ST. CLOUD, Minn. — After a high-scoring, 4-game baseball series with St. Cloud State University, the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s Kirk Woolf came out of the weekend with a National College Baseball Writers Association Central Region Player of the Week selection.
Woolf had a dominant performance at the plate for the Boll Weevils in their 2-2 series with the Huskies, going 10-for-17 at the plate on the weekend.
He left the series with a total of five runs scored, a double, four home runs and eight RBI.
The sophomore transfer from California’s Cuesta College produced a pair of four-hit games while homering three times in the series opener, slashing .588/.632/1.353 for a whopping 1.985 OPS.
A native of Martinez, Calif., Woolf has already surpassed his home run total from last season just seven games into 2023.
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Seven games into the 2023 season and Woolf is batting .481 on the year, trailing only Cade Cancilla at .520, with 13 hits in 27 at-bats.
He is currently leading the Great American Conference, and tied for second in the nation, with 5 home runs.
Alongside Arkansas-Monticello is rival Southern Arkansas University, who saw the NCBWA Central Region Pitcher of the Week awarded to sophomore pitcher Jeremy Adorno.
Woolf homered his fifth home run Wednesday in a 16-8 loss to Arkansas Tech University in Russellville.
Woolf drove in two runs, while Torrin Vaselenak also homered and batted in two runs.