Trey Bell Named NEC Player of the Week

5/2/05 -- Junior Trey Bell (Georgetown, Del.), who is coming off a monster week for Long Island University, today was named Northeast Conference Baseball Player of the Week.

Bell hit a whopping .684 (13-for-19) last week with four doubles, three RBI, a stolen base, an .895 slugging percentage and a .700 on-base average. He went 7-for-8 in the final two games of a three-game weekend series against Central Connecticut State with four doubles, two RBI and a sacrifice.

The standout second baseman notched at least three hits on four occasions, including a 4-for-4 effort in game two Saturday against Central Connecticut State, which LIU rallied for a thrilling 8-7, 11-inning triumph. Bell led off the bottom of the 11th with a double and scored, sliding head first, on an infield single by junior Sean Durkin (Damascus, Md.) to cap the 3 hour, 46 minute marathon.

That also was the first of back-to-back contests which he rapped two doubles. Bell, who has a hit in six of his last seven games, leads LIU with a .364 batting average along with 39 hits and is tied for the team lead with six doubles.

Bell, who is batting .359 against the NEC, has a .952 overall fielding percentage to help the Blackbirds (11-19, 7-11 NEC) pace the conference with a .958 mark.

LIU returns to action Tuesday at Villanova.