University of Iowa senior Eric Toole has been selected as the Big Ten Player of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday.
The Council Bluffs
native, a Lewis Central graduate, earned the distinction after hitting
.500 (8-for-16) and posting .529 on-base and .563 slugging percentages
in leading the Hawkeyes to a 3-1 week.
The outfielder scored four runs
and had two RBIs and extended his hitting streak to a career-long 15
games and his reached-base streak to 22.
Toole opened the week with a
three-hit, two-steal performance against Bradley before leading off the
series against Indiana with a double and scoring Iowa's first run in an
eventual 2-0 victory over No. 19 Indiana on March 27. The win was Iowa's
first over a ranked opponent since 2012.
After finishing 1-for-2 with two
runs in a 5-1 series-clinching win over the Hoosiers in game two, Toole
closed out the week with a 3-for-5, two-RBI, one-run performance in a
10-6 victory in the series finale.
Iowa swept the 19th-ranked
Hoosiers - the program's first sweep over a ranked opponent since 1990 -
to start 3-0 in Big Ten Conference play for the first time since 1994.
The Hawkeyes also debuted in the national rankings March 30, coming in
at No. 24 by Collegiate Baseball.
Toole is leading the team and
ranks seventh in the Big Ten with a .351 batting average. He has eight
multi-hit games - tied for second most on the team - and has a
team-leading 19 runs and a Big Ten-best 13 steals.
Iowa won its fourth straight game
on Wednesday, beating Grand View 9-2 at Duane Banks Field. Toole was
hitless in his one official at-bat, but walked three times and scored
twice.
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The Council Bluffs
native, a Lewis Central graduate, earned the distinction after hitting
.500 (8-for-16) and posting .529 on-base and .563 slugging percentages
in leading the Hawkeyes to a 3-1 week.
The outfielder scored four runs
and had two RBIs and extended his hitting streak to a career-long 15
games and his reached-base streak to 22.
Toole opened the week with a
three-hit, two-steal performance against Bradley before leading off the
series against Indiana with a double and scoring Iowa's first run in an
eventual 2-0 victory over No. 19 Indiana on March 27. The win was Iowa's
first over a ranked opponent since 2012.
After finishing 1-for-2 with two
runs in a 5-1 series-clinching win over the Hoosiers in game two, Toole
closed out the week with a 3-for-5, two-RBI, one-run performance in a
10-6 victory in the series finale.
Iowa swept the 19th-ranked
Hoosiers - the program's first sweep over a ranked opponent since 1990 -
to start 3-0 in Big Ten Conference play for the first time since 1994.
The Hawkeyes also debuted in the national rankings March 30, coming in
at No. 24 by Collegiate Baseball.
Toole is leading the team and
ranks seventh in the Big Ten with a .351 batting average. He has eight
multi-hit games - tied for second most on the team - and has a
team-leading 19 runs and a Big Ten-best 13 steals.
Iowa won its fourth straight game
on Wednesday, beating Grand View 9-2 at Duane Banks Field. Toole was
hitless in his one official at-bat, but walked three times and scored
twice.
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