St. Thomas Aquinas baseball player Vincent Malzahn was named the East Coast Conference Player of the Week for the week ending on March 22nd. The Spartan clean-up hitter reached the base 14 out of 22 times, scored five runs, drove in three runs, walked five times and had the game winning RBI in the 12th inning in a 2-1 victory over Franklin Pierce. In that game Malzahn went 4-5, with a walk, while scoring the 1st run and drove in the 2nd.
Spartan pitcher Mark Fochesato outduled Mike Adams, the pre-season DII Pitcher of the Year to help lead STAC to a 2-1 victory. Fochesato received a no-decision, but struke out eight, walked one, and allowed no earned runs in nine innings of work to receive co-pitcher of the week honors.