CLEVELAND, Miss. -- Delta State University student-athletes Kailyn Lofton and Blayke Dendy were named the Guaranty Bank Featured Athletes of the Week after their performances this past weekend.
Lofton was named one of DSU's Guaranty Bank Featured Athletes of the Week after she hit .300 (3-for-10) this past weekend against the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Lofton opened the series with a 2-for-3 effort and hit her third home run of the season in a 6-5 Delta State win over Alabama-Huntsville. She drove in two runs and scored two runs for the Lady Statesmen.
The home run tied the game a 5-5 ahead of a Lady Statesmen walk-off win to secure game two of the series against the Chargers.
The Lady Statesmen are off in the final weekend of the regular season and will wait and see if they earn a berth in the Gulf South Conference championship.
Dendy was named one of DSU's Guaranty Bank Featured Athletes of the Week after he hit .579 (9-for-17) this past week against the University of Arkansas at Monticello and the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Tha Yazoo City, Miss. native, started the week in a narrow defeat against the Boll Weevils by going 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored. Dendy added a solo home run for the Statesmen, his fourth of the year.
In game one of the weekend against the Chargers, Dendy turned in a 2-for-5 performance with a run and four RBI. He clubbed his fifth home run of the season, and added a two-RBI single in the first inning for the Statesmen.
Dendy also went 3-for-4 in game two of the weekend with an RBI double and two runs scored, and added a base hit in game three of the weekend for the Statesmen.
The Green and White hit the road for the regular season finale, as the Statesmen travel to Clinton, Miss. to take on the Mississippi College Choctaws on Friday, April 30 at 6 p.m. The two teams follow with a doubleheader on Saturday, May 1 at 1 p.m.
