Menu

Gavin Kelly, Maxx Yehl Earn Big 12 Weekly Honors
📰
0

Gavin Kelly, Maxx Yehl Earn Big 12 Weekly Honors

West Virgina Mountaineers On SI ·Christopher Hall·21 days ago
#w6SxLk7M
Reading 0:00
15s threshold

West Virginia sophomore Gavin Kelly and redshirt junior Maxx Yehl earned Big 12 Weekly honors on Monday following the Mountaineers series sweep at then seventh-ranked Kansas over the weekend. Kelly was named Big 12 Player of the Week for the second time this season. He hit .412 with four home runs, five RBI, and six runs scored last week. He opened the week with a pair of home runs in the midweek matchup against Marshall in Charleston (WV) before blasting two more in each of the first two games at No. 7 Kansas. He had at least one hit in all four games and scored at least one run. For the week, he had a 1.118 slugging percentage and 1.618 OPS. Kelly is currently second in the league with a .419 batting average, fourth in on base percentage (.482), fifth in OPS (1.178), seventh in doubles (16), and ninth in slugging percentage, while leading the team with 12 home runs. Yehl tossed his first career complete game in the series against the Jayhawks to claim his second Big 12 honor this season.…

Continue reading — create a free account

Join HashtagPLUS to read full articles, follow hashtags, vote, and join the conversation.

Read More