Amanda Locke Named SEC Player of the Week
5/9/2011 12:00:00 AM | Softball
May 9, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Alabama junior Amanda Locke (Mesquite, Texas) was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday. The award is a career first for Locke and the sixth on the season for the Crimson Tide.
The junior has been getting hot at the plate at the right time and it showed this past weekend as she helped lead the Tide to a sweep over Mississippi, clinching the SEC regular season title. Locke paced Alabama at the plate with a .600 (6-for-10) average, adding a home run and seven RBI. The junior slugged .900 on the weekend and sported a .692 on-base percentage.
Locke collected a hit in each game. She started off the weekend with a three-run homer in the series opener and then put together a career-game on Saturday. She recorded a career-high in hits with four and also drove in four in the lopsided, 18-1 win.
On the season Locke is batting .322 with nine home runs and 27 RBI in just 39 games played. Locke led the Tide in hitting during conference games with a .352 average, adding a team-best six homers and 22 RBI.
Alabama will open the SEC Tournament against Mississippi State as the number one seed. The two teams will meet at the Ole Miss Softball Complex in Oxford, Miss., on Thursday, May 12, with first pitch slated for 6:30 p.m. The game will air live on ESPN2.
