MAC Baseball Player of the Week
Ripken Reese, Kent State
Redshirt Sophomore, Ellicott City, Md. (Mount Saint Joseph)
Kent State redshirt sophomore Ripken Reese was a spark in the Golden Flashes batting order especially in a pivotal conference series win on the road at Bowling Green. For the week, Reese batted .533 with eight hits, six runs scored, two doubles, one triple, two home runs and 10 RBI. Additionally, the redshirt sophomore tallied a 1.200 slugging percentage.
On Wednesday at Pitt, Reese went 2-4 with a moonshot home run to right in the top of the fourth inning and a RBI double to the gap in left center.