Northern Kentucky University’s Kevin Dusold (Cincinnati, Ohio) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Baseball Player of the Week.
Dusold helped the Norse go 5-1 against a pair of nationally-ranked teams last week. Northern Kentucky swept 24th-ranked Southern Indiana in a non-conference meeting on Wednesday and took three of four games at 14th-ranked Saint Joseph’s over the weekend.
Dusold, a junior leftfielder for the Norse, was also instrumental in the team’s strong week. He was 10-for-21 (.476) at the plate with nine RBIs, six runs, a double and two home runs.
In the sweep of USI, Dusold went 3-for-6 with two RBIs. He returned in the key series against Saint Joseph’s to go 7-for-15 with seven RBIs.
In Sunday’s doubleheader sweep of the Pumas, Dusold went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs scored in the first win and capped the weekend by going 3-for-4 with a double and a game-winning grand slam in NKU’s 11-7 nightcap victory.
He is currently riding a 17-game hitting streak and leads the team with a .353 batting average, a .576 slugging percentage, seven home runs and 51 RBIs.
NKU (33-21) has won nine of its last 11 games and earned the top wild card spot for the upcoming GLVC Baseball Tournament. The Norse will face Bellarmine on Thursday, at 3 p.m. CST at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, Ill.
Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Bellarmine’s Jeff Dillman, Drury’s Joe Rohlfing, Kentucky Wesleyan's Timothy Wimsatt, Rockhurst’s Zach Troilo, SIU Edwardsville’s Steve Doll and , Southern Indiana’s Matt Pleiss and UIndy’s Dalan Dugger.