Riggs Takes Home Second C-USA Honor
April 18, 2011 | Softball
April 18, 2011
IRVING, Texas - After helping East Carolina to a series win at league-leading UAB over the weekend, junior Suzanne Riggs was named the Conference USA Hitter-of-the-Week according to an announcement Monday by league officials. For the week, Riggs paced the team in nearly every offensive category, including hits (7), doubles (2), home runs (1), runs batted in (6), walks drawn (5), total bases (12), slugging percentage (.857) and on-base percentage (.600). The weekly honor is Riggs' second in her career and also second in April.
Riggs started the week collecting a hit in each game of Wednesday's doubleheader against rival N.C. State. In the second contest, she drove in the Pirates' first run with a sacrifice fly.
Saturday, in the series opener at UAB, Riggs scored the game-winning run in the top of the 11th inning. During the second contest, the Greenville native had two of East Carolina's three hits and tallied an outfield assist by gunning down Tiffany Smith at third as she tried to stretch a double into a triple.
In the Sunday finale, Riggs went 2-3 while picking up a career-high five RBI. She became the first Pirate to have five runs batted in during a game since Jessica Johnson against Georgetown March 10, 2009. Riggs drove in the game-winning run with a three-run home run in the first inning that gave ECU a lead it never relinquished.
During the five games, Riggs went 3-4 with a runner in scoring position, reached base both times leading off an inning and was successful advancing runners 63.6 percent of the time.
The Pirates (31-16, 11-7 C-USA) and Riggs return to action Friday for their final Conference USA road series of the season. ECU makes the cross-country trip to UTEP (16-29, 1-14 C-USA) and opens the three-game set Friday with a 3:00 p.m. doubleheader.
