Off to a rough 4-10 start to the baseball campaign, Purdue University North Central's (Ind.) Brian Phillips (Elkhart, Ind.) and Chris Schultz (Elgin, Ill.) helped turn the Panthers season around in a hurry as the pair keyed a resurgent 7-1 week. Schultz batted .481 and drove in 14 runs in eight games to earn Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Player of the Week honors, while Phillips authored the program's first-ever no-hitter and won one other decision to snare the league's Pitcher of the Week accolades for the seven-day period ending March 30.

Phillips, a senior righthander, faced the minimum 21 batters and threw only 71 pitches in the historic outing on March 29. A second-inning walk, which was eventually wiped out on a pickoff, was the only thing that kept Phillips from registering a perfect game in the 1-0 victory over conference foe Calumet College of St. Joseph (Ind.).

Phillips also went the distance in another league decision over Robert Morris College, a 7-3 win in the second game of a doubleheader on March 24. In that seven-inning affair, he struck out five batters and did not allow a walk, while yielding six hits.

In the two games combined, Phillips struck out eight batters against only one walk and posted a 1.93 earned run average.

Schultz, meanwhile, collected no less than one hit in each of the team's eight games and at least one RBI in seven of the eight. Eight of his 13 hits on the week went for extra bases with his four doubles and four home runs resulted in a 1.074 slugging percentage.

Schultz started the week in a big way, going 3-for-4 with one double, two home runs, three runs scored and five runs batted in in a 10-0 win over Robert Morris College in the first game of the doubleheader on March 24. He added another three multiple-RBI and multi-hit games later in the week.

A junior first baseman, Schultz also averaged better than one run scored per game with his nine runs in the eight games.

Each of the eight games played on the week for Purdue North Central were league affairs giving the CCAC-leading Panthers a jump start on the conference race and evening out their overall record at 11-11.