NAPERVILLE, Ill. – North Central’s Chris Hill and Millikin’s Adam Zuk were named the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Baseball Players of the Week on Tuesday.
 
Hill, a junior catcher from Bristol, Illinois and Yorkville High School (Exercise Science major), won his second hitter of the week award of the season after batting .474 (9-for-19), with five runs, three doubles, one triple, three RBI and a .737 slugging percentage last week. He reached base in eight of nine plate appearances during a double header sweep of Wheaton on April 23. He was 3-for-4 with two runs and a double in a 12-1 win in game one, followed by a 4-for-5 performance with a run and two doubles in a 5-4 win in game two. Hill was 2-for-5 with a run, three RBI and one triple in a 13-6 win over Concordia-Chicago on April 19.
 
Zuk, a freshman pitcher from Plainfield, Illinois and Plainfield North High School (Sport Management major), moved to 4-1 on the season with a complete-game, 3-0 shutout at Illinois Wesleyan on April 22. He limited the Titans to three hits and allowed just one walk and tallied seven strikeouts.
 
2016 CCIW Baseball Players of the Week
 
Hitter
Chris Hill – North Central (4/26/16)
Cullen Gilbertson – North Park (4/19/16)
Julian Gutierrez – Millikin (4/12/16)
Matthew Mardis – Illinois Wesleyan (4/5/16)
Matt Rave – Carthage (3/29/16)
John Bosco – Illinois Wesleyan (3/22/16)
Andrew Laucella – Wheaton (3/15/16)
Chris Hill – North Central (3/8/16)
Ryan Kairis – Augustana (3/1/16)
 
Pitcher
Adam Zuk – Millikin (4/26/16)
Daniel Bayer – Wheaton (4/19/16)
Russell Hoh – North Central (4/12/16)
Michael Kaufman – Wheaton (4/5/16)
Jordan Van Dyck – North Central (3/29/16)
Josh Arevalo – Wheaton (3/22/16)
Nick Huskisson – Illinois Wesleyan (3/15/16)
Bryan Polowy – North Central (3/8/16)
Zach Morgenstern – Augustana (3/1/16)
 
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services eight member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2014-15 academic year, the CCIW honored over 1,500 academic all-conference recipients, 19 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 46 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients and 102 all-Americans.