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Case Western Reserve University junior Lexi Miskey, a pitcher on the softball team, and senior Tyler Horvath, a pitcher on the baseball team, have been named the Spartan Club Athletes of the Week for their performances this past week.

Miskey was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2024 NCAA Division III Softball Cleveland Regional after leading the Spartans to the Super Regional Round with four wins at Mather Park over the weekend. Miskey went 4-1, striking out 40 batters over 33 and one-third innings and recording a 1.68 earned run average. Opponents hit just .165 against her at the regional. On the final day, Miskey pitched all 14 innings for the Spartans against 25th-ranked Calvin, shutting out the Knights in a 4-0 win in the first game and allowing just one run in the winner-take-all finale, a 3-1 Spartan victory. She struck out nine batters in each contest, including the last out of the final game. On the first day of competition, Miskey recorded 11 strikeouts in six and two-third shutout innings during a 7-4 win, and in an elimination win over Dominican, she allowed just two hits in seven shutout innings while punching out seven. This season, Miskey is 24-4 with a 1.84 ERA and 218 strikeouts in 167 and two-third innings. Her win and strikeout totals are both single-season program records. The Spartans, who advanced to their third-ever Super Regional, improved to 38-7.

CWRU will host Coe College for the best-of-three Super Regional at Mather Park in Cleveland on Thursday, May 23 and Friday, May 24. Game one is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Thursday with game two slated for 1 p.m. on Friday and the third, if necessary game, to start at 3:30 p.m.

Horvath helped pitch the seventh-ranked Spartans to an 8-3 win in an elimination game against Alvernia University during the 2024 NCAA Division III Baseball Cleveland Regional at Nobby's Ballpark last weekend. Horvath was named to the All-Tournament Team after earning the win against the Golden Wolves, throwing five shutout innings in relief and allowing just two hits on a walk with seven strikeouts. He ended his season with a 2-0 record and a 4.00 ERA with four saves and 59 strikeouts in 36 innings. Horvath and the Spartans ended the year with a 33-11 overall record.

Sunday's loss completes a historic season for the Spartans, who matched the second-most wins in program history during the campaign and were ranked as high as seventh in Division III, the team's highest-ever national ranking. CWRU also claimed the fifth University Athletic Association title in team history and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time.

The Spartan Club Athletes of the Week are selected by the CWRU Department of Athletics each Monday, based on their performance during the previous week of competition.

Honorable Mentions:

Senior infielder KaiLi Gross (softball) was named to the All-Tournament Team of the 2024 NCAA Division III Softball Cleveland Regional after leading the Spartan offense during the team's regional championship weekend at Mather Park. Gross had a team-high .588 batting average across five games, going 10-for-17 with two doubles, one triple, and one home run. She drove in six runs, scored three times, and stole four bases on four attempts. Gross had hits in all five contests, collecting three in both the first and fourth contests. She slugged a key home run in the 4-0 victory over 25th-ranked Calvin on the final day and drove in two of the team's three runs in the regional championship clinching contest. This season, Gross has a team-high .430 batting average and team-leading .768 slugging percentage. She also paces the squad with nine home runs, 17 doubles, and 59 runs batted in, one shy of the program record.

Graduate student first baseman Dane Camphausen (baseball) was named to the All-Tournament Team at the NCAA Division III Baseball Cleveland Regional after batting a team-high .467 (7-for-15) with three runs, a home run, three runs batted in, two walks, and a hit by pitch. He led all players in the tournament over the weekend with seven hits and finished the weekend with a .667 slugging percentage and a .556 on-base percentage. His highlights from the weekend include a two-for-three showing with a first inning two-run home run in a 7-4 win over Alvernia and a three-for-five performance with two runs scored in an 8-3 win over Alvernia in an elimination game the following day. Camphausen ended his season with a .394 average, a program-record 13 home runs, and 58 runs batted in. 

First-year vaulter Holly Schreiber (women's track and field) broke her own record in the pole vault at the Mount Union Last Chance Meet in Alliance, Ohio, on Thursday. Schreiber cleared 3.68 meters on her third attempt to best her previous record of 3.66 meters earlier this year. She placed fourth in the event at the meet with the 30th-best mark in Division III this season.

The CWRU women's track and field team will conclude its season this week with the 2024 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Competing for the Spartans on Thursday will be junior Lauren Roskuszka and senior Adrienne Wachtman in the javelin throw.

2023-24 Spartan Club Athletes of the Week:
Sept. 5: Jacob Salmon (men's soccer) & Alyssa Blessinger (volleyball)
Sept. 11: Matt Vatne (men's soccer) & Jennifer Ngo (volleyball)
Sept. 18: Aidan Nathan (men's cross country) & Ceci Dapino (women's soccer)
Sept. 25: Alex Fromberg (football) & Hannah Kassaie (women's tennis)
Oct. 2: Lauren Iagnemma (women's cross country), Vishwa Aduru & Diego Maza (men's tennis)
Oct. 9: Kaden Tong (football) & Jamie Goldfarb (women's soccer)
Oct. 16: Henry Busch (football) & Rea Marfatia (volleyball)
Oct. 23: Gage Duesler (football) & Gabriella Chambers (women's swimming and diving)
Oct. 30: Emil LaSida (men's swimming and diving) & Mackenzie Mueller (women's soccer)
Nov. 6: Art Martinez (wrestling) & Maggie Storti (women's soccer)
Nov. 13: Lauren Iagnemma (women's cross country) & Jennifer Ngo (volleyball)
Nov. 20: Peter Meng (men's swimming and diving) & Lauren Iagnemma (women's cross country)
Nov. 27: Kayla Characklis (women's basketball)
Dec. 4: Colin Kahl (men's basketball) & Sarah Ozeki (women's track and field)
Dec. 11: Mike Valerino (wrestling) & Kate Montgomery (women's basketball)
Jan. 2: Anthony Mazzeo (men's basketball) & Kayla Characklis (women's basketball)
Jan. 8: Mitchell Arch (wrestling) & Art Martinez (wrestling)
Jan. 16: Anthony Mazzeo (men's basketball) & Mya Hartjes (women's basketball)
Jan. 22: Sam Trunley (men's basketball) & Erica Rice (women's swimming and diving)
Jan. 29: Mitchell Arch (wrestling) & Adrienne Wachtman (women's track and field)
Feb. 5: Colin Kahl (men's basketball) & Abigail Wilkov (women's swimming and diving)
Feb. 12: Keith Cartwright (men's track and field) & Emily Hopkins (women's track and field)
Feb. 19: Peter Meng (men's swimming and diving) & Kayla Characklis (women's basketball)
Feb. 26: Peculiar Nzegbuna (men's track and field) & Sarah Mitchell (women's basketball)
March 4: Sam Trunley (men's basketball) & Stevie Rieger (softball)
March 18: Jack Anderson (baseball) & Lexi Miskey (softball)
March 25: Claire Kozma (women's swimming and diving) & Peter Meng (men's swimming and diving)
April 1: Dane Camphausen (baseball) & Karen Potts (softball)
April 9: Diego Maza (men's tennis) & Holly Schreiber (women's track and field)
April 15: Tyler Stillson (baseball) & Lauren Iagnemma (women's track and field)
April 22: Michael Sutanto (men's tennis) & Lexi Miskey (softball)
April 29: Juan Perez (men's track and field) & Adrienne Wachtman (women's track and field)
May 6: Tim Demetris (baseball) & Isabella Russo (softball)
May 13: Diego Maza (men's tennis) & Anna Kan (women's tennis)
May 20: Lexi Miskey (softball) & Tyler Horvath (baseball)