Spartan Named Northern Athletics Conference Baseball Student-Athlete of the Week
3/24/2009 5:48:56 PM
The Aurora University Spartan baseball team had a player named the Northern Athletics Conference Baseball, Pitching Student-Athlete of the Week for the third consecutive week. Senior pitcher Chris Koudelka (Woodridge, IL/Downers Grove North H.S.) was named the NAC Pitcher of the Week. On the week in which the Spartans went 1-2, Koudelka threw the complete game shutout as AU beat Monmouth College 5-0. Koudelka scattered nine hits while striking out seven in AU's only win of the three-game weekend. On the season, Koudelka is 2-0 with a 1.29 earned run average in 21 innings pitched, he has struck out 20 and allowed just three runs. The Spartan baseball team (9-4 overall) open the Northern Athletics Conference portion of the 2009 schedule when they travel to Rockford College on Saturday, March 28, 2009, at Roadrunner Park in Rockford at noon. -END-