Miami Ohio University Athletics
Edgington Named MAC Male Scholar Athlete of the Week
5/17/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 17, 2010
CLEVELAND - Miami University junior infielder Jon Edgington has been tabbed the Mid-American Conference Male Scholar Athlete of the Week for the week of May 3-9, the league office has announced. He is the first male RedHawk to win the award this school year and just the third RedHawk athlete overall in 2009-10 to garner the honor.
Edgington (Cincinnati, Ohio), a microbiology major with a 3.68 grade-point average, earned a 3.97 GPA during the spring 2010 semester.
The 2010 baseball co-captain helped lead Miami to a weekend series victory over Kent State (May 7-9), who entered the weekend as the East Division leader, as he batted .500 for the week (6-for-12) while scoring six runs in the three games. He started all three contests at second base without committing an error while also driving in two runs. The junior earned a pair of walks, as well, to give him an on-base percentage of .571, while he was 3-for-3 on stolen bases over the weekend, making him 15-for-15 on the year.
Edgington notched three hits in Sunday's (May 9) rubber match, which Miami won 5-4, and had a pair of hits and RBI each in Friday's (May 7) win, while scoring three runs. He had a key two-RBI single to start a rally in the ninth inning for Miami Friday and later scored the game-winning run to complete a four-run ninth inning and give the RedHawks a 10-9, walk-off win. The series victory was Miami's first over Kent State since 2005 and came after Miami just finished up final exams the week leading into the series.
The MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week honor is presented to a MAC male and female student-athlete who has a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better and performs well during the week's competition. The winners are selected by a group of the conference's faculty athletic representatives.
--MURedHawks.com--
