Carmon Named Peach Belt Conference Player of the Week

AUGUSTA, Ga. – University of South Carolina Aiken baseball player Stephen Carmon was selected by the league office as the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Week on Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

Carmon is now a two-time winner of the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Week award as he also acquired league Player of the Week laurels on Feb. 15, 2011.

In USC Aiken’s five games last week, Carmon hit a team-best .714 (10-for-14). The junior shortstop owned an on-base percentage of .818 and a slugging percentage of 1.214.

Carmon scored eight runs to go along with two RBIs. He also had eight stolen bases on the week.

The Camden, S.C. native collected 17 total bases to go along with four extra-base knocks on two doubles, one triple and a home run.

Carmon was lethal in USC Aiken’s series win over 20^th-ranked Armstrong Atlantic State, going 9-for-11 from the plate for a .818 batting average. In the series win, Carmon owned an on-base percentage of .857 and a slugging percentage of 1.455.

Carmon opened the series win over the Pirates by going a perfect 4-for-4 on Friday, April 15. Carmon had a double and a triple in the contest as well as an RBI and a run scored.

In the first game of USC Aiken’s doubleheader sweep of the nationally-ranked Pirates on Saturday, April 16, Carmon was 3-for-4 with two runs scored.

In the second game of the sweep on Saturday, Carmon finished his day 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI. He belted a home run in the game.

Carmon currently leads the PBC in slugging (.627) and triples (7). He is third in the league in doubles (16) and fifth in batting average (.392).

He is also presently second in the PBC in stolen bases with 32.