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The 2021 college baseball season is entering the home stretch, with Division I teams concluding the regular season and Division II, Division III, NAIA, and junior college teams starting postseason play. This past week, Florida League incomers and alumni made major impacts for their teams in the most important time of year.

Ethan Chavis, North Carolina A&T
2018 Leesburg Lightning
0.00 ERA; 7.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 4 BB, 9 K
A dominant performance from the former Lightning hurler helped NCAT finish their season with a four-game sweep. The lefthander tossed a seven-inning complete game shutout on Friday, leading the Aggies to an 8-0 win over Coppin State. Chavis allowed just one hit in the win, striking out nine.

Bobby Head, Austin Peay
2019-20 Winter Garden Squeeze
0.684/0.684/1.263, 19 AB, 13 H, 6 R, 4 RBI, 5 2B, 1 HR
Head was almost impossible to retire in Austin Peay's conference series win over Jacksonville State. In three games, the Winter Garden native was 11-for-14 with six runs scored, four RBIs, and three doubles. He also had two hits in a midweek game against Belmont. For his efforts, Head was named the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Week.

Joe Burke, Kentucky Wesleyan
2018-21 DeLand Suns
0.412/0.474/0.647, 17 AB, 7 H, 4 R, 3 RBI, 1 2B, 1 HR
The DeLand mainstay's illustrious college career came to an end in conference tournament action, and ended with some history. In his final game, Burke hit the 52nd home run of his career and drove in his 191st run, both of which are Great Midwest Athletic Conference records. He would add another RBI in that game to move his career total to 192.

Jack Leftwich, Florida
2020 Orlando Scorpions
0.00 ERA; 4.2 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 8 K
One of the top pitchers in the Florida League last season, Leftwich played a major role in Florida's SEC series win over Georgia. He pitched the final two innings of the series opener on Friday, striking out five of the eight hitters he faced. The righthander then added 2.2 innings of scoreless relief on Sunday against the Bulldogs.

Peyton Carr, High Point
2021 Winter Park Diamond Dawgs
0.471/0.500/0.941, 17 AB, 8 H, 6 R, 4 RBI, 2 2B, 2 HR
Winter Park is getting a productive player this summer in Carr, who leads High Point with 33 runs batted in. This past week, the Fort Myers native extended his hit streak to eleven games, hitting safely in all four of the Panthers' contests. In a conference series against Presbytrian, Carr was 7-for-14 with two home runs.

Eric Foggo, Stetson
2020 DeLand Suns
0.625/0.750/1.000, 8 AB, 5 H, 4 RBI, 3 R, 4 BB, 1 HR
Foggo came up huge for the Hatters in a 6-1 win over Florida on Tuesday, reaching base four times and hitting a key eighth inning home run. He then added two hits, two runs scored, and two RBIs against Jacksonville on Saturday, and added another hit in Stetson's regular season finale at North Florida.

Tyrell Brewer, Charleston Southern
2020 Seminole County Loggerheads
0.533/0.650/0.733, 15 AB, 8 H, 5 R, 2 RBI, 3 2B, 5 BB
Charleston Southern's leading hitter was at it again this past week, reaching base in 13 of his 20 plate appearances for the Buccaneers. In a weekend series against Radford, Brewer was 7-for-12 with four runs scored and two doubles. The former Loggerhead also drew five walks on the week to record a .650 OBP.

Josh Allen, Duke
2020 DeLand Suns
0.00 ERA; 3.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K
Allen was called upon twice this past week, and was dominant in both outings. On Tuesday against Wofford, the former Sun came on with the bases loaded in the first, got a strikeout to end the frame, then proceeded to toss two scoreless frames with four strikeouts. He then added 1.1 scoreless innings in an ACC win over Virginia Tech.

Ben Abernathy, West Virginia
2020 Seminole County Loggerheads
0.00 ERA, 3.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
The former Loggerhead had a productive week out of the Mountaineer bullpen, making two scoreless appearances. Against in-state rival Marshall, Abernathy struck out back-to-back hitters with two runners on in the eighth. Then, against Dayton on Sunday, the righthanded freshman tossed two scoreless frames.

Dylan Crews, LSU
2020 Sanford River Rats
0.444/0.474/0.722; 18 AB, 8 H, 6 R, 5 RBI, 2 2B, 1 HR
Crews continued his standout freshman season at LSU, recording a hit in all four games this past week. A member of Sanford's 2020 championship team, Crews had a huge game in LSU's rubber match with Alabama, going 3-for-5 with two doubles, two runs batted in, and three runs scored. He also homered in the second game of the series.

Peyton Winebarger, North Carolina A&T
2019 Leesburg Lightning
0.33 ERA; 3.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K
Winebarger pitched twice in NCAT's final series of the season, working three scoreless innings in a pair of Aggie wins. The lefthander pitched the seventh and eighth innings in the series opener on Thursday, striking out two in two hitless innings. He then earned the win on Saturday with a scoreless, hitless ninth.

Austin Davis, West Virginia
2020 Seminole County Snappers
0.455/0.455/0.591, 22 AB, 10 H, 7 RBI, 5 R, 3 2B, 2 SB
Davis hit safely in all five West Virginia games on the week, including four multi-hit performances. The outfielder, who hit nearly .500 in that timespan, had his best game against rival Marshall, going 3-for-4 with two doubles and a run batted in. Davis also had four hits with four runs scored in a series with Miami.

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