Alumni Derrek Miller Named PBC Baseball Player of the Week

SAVANNAH, Ga. (February 12,2008) – Senior catcher Derrek Miller has been named the Peach Belt Conference's first Player of the Week for 2008, announced by the league on Tuesday afternoon. Miller helped the No. 9-ranked Pirates to a pair of three-game sweeps over top 10-ranked opponents to start the season.

Miller hit .478 and slugged .870 with six doubles, a home run and 12 RBI in six games for the Pirates (6-0). The Visalia, Calif., native's biggest hit came on Saturday as he launched a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to give AASU a 6-4 win over No. 6 Southern Indiana in game two of a doubleheader sweep.

Miller also knocked two doubles and drove in three runs in AASU's season-opening 6-3 win over No. 3 Florida Southern on Feb. 1. He collected at least one hit in all six games and his six doubles lead all hitters in the Peach Belt.

Miller is the seventh different Armstrong Atlantic baseball player to earn PBC Player of the Week honors over the last four seasons and he is the first catcher for the Pirates to earn the league's weekly honor since Sean Hotzak was the Player of the Week on May 2, 2005.

COS Baseball Fact
COS started its intercollegiate baseball program in 1929, but the program was discontinued from 1932 through 1939 and again from 1941 through 1945.  In 1946 Polly Wilhelmsen brought baseball back to the college. Baseball has been a major part of the COS athletic program, beginning with the Giants' 25-7 season under coach Pete Beiden in 1947 and including many successful years under successive coaches Frank Jones, Bud Nygren, Roy Taylor, Bert Holt, Al Branco and current head coach Jody Allen.

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