DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) released its Dick Howser Trophy National Player of the Week awards presented by The Game Headwear for the period ending March 23. Ole Miss senior outfielder Isaac Humphrey was named National Hitter of the Week, while UNCW freshman right-handed pitcher Cam Bagwell and North Carolina senior right-handed pitcher Aidan Haugh were named National Co-Pitchers of the Week. The NCBWA Board reviews candidates from each Division I Conference and names winners each Tuesday throughout the season.
Humphrey hit .389 (7-for-18) with four home runs, 13 RBI, and 21 total bases in four total games, including the Rebels' midweek matchup with Southern Miss.
The senior went 1-for-3 with a double in Pearl before heating up in Columbia. Humphrey hit .400 (6-for-15) with four home runs, 13 RBI, and 19 total bases as Ole Miss swept Missouri for their first conference sweep since 2022.
He came into the series with three total home runs on the season and more than doubled his total with four long balls in three games. He launched two home runs in the series-clinching win on Saturday for the first multi-home run game of his career. Humphrey drove in 13 of the Rebels' 40 runs scored in the series, a whopping 32.5 percent of the scoring.
The Livermore, Kentucky native, had two hits in every game of the series and led the entire conference in home runs, RBI, and total bases on the week.
Bagwell needed just 80 pitches to record the program's first perfect game since 1968 in the Seahawks' 12-0 run-rule win over Campbell on Sunday at Jim Perry Stadium. He fanned three and lowered his earned run average to 2.02 in his career-long seven-inning outing.
The last no-hitter in program history was in 1995 by John Babson, who held Yale hitless in a 2-0 win on Mar. 9. Jim Sanders tossed a perfect game against California University of Pennsylvania on Apr. 12, 1968.
Overall, it was the 10th no-hitter in program history and the second against Campbell. E.H. Kennedy posted a no-no against the Camels in a 3-0 win on Apr. 24, 1989. Haugh put on his best performance yet in Carolina's series-securing victory on Sunday against Boston College. The righty from Zebulon, N.C., held a no-hitter until the final batter, throwing 7.0 innings while racking up 11 strikeouts on just one hit and one walk.
The absolute gem set a number of career benchmarks for Haugh. It was both his first complete game and first shutout while also being a new career-high in innings pitched and strikeouts.
In BC's final at-bat on Sunday, the hitter struck his own teammate (Haugh's lone walk) with a grounder for the final out. By the technical NCAA rules, the batter is automatically awarded a hit even though it was the final out and the game was over. That close to Carolina's first non-combined no-no since 1978.
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