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Gopher baseball had a tremendous sweep over a good Indiana team this past weekend. The sweep not only put them into first place tie with Michigan, but it also netted a couple more individual awards for some on the team.
B1G Player of the Week - Terrin Vavra
As noted in my weekend recap, Vavra finished the weekend batting .600, hit 2 HRs, 5 RBIs and 3 runs scored. That was even with the junior only getting 1 at bat in the Sunday game. Vavra has won this award twice this season.
Terrin Vavra of @GopherBaseball is the #B1GBaseball Player of the Week after recording five RBI on six hits and scoring three runs while batting .857 on the week, helping Minnesota sweep No. 20 Indiana pic.twitter.com/pZEelYFK1p
— Big Ten Baseball (@B1Gbaseball) May 7, 2018
B1G Pitcher & Freshman of the Week - Patrick Fredrickson
The true freshman dominated a very good Indiana squad on Saturday. The freshman worked out an early jam with runners on 2nd and 3rd with just 1 out, but Fredrickson struck out the next batter (after being behind 3-0 in the count) and got the last batter to pop up. No other real threats by the Hoosiers as he went 7 strong innings, giving up just 2 hits, 1 run and striking out 8.
This is the 4th Freshman of the Week honors that Fredrickson has earned this season and his second Pitcher of the Week.
Patrick Fredrickson of @GopherBaseball is the #B1GBaseball Pitcher and Freshman of the Week after throwing 7.0 shutout innings to help the Gophers defeat No. 20 Indiana pic.twitter.com/EmqJfCzoc5
— Big Ten Baseball (@B1Gbaseball) May 7, 2018
Congrats to these guys after a great week individually and as a team.