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Arendt and Powers Score Weekly Ivy League Honors
April 19, 2016 | Baseball
PRINCETON, N.J. – Senior Billy Arendt was selected as Ivy League Co-Player of the Week while junior Chad Powers was picked as the Ivy League Pitcher of the Week after the Princeton baseball team took three out of four from the Pennsylvania Quakers last weekend.
It was Arendt's first weekly honor of his career. Arendt makes it back-to-back weeks that a Tiger has won Player of the Week. Junior Zack Belski and his record-breaking performance received the award last Tuesday. For Powers, it was second conference accolade of the year.
Arendt had an outstanding weekend as he posted a .700/.733/1.300 slash line. The third baseman blasted a three-run home run for the Tigers in their 7-2 win in game one against Penn. He also reached base all four times in the team's 3-1 victory in game two. He went 10 consecutive plate appearances with getting on base with the streak ending with a sacrifice fly in game three. The senior is currently on a five-game hitting streak and has raised his batting average 78 points in the month of April.
Powers was stellar in game two vs the Quakers. The junior went eight innings, scattered just six hits and struck out six hitters in the Tigers' 3-1 win. From the third through sixth innings, Powers sent down nine of the 11 batters he faced. In the seventh, the Quakers secured their first extra base hit of the contest with a double, but a fly out put them away. The starter then ended his outing with a 1-2-3 frame in the eighth.
The Tigers wrap up non-conference play against in-state rival, Rider, at Sonny Pittaro Field on Wednesday afternoon (3:30 p.m.). Princeton leads the Ivy League's Gehrig Division by three games over Cornell. The baseball team will continue conference at Columbia this weekend.