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.
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Austin Huibers’ bio (from TNUTrojans.com)