BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU senior infielder Bianka Bell was named the SEC Player of the Week the league announced Monday after the Tigers finished 4-1 last week which includes an SEC series opening win over a ranked Alabama squad over the weekend.
This is the first weekly league award for the Tampa, Florida, native this season, and the third time in her career that she has been named the conference’s player of the week. It’s the third SEC award bestowed on an LSU player after Sahvanna Jaquish was named the SEC Player of the Week after the first week of competition and Carley Hoover being named the pitcher of the week last Monday.
She helped lead the Tigers to a pair of wins over Longwood last Tuesday and a series-opening win over the sixth-ranked Crimson Tide by hitting .467, with a team-leading 1.000 slugging percentage and .579 on-base percentage.
Bell had a hit in all five games, as four of her seven hits were for extra bases as she led the team with two doubles and two home runs to drive in six RBIs and score seven times.
The pair of doubles came in back-to-back games against the Lancers, going 1-for-2 with two runs scored in the first game, with her RBI double in game two serving as the difference in a 1-0 win for LSU to earn the sweep.
Bell opened the Alabama series with a three-run home run in the first inning, belting a solo shot in the finale on Sunday. She finished the week with two multi-hit outings, two multi-RBI outings and scored at least twice in three games.
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