April 17, 2006

Washington, D.C. - Senior right handed pitcher Warren Sizemore (Hamilton, Ohio/Ross) was named BIG EAST Conference Co-Pitcher of the Week as announced by the league office on Monday while senior first baseman Ryan Craft (Jupiter, Fla./The Benjamin School) was named to the Weekly Honor Roll. It is the first time Hoya baseball player has earned a weekly award this season.

Sizemore tossed eight innings and struck out eight while walking none in Georgetown's 7-4 win versus Seton Hall on Thursday. He scattered four hits and allowed just two earned runs and at one point retired 17 straight batters. Sizemore (3-2), who has earned a decision in each of his last five starts, lowered his team-best ERA to 2.31.

Craft batted a team-best .545 in the Hoyas' sweep over the Pirates. Craft went 6-11 and drove in a team-best six runs and ended the opener of Thursday's doubleheader with a walk-off, three-run homer to cap a seven run ninth inning. He went 2-3 in the middle game of the series and went 1-3 with three more RBI in the series finale.

Georgetown took all three games from visiting Seton Hall over the holiday weekend, giving the Hoyas their first three-game BIG EAST sweep since 2001, when they swept UConn. It is only the second three-game conference sweep for the Hoyas in program history. Georgetown improved to 17-19 overall and 5-7 in the BIG EAST.

Rutgers junior third baseman Tim Querns earned BIG EAST Player of the Week while Sizemore shared the Pitcher of the Week award with Villanova junior Kevin Mulvey. Mulvey struck out nine, while allowing just three earned runs in nine innings en route to a complete game victory at Pittsburgh on Saturday.

Georgetown, which boasts a 12-5 home record, wraps up a season-long nine-game homestand on Tuesday, April 18 when the Hoyas host Mt. St. Mary's at Shirley Povich Field in Bethesda, Md. First pitch is slated for 7 p.m. GU won at Mt. St. Mary's, 11-2 earlier this season.

The Hoyas welcome George Washington University to Povich Field on Wednesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. before Georgetown returns to BIG EAST action at Cincinnati, April 21-23.