WEEK 1 STATS: .500 BA (7-for-14), 4 BB, 1 RBI, 4 runs, .611 OBP
Brown served as Sacred Heart’s starting second baseman for a season-opening four-game set at Atlantic Sun member Florida Gulf Coast, hitting .500 (7-for-14) and accounting for a .611 on-base percentage. Off to a hot start with the bat and glove, Brown produced multi-hit efforts and turned a double play on defense during each of the first two games. He reached base safely four times (2 H, 2 BB) to help Sacred Heart to a 10-5 win in the opener. After singling during SHU’s three-run third inning, he laced a run-scoring triple down the rightfield line in the seventh. He went 3-for-4 with one walk and one run in Game 2, a 13-8 setback for SHU. Helping the Pioneers jump out to a 5-0 lead, Brown led off the fourth inning with a bunt single and came around to score on a Dan Schock double. The rookie infielder recorded one hit, one walk and one run in the second half of Saturday’s double dip, a 9-3 defeat. In the finale, Brown singled once (leading off the seventh) in four plate appearances.