GPAC Baseball Player of the Week

April 23, 2019

The University of Jamestown's Drake Pilat (SR/Winnipeg, MB, Canada) has been named Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference Player of the Week, the conference office announced Tuesday.

Pilat was 10-for-14 (.714) at the plate in helping the Jimmies to a 3-1 record last week. He recorded multiple hits in each of the four games, including a pair of three-hit performances. In Jamestown's 11-9 win over Morningside (Iowa), Pilat was 3-for-4 with a home run, 2 RBI, and scored twice. He followed that up by reaching in all five plate appearances with a pair of hits and three walks. The 10-hit weekend raised Pilat's average 37 points to .414 and he currently leads the GPAC in overall average (.414) and conference batting average (.453).