• Washington State University freshman outfielder Derek Jones has been named Pacific-10 Conference Baseball Player of the Week for March 23-29, conference commissioner Tom Hansen announced, Tuesday.
Jones batted .400 (4-for-10) in a three-game series at California, March 27-29. He homered in each of the three games and added a triple, six runs and six RBI. He posted a .571 on-base percentage and 1.500 slugging percentage.
The Snohomish native is currently tied for fifth in the Pac-10 with seven home runs and tied for ninth in the conference with 21 RBI.
His home run total is tied for fifth on the WSU all-time freshman list and he is the first Cougar freshman to receive the Pac-10 Player of the Week honor since the conference reunified in 1999. The last WSU freshman to win a conference player of the week award prior to Jones was Jason Grove, March 24, 1998 when the Cougars were in the Pac-10 North. [read more]
• Justin Speer of the Western Oregon University baseball team has been named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Week for the week of Mar. 23-29.
Speer, a senior outfielder from Gresham, Ore. (Gresham High School/Mt. Hood CC), had eight hits, including three doubles and two home runs, and drove in 11 runs to lead the Wolves to six victories. Speer, who leads the GNAC in RBI with 24, batted .421 as WOU swept a four-game series at Northwest Nazarene and won the first two games of a four-game home series with Central Washington.
The Western Oregon baseball team will face two GNAC foes this week as it travels to Lacey, Wash., for games with Saint Martin’s Wednesday, Apr. 1, before hosting Montana State Billings for a four-game series Apr. 3-4. [read more]
