BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU sophomore pitcher Carley Hoover was named the SEC Pitcher of the Week the league announced on Monday after a weekend where she earned three wins and tossed her first no-hitter.
This is the first weekly league award for the Clemson, South Carolina, native this season, and the second time in her career that she has been named the conference’s pitcher of the week. It’s the second SEC award bestowed on an LSU player after Sahvanna Jaquish was named the SEC Player of the Week after the first weekend of the year in February.
Hoover helped LSU to a sweep of action last week, appearing in three games and starting two, earning a 3-0 record with a spotless ERA allowing just two hits and includes her first career no-hitter in the finale of the LSU Invitational on Sunday afternoon against Tennessee Tech.
Hoover struck out 26 batters in 13.2 innings, averaging two strikeouts per inning, as opponents had a .047 batting average against her while she was in the circle. She retired the side eight times, including having a perfect inning on Sunday where she needed just three pitches to retire the side.
From the sixth inning of the Louisiana Tech game until the final out on Sunday, Hoover retired 21 of the final 24 batters she faced.
LSU will be back in action on Tuesday, hosting a doubleheader against the Longwood Lancers beginning at 5 p.m. at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge.
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