LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) – For the fourth straight week, UNLV baseball had one of its own claim the Mountain West's Player of the Week award, the conference office announced Monday.
Bryson Stott was named the recipient of the honor for the second consecutive week, following teammate
Jack-Thomas Wold's two-week reign.
Dating back to the MW's inaugural baseball campaign in 2000, there have only been five instances a team has won the Player of the Week honor back-to-back-to-back-to-back and three of those were achieved by the Rebels: 2006, 2018 and 2019. New Mexico accomplished the feat in 2012 and 2017.
The junior shortstop led the Rebels in batting average (.533), hits (eight), doubles (four), total bases (15), slugging percentage (1.000), walks (six), on-base percentage (.667) and stolen bases (three), and shared the top spot in home runs (one) and RBI (four).
Stott began the week reaching base safely in all six of his plate appearances in Tuesday's 10-9, come-from-behind win over then-No. 9 Arizona State. He had two hits (one double) and four walks to go along with two RBI and two runs. He led the comeback with a walk and a run, and capped it with a bases-loaded walk for the win.
The Desert Oasis High School graduate led UNLV to a series victory over MW-leading San Jose State over the weekend, hitting .462 with six hits, four of which went for extra bases with three doubles and one homer. Additionally, he had three runs, two RBI and three stolen bases.
He began the series with three hits (two doubles), one run and one stolen base in the first two contests. In the third and final affair, he had three hits (one double and one homer), two runs, two RBI, one walk and two stolen bases. He scored the team's first run with a solo homer in the third. He pushed UNLV ahead in the sixth with the eventual game-winning hit/RBI, a double in the sixth. He added an insurance run in the seventh.
This is the third time Stott has been named the MW's Player of the Week, with the first coming on March 13, 2018.
UP NEXT: UNLV remains at Earl E. Wilson Stadium for the fifth and final game of its homestand, as it hosts the Grand Canyon Lopes Tuesday afternoon at 3:05 pm.
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