St. John Fisher College’s Ben Bostick (Aquinas Institute/Rochester) of the baseball team has been named as the College’s Male Athlete of the Week for the week ending April 28, 2013.
In a 5-1 week for the Cardinals, Bostick hit 12-for-26 (.462) with eight runs scored, five RBI, two doubles, a triple and a stolen base. His most impressive achievement of the week, however, was joining just three other former Cardinals baseball players as part of the career 200-hit club. Bostick is currently tied with former teammate and All-American Steve Karnyski with 205 career hits, sitting in second place behind only Andy Campbell’s 225 program mark.
The Rochester native started the week with a 2-for-6 game against Rochester Institute of Technology, a 12-8 extra-inning win for the Cardinals.
Bostick then had his signature game of the week in a 9-0 victory over Houghton College in the first contest of a four-game weekend series. The senior went 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored. Most impressively, Bostick was just a home run shy of the cycle by the third inning, lacing a triple to lead off the game before following that with a long double off the top of the left field fence in the second inning. Bostick found himself at the plate again in the third, and he collected a single.
He then went 1-for-4 in each of the next two games, a 14-3 win in the nightcap on Friday and the 4-0 opening game victory on Saturday. In the 14-3 triumph, Bostick did cross the plate three times while driving in two more runs. The one hit in the 4-0 shutout of the Highlanders was Bostick’s 200th career base knock.
Bostick ended the series with Houghton with a 3-for-3 game that included three runs scored, a double and a stolen base.
In a tough 4-3 loss to The College at Brockport on Sunday, with Fisher’s tying run being thrown out at the plate to end the game, Bostick went 2-for-5 with a RBI.
Fisher returns to action at 6 p.m. on Wednesday for a doubleheader with RIT in Newark, NY.
