Johnson County freshman Quinton Hall batted .667 (8-for-12) with two doubles, a home run, six runs scored and seven driven in over three game last week. In the final series of the season against Fort Scott, Hall belted a three-run home run and had an RBI single, and scored twice in a 16-2 win in game one. In the second game, he was 4-for-5 with two doubles, drove in two and scored three times in a 9-7 loss to the Greyhounds. Hall finished the season batting .462 (30-for-65) with seven doubles, two triples, six homers, 32 runs and 23 driven in. 

Barton freshman outfielder Alex Rodgers led the top of the lineup with a .600 batting average with a .667 on-base percentage helping 18^th ranked Barton to a 2-1 week.  Rodgers' lone hit against NIACC produced the game winning runs with a fifth inning three-run homerun for his team leading sixth of the year but his larger contribution came in a Thursday's conference doubleheader at Colby.  Going 3-for-3 with two RBI in game one, Rodgers stayed solid at the top of the lineup when the Cougars needed it most with a pair of hits and an RBI helping the Cougars salvage the split. 

Following Barton's game one loss of a combined thirty-three runs including eight Trojan home runs, Graham Brunner shut down Colby despite the wind blowing out in game two salvaging the doubleheader split leaving the Cougars atop the standings.  Brunner struck out a career high thirteen batters, allowing just three hits, two coming in the first inning for the Trojans' lone run while striking out the frame's three outs. Striking out the side in the second, Brunner struck out two in each of the fifth and sixth innings limiting the Trojans to just one hit the final six innings improving to 4-0 on the year.