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MWC Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week UNLV's Xavier Scruggs and San Diego State's Stephen Strasburg earn weekly honors.
April 21, 2008 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- UNLV junior Xavier Scruggs and San Diego State sophomore right-hander Stephen Strasburg have been named Mountain West Conference Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week. This is the fourth weekly award of the season for Strasburg and the third for Scruggs. Scruggs, a San Diego, Calif., native, led UNLV to a 4-1 home record last week, including a 2-1 series win over then-first place San Diego State. Scruggs hit five home runs, tallied 12 RBI and scored 14 runs while hitting .471 (8-for-17) from the plate. He went 3-for-6 with three RBI and five runs scored, including two home runs in game one of UNLV's two-game sweep over non-conference opponent Texas Tech. He went 1-for-4 with one run scored in the Rebels' game one loss to San Diego State. In game two vs. the Aztecs, Scruggs drilled three home runs, including a two-run shot in the bottom of the ninth that tied the game and sent it into extra innings, where UNLV pulled out a 19-18 win. In the series finale, he went 1-for-1, drawing four walks and coming around to score five times in UNLV's 20-16 win. He also collected an RBI single in his only official at-bat of the game. Strasburg, from San Diego, Calif., earned his fifth win of the season in the Aztecs' 17-1 win at UNLV last Friday. In 7.0 innings on the mound, he tallied 13 strikeouts, while scattering four hits and giving up no runs or walks. With one out and a runner on third in the third inning, Strasburg struck out two hitters to get out of the jam. Only one other Rebel runner reached as far as second base for the rest of the contest. He held UNLV, who came into the game batting .300 as a team, to a .160 average for the game.
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