Hunter Newman has been named the G-MAC’s Baseball Offensive Athlete of the Week to kick off the 2014 regular-season. Coming off the 2013 season, where Newman was named the conference Freshman of the Year, he had a great opening weekend despite the team going 1-2 over the weekend against Maryville University. .
Newman hit .417 in the three games, including five hits, of which three went for extra bases (two doubles and a triple). He also drove in three runs and had a slugging percentage of .750 and an on-base percentage of .462.
Early in the season, Newman ranks among the top three in batting average, hits, doubles, triples, runs scored, runs driven in, and extra base hits.