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Clemson, NC State Pick Up Final 2023 ACC Baseball Weekly Honors

GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) –  Clemson’s Billy Amick and NC State’s Cannon Peebles have been named the final ACC Baseball Players of the Week of the 2023 season, while the Wolfpack’s Logan Whitaker earned ACC Pitcher of the Week honors.
 
ACC Players and Pitchers of the Week were chosen by a vote of a select media panel and announced on Mondays throughout the regular season.
 
Amick earned his second consecutive ACC weekly honor as he led Clemson to another 4-0 week by going 8-for-15 (.533) with one homer, two doubles, 10 RBIs, four runs, an .867 slugging percentage and a .556 on-base percentage in four games. He went 2-for-2 with a double and five RBIs against USC Upstate on Tuesday, then went 4-for-5 with a homer and three RBIs in Clemson's series-opening win over North Carolina on Thursday. He had at least one hit in all four games on the week. On the season, he is hitting .426 with 11 homers, a triple, 15 doubles, 51 RBIs, 34 runs, a .780 slugging percentage, .469 on-base percentage and two steals in 39 games (35 starts). Amick and the Tigers will carry a 12-game winning streak into this week’s ACC Championship.

Peebles capped off an incredible first regular season in Raleigh with one of his best weekends in a Wolfpack uniform, going 6-for-8 with two homers, eight RBI, two doubles, six runs scored and five walks in a series sweep of Pitt. Peebles was only put out twice the entire weekend, reaching base safely 11 times in 13 plate appearances. He opened the weekend 4-for-4 with a home run, a double and four RBI. The freshman then smacked a three-run homer for the second straight game in the Pack's 17-8 win on Friday, which clinched a spot in the ACC Championship field. Peebles reached base all five times in Friday's win, going 2-for-2 with a home run, double, three walks and three runs scored. He finished the weekend with two walks and a run scored as the Pack completed the sweep of the Panthers on Senior Day.

NC State’s Whitaker dominated in his final home start of 2023, pitching seven shutout innings while allowing just one hit with six strikeouts in Thursday night’s series-opening win over Pitt. Whitaker tossed a season-high 113 pitches in the stellar performance, facing the minimum three times and allowing only a bloop single with one out in the fifth inning

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