Lowery Takes Home American Athletic Conference Honors
March 16, 2015 | Baseball
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - East Carolina junior Luke Lowery has been named the American Athletic Conference Hitter-of-the-Week according to an announcement by the league office Monday.
Lowery helped the Pirates to a 4-1 week which include its first road non-conference sweep since 1966 taking all three games at Elon (10-3, 11-8, 20-4). On the week, he 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.
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 league-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).
