Greg Ball and Jared Massengill were named St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference baseball players of the week for the week ending March 18th.
Ball earned Diamond Sports Baseball Pitcher of the week throwing two complete games and recorded both victories of the week for Principia. Ball struck out 12 and gave up 3 earned runs in the two games. Greg is a Senior at Principia.
Greenville College's Massengill was named Diamond Sports Baseball Hitter of the Week. The Panther shortstop went 10-22 hitting .455 with three doubles and a home run. Jared is from Neoga, Illinois.
SLIAC Standings
Spalding 10-3-1
MacMurray 6-2
Principia 6-4
Webster 7-6
Fontbonne 3-6
Westminster 4-8
Blackburn 4-10
Greenville 2-10
Eureka 1-6
Current baseball standings for the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin as of April 10th.
Carthage 6-1
Augustana 6-2
North Park 6-2
Illinois Wesleyan 6-2
North Central 5-3
Wheaton 1-6
Elmhurst 1-7
Millikin 0-8
The Robert Morris University Eagles baseball team took over first place in the North Division of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference going 8-1 last week. The Eagles only loss on the week was a 9-8 extra innings game against Rockford College.
In addition Tyler Thompson from Robert Morris was named the conference Player of the Week by hitting .458 with 3 home runs, a triple, 2 doubles and 12 rbi's on the week.
The Eagles hold a 1.5 game lead on Judson University in conference and are 22-12 overall this season.
Current records and conference standings for division 3 baseball teams in Illinois as of today.
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
Augustana 3-0 (13-2 overall)
Illinois Wesleyan 3-0 (11-4 overall)
North Central 2-1 (8-5 overall)
North Park 1-2 (14-5 overall)
Elmhurst 0-3 (10-5 overall)
Wheaton 0-3 (8-11 overall)
Millikin 0-3 (4-13 overall)
Northern Athletics Conference
Concordia Chicago 2-0 (12-4 overall)
Aurora University 2-0 (10-5 overall)
Rockford College 2-0 (6-7 overall)
Benedictine University 1-1 (7-8 overall)
Dominican University 1-1 (4-13 overall)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Principia College 3-3 (9-6 overall)
Blackburn College 4-4 (6-15 overall)
Greenville College 1-1 (2-14 overall)
MacMurray College 1-5 (3-12 overall)
Eureka College 0-5 (4-13 overall)
Midwest Conference
Grinnell College 2-0 (6-11 overall)
Illinois College 1-1 (13-6 overall)
Monmouth 1-1 (9-6 overall)
Knox College 0-2 (4-11 overall)
University Athletic Association
University of Chicago 0-0 (8-5 overall)
The Southern Illinois Miners remain in first place with an 8 1/2 game lead over the River City Rascals in the West Division of the Frontier League. The Independent teams in Illinois are in bold
West Division
Southern Illinois Miners 53-22
River City Rascals 44-30
Gateway Grizzlies 40-33
Normal Cornbelters 34-41
Florence Freedom 31-44
Evansville Otters 28-45
East Division
Oakland County Cruisers 45-30
Windy City Thunderbolts 43-30
Traverse City Beach Bums 40-35
Lake Erie Crushers 36-39
Washington Wild Things 31-43
Kalamazoo Kings 21-54
