second game on Saturday. He was 2-for-4 in a 4-2 loss in the first game. In four games overall this week, Callahan hit .533.

April 23, 2001
Billy Casolo, Williams
(Junior, SS - Stamford, Conn.)
Casolo batted .619 (13-for-21) in four games with three doubles, two home runs, 11 runs batted in, and 10 runs scored. He finished 6-for-6 with a double, six runs scored, and a three-run home run as Williams completed a sweep of Hamilton with a 23-4 victory on Sunday. The Ephs lead the NESCAC West Division with a 7-1 record and improved to 19-3 overall.

April 16, 2001
Dan Callahan, Tufts
(Junior, RF - Medfield, Mass.)
Callahan led Tufts to a three-game sweep (by a combined score of 46-2) over Trinity, which entered the week as the top-ranked team in New England. He hit .706 with 12 hits in 17 at-bats in the three games, scored seven runs, and drove in six runs. He finished 4-for-7 with three runs and three RBI in a 22-0 win on Friday, and went 8-for-10 in a doubleheader sweep on Saturday. He hit .650 overall for the week with three doubles and a triple.

Tyler Conrad, Middlebury
(Junior, P - Lunenberg, Mass.)
Conrad threw a one-hit complete game (9 innings) shutout against Hamilton. He equaled a school record with 16 strikeouts.

April 9, 2001
Rob Guglielmino, Wesleyan
(Sophomore, P - Madison, Conn.)
Guglielmino threw the first Wesleyan no-hitter in 20 years while blanking Tufts 10-0 in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday. He struck out three hitters in the school's first no-hitter since April 11, 1981, also in seven innings.

Kurt Piantek, Trinity
(Sophomore, 3B - Wallingford, Conn.)
Piantek hit three home runs as Trinity swept Bates to improve to 5-0 in NESCAC East and 17-1 overall. He finished the doubleheader 5-for-9 with six runs scored and six RBI. He added a home run, two runs scored, and three RBI as the Bantams defeated WPI 11-8 and Westfield State 11-2.

April 2, 2001
Kevin Bougie, Bowdoin
(Freshman, P/3B - Sanford, Maine)
Bougie earned the save in both games and went 2-for-6 with three RBI and one run scored as Bowdoin swept regional power Brandeis for the first time since 1985. He allowed just one hit in two innings to preserve a 3-1 win in the first game and pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh inning to preserve a 9-6 win in the nightcap. In a doubleheader sweep of Maine-Farmington on Sunday, Bougie homered in the sixth inning to tie the first game and singled in the winning run in the seventh inning. He also scored a run and drove in a run in the second game, an 8-4 Polar Bear victory.