Vikings’ Brunswick, English earn postseason honors
After a record-setting season in which he became the Berry team’s single-season record holder for hits, junior Nick Brunswick was named to the D3baseball.com Allregion VI second team.
The award was announced Monday morning.
Brunswick, a junior from Acworth, set Berry’s mark for hits in the Division III era with 69. The right fielder had 35 hits and 21 runs scored in SAA play, starting all 21 games for the Vikings.
Overall, Brunswick hit .418 with an OPS of 1.036. He also had 22 multi-hit games for Berry, including a team-best nine three-hit contests. He closed the year on a 25-game reached base safely streak.
Brunswick also earned SAA first-team honors at the end of the season.
English named honorable mention All-american
Berry senior Nick English has another award to add to his tally to close his men’s lacrosse career with the Vikings as the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association named him an honorable mention All-american.
The award recognizes English as one of the best faceoff specialists in the country for the 2023 season. The Georgetown, Texas, native won 212 of 321 faceoffs taken overall, winning the majority of his faceoffs taken in all but one of Berry’s games this season.
English also won the second-most faceoffs in a game this season in Division III, when he won 36 in a Berry victory over Hendrix on March 24.
English capped his senior year as the Southern Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Year, first-team AllSAA, a four-time SAA Defensive Player of the Week and as a College Sports Communicators At-large Academic All-district honoree. He won a weekly award from the league office six times in his career.