Senior Tommy Meade Earns Second Northeast Conference Weekly Honor on Monday
Senior first baseman Tommy Meade earned his second Akadema/Northeast Conference Player of the Week honor on Monday. Meade and the Blue Devils won three of four games at home against Monmouth over the weekend to improve to 5-3 in NEC play this season. Two of the victories featured huge comebacks for the Blue Devils. On Friday they trailed 10-1 in the second game of a doubleheader before winning 11-10. On Saturday, they trailed 16-1 before scoring 19 straight runs and posting a 20-19 victory.
Senior first baseman Tommy Meade earned his second
Akadema/Northeast Conference Player of the Week honor on Monday.
Meade and the Blue Devils won three of four games at home against
Monmouth over the weekend to improve to 5-3 in NEC play this
season. Two of the victories featured huge comebacks for the Blue
Devils. On Friday they trailed 10-1 in the second game of a
doubleheader before winning 11-10. On Saturday, they trailed 16-1
before scoring 19 straight runs and posting a 20-19 victory.
Meade becomes second Blue Devil in two weeks to win the honor. The
senior first baseman went 9-for-17 (.529) at the plate and drove in
seven runs during CCSU's four-game set with the Hawks. Raising his
season batting average to a league-leading .438, Meade recorded at
least two hits in all four games, three of which were won by the
Blue Devils.
Meade, who slugged .941 for the series, did not record an RBI in
the opener, but still managed three hits and two runs in Central
Connecticut's 11-7 win. He played a huge part in both of CCSU's
improbable comeback victories. The fourth-year Blue Devil went
2-for-3 with one walk, one RBI, and one run to help CCSU turn a
10-1 deficit into an 11-10 triumph in game three. Helping the Blue
Devils top that task the following day, Meade produced four RBI as
CCSU stormed back from 16-1 down to win the finale. He crushed a
three-run homer during the five-run third inning that ignited
Central's comeback. Meade added a solo shot in the middle of
CCSU's nine-run sixth.
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