Baseball Pac-12 Conference

Pac-12 announces baseball players of the week

SAN FRANCISCO The Pac-12 Conference office announced today that WASHINGTON STATE's Kyle Manzardo was named Pac-12 Player of the Week and USCS John Beller was tabbed Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week.

Pac-12 Baseball Player of the Week: Kyle Manzardo, So., INF, Washington State (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho)
4 GP, .556 AVG, .619 OBP, 1.000 SLG, 9 RBI, 2HR, 11 R, 10 H, 2 BB
Helped Washington State to its first four-game series sweep since 2017 as the Cougs took four from Niagara (16-7, 6-3, 10-4, 15-2).
Posted three RBI and a double in Thursdays matchup against the Purple Eagles.
The junior broke a 3-3 tie with a go-ahead three-run home run in the eighth inning of Friday's 6-3 win.
Added four more hits Saturday and capped his weekend with five runs scored and a two-run home run in his last at-bat Sunday.
Holds the second-highest batting average in the Conference (.431) and is tied for the league-lead in doubles this season (7).
This marks the first-career player of the week award for Manzardo, WSUs 81st all-time weekly nod.

Pac-12 Baseball Pitcher of the Week: John Beller , Jr., LHP, USC (Hermosa Beach, Calif.)
1 GP, 8 IP, 2 H, 1.13 ERA, 7 K
Led the Trojans to a 2-1 win over the 2019 College World Series Champion No. 2 Vanderbilt on Saturday.
Gave up a homer on the first pitch of the game and then allowed just one single for the next 8.0 innings.
Added seven strike outs and walked two to help top the Commodores.
Allowed just one run over his last two starts in 15.0 innings of work this season.
Beller claims his second-career pitcher of the week honor and the 68th all-time for the Trojans.

ALSO NOMINATED:
Player of the Week: Hunter Branden Boissiere, ARIZ; Jump, ASU; Nathan Martorella, CAL; Mikey Perez, UCLA; Vinny Zavolta, UTAH; Noah Hsue, WASH.
Pitcher of the Week: Garrett Irvin, ARIZ; Boyd Vander Kooi, ASU; Grant Holman, CAL Brett Walker, ORE; Quinn Mathews, STAN; Zach Pettway, UCLA; Riley Pierce, UTAH; Jack Enger, WASH; A.J. Block, WSU.

2020 PAC-12 BASEBAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Week of Player Pitcher
Feb. 18 Austin Wells, Arizona Alex Williams, Stanford
Feb. 25 Quentin Selma, California Zach Pettway, UCLA
Mar. 3 Matt McLain, UCLA Zach Pettway, UCLA
Mar. 10 Kyle Manzardo, Washington State John Beller, USC