Michael Lockett-BB12

Michael Lockett

  • Award
    Baseball Player of the Week
  • Week Of
    3/5/2012
  • Sport
    Baseball
  • School
    Missouri S&T
  • Year
    Freshman
  • Position
  • Hometown
    O'Fallon, Mo.
  • High School
    Timberland
Lockett batted .611 in the four-game series with Harris-Stowe, including a performance in Saturday's second game win in which he set an S&T single-game record and tied a second. He became the eighth player in school history to record a five-hit game and set a new record with four doubles in the contest, one where S&T posted its second-highest run total in a game in history. On Sunday, he went 4-of-5 in the 4-3, 10-inning win and drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the 10th with a squeeze bunt. For the week, Lockett recorded 11 hits in 18 plate appearances, scored six runs and batted in four, while posting four doubles and an .833 slugging percentage.
On the season, Lockett is hitting .536 at the plate with 15 hits, eight runs scored, and six RBIs.