No. 28 Kent State Baseball's Hallock Earns MAC East Division Pitcher of the Week Honors
5/17/2011 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
CLEVELAND -- Kent State left-handed starting pitcher Kyle Hallock (Sandusky, Ohio) has been named Mid-American Conference East Division Pitcher of the Week, the conference office announced today (May 17).
Hallock dealt a career-high 8.1-inning shutout of Bowling Green last Saturday (May 14) to help power the Golden Flashes (37-13, 19-4 MAC) to an 8-0 road victory over their MAC East Division foes. Hallock fanned a career-high 10 batters to move into second place on Kent State's career strikeouts list with 224, passing current Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Matt Guerrier, who pitched for the Flashes from 1997-99. Hallock improved to 9-4 on the season with the mound triumph, tying Joe Skodny (1982-85) for seventh place on the school's career wins list with 21. His nine wins rank first on both the team and in the MAC. He has made a serious case to be named MAC Pitcher of the Year, winning his last seven starts by working through the seventh inning in each and striking out seven or more in his last five outings. During the seven-game stretch, Hallock has tossed three shutouts, tallied 48 strikeouts, allowed just four earned runs and recorded an ERA of 0.69.
This marks the 11th time this season a Kent State baseball player has garnered one of the conference's weekly awards and second time Hallock has done so.
Ranked No. 28 in the country according to the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, the Kent State baseball team will have the opportunity to clinch the program's 11th Mid-American Conference regular season title and first since 2008 when it takes on Akron in the Fifth Annual Diamond Classic Thursday (May 19) at Canal Park, a contest that benefits Akron Children's Hospital. A victory will also nail down the No. 1 seed in the upcoming MAC Tournament for the Golden Flashes. The Diamond Classic marks the beginning of a three-game home stand against the Zips to close the 2011 regular season. Tickets are $5 for anyone over the age of 6 and all gate proceeds benefit Akron Children's Hospital. Children under six years old will be admitted free of charge. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.
KENT STATE'S 2011 MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS
Week 1 (Feb. 22) – Ben Klafczynski, MAC East Division Player of the Week
                                   David Starn, MAC East Division Pitcher of the Week
Week 2 (March 1) – Ben Klafczynski, MAC East Division Player of the Week
Week 3 (March 11) – Andrew Chafin, MAC East Division Pitcher of the Week
Week 4 (March 15) – David Starn, MAC East Division Pitcher of the Week
Week 6 (March 28) – David Lyon, MAC East Division Player of the Week
                                      Andrew Chafin, MAC East Division Pitcher of the Week
Week 7 (April 4) - Kyle Hallock, MAC East Division Pitcher of the Week
Week 8 (April 11) – Travis Shaw, MAC East Division Player of the Week
Week 11 (May 2) – David Lyon, MAC East Division Player of the Week
Week 13 (May 17) – Kyle Hallock, MAC East Division Pitcher of the Week
