University of North Carolina Athletics
Riley Named ACC Player Of The Week
March 28, 2017 | Baseball
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) --- North Carolina's Brandon Riley has been voted the ACC Baseball Player of the Week, while Clemson's Alex Eubanks was selected as Pitcher of the Week.
ACC weekly honors are determined by a vote of a select media panel. This is the second career weekly award for Eubanks and the first for Riley.
Riley hit .600 in four games last week as No. 10 North Carolina went 3-1 with a win at East Carolina and a series victory over Miami. The sophomore outfielder tallied nine hits, eight RBIs, two home runs, five runs scored, and reached base safely in 10 of 16 plate appearances. Against the Pirates, he went 3-for-4 with two runs, four RBIs, and hit a three-run home run. Riley, who posted a slugging percentage of 1.067 and an on-base percentage of .588, scored a run and tallied at least one hit in all four games on the week.
Eubanks tossed a three-hit shutout in Clemson's 1-0 win over Boston College at Kingston, Rhode Island, on Saturday. In 9.0 innings pitched, he allowed just three singles, no runs and no walks with a career-high-tying 10 strikeouts. He faced just 30 batters and threw only 103 pitches, including 78 for strikes. The sophomore from Moore, South Carolina, also did not allow a leadoff batter to reach base and did not go to a three-ball count on a batter. On the season, he is 4-1 with a 2.23 ERA, .209 opponents' batting average and 39 strikeouts against six walks in 40.1 innings pitched over six starts.
Riley and the Tar Heels return to action Tuesday, March 28, at 6 p.m. when they host Coastal Carolina.
