Hunter Newman has been named the G-MAC’s Baseball Offensive Athlete of the Week for the second time this season helping the Trojans secure the regular season title and the number one seed in the Baseball Championship Tournament. TNU went 4-0 last week in conference action sweeping Alderson Broaddus to finish 20-4 in conference.
Newman had one of his best four-game weekends of the season coming against G-MAC opponent Alderson Broaddus. He batted a whopping .643 with nine hits, two doubles, and a league-high two triples. He drove in a team and league-high eight runs and scored a team and league-high eight runs. His 1.071 slugging percentage was best in the conference over the last week.
His best performance came in the series finale against AB when he went 4-for-4 with a double, triple, two RBI and four runs scored. This season, Newman is second on the team in doubles (17) and third in RBI (47).
In the G-MAC he ranks in the top five in hits (3rd - 68), runs scored (2nd - 56), RBI (3rd - 47), doubles (3rd - 17), home runs (t-1st - 6), and total bases (3rd - 109).