Lewis Earns C-USA Hitter-of-the-Week Honor
March 26, 2012 | Softball
March 26, 2012
IRVING, Texas - East Carolina sophomore right fielder Jordan Lewis has been selected as the Conference USA Hitter-of-the-Week, according to an announcement Monday by league officials. The selection is the second of Lewis' career and the initial league honor for a Pirate this season. She was tabbed as the C-USA Hitter-of-the-Week nearly a year ago to the date, on March 21, also after ECU's second league series of the season.
Last weekend against UTEP, the Fremont, Calif., product batted .455 and helped ECU to its first Conference USA sweep of the campaign. She drove in a team-best five runs and finished tied for second on the squad with four scored. Lewis also slugged .636 and posted a .538 on-base percentage during the series.
In the opener against the Miners, Lewis scored a career-high three runs while driving in two more with a double in the fifth inning. During the second contest, she tallied two hits, drove in a run during the fifth frame and scored a run in the bottom of the seventh as part of the Pirates' three-run comeback for a walk-off win. In the Sunday finale, her double in the sixth inning delivered two insurance runs for ECU.
A 2011 Conference USA All-Freshman and All-Tournament Teams honoree, Lewis has already made an impact in the six league games this season, batting .389 with seven hits, eight runs batted in and four scored. She has also posted a .556 slugging percentage and .500 on-base percentage. As a freshman in C-USA play, she hit .242 with 16 hits, five RBI and 11 runs scored a year ago.
Lewis and the Pirates (13-17) return to the diamond Wednesday for a one-day break from league play with a 4:00 p.m. doubleheader at UNC Wilmington (6-24). The programs have met 90 times with East Carolina holding a 76-14 advantage in the all-time series. A year ago, the teams split the two meetings as the Pirates topped the Seahawks 8-0 in six innings Feb. 16 in the first-ever game at the ECU Softball Stadium. During the return trip to Wilmington, on April 6, UNCW claimed a 2-1 victory by scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh.
