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Big 12 Doles Out Weekly Baseball Honors To ASU, BYU, Arizona, Utah And K-State Players

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Arizona State’s Nu’u Contrades and BYU’s Cooper Vest shared Big 12 Player of the Week honors while Arizona’s Mathis Meurant and K-State’s Lincoln Sheffield were co-Newcomers of the Week and Utah’s Colter McAnelly was the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week for the second week of the 2025 season.

Contrades tallied five hits and three walks with three home runs in the series against Oral Roberts, driving in five and scoring six runs. The junior hit two homers in the rubber match game, including one on the first pitch of the game. He finished his weekend with a .467 on-base percentage and a pair of stolen bases.

Vest hit .438 in four games against UCLA and Cal State Northridge with a 1.188 slugging percentage. With three home runs, three doubles, five RBI and seven runs scored, the senior also posted a perfect weekend in the field with a 1.000 field percentage with 21 put outs and two assists. The first baseman has played errorless defense through eight games with 55 putouts and 6 assists in 61 chances.

With a career-long seven innings pitched in a combined shutout victory over San Diego State, McAnelly was selected as a pitcher of the week for a second consecutive time to open the season. He also became the first Utah pitcher with double-digit strikeouts in a game in four seasons as he fanned the first seven batters he faced. McAnelly allowed only one Aztec runner past first base in the first six innings of his start.

Meurant hit safely, scored a run, and tallied an RBI in all three games in which he played, including two multi-hit performances in Arizona’s sweep of San Diego. He homered in back-to-back games and drove in five runs as the Wildcats defeated the Torreros by an average of six runs a game. The junior led Arizona in runs, extra-base hits, total bases, slugging percentage and on-base percentage for the week while hitting .625 and posting a 2.200 on-base plus slugging.

Splitting newcomer honors from the mound this week, Sheffield was the most outstanding player in K-State’s 10-2 win over then-No. 22 TCU at the Kubota College Baseball Classic at Globe Life Field. He threw seven innings, scattering five hits and allowing one earned run against the Horned Frogs while striking out eight, including the side in the first inning.