Baseball | March 31


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DeKALB, IL – Senior pitcher Max Vaisvila (Villa Park, Ill./Wabash Valley College) of the Northern Illinois University baseball team was named National Pitcher of the Week by both the College Baseball Foundation and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association for his performance this weekend in the Huskies’ 5-0 win over Bowling Green.
 
Vaisvila had one of the top single-game pitching performances in program history last Saturday, striking out 14 Bowling Green batters while allowing just one hit in a complete game shutout. The senior had the second-most strikeouts in a single game in NIU history and took a no-hitter into the seventh inning. It was the first NIU complete-game one-hitter since 2012 and first nine-inning shutout since 2019. D1Baseball ranked his game Saturday as the top pitching performance of both March 28 and the entire week of March 23.
 
Additionally, Vaisvila was named to Baseball America’s Team of the Week on Tuesday to go with his Mid-American Conference Co-Pitcher of the Week award from Monday.
 
Vaisvila has won each of his last five starts, striking out 36 batters in 37 innings with a 1.22 earned run average. He enters this weekend leading the MAC with 50 strikeouts and tied for the league lead with five wins. Vaisvila is second in the MAC with a 2.56 ERA.
 
NIU opens its three-game series at UMass on Thursday at 2 p.m. CT.
 
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