BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – After hitting .692 with nine hits and nine RBIs in the first weekend of the season, LSU junior Sahvanna Jaquish was named the SEC Player of the Week the league announced on Monday.
The award is the third in the Highland, California, native’s LSU career, as she won the award twice last season. Jaquish has been honored by the SEC four times as during her freshman year she was named the freshman of the week in 2014.
Jaquish helped lead LSU to four run-rule victories in five games as she hit .692 with nine RBIs, two doubles and a grand slam this past weekend. Jaquish had a slugging percentage of 1.077 and an on-base percentage of .765 as she had multiple hits in all but one contest.
She opened the season going 3-for-3 with a double and two RBIs against Ohio State in a 9-0 win in five innings, while scoring a run and drawing a walk in the second 9-0 five-inning win against North Florida later that night.
Against UConn, Jaquish tied her personal career best and came one RBI shy of tying the school record for most in a game as she drove in all six in the same inning, using a two-RBI double and then a grand slam in the third to help power LSU to a 13-2 win over the Huskies.
In two games against Pacific, she combined to go 4-for-6 with an RBI, two runs scored and a walk, as in 13 total at bats she did not register a single strikeout.
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