Hayes Earns NAC & ECAC Pitcher of the Week Honors

2017 May 3

The Castleton baseball team received more recognition for its performances last week as Devon Hayes has been announced as the NAC & ECAC Pitcher of the Week.

Hayes highlighted the nation's top pitching staff that has the lowest ERA in any level of collegiate baseball with two complete-game shutout victories last week. He scattered seven hits over 14.0 scoreless innings, striking out 11 and walking just one to improve to 6-1 on the season. In a 2-0 win at Lyndon, Hayes struck out five and walked one while allowing five hits over 7.0 innings. He stranded the bases loaded in the seventh with a game-ending strikeout to preserve the shutout victory. It was more of the same at Husson on Sunday, as Hayes was in top form to shutout the Eagles with six strikeouts and just three hits allowed over 7.0 scoreless innings. With the game still scoreless in the sixth, he stranded the go-ahead run on third with a pivotal strikeout. After Castleton plated the game's only run in the top of the seventh, Hayes fired a perfect bottom half to complete his second shutout of the week. He faced just 23 batters in an 82-pitch complete game. The two conference shutouts lowered his earned run average to 0.32 in four NAC starts.