MAC Baseball Player of the Week
Jack Poist, Akron
Senior, Hoover, Ala. (Spain Park | Berry College)
The Zips opened the 2025 at Radford where they took the series from the Highlanders series and were led offensively by Jack Poist.
 
On the week, Poist slashed .417/.750/.611 with five hits in 12 at-bats, drawing five walks, driving in six runs and coming around to score six times as well. He also went a perfect 2-for-2 on stolen bases.
 
Jack wasted no time getting back into the groove of things as he started the season with a grand slam to help the Zips take down the Highlanders 12-11 in the season opener. Walking three times while coming around to score as many times, Jack added a stolen base to his name in game 1.
 
He'd add two hits in game two, one of them a double, while increasing his RBI and run total with one each. 
 
The final game of the series with the Highlanders saw Poist go 2-fo-3 with two runs, two walks one RBI and one stolen base.
 
MAC Baseball Pitcher of the Week
RJ Shunck, Toledo
Junior, Swanton, Ohio (Evergreen)
Shunck started and pitched five shutout innings, earning the win in Toledo's 5-3 win at No. 12 Oregon on Saturday. The lefty allowed no walks, hit batters or wild pitches. Additionally, Shunck did not allow an extra-base hit. 
 
The junior opened his start by retiring 15-of-19 batters faced, including the first 10 Oregon hitters. Shunck stranded two runners each in the fourth and fifth innings to keep the game scoreless at the time. 
 
The 5-3 victory was Toledo's highest-ranked win in program history and was the program's first ranked-opponent victory since 2015. 
 
2025 MAC Baseball Players & Pitchers of the Week
Week 1 (Feb. 17): Jack Poist, Akron; RJ Shunck, Toledo