Dominican University baseball players Sean Bolton and Lenny Cunzalo were both named Northern Athletics Conference Players of the Week for their performances last week.
Bolton takes home the Pitcher of the week honors going five and 1/3rd innings giving up one run and striking out seven and picking up his first victory of the season. Sean is from Nazareth Academy and lives in Western Springs Illinois.
Cunzalo earned the Position Player of the Week after going 3-7 with a double, a triple and five rbi's over the weekend. Lenny attended St. Patrick HS and lives in Chicago Illinois.
The Aurora University Baseball team received 7 of 11 first place votes as the 2011 preseason favorite in the Northern Athletics Conference.
Aurora returns three all-conference honorable mention players from last season, finished second in conference (16-6 in the NAC, 27-16 overall), won the conference tournament and advanced to the D3 Championship Tournament last season.
Rockford, last season's NAC co-champion, was picked to finish second in the 2011 preseason poll.
2011 NAC Coaches Preseason Poll:
1. Aurora University
2. Rockford College
3. Edgewood
4. Concordia Chicago & Concordia Wisconsin
6. Benedictine
7. Lakeland
8. Marian
9. Dominician
10. MSOE & Wisconsin Lutheran
12. Maranatha
