BEVELRY, Mass. – Harry Painter and Joe Norris of the Suffolk baseball team earned weekly accolades from the Commonwealth Coast Conference office. Painter was named CCC Player of the Week, while Norris nabbed CCC Rookie of the Week, the league announced Wednesday morning.
The laurels come after the pairs performance in a 2-3 week that was capped off by a sweep of Western New England in league play.
Painter shoved his way to the league's best pitcher in a seven-day span. The right-handed hurler put together a two-run, one-hit, seven-walk, 10-strikeout effort in 5.2 innings of work to move to 2-0 on the year on the hill. He was one punchout shy of his career-high 11, which he achieved at UMass Dartmouth April 6, 2024.
Norris batted .308 with four hits in 14 plate appearances over three games. He compiled back-to-back 2-for-5 efforts at the dish in the doubleheader sweep of the Golden Bears. The two hits in each outing was a personal-best for the freshman. He finished game one, a 16-7 Suffolk win, with a career-high three runs.
Painter and Norris are the second pitcher, rookie duo to take home weekly accolades from the CCC this season as Garret Roberts and Colin Flynn were awarded the same distinctions March 26. Painter and Roberts are the only pitchers in the blue-and-gold's history to be named the CCC Pitcher of the Week in program history. The weekly recognition is the second of Painter's career, first pitcher honor, and first time he garnered a weekly nod since being named CCC Player of the Week March 29, 2022.
Suffolk now has four weekly awards on its squad's resume in 2024, the most for the Rams in a single season during their CCC tenure, which dates back to 2022. The four weekly accolades are the most for Suffolk since 2019 when it collected four weekly awards from the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC).
The Rams rest up for this weekend's action that has a doubleheader against Wentworth on Saturday, April 20's schedule with a trip to St. Joseph's (Maine) on tap Sunday, April 21.