Announcement
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May 8, 2006
Houston sophomore righthander Ricky Hargrove has been named the Conference USA Baseball Pitcher of the Week for the period ending May 7, the league office announced today. Tulane freshman outfielder Warren McFadden was named Hitter of the Week. Both players helped their teams to three-game sweeps in conference play this past weekend.
McFadden hit .500 (8-for-16) with a .625 slugging percentage courtesy of a pair of doubles in Tulane's 4-0 week. He had hits in each game, including multiple hits in each game against conference foe Marshall, extending his hitting streak to 21 games, tied for second-longest in school history. McFadden walked twice and drove in three runs, including the game-winner on Friday night.
Hargrove struck out a career-high nine batters with no walks in Saturday's win over UCF. He threw 8 1/3 innings, allowing just one earned run, with no runs allowed over the final 5 2/3 innings. Hargrove improved to 7-4 on the season and raised his season strikeout total to 73, making him and Brad Lincoln just the fourth duo in school history to top 200 strikeouts in a season.
