This week's South Carolina Army National Guard Newberry College Players of the Week are senior tennis player
Hazel Vernon (Plymouth, England) and senior second baseman
Jomar Lugo (San Sebastian, P.R.)
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Vernon led the Wolves to a pair of clutch South Atlantic Conference wins over Anderson (4-2) and UVA Wise (4-1). She teamed with
Lina Sarhan at the #1 doubles position to win their doubles match 6-1 against Anderson and 6-4 against UVA Wise. At #6 singles she won her match against UVA Wise 6-2, 6-3 and split her sets against Anderson before the Wolves clinched the match. The week vaulted the Wolves into fourth place in the SAC.
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Lugo batted .444 with four runs batted in which included a clutch two-run double that drove in the only runs of the game in the Wolves series clinching 2-1 win over Lenoir-Rhyne to improve the team's SAC record to 16-8. He singled to drive in the first two runs of the game in the Wolves 9-5 win in game one of the doubleheader. Lugo leads the team with a .380 batting average and seven sacrifice hits and is second in RBI with 27 and doubles with seven.
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