Aumua Named Co-Big 12 Player of the Week

Senior outfielder Lizzy Aumua picked up the first weekly honor of the 2006 season for the Nebraska softball team, as she was named Co-<?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>Big 12 Player of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday. Missouri’s Amanda Renth was also named co-Player of the Week.<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>

 

Aumua started the 2006 season on an incredible note, hitting safely in each of Nebraska’s five games at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz., last weekend. Aumua also recorded four multi-hit games, including three games with three or more hits, en route to a whopping .722 average (13-for-18).

 

Against No. 7 Stanford and 15th-ranked OregonState on the opening day of the season, Aumua went 6-for-9 with two runs scored, a triple and a stolen base. She followed the opening-day performance with a perfect second day, going 6-for-6 with three runs scored and two stolen bases against Cal State Northridge and Utah State. Against the Aggies, Aumua went a career-high 4-for-4.

 

At one point in the tournament, Aumua reached base safely in nine consecutive at bats, going 8-for-8 at the plate during that stretch.

 

Aumua and her Husker teammates are off this weekend before returning to action Feb. 24-26 at the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga.