Tyler Tichenor has been named the G-MAC’s Baseball Offensive Athlete of the Week for the first time this season after an impressive week at the plate for the Trojans, who went 4-0 last week in conference action and 4-1 overall.
Tichenor led the way for TNU going 12-23 for the week (.522) with three doubles, seven runs scored and a league-high 13 RBI. He totaled 15 bases, had a .652 slugging percentage and an on-base percentage of .522. Tichenor was also perfect in stolen base attempts (6-6).
His best performance of the week came March 29 when he went 3-for-5 with two doubles, two runs scored and six RBI in TNU's win over Salem International.
This season Tichenor is second on the team in batting average (.408) hits (49), and triples (5) and he leads in RBI (32). In the conference, he ranks in the top three in hits, runs scored (33), triples, runs batted in, stolen bases (25) and total bases (65).