{"id":53525,"date":"2020-02-19T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=53525"},"modified":"2020-02-19T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:09:33","slug":"stephens-picked-as-miaa-hitter-of-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=53525","title":{"rendered":"Stephens picked as MIAA Hitter of Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BY FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; Fort Hays State baseball senior <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f0458882a-d236-4fa8-afaa-b2036059cc50%3felinkdata%3d146511&amp;c=E,1,vTYzDIo38Ys84z-HJaMsLHhx8pTqGB8ainaCYDU1w6UGIJ6r9usvrK_c1wDGkjT006PtR_kEhGb_AMqEMgUHF9ofotojoFHtrMiEO3ge_JrHVQ,,&amp;typo=1\">Garrett Stephens<\/a> has been selected as the Mammoth Turf Baseball Hitter of the Week, announced Wednesday (Feb. 19) by the league office.<br><br> Stephens helped the Tigers (9-3) to a sweep of New Mexico Highlands over the weekend, batting .733 with four extra-base hits. He was 11-for-15 with three doubles, one home run, seven runs scored and five RBI. Adding in a walk and a hit-by-pitch, the senior reached base in 13 of his 17 plate appearances.<br><br> His fifth home run of the season on Sunday helped the Tigers complete a come-from-behind 7-6 win. He has now hit safely in 10 of the 12 games this season and is riding an eight-game hitting streak. The catcher gunned down the only runner who tried to steal a base this weekend, his sixth caught stealing of the year.<br><br> Stephens leads all Division II in hits and total bases while leading the MIAA in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs scored, RBI and home runs.<br><br> He is the first Tiger to earn a weekly MIAA award since Alex Weiss in 2018 (4\/17\/18).<br><br> Tiger baseball wraps up a long homestand this weekend (Feb. 21-23) when it hosts CSU-Pueblo for another four-game series. Things get underway at Larks Park on Friday at 3 p.m. before a doubleheader beginning at noon on Saturday. The teams will wrap up the series with a single game on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8211; Fort Hays State baseball senior Garrett Stephens has been selected as the Mammoth Turf Baseball Hitter of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4540,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53526,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525\/revisions\/53526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}