CLEVELAND – After registering a .667 batting average over the weekend at Eastern Michigan, redshirt junior
Andrew Stone has been named Mid-American Conference Baseball Co-Player of the Week, the league office announced on Monday.
Stone with a .667 batting average, .733 slugging percentage and .667 on-base percentage helped Western Michigan baseball earn its fourth straight MAC series victory over EMU. Stone was 10-for-15 with three runs scored, one double and three RBIs.
In Friday's contest at EMU, Stone went a perfect 5-for-5 from the plate and was one hit shy of tying the school record of most hits in a game. In the 6-4 victory on Friday, the Portage, Mich., native also scored one run and had one RBI.
On Sunday, Stone went 4-for-6 with two RBIs and two runs scored to help the Broncos clinch the series. The two-RBI performance matched his career-high. This season, Stone has recorded six multi-hit games and two multi-RBI games and is currently riding a team-high four-game hitting streak.
Despite not having a sacrifice hit all weekend, Stone still ranks 34
th in the NCAA in sacrifice bunts (9) and 22
nd in sacrifice bunts per game (0.26). In 2018, Stone is one of three WMU players to have a batting average of .300, hitting .307 with nine RBIs and one double. The redshirt junior leads WMU in walks (22) and on-base percentage (.427).