Player of the Week: April Jowers, Armstrong
Jowers hit .750 with multi-hit games in all four of the No. 10-ranked Pirates' wins on the week. She went 5-for-5 with three runs scored in Armstrong's doubleheader sweep of Columbus State on Friday, breaking her own Armstrong single-season hit record in the process (83). The senior then went 4-for-7 with two steals in a doubleheader sweep of Georgia Southwestern on Sunday. Jowers moved up to 14th place on the NCAA DII all-time hit chart after the week's action. She leads the nation in hitting by a large margin with a .608 season batting average and she is second on the PBC's all-time hits list with 316, just 14 shy of the conference record.
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