Lowery Named National Player-Of-The-Week
March 16, 2015 | Baseball
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Hours after being tabbed American Athletic Conference Hitter-of-the-Week, East Carolina junior Luke Lowery picked up two more national weekly honors from Collegiate Baseball and NCAA.com according to announcements by both organizations.
He becomes the sixth Pirate in school history to take home Collegiate Baseball National Player-of-the-Week honors (presented by Louisville Slugger) and the first since Jeff Hoffman, who earned the honor twice in 2014.
Lowery, who helped the Pirates to a 4-1 week which included ECU's first road non-conference sweep since 1966 taking all three games at Elon (10-3, 11-8, 20-4), batted .500 (9-for-18) with four home runs, 13 RBI and eight runs scored to go along with three walks, two hit by pitches and a pair of sacrifice flies during the week.
The Midlothian, Va. native hit a home run in four of five games including one in all three games against the Phoenix pushing his season total to a nation-best eight round trippers. Lowery collected three multi-hit games on the week (seven on the season), scored at least one run in all five contests and extended his current streak of at least one RBI to 11 games after driving in at least three in each game at Elon, including a career-best five in the series finale (four via a grand slam).
Lowery slugged an impressive 1.222 on the week, while posting a .560 on-base percentage and tallying 22 total bases. Nine of his 13 RBI came with two outs, while he batted .500 (5-for-10) with two outs and advanced runners at a 68.8 percent clip (11-for-16).
East Carolina (13-6) returns to action this week hosting Princeton (Mar. 17-18) in a pair of midweek games before welcoming in former Colonial Athletic Association foe Virginia Commonwealth for a three-game series (Mar. 20-22).
