INDIANAPOLIS - The Great Midwest Athletic Conference has announced that Austin Huibers of Trevecca Nazarene University and Greg Liming of Urbana University have been named G-MAC Baseball Pitching and Offensive Athletes of the Week, respectively.

OFFENSIVE AOTW

Greg Liming
Urbana University
Senior - First Base/Outfield

Greg Liming was named G-MAC Men’s Baseball Offensive Athlete of the Week for the first time this season. This week’s honor gives Urbana its fourth different Baseball Athlete of the Week this season, including two offensive athlete of the week and two pitchers of the week.
 
Liming hit .600 last week and totaled a slugging percentage of 1.400 to lead the conference. He had a G-MAC-high nine runs scored, seven runs batted in, and two home runs, despite only 10 at-bats. He also walked six times, totaled 14 bases, and added two doubles. Four of his six total hits were for extra bases.
 
Liming led the Blue Knights to a perfect 3-0 week in non-conference action. UU started the week with a come from behind win at Findlay and then wrapped up the week with dominating wins over Wright State - Lake and Miami - Hamilton. Trailing 6-2 in the fifth inning, Urbana posted four runs including a game-tying three run home run by Liming. In the game he was 2-4 with a walk, four RBI and a run scored.
 
In the next two games he went 2-2 with three walks, two RBI, four runs scored, a double and a home run against WSU-Lake, and then 2-4 with two walks, an RBI, four runs scored, and a double.
 
His two home runs, gives him the regular-season home run title with seven on the season. He finished the season ranked in the top ten in hitting (10th - .339), runs (9th - 33), doubles (6th - 71), walks (2nd - 28), slugging percentage (3rd - .573), and on base percentage (6th - .461)
 
View Greg Liming’s bio (from Sports.Urbana.edu)


PITCHING AOTW

Austin Huibers
Trevecca Nazarene University
Junior - Left-Handed Pitcher
 
Austin Huibers has been named the G-MAC Pitching Athlete of the Week for the first time this season. The honor is the eighth for TNU (offensive and pitcher combined), which leads the conference. With the conference regular-season title on the line, Huibers pitched seven shutout innings allowing just one hit, while striking out eight Cedarville hitters.
 
After winning two of the first three games over the weekend against Cedarville, the G-MAC regular season title came down to the final game of the season. With Huibers on the mound, the Trojans claimed the regular-season crown, the top seed, and the right to host the G-MAC Baseball Championship.
 
The only hit Huibers allowed came in the first inning, but he worked out of trouble during all seven of his innings. He was able to strand each Yellow Jacket base runner as he walked seven and hit four batters. Cedarville left a runner stranded in each of the seven innings, and 11 total runners as Huibers battled.  
 
Huibers finished the season ranked fourth in the conference with 47 strikeouts, which was only three behind third place and five behind second place despite pitching almost 6 innings and 14 innings less respectively. With that in mind, he finished second in strikeouts per game with 10.66 strikeouts per nine innings. 
 
View Austin Huibers’s bio (from TNUTrojans.com)