ROCK HILL, S.C. --- Tusculum first baseman Heath Comerford has been named the South Atlantic Conference Baseball Player of the Week announced league officials Tuesday.

Comerford, 6-4, 210-pound junior from Athens, Tenn., hit .556 with a pair of walk-off hits as Tusculum went 3-2 on the week, including a series victory over conference foe Wingate.

He hit a 10th-inning walk-off double last Tuesday in an 11-10 victory over Trevecca Nazarene. In the game, he finished going 5-for-5 with three doubles, a triple and a home run. The three doubles tied a school single-game record, while his 13 total bases were the second most in program history.

Comerford closed out the weekend series finale with Wingate with a three-run homer to beat the Bulldogs 4-3.

In all, Comerford had 10 hits on the week along with eight RBI and drew five walks. He had a .652 on-base percentage and a 1.222 slugging percentage.

Tusculum (28-16) enters this week's Food Lion SAC Baseball Tournament as the No. 3 seed and will face fourth-seeded Newberry on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at McNair Field in Forest City, N.C.

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