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Posted: Mar 28, 2016

Luebcke Receives Second Skyline Player of the Week Award; DiLorenzo Lands on Honor Roll

Luebcke Receives Second Skyline Player of the Week Award; DiLorenzo Lands on Honor Roll

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — After launching three home runs last week and becoming the 10th Bear to join the 100-hit club, senior Brian Luebcke (Astoria, N.Y./Monsignor McClancy) has been named the Skyline Conference Baseball Player of the Week and classmate Rosario DiLorenzo (Howard Beach, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) was named to the weekly honor roll, the conference office announced earlier today.

Luebcke collects Player of the Week honors for the second time in three weeks while DiLorenzo earns his first honor roll nod.

Luebcke homered in three straight games and accumulated seven hits over a five-game stretch to become the 10th Bear to join the 100-hit club reaching the milestone in game two against University of Maine at Presque Isle—his 106th game played and 301st collegiate at bat.

Luebcke batted .368 (7-for-19) and slugged 1.000 as St. Joseph's (Brooklyn) moved back above .500, improving to 8-7 after a sweep of UMPI. In addition to his three homers—the fifth of his college career—the versatile pitcher/infielder also knocked three doubles, driving in 11 of the team's 33 runs on the week and scored six times, all team-highs. Luebcke has hit successfully in all but one game this season and reached base safely in all 15 games.

On the mound, Luebcke improved to 2-0 on the season, recording his second complete game victory of the season, striking out five and walking none in seven innings of work in a 5-4 walkoff win over SUNY Poly on Friday.

In his only start of the week, DiLorenzo struck out eight, walked none and scattered four hits in a complete-game victory over UMPI on Saturday. His only run allowed came unearned as he improved to 2-2 on the season and moved into a tie for second place in the Bears record book with 12 career complete games.

The Bears will close out a five-game home stand on Thursday, March 31 hosting Baruch College at Padavan-Preller Field at 4 p.m. before playing their Skyline Conference opener against Maritime College in a road twinbill on Saturday.