SUNY Old Westbury baseball senior right-handed pitcher Tim Ingram, and sophomore shortstop Tommy Ziegen, earned Skyline Conference Pitcher and Player of the Week honors, respectively, for games played March 23-29.
Old Westbury went 4-0 during the stretch, including 10-3 and 23-3 Skyline Conference victories over Mount Saint Vincent.
Ingram, a native of Westbury, improved his season’s record to 3-1 after posting a 2-0 mark while holding the opposition to a .167 batting average for the week. He struck out 16 batters in two starts with a 1.00 ERA and allowed just five hits and two walks in nine innings of work.
Ingram fanned nine batters in four shutout innings to open the week in Old Westbury’s 15-1 win against CCNY (Mar. 23). He then struck out seven in five innings to help clinch the sweep of Mount Saint Vincent in game two.
Ingram currently leads the conference with 26 strikeouts and ranks fourth with a 2.29 ERA in 19.2 innings.
Hailing from Glen Cove, Ziegen produced four multi-hit games last week to bat .500 (9-18) with six runs scored, 12 RBI and tied a career-high with a pair of three-hit performances. In game two against Mount Saint Vincent, he slugged a two-run home run and a grand slam while driving in a career-best six runs and scored three. He added two-hit games in the opener versus Mount Saint Vincent (2-for-5, RBI, R, 2B) as well as against CCNY (2-for-5, 3 RBI, R, 2B) and Baruch (2-for-4, 2 RBI, R).
On the season, Ziegen is ranks among the conference leaders in batting average (14th, .378), runs scored (T-2nd, 13), RBI (2nd, 14), home runs (T-2nd, 2), triples (T-2nd, 2), total bases (4th, 27) and stolen bases (T-5th, 6)
In other news, SUNY Old Westbury junior women’s lacrosse midfielder Courtney Gallagher claimed a spot on the Skyline Conference Weekly Honor Roll. The weekly honor was Gallagher’s fifth of her career.
Gallagher, a native of Rockaway Beach, totaled five goals, 11 ground balls, 11 caused turnovers and two draw controls in two conference games last week.
She opened with a pair of goals, five ground balls, five caused turnovers and two draw controls in a 13-9 loss to Purchase (Mar. 23). Gallagher followed with her sixth-career hat trick, netting three goals to go along with six caused turnovers (tied program record) and a personal-best six ground balls.
On the season, Gallagher has nine goals, three assists, 23 ground balls, 15 caused turnovers and eight draw controls.
