March 5, 2007
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - San Diego State junior first baseman Brian Lucas and sophomore left-hander Lance Sewell have been named Mountain West Conference Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week respectively. The duo was honored for thei efforts during last weekend's Pacific State Bank Tiger Classic hosted by the University of the Pacific.
Lucas, a native of Benicia, Calif, who came to SDSU from Sacramento City CC, hit .563 (9-for-16) over San Diego State's four games last week, which included a 2-1 record at the Pacific State Bank Tiger Classic in Stockton, Calif. In a non-tournament game against Pacific last Thursday, he went 3-for-4 with two RBI and one run scored. His RBI double drove in the Aztecs' first run and he scored the second in the same inning. His RBI triple in the seventh inning added an insurance run in the 3-1 win over the Tigers.
In the tournament opener on Friday vs. Pacific, he went 2-for-4, and scored twice, including the game's opening run in a 6-2 win. In a 3-1 loss to San Francisco on Saturday, he had a pair of singles and scored the Aztecs' lone run of the contest as part of a 2-for-4 performance from the plate. Against 29th-ranked Baylor on Sunday, Lucas went 2-for-4, including a two-run double during the team's five-run rally in the fifth inning as SDSU brought home a 6-2 win. Lucas had a .988 slugging percentage and a .538 on-base percentage over four games last week, and struck out only once in 17 plate appearances on the way to being named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Sewell, from Gilbert, Ariz. (Highland HS), went eight innings in SDSU's 6-2 win over 29th-ranked Baylor on Sunday at the Pacific State Bank Tiger Classic. He gave up just two runs on three hits as he picked up the win to improve to 3-0 on the year. He gave up the two runs on a bloop double in the second inning, then allowed just two base runners from the third through the eighth. He retired 15 of the final 16 batters he faced and his 11 strikeouts on the day were a career high.
The Aztecs resume action this Friday (March 9) when they host Oklahoma at 6:00 p.m. at Tony Gwynn Stadium.