INDIANAPOLIS - The Great Midwest Athletic Conference has announced its first Pitcher and Offensive Athlete of the Week as the Baseball season has opened. Trevecca Nazarene University took advantage of its southern location, playing 14 games to this point of the season. Blake Rogers (OF) and Connor Haddock (RHP) received the weekly honors for their performance over the opening portion of the Trojans schedule.

HITTER

Blake Rogers
Trevecca Nazarene University
Senior - Outfield

Blake Rogers has been named the G-MAC’s first-ever Baseball Offensive Athlete of the Week, as the 2013 baseball season has kicked off. For Rogers and the Trojans baseball team, they have taken advantage of their southern location - playing 14 games to this point of the season.
 
Rogers is hitting .326, with a conference-high 15 hits and 16 runs batted in. He also has posted two doubles, a triple, and a home run, while walking five times and scoring 11 runs in the 14 games. His batting average is currently second in the conference, behind Urbana’s Robert Tavone Jr., who has played in five games and totaled 15 at-bats, compared to Rogers 51 plate appearances.
 
In the Trojans season opening contest against #24 Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville, Rogers went 3-5 with a pair of RBI and a stolen base. He is a perfect 4-4 on the season in stolen bases. 
 
View Blake Rogers’ bio (from TNUTrojans.com)

PITCHER

Connor Haddock
Trevecca Nazarene University
Junior - Right-Handed Pitcher
 
Connor Haddock has been named the G-MAC’s first-ever Baseball Pitcher of the Week, as the 2013 baseball season has kicked off. For Haddock and the Trojans baseball team, they have taken advantage of their southern location - playing 14 games to this point of the season (7-7 overall).
 
Haddock is 1-0 on the season, making three appearances and two starts on the season. He has a 3.52 earned run average, throwing 15.1 innings and allowing six earned runs (seven total runs). He has a conference-high 17 strikeouts, while walking just three batters.

Haddock’s win came in an impressive 8-1 victory over Asbury University. He went six innings allowing just one run on four hits, striking out six and not walking a batter. He also made on relief appearance, against Trinity Christian in a 9-2 loss. Connor pitched 3.1 innings after the team trailed 6-2 in the fourth inning. He allowed two earned runs on four hits, while striking out five batters.
 
His only other start was a no-decision bottom of the ninth loss to the University of Montevallo. Haddock went the first six innings giving up three runs on nine hits. He struck out six more hitters, walking two. When he left the game, the team trailed 3-1, but the Trojans scored a pair in the top of the eighth to tie the game, but lost on a one-out hit in the bottom of the ninth.
 
View Connor Haddock’s bio (from TNUTrojans.com)