Baseball

Southern Miss' Hall & Coastal Carolina's Brown Earn Sun Belt Weekly Accolades

NEW ORLEANS – Southern Miss’ Tanner Hall and Coastal Carolina’s Graham Brown earned Sun Belt baseball weekly accolades after leading their teams to conference series victories. 
 
Baseball Pitcher of the Week
Tanner Hall, Southern Miss
(Jr., RHP – Zachary, La.)   
 
Southern Miss junior right-handed pitcher Tanner Hall tossed 7.2 innings to earn a series-opening victory over Old Dominion, which secured head coach Scott Berry’s 500th career win. The Zachary, La., product held one of the top-hitting teams in the league to just four hits and one run—a solo shot in the eighth inning. Hall struck out seven and held opposing hitters to a .154 batting average to earn his fourth-straight victory on the hill and improve to 6-2 on the year. Behind Hall’s outing, the Golden Eagles picked up their third-straight Sun Belt series win. 
 
Baseball Player of the Week
Graham Brown, Coastal Carolina
(Sr., OF – Middletown, Md.) 
 
Chanticleers senior outfielder Graham Brown hit .563 and slugged 1.063, while leading Coastal Carolina to a 2-2 week including a series victory over Georgia Southern. The Middletown, Md., native posted four-straight multi-hit games and had at least one extra-base hit in every contest. Brown drove in a career-high four RBI with a home run and one of his five doubles on the week in the series-opening win over Georgia Southern. The senior tallied five runs scored and five RBI on the week and also added a pair of outfield assists.  
 
2023 Sun Belt Baseball Pitchers of the Week
Week 1 – Levi Wells, Texas State (Jr., RHP – La Porte, Texas)
Week 2 – Ben Johnson, Georgia Southern (Jr., RHP – Tucker, Ga.) 
Week 3 – Matthew Adams, Southern Miss (Jr., RHP – Pearland, Texas)
Week 4 – Niko Mazza, Southern Miss (So., RHP – Madison, Miss.) 
Week 5 – Jackson Nezuh, Louisiana (Jr., RHP – St. Cloud, Fla.) 
Week 6 – Patrick Copen, Marshall (Jr., RHP – Belpre, Ohio)
Week 7 – Xander Hamilton, App State (Jr., RHP – Raleigh, N.C.) 
Week 8 – Tanner Hall, Southern Miss (Jr., RHP – Zachary, La.) 
 
2023 Sun Belt Baseball Players of the Week
Week 1 – Jose Gonzalez, Texas State (Sr., OF – Spring, Texas)
Week 2 – Hunter Fitz-Gerald, Old Dominion (Jr., INF – Margate, Fla.) 
Week 3 – Shane Lewis, Troy (RS So., OF – Vicksburg, Miss.) 
Week 4 – Chase Mora, Texas State (Fr., INF – Tomball, Texas) 
Week 5 – Dylan Strickland, Georgia State (Jr., INF – Loganville, Ga.) 
Week 6 – Julian Brock, Louisiana (Jr., C – Fulshear, Texas)
Week 7 – Trey Lewis, South Alabama (Jr., INF – Silas, Ala.)
Week 8 – Graham Brown, Coastal Carolina (Sr., OF – Middletown, Md.)