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.

Notre Dame Baseball vs. Incarnate Word Canceled for Thursday Night

Notre Dame’s baseball team was supposed to start their second set of games Thursday evening in San Antonio against Incarnate Word but mother nature had other plans

Notre Dame’s baseball team was supposed to start their second set of games Thursday evening in San Antonio against Incarnate Word but mother nature had other plans as inclement weather has caused it to be canceled and will not be made up.

Notre Dame is set to play Incarnate Word in an already scheduled game Friday night with first pitch set for 7:00 p.m. ET before taking on Toldeo on Saturday afternoon and the University of Texas San Antonio on Sunday.

Notre Dame started the year last weekend taking two of three games at UAB.  Mitch Megias, Tommy Vail and Joe Boyle set down the final 17 batters of the series-deciding
game last Sunday and allowed just one baserunner and no hits over the final six innings that led new head coach Link Jarrett to his first series win at Notre Dame.

Watch: Highlights From Notre Dame’s Series Win at UAB

What did Meatloaf say back forty or so years ago?  

“Two out of three ain’t bad” or something like that?

What did Meatloaf say back forty or so years ago?

“Two out of three ain’t bad” or something like that?

That’s exactly what Notre Dame picked up Sunday with their 9-3 victory over the University of Alabama Birgmingham.  The win starts the Notre Dame baseball team 2-1 on the very young season as they now head to San Antonio for the Alamo Classic where they’ll play four games starting Thursday against: Incarnate Word (twice), Toledo and Texas San Antonio.

In the meantime, enjoy Notre Dame’s victory Sunday with highlights from the 9-3 win at UAB.

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Congratulations to new manager Link Jarrett as well this weekend for winning his first series at Notre Dame.

Watch: Highlights from Notre Dame’s Opening Day Win at UAB

Friday saw Notre Dame get the Link Barrett era as manager off to a positive start as the Irish won 4-2 over the Blazers after being led by Tommy Sheehan who threw seven innings of scoreless ball

On Saturday, game two of a three game set to start the 2020 baseball season starts at 2 p.m. ET in Birmingham, Alabama. Notre Dame will be looking to move to 2-0 on the new campaign.

Before that though, relive Opening Day quickly by checking out the highlights below!

Friday saw Notre Dame get the Link Barrett era as manager off to a positive start as the Irish won 4-2 over the Blazers after being led by Tommy Sheehan who threw seven innings of scoreless ball. See the highlights here:

The series will wrap up Sunday with the final of the three game series starting at 1 p.m ET.