Kyle Emig 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 Panthers, who went 5-1 last week in conference action. KWC improved to 8-4 in the G-MAC and moved into second place in the standings, a game ahead Alderson Broaddus, who was KWC’s opponent this past weekend for four games.
Emig hit .529 over the six games, collecting nine hits and eight runs batted in. He scored five times. He led the conference with a 1.118 slugging percentage as he belted three home runs. He also led the conference with a .667 on-base percentage, adding five walks to his nine hits.
In a pair of make-up games against Cedarville, Emig combined to go 3-5 in the doubleheader sweep, scoring a run in each game and driving in himself in the first game on a solo-home run. Against Alderson Broaddus, the two teams split the opening doubleheader and on day two, KWC swept the games as Emig went a combined 4-7 with three runs scored and five driven in, including a double in the first game and two home runs in the second game.
This season Emig is second on the team in batting average (.425), having made only 11 starts in the team’s 25 games played. A majority of his season totals came this week: nine of 17 hits, eight of 14 RBI, five of eight runs scored, and all three home runs.