Week One Baseball Performers of the Week
Grinnell College Athletics
GRINNELL, Iowa – Knox College outfielder Drake Sykes picked up where he left off in the season’s opening doubleheader and Grinnell College’s Charles Carr pitched six scoreless innings. Sykes has been named the Midwest Conference (MWC) Position Performer of the Week and Carr earned the top pitching honor.
Weekly Notes
Sykes tallied six hits in seven at bats in a doubleheader sweep of Robert Morris University-Springfield on Saturday. He knocked three doubles and a home run for nine RBI and 12 total bases. He also scored three runs, walked, got hit by a pitch, hit a sacrifice fly, and stole a base.
Carr pitched six scoreless innings and issued just three hits as the Pioneers defeated Lawrence University, 5-4. He struck out four batters and only gave up one walk.
Notable Performances
Matt Hammond had a monster weekend as Grinnell opened with four games in Jacksonville, Ill. He had an .875 slugging percentage and .438 batting average with the aid of two homers, a double, 13 RBI and four runs scored. He also had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 15 chances as Grinnell followed up two losses with two wins on Sunday. His biggest performance came in a 17-7, seven-inning win over Loras College where he piled up eight RBI, one shy of the school record, and belted two homers and a double while also scoring four runs.
Grant Myers of Monmouth College had the hot bat early in Florida, posting 3-for-4 day in an 8-6 opening day win over Widener University. The senior slugged a pair of doubles and drove in four runs. His second RBI double knotted the score as Myers then scored the winning run in the eighth. Myers picked up three more hits, coming up just a double shy of the cycle in Sunday’s 16-9 loss to Immaculata College. For the first week of his season, Myers is hitting .500 with a 1.200 slugging percentage and a team-best five RBI.
Knox’s Alec Jordan picked up the victory in game one of the doubleheader sweep of Robert Morris-Springfield on Saturday. Over five innings, he fanned seven batters while allowing no earned runs.
