GLIAC -- Redshirt-senior catcher Kyle Ray (Woodhaven, Mich.) of the Wayne State University baseball team was named GLIAC Player of the Week for the first time in his career on Monday, as announced by the league.

Ray hit .583 (7-for-12) in three games against league-leading Saginaw Valley State last week with a .643 on-base percentage and 1.167 slugging percentage.  All seven of those hits came in the final two games of the series.

In game two on Saturday and in the leadoff spot for the first time in his career, Ray finished with a personal-best four hits (4-for-5, 3 R, 1 3B, 1 HR, 1 BB, 5 RBI), a double shy of the cycle.  Trailing 7-0 at one point, the Warriors were down 8-7 in the seventh before Ray hit the go-ahead three-run home run down the right-field line.  Then on Sunday, hitting out of the top spot for WSU again, Ray went 3-for-4 in the Warriors' victory with two runs scored, a pair of doubles, one walk and a stolen base.

Those performances raised the backstop's season average to .383 (23-for-60), good for eighth in the conference.  Ray also ranks fourth in the GLIAC in slugging (.617) and fifth in on-base percentage (.524).

He and his teammates will close out their regular-season series with the Cardinals on Tuesday in University Center with the first pitch scheduled for 3 p.m.