Fish, Fitzsimmons & Massicci Named MAAC Baseball Weekly Award Winners
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MAAC Men's Player of the Week
MIKE FISH, SIENA
Sr., OF, 6-1, 185, Delmar, N.Y./Bethlehem
Fish helped Siena extend its win streak to eight games, batting .429 (6-for-13) with two hits in each of the three games this week. He began the week by launching a three-run walk-off home run with two outs in the bottom of the 10th as Siena knocked off Atlantic 10 foe Fordham 5-2 at home. He then keyed the doubleheader sweep at Niagara, collecting four hits in the two games Sunday and scoring four runs. Fish had two doubles in the series-opening 3-1 win and was the only player from either team to manage a multi-hit game. Fish posted an .846 slugging percentage on the week and a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 12 chances in centerfield.
MAAC Pitcher of the Week
JON FITZSIMMONS, CANISIUS
Jr., RHP, 6-2, 210, London, Ontario/H.B. Beal Secondary
Fitzsimmons had three saves in three appearances last week, including two saves in a sweep at Manhattan. Fitzsimmons had five strikeouts in the eight outs he recorded on the week, and is now averaging 16.5 strikeouts per nine innings in conference play. The 6-foot-2 junior got the final out in a mid-week win over Buffalo, who went on to sweep Kent State on the weekend. Fitzsimmons threw two scoreless innings in a game-two win at Manhattan and also got the final out in the series finale to clinch the first sweep by a MAAC team at Van Cortlandt Park since the 2007 season.
MAAC Rookie of the Week
ANTHONY MASSICCI, CANISIUS
Fr., INF, 5-9, 160, Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca
In four starts last week, Massicci led the Canisius offense with a .545 batting average and six RBI as the Ithaca, N.Y. native extended his hitting streak to 11 games. Massicci reached base at least two times in all four of his starts, posting a .667 on-base percentage. Massicci’s double in the fifth inning of the series opener at Manhattan, started the Griffs’ four-run rally and he also had a two-RBI single in the seventh inning. In the series finale, his seventh-inning RBI single proved to be the game-winning hit in the team’s first sweep at Manhattan in program history.