Tag: Niko Kavadas

Notre Dame Baseball Has Two Early Season Standouts

Notre Dame Baseball players Niko Kavadas and Spencer Myers enjoying early season success.

After hitting four, yes four, home runs this past weekend in a sweep of Presbyterian, Notre Dame’s 1B Niko Kavadas was named one of BaseballNews.com’s players of the week.

Kavadas leads the Irish in home runs (5), RBI (13), second in slugging (.649) and third in runs (8) leading the team to a 7-2 record, good for third place in the ACC’s Atlantic division. The five homers lead the ACC while the 13 RBI have Kavadas tied for fifth in the conference.

Speaking of Notre Dame players who are having great seasons, let’s not forget what CF Spencer Myers has done, not just leading the ACC but the nation in steals with 13, three ahead of his competition. Myers had 6 steals in the final against Presbyterian, leads the Irish with 17 hits, second with 10 runs scored is also off to a fantastic start to the year.

Link Jarrett, in his first season as manager, has watched his star hit for plenty of power early on in the season, but there is still room for improvement, as Kavadas has just a .243 average. If the first-baseman keeps hitting for power and adds a few more hits here and there, the junior could be looking at a huge season offensively for the Irish.