Baseball

USA's Perkins, Carr Earn Community Coffee Sun Belt Baseball Weekly Honors

COMMUNITY COFFEE BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK

11355

Carter Perkins
South Alabama | Junior | Catcher
Batted .625 with three doubles, three home runs, eight RBIs and seven runs scored in four games last week while posting a .684 on-base percentage and 1.375 slugging percentage ... Recorded a career-high four hits at New Orleans Wednesday, finishing 4-for-5 with a double, two home runs, three runs scored and tied his career high in RBIs (4) ... Added two hits, including a double, one RBI and two runs in the series opener at Texas State ... Tied his career high in hits (4) in game two of the Texas State series, going 4-for-4 with a double, one home run, three RBIs and two runs scored.

COMMUNITY COFFEE BASEBALL PITCHER OF THE WEEK

11354

Tyler Carr
South Alabama | Senior | RHP
Carr (7-2) tossed a career-high nine innings, marking the first complete game of his Jaguar career, and allowed one run on one hit with six strikeouts against three walks to earn the win in the series opener at Texas State, which marked his seventh consecutive victory in as many starts. Carr retired 22 of the first 24 batters he faced in the game, with a two-out walk to Ryan Newman in the second inning and a one-out walk by Newman in the bottom of the eighth, as the only setbacks. He did not allow a hit until a two-strike, two-out RBI double to right field in the top of the ninth inning.

COMMUNITY COFFEE PLAYER/PITCHER OF THE WEEK ARCHIVE

Feb. 20: Matt Sanders, Troy (player); Connor Reich, Texas State (pitcher)
Feb. 28: Braedon Barrett, ULM (player); Anthony Simonelli, Coastal Carolina (pitcher)
Mar. 6: Joey Denison, Troy (player); Jack Burk, Louisiana (pitcher)
Mar. 14: Zach Biermann, Coastal Carolina (player); Hunter Gaddis, Georgia State (pitcher)
Mar. 20: Will Olson, UTA (player); Justin Garcia, Little Rock (pitcher)
Mar. 27: Lee Sponseller, Coastal Carolina (player); Hunter Gaddis, Georgia State (pitcher)
Apr. 3: Drew Federic, Troy (player); Colten Schmidt, Louisiana (pitcher)
Apr. 10: Nick Gatewood, Georgia State (player); Colten Schmidt, Louisiana (pitcher)
Apr. 17: Josh Minjarez, UTA (player); Matt Eardensohn, Coastal Carolina (pitcher)
Apr. 24: Carter Perkins, South Alabama (player); Tyler Carr, South Alabama (pitcher)