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McDaniel Earns Big South Co-Freshman of the Week Honors

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Following six shutout innings in his first college start on Wednesday, Presbyterian College baseball freshman Mason McDaniel (Sanford, Fla.) has been named the Big South Co-Freshman of the Week for games played Feb. 20-26, as announced by the conference office on Monday. 
 
USC Upstate's Grant Sherrod has been named the Big South Baseball Player of the Week, while Spartan pitcher Henry Proger is the Starting Pitcher of the Week for the games played last week, it was announced today. In addition, Campbell's Aaron Rund also earned Relief Pitcher of the Week, while JC Agard of Charleston Southern joined McDaniel, earning Co-Freshman of the Week honors. 
 
McDaniel dazzled in his first college start against Western Carolina on Wednesday as the Blue Hose left-hander tossed six scoreless innings with eight strikeouts in the victory over the Catamounts. He scattered just two hits and two walks throughout his outing to get the win.
 
In the start Wednesday, he tallied six strikeouts in the first four innings while only allowing one hit and totaling three innings of three up and three down. McDaniel worked around a pair of baserunners in the fifth without harm before getting his final strikeout in the sixth to earn his first collegiate win. 
 
The Sanford, Fla. native sits with a 1-0 record, and a 2.70 earned run average on the season over 6.2 innings pitched with eight strikeouts and opponents batting just .174 on the season. McDaniel becomes the first Blue Hose to earn Freshman of the week honors since the final week of the 2021 regular season when now junior Jay Wetherington was tabbed as the top freshman in the league. 
 
PC returns to the diamond on Tuesday for a 4 p.m. first pitch against Georgia on SEC Network Plus. The Blue Hose are back home for a three-game series beginning on Friday, March 3, against Georgia State, with first pitch set for 4 p.m. from Clinton. 
 
 
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Players Mentioned

Jay Wetherington

#21 Jay Wetherington

OF
5' 9"
Junior
L/L
Mason McDaniel

#40 Mason McDaniel

LHP
6' 4"
Freshman
L/L

Players Mentioned

Jay Wetherington

#21 Jay Wetherington

5' 9"
Junior
L/L
OF
Mason McDaniel

#40 Mason McDaniel

6' 4"
Freshman
L/L
LHP