MC’s Schutzbach earns two national weekly baseball honors

Release Date: March 24, 2005

MONMOUTH, Ill. — Monmouth College freshman pitcher Brian Schutzbach has been named the National Division III Pitcher of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and a Louisville Slugger’s National Player of the Week by College Baseball News.

The honors are a result of his brilliant seven-inning no-hitter against Augustana College on St. Patrick’s Day, when the rookie southpaw topped the 10-2 Vikings for the second time this season. Schutzbach, who prepped at New Lenox (Providence), fanned 12 Viking batters on the day, getting strikeouts on eight of the last nine outs in Monmouth’s 2-0 win.

The honors mean that Schutzbach has nearly as many national player of the week citations as he does career college starts (3).

Weather permitting, he is scheduled to take the mound again Saturday in a doubleheader against Central College. The first game starts at noon at Glasgow Field.

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