Maness Takes Home C-USA Weekly Honor
April 13, 2009 | Baseball
April 13, 2009
IRVING, Texas - East Carolina sophomore Seth Maness was named Conference USA Pitcher-of-the-Week after earning a win against No. 1 Rice with a career-best performance the league announced Monday.
Maness tossed the first complete game of his career against No. 1 Rice in a 4-1 win on Saturday. The Preseason C-USA Pitcher-of-the-Year threw exactly 100 pitches, allowing one unearned run on three hits. Maness fanned a season-high eight Owls, while issuing just one walk. At one point, Maness retired 12 consecutive hitters from the fifth (2nd out) to ninth (1st out), retiring 23 of the last 25 batters he faced. He struck out at least one hitter in six-of-nine innings and had two punch outs in the first and ninth frames. In all, Maness faced 33 batters allowing a walk, three singles while one batter reached on an error.
The right-hander from Pinehurst, N.C. is the second Pirate to earned weekly honors on the mound following Brad Mincey's selection on Mar. 30. Overall he is the fourth Pirate to take home player-of-the-week honors joining Stephen Batts (Feb. 23 and Mar. 9), Kyle Roller (Mar. 23) and Mincey.
ECU (26-9, 9-3) will be back in action this week when they host a pair of midweek games in Campbell (Tuesday) and N.C. State (Wednesday) before resuming C-USA action on Friday at Tulane.
