Grandstrand Named Big South Player of the Week
This article was taken from Coastal Carolina’s Website. Congratulations to Grandstrand on being named the conference’s Player of the Week.
Coastal Carolina University baseball player Brett Grandstrand (Newcastle, Wash./Liberty) was named the Choice Hotels Big South Baseball Player of the Week, the conference office announced today (April 13). Grandstrand helped the Chants to a win over UNC Wilmington and a series win over VMI last week.
Grandstrand went 9-of-18 (.500) at the plate in five games last week with two home runs, seven runs-batted-in and six runs scored. The junior went deep in a 9-8 loss to the College of Charleston, April 6, and in an 8-5 win over VMI April 9. Grandstrand was 3-of-4 with four RBI in the loss to the Cougars and 2-for-4 with three runs scored in a 9-7 win over VMI April 10.
Grandstrand leads the Chants and is third in the Big South with a .385 batting average. He also is tied for the Big South lead with 14 doubles and has a .581 slugging percentage. Grandstrand is riding an 11-game hitting streak and has a hit in 28 of Coastal’s 32 games this year.
Coastal (21-11, 4-5 Big South) faces Radford University in a three-game Big South series April 16-18, in Radford, Va. Friday’s game begins at 3 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday’s contest starting at 1 p.m.
