Fort Hays State junior outfielder Ryan Busboom earned MIAA Baseball Hitter of the Week honors for April 2-8 as selected by a panel of MIAA sports information directors. Busboom earns the honor for his efforts in the four-game sweep of Pittsburg State this past weekend in Hays.

Busboom produced seven of his nine RBI on the weekend in the 25-5 blowout win over Pittsburg State on Saturday, the third game of the series. He produced the first run of a six-run first inning for the Tigers with a sacrifice fly RBI, then pushed Fort Hays State’s advantage to 8-2 in the second inning with a RBI double. His 3-run home run in the fifth pushed the FHSU lead to 14-5. He delivered a bases-loaded 2-RBI single in the sixth, part of an 11-run inning for the Tigers.

Busboom was key in a pair of close wins for FHSU. His RBI single in the third inning of the first game of the series broke a 1-1 tie in the third. That run would hold up as the winning run in a complete game effort by pitcher Shawn Lewick. In the final game of the series, he triggered the FHSU comeback from trailing 4-0 with a solo home run in the sixth. He doubled and scored in the seventh, an inning where the Tigers scored four runs to overtake PSU and go on to win 5-4.

In the second game of the series Friday, he had two doubles in the second and third innings and came around to score both times in an 11-6 win.

Seven of the 10 hits he had in the series went for extra bases, which included five doubles and two home runs. Busboom also had a key assist from the outfield in the first game of the series, cutting down the potential tying run at the plate on a single in the fourth inning that ended the inning. By hitting .625 (10-for-16) in the series against PSU, Busboom took over the team lead in batting average for the season, now at .405. He has 22 extra-base hits to his credit this year, which includes 12 doubles and 10 home runs, and leads the team in RBI with 43 as of April 9.

– FHSU Sports Information –