After another red-hot week at the plate, Mississippi State fifth-year Madisyn Kennedy was named NFCA National Player of the Week on Tuesday.
Kennedy, who played primarily shortstop for most of her collegiate career but is playing mostly first base this year, has hit seven home runs in her last six games, with four over the past week against Louisiana-Monroe and Texas A&M. She leads the Southeastern Conference and is second in the nation with a 1.167 slugging percentage, also ranking second in the SEC in home runs (11) and third in runs batted in (35).
Against the Warhawks last Wednesday, Kennedy homered twice in the fourth inning alone in a 15-0 Bulldogs victory. She opened the scoring with an RBI single in the first, then hit a grand slam and a two-run shot in the fourth as MSU exploded for 12 runs in the frame.
In the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader against the Aggies, Kennedy was 2-for-4 with three RBI, helping lead a Bulldogs comeback that ultimately fell short with a sixth-inning solo homer and a seventh-inning two-run single. The following day, she launched a three-run blast in the first that tied the game after MSU had fallen into an early hole.
Kennedy is the Bulldogs’ first player to win the award since Caroline Seitz in April of 2017. No. 20 MSU (21-6, 3-3 SEC) returns to action with a midweek game Wednesday at Alabama State followed by a three-game series over the weekend at No. 18 Arkansas.
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