Blunt Named Big 12 Baseball Player of the Week
Mar 09, 2005 | Baseball
Manhattan - Senior Terry Blunt has been named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Player of the Week after a stellar week at the plate and in the field, in a voting by a select panel of media covering Big 12 baseball. Pitchers Mark McCormick of Baylor and Jason Meyer of Texas A&M joined Blunt as the league’s co-pitchers of the week.
Blunt led Kansas State this past week by going 11-for-17 (.647) at the plate in four games, which included a series sweep of St. Francis. Blunt, K-State’s first player of the week this season and third under head coach Brad Hill, went 5-for-5 with two doubles, four RBI and four runs scored in Friday's 17-1 win and had a stretch of seven straight at-bats with a hit. Blunt finished the week with five doubles, eight runs scored, six RBI, 16 total bases, a .941 slugging percentage, a .647 on-base percentage and was 4-of-4 in stolen bases. Blunt also collected eight putouts without recording an error. The senior led a Kansas State offense that scored a school-record 61 runs in a three-game sweep of St. Francis, which included a 30-4 win on Sunday.
So far in 2005, Blunt is hitting .469, third-best in the Big 12 Conference and second on the team, with six doubles and seven RBI. The senior outfielder is 8-of-9 in stolen bases and has committed just one error defensively so far for the 7-5 Wildcats.
The senior was also honored this week as the Big 12’s Hitter of the Week by www.rosenblattreport.com, a website that sepecializes in the coverage of Big 12 baseball.
Kansas State returns to action Friday as it hosts Eastern Michigan in game one of a three-game series at Tointon Stadium. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
