{"id":144095,"date":"2018-05-02T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=144095"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:09:52","slug":"ujs-binstock-nsaa-naia-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=144095","title":{"rendered":"UJ’s Binstock, NSAA, NAIA Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamestown\u00a0 (UJ)\u00a0 – A day after being selected as the North Star Athletic Association’s player of the week, Kaleb Binstock<\/a> (JR\/Grand Forks, ND) earned national accolades as well.<\/p>\n

The NAIA recognzied Binstock as National Player of the Week following a seven home run, 22 RBI performance as the 16th-ranked Jimmies went 7-1.<\/p>\n

Binstock hit .586 (17-for-29) and hit safely in all eight contests, with five multi-hit games, two three-hit games, and a four-hit game to his credit.<\/p>\n

In UJ’s 18-5 win over Viterbo (Wis.) Friday, Binstock was 4-for-5 with a double, two\u00a0home runs,\u00a0eight runs batted in, and scored four times. Later that day, he hit two more homers and was 3-for-4 with four runs batted in\u00a0and three runs scored in a 16-3 win over Dakota State (S.D.)<\/p>\n

The home run barrage continued for Binstock on Saturday, as he connected on a three-run blast in a 22-2 win against Dakota State. He homered in both of Sunday’s games, scored five runs and drove in six\u00a0more in a 7-2 win over Viterbo and a 23-8 victory against Dakota State. Binstock finished with a .586\/.594\/1.379 slash line and had a remarkable\u00a0OPS of 1.973. The offensive outburst boosted his batting average 63 points (.379 to .442), and he now leads the Jimmies with 8 home runs and is third on the team with 35 RBI.<\/p>\n

Jamestown finished the regular season with a record of 39-7, and their 16-6 NSAA record earned them the third seed in the conference tournament, which begins Friday at Jamestown and Valley City, N.D. UJ will face No. 6 Viterbo (Wis.) at 4:00 p.m. in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown\u00a0 (UJ)\u00a0 – A day after being selected as the North Star Athletic Association’s player of the week, Kaleb Binstock (JR\/Grand Forks, ND) earned national accolades as well. The NAIA recognzied Binstock as National Player of the Week following a seven home run, 22 RBI performance as the 16th-ranked Jimmies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144097,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144095\/revisions\/144097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}