Francis Marion University / McDonald's Student-Athlete of the Week
Francis Marion University senior third baseman Todd Mattox has been named the McDonald's Student-Athlete of the Week for the week of April 11-17, 2022.
Mattox batted .524 in four games last week (all Patriot wins) with eight runs scored, three doubles, a homer, and 10 runs batted in. He posted a .810 slugging percentage and an on-base percentage of .542.
After having his streak of safely reaching base snapped at 79 games – only nine shy of the NCAA II record – in the mid-week 8-5 12-inning win over Lander University (in which he went 0-for-4 with a sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly), he went 11-for-17 in a three-game road sweep of Chowan University. During the sweep, he registered back-to-back games where he had five and four hits respectively.
For the season, the Winnsboro, S.C., native ranks third in the conference with a .416 average. He leads Conference Carolinas in hits (67) and triples (5) and also ranks sixth in runs scored (48), seventh in on-base percentage (.497), tied for seventh in doubles (14), and tied for ninth in being hit by pitches (11). He has started all 40 games this season and has driven in 39 runs.
He has helped lead FMU to 12 wins in its last 14 games, as the Patriots are now 27-13 overall and in fourth place in the conference standings at 15-9. Francis Marion will play a non-conference game at Augusta University on Wednesday at 3 p.m., before opening a key conference series at home against local-rival UNC Pembroke on Friday at 6 p.m. (followed by a doubleheader on Saturday at 2 p.m.).
The Florence area McDonald’s Owner/Operators are proud to support the Francis Marion Student Athlete of the Week!Â
Go Patriots!
