Lindy Native Earns America East Weekly Honors

Lindenhurst native - and Stony Brook University junior and Seawolves first baseman - Kevin Courtney has earned America East weekly honors.

He was one of two players on the Division I Seawolves baseball team to garner weekly conference honors following a road series victory up at Binghamton.

Courtney was named America East Player of the Week, and freshman Daniel Zamora, of La Puente, California, earned his second straight America East Rookie of the Week honor, according to information posted on the SBU baseball team's website here.

Courtney was 6-for-18 at the plate with two home runs and seven RBI last week. He slugged .833 at the plate, and both of his home runs were huge toward helping the Seawolves take two out of three from Binghamton.

He hit a grand slam in the fifth inning of game one on Saturday, breaking a 1-1 tie and leading Stony Brook to a 5-1 victory.

In Sunday's rubber match Courtney helped break the game open with a three-run blast in the sixth inning that made the score 8-0 in favor of the Seawolves, who went to grab an 8-4 victory.

In total five of Courtney's six hits last week were for extra bases. He added three doubles to his two homers.

In 21 conference games this season, Courtney is hitting .343 with five home runs and 24 RBI.

Stony Brook - which went to the College World Series last year - is currently 17-28 overall and 9-12 in America East.

The Seawolves hosted Fairfield in non-conference action on Wednesday, May 1, at Joe Nathan Field at 3:30 p.m. SBU's next conference series takes place this weekend at UMBC.

Read more about Courtney here. Read more about these honors here.

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