SUWANEE, Ga. -- The inaugural D3Baseball.com Team of the Week for the 2025 season was announced on Wednesday and a trio of Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) athletes were recognized for their performances through the first two weeks of February.
The inaugural SCAC Pitcher of the Week, graduate student lefty starting pitcher Otto Franz of Concordia (Tex.), junior second baseman Joseph Coon of Ozarks and junior outfielder Kash Durkin of Texas Lutheran were all recognized at the national level this week.
In game two of a series sweep where the Concordia (Tex.) earned a 15-2 victory in seven innings against Howard Payne, Franz pitched a masterpiece as he earned the win with six strikeouts and allowed only one hitter on-base in 5.0 innings.
Coon batted .500 (7-for-14) in three games for the Ozark Eagles. He hit two home runs and two doubles to go with four runs scored and nine RBI.
Durkin led the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs offensively in his first action as a Bulldog. The Blinn College transfer hit a blistering .615 (8-for-13) with two homers and six RBI and five total extra base hits.
The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its 14th season of recognizing the top performers at each of nine positions from the previous week. Players are selected from nominations from their school's sports information directors.
Franz and Coon are the first selections from each program respectively to earn National Team honors since joining the SCAC prior to the start of this season, while Durkin is the first Bulldog to be honored since Holden Philippus was recognized in May of the 2023 season.
To view the entire D3Baseball.com Team of the Week, click here.
