April 19, 2016
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. ââ'¬" Greg Guers (Langhorne, Pa.) added another weekly accolade Tuesday evening, as the senior was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) National Hitter of the Week for the week ending April 17.
The national honor is Guers' first and the first for a Big Ten player this season.
Named the Big Ten Baseball Player of the Week Monday, Guers batted .765 the preivous week, making just four outs in four games going 13-for-17 with eight RBIs, a home run, two doubles and five stolen bases. He also added two walks for a .789 on-base percentage. Guers opened the week by reaching base in all five plate appearances against Bucknell Wednesday, going 4-for-4 to set a new career high for hits, while adding a season-high four RBIs, two runs and a walk.
Guers then went 9-for-13 at Northwestern with three-straight three-hit games. He had back-to-back 3-for-4 games to open the series, adding two doubles and two RBIs in the second contest. In the finale, he went 3-for-5 with a two-run home run, double, three runs scored and three stolen bases.
Guers was batting just .189 through his first 24 games dating to the April 1 game against Purdue, but hit at a .511 clip in the next 11 to raise his season average 125 points to .314 entering Tuesday night's game against Bucknell.
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