Baylor’s Kyle Nevin (Player), Kansas State’s Blake Adams (Co-Pitcher and Co-Newcomer), Oklahoma State’s Justin Campbell (Co-Pitcher) and Baylor’s Kobe Andrade (Co-Newcomer) captured Big 12 baseball weekly awards as selected by a five-person media panel for games through April 17.
Nevin hit .563 with two home runs and seven RBI as the Bears picked up the series win over Kansas. He hit safely in all four games during the week, including three-hit efforts on Thursday and in the Bears’ midweek game against then-No. 19 Texas State. In the series finale Saturday, his seventh-inning solo shot stood as the game-winner. The Poway, California native had a 1.788 OPS on the week to capture his first career Big 12 weekly honor.
Adams threw 7.0 innings, allowing just three hits and one run to pick up the win in K-State’s series-clinching 8-1 victory over Texas Friday. He pitched around a third-inning leadoff single, the only hit the Longhorns could muster in the first six innings. The Springdale, Arkansas native struck out six while holding Texas to its lowest hit total of the season. The two honors are the first for Adams in his career.
Campbell shut out West Virginia for 7.0 innings, allowing six hits and earning the victory, as the Cowboys passed WVU for first place in the Big 12 standings. Campbell added eight strikeouts to his Big 12-leading total of 81, the eighth time in nine game he has struck out at least that many. The Simi Valley, California native, now 5-1 on the season, picks up his second Pitcher of the Week selection in a four-week span.
Andrade tossed a complete game Friday, allowing four hits and two runs as the Bears took a 19-2 victory over Kansas. He retired 10 Jayhawks on the first pitch, and only needed 88 pitches to throw 9.0 innings. The Corpus Christi, Texas native faced the minimum in six separate innings, and did not walk a batter on the way to Baylor’s first complete game of the season. It is his first Big 12 weekly honor.