CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – Wake Forest junior infielder Nick Kurtz was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week, while Clemson freshman right-handed pitcher Aidan Knaak and Louisville left-handed pitcher Sebastian Gongora shared the conference’s Pitcher of the Week honor.
 
The ACC Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week are selected by a 17-member voting panel composed of media members and announced on Mondays during the regular season.
 
Kurtz raised his batting average by 55 points throughout four games last week with the help of six home runs. The first baseman finished 8-of-14 (.571) with seven extra-base hits, 11 RBI, and six walks. Kurtz became the fourth Demon Deacon to reach the 50-career home run mark. With three home runs on Sunday afternoon, the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, native matched the Wake Forest single-game record and tallied his first three-homer game and his eighth multi-homer game of his collegiate career.
 
Knaak took a no-hitter into the seventh inning at Notre Dame on Sunday, exiting the contest with an 11-1 lead. The freshman retired the side in order in five of his first six innings of action. In 7.0 innings of work, Knaak allowed three hits without a walk and one earned run, adding nine strikeouts in the Tigers’ victory. The right-hander matched his career high for innings pitched, needing just 81 pitches to do so.
 
Gongora threw a seven-inning complete game for Louisville on Friday, pacing the way for the Cardinals’ 11-1 run-rule win over No. 19 NC State. The left-hander allowed just one run via a solo home run while striking out a career-high 11. Between the third and fifth frames, the Dayton, Ohio, native recorded eight of nine outs via the strikeout.
 
ACC Baseball Player of the Week
Feb. 19 – Payton Green, SS, Georgia Tech
Feb. 26 – Vance Honeycutt, OF, North Carolina
Mar. 4 – Alec Makarewicz, INF, NC State
Mar. 11 – Blake Cyr, INF, Miami
Mar. 18 – Carson DeMartini, INF, Virginia Tech
Mar. 25 – Blake Wright, INF, Clemson
Apr. 1 – Parks Harber, INF, North Carolina
Apr. 8 – Nick Kurtz, INF, Wake Forest

ACC Baseball Pitcher of the Week
Feb. 19 – Cam Leiter, RHP, Florida State
Feb. 26 – Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State
Mar. 4 – Jonathan Santucci, LHP, Duke
Mar. 11 – Chase Burns, RHP, Wake Forest
Mar. 18 – Chase Burns, RHP, Wake Forest
Mar. 25 – Chase Burns, RHP, Wake Forest
Apr. 1 – Gage Ziehl, RHP, Miami
Apr. 8 – Aidan Knaak, RHP, Clemson; Sebastian Gongora, LHP, Louisville