New York, N.Y.— Last week the John Jay baseball team had its best offensive output of the season. The Bloodhounds had a .401 team batting average in six games and went 4-2 overall. In the process, John Jay scored a season-high 17 runs against the City College of New York in the first game of a tripleheader and tied its previous season-high, which was set earlier in the week, 14 in game three against the Beavers. As a result, two players were recognized by CUNYAC as senior outfielder
Edwin Hernandez (Brooklyn, NY, Murry Bergtraum)was named the conference player of the week, while freshman second baseman
Nick Catalano (Staten Island, NY, St. Peter's Boys) was named CUNYAC's Rookie of the Week for the week ending April 25.
Hernandez and Catalano had tremendous weeks as the Bloodhounds' bats came alive during a successful six game stretch.
Hernandez wins the conference weekly awards for the first time in his career. The sure-handed center fielder batted .500 (12-for-24) with 12 runs, four doubles, three triples, six stolen bases and had a perfect fielding percentage (nine putouts).
He was 3-for-3 (a double and two triples) with three runs and four RBI in a game two's 14-4 doubleheader win over Yeshiva (4/21) and followed that up by going 3-for-4 with a triple, four runs and three RBI in game one of the tripleheader on Saturday. In game two, he went 2-for-4 with two doubles, a run and two RBI. Then in game three he was 3-for-6 with a double, two runs and two RBI as he batted .571 (8-for-14) on the day.
Meanwhile Catalano was also impressive en route to his third Rookie of the Week selection this season.
The first year second baseman batted .476 (10-for-21) with two doubles, eight runs and seven RBI last week.
He was 3-for-3 with a run against Yeshiva in game one of Wednesday's doubleheader which John Jay won 4-3. Then on Saturday he was 4-for-5 with two doubles, three runs and four RBI in game one against CCNY. In game two he had a hit and an RBI, then in the third game he went 2-for-5 with two RBI to close out the week.
So far this season, Hernandez is batting .322 with a team-leading nine doubles and three homeruns. Catalano is batting .353 with a team-high 47 hits. Both players, who most of the season have batted 1-2 in the order (Hernandez has led off all 36 games to date, while Catalano has batted second in all but four) are tied, along with teammate
Dennis Lopez (Selden, NY, Newfield), for the team lead in stolen bases with 16.
