Junior baseball player Chase Ruppel (Shamong, N.J./Seneca) is this week's Shoreman of the Week  Ruppel was the first Shoreman Baseball player this century to hit three home runs in a single game, which he achieved in game one of Saturday's Centennial Conference doubleheader at Haverford. In addition to his three-home performance, he tallied his 100th career hit last Tuesday at Franklin & Marshall.

Ruppel, who hit his three home runs in his first three trips to the plate, followed up a Zach Stolze two-run homer in the top of the first inning with a solo blast to left field. Two innings later in his second at bat, he went yard again over the left field fence for his second longball of the contest. In the top half of the fifth, Ruppel socked his third tater of the game on a shot to left. In the contest, the junior slugged 3.000, had a 3.750 on-base plus slugging (OPS) and had 12 total bases. The 12 total bases are also the most by a Shoreman this century, breaking the mark of 11 by Ryan Donnelly '18 in 2018. With his three homers, Ruppel tied the single season mark for longballs in a single season with nine, tying junior teammate Drew Kinsey, who hit nine last spring. On Tuesday at F&M, Ruppel joined the program's 100-hut club with a single to left-center in the top of the second.

This is Ruppel's first career Shoreman of the Week honor.