JACKSON, Miss.-- Garner Wetzel of Millsaps College, a senior leftfielder from Gulfport, Miss., has been named the SCAC Offensive Baseball Player-of-the-Week for games played Monday, April 3 through Sunday, April 9.

Wetzel was 5 of 10 (.500) at the plate in three games last week.

Millsaps went 3-0 last week, including a two-game weekend sweep at Southwestern in SCAC Western Division play.


Wetzel went 4-for-8 at the plate in the two games against the Pirates with a double, a grand slam home run, three runs scored and seven RBI.

For the season, Wetzel is batting .360 (eighth in the SCAC) with a .544 slugging percentage (ninth in the SCAC) and an on-base percentage of .490 (fourth in the SCAC). He is third in the league in runs scored (41), tied for sixth in hits (41), tied for fifth in home runs (4), second in walks (30) and leads the SCAC in runs batted in with 53.