MONROE, La.?ULM senior outfielder
Dexter Fontenot was named Pro-Line Athletic National Player of the Week the National
Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) announced Tuesday afternoon.
The NCBWA board reviews candidates from each Division I
conference each week and names winners each Tuesday throughout the season.
Fontenot was also named Louisiana Sports Writers Association
Baseball Hitter of the Week today to go along with Sun Belt Hitter of the Week
honors he received yesterday.
He hit .650 (13-for-20) with four home runs, two doubles, 15 RBIs, nine
runs scored, a 1.350 slugging percentage and a .667 on-base percentage ? 2.017
OPS -- leading the Warhawks to a perfect 5-0 record last week.
The
Gonzales, La., native went 8-for-12 with three of his home runs and 11 of his RBIs in ULM's
(27-12, 17-4 Sun Belt) three-game conference sweep of Middle Tennessee. He hit
two home runs in a game for the second Saturday in a row in ULM's
25-10 blowout of MTSU after doing the same at Louisiana-Lafayette in the
previous weekend.
He opened
the week going 5-for-8 with four RBIs and a homer in a pair of midweek games
against Centenary and McNeese State.
Fontenot leads
the Warhawks hitting .402 on the season and .432 during Sun Belt play. He has
already reached career highs in home runs (10), RBIs (48) and doubles (13).
Fontenot is slugging .727 on the season and has an on-base percentage of .469.
The
Warhawks look to extend their seven-game win streak Wednesday night when they
host Grambling State
beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Warhawk Field.
