CLEVELAND, Miss. -- Delta State University student-athletes Jake Barlow and Hunter Riggins were named the Gulf South Conference Player and Pitcher of the Week announced by the league office on Tuesday, May, 4, 2021.
Barlow hit .538 (7-for-13) with four homer runs and eight RBI as the Delta State University baseball team took two-out-of-three against Mississippi College to close out the 2021 GSC regular season.
The Jonesville, La., native, hit a solo home run in DSU's 8-0 game one victory on Friday night, and followed that up with a two home runs, four RBI effort in a 15-2 game two victory. In game three of the series, Barlow added another home run and an RBI single as he drove in three runs.
Barlow hit four home runs, drove in eight runs, scored five runs, walked twice, doubled, and had a stolen base on the weekend for the Statesmen.
Riggins tossed a complete game three-hit shutout of the Choctaws in an 8-0 Statesmen win in game one of the series. He worked 9.0 innings and yielded three hits while he struck out nine on 112 pitches to notch his seventh win of the year.
The Hernando, Miss. native, improved to 7-4 and holds a 2.74 earned run average for the Statesmen this year. Riggins retired eight Choctaws in a row from the end of the first inning through the fourth frame, and gave up just one hit after the fifth inning.
Riggins also induced three ground ball double plays, the most on the year in a single game for the Statesmen.
The Statesmen open the GSC playoffs as the No. 5 seed in the tournament and open play on Friday, May 7, 2021 at approximately 1 p.m. against the No. 4 seeded Blazers of Valdosta State University at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Ala.
