DELAWARE, Ohio â?? Through one week of play in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, Andersonâ??s Reid Spitaels (Bethel College) has found himself atop the league rankings in batting average, doubles and runs batted in. He, along with Cincinnatiâ??s Ian Kadish (Marshall University), has earned GLSCL Player of the Week honors for their efforts this past week.
Spitaels, who is in his second season with the Servants (1-6), has lined nine hits in 19 at bats through five games this season. His .467 average leads the league, as does his nine RBIs and five doubles. He also ranks second in slugging percentage (.737) and on base percentage (.542).
This past spring with the Pilots, Spitaels led the Mid-Central Conference (NAIA) with his .458 batting average. He also had 54 RBIs and 52 runs scored in 53 games. Of his 82 hits, 26 were for extra bases.
Kadish, meanwhile, led the Steam this past week with a 1-1 record and an earned run average of 1.64. In 11 innings of work, he surrendered just two earned runs while striking out seven batters. He also held his opponents to three hits for a .083 batting clip.
The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate Baseball League is a charter member of the National Alliance of Summer Collegiate Baseball (www.nacsb.org), which is recognized as the premier organization in summer collegiate wood bat baseball. The GLSCL is funded in part by Major League Baseball and is only one of eight summer collegiate leagues in the country so designated.
