March 22, 2004
Lancaster, PA -
Johns Hopkins junior first baseman Mike Durgala (Annandale, VA/Thomas Jefferson) was named the Centennial Conference Baseball Player of the Week, the league announced Monday.
Durgala hit a team-best .529 last week as the Blue Jays went 7-0 in Clearwater, FL, leading the team with four doubles and 16 total bases. He went 2-for-4 with a double and a stolen base Wednesday in a 4-3 victory over Colby-Sawyer, and the following day went 2-for-4 with a double in an 8-2 win over Nichols.
Durgala went 1-for-2 with a double and a run batted in during Friday's 2-0 victory over Edgewood, and was 4-for-4 with four RBIs and five runs scored in the 17-4 win over No. 24 Wheaton (MA) on Saturday. He also had a double, a three-run home run and a stolen base against the Lyons.
Durgala is batting .414 this season with four doubles, two home runs, nine runs batted in and eight runs scored.
Dickinson hurler Matt Eonta was named the conference pitcher of the week.
Durgala and the sixth-ranked Blue Jays, who are 13-0 this season, open their league schedule Tuesday when Hopkins hosts Gettysburg at 3 p.m.
Additionally, the Blue Jays' game scheduled for Thursday at Elizabethtown has been moved to Sunday, April 4 at 2 p.m.
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