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Former GW Baseball Player Michael Parker Named Appalachian League Player of the Week
Parker Helped to Lead Kingsport Mets to Six Wins Last Week
Former GW shortstop Michael Parker
 
Former GW shortstop Michael Parker
  

Aug. 7, 2007

KINGSPORT, TN - Former George Washington University shortstop Michael Parker (Newton, MA/Newton South) has been named the Appalachian League Player of the Week, the league announced Monday night.

In six games last week, Parker hit .467 (7-for-15), slugged two home runs and drove in five. His week also included seven walks and six runs scored, to go along with a .867 slugging percentage. Parker recorded at least one hit in five of the six games and twice went 2-for-3 with a home run. The 22-year-old leads the Kingsport Mets with a .410 on-base percentage and is second with a .318 batting average.

Parker was chosen in the 24th round, 753rd overall, by the New York Mets, on the second day of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft.

As a senior at GW, Parker was named to the Louisville Slugger All-American third-team and the Atlantic 10 All-Conference first-team. He batted .373 with 60 RBI, 22 doubles and 10 home runs. Overall, he ranked in the league's top-five in eight separate offensive categories and finished first on the team in slugging percentage (.604), on-base percentage (.434) and hits (84), and was second in home runs. The team's 2007 MVP finished his four-year career ranked seventh all-time at GW with 47 doubles and 10th with 43 stolen bases.

The Appalachian League is a Rookie-class minor league comprised of nine teams in two divisions, located in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

George Washington was 23-31-1 overall in 2007 and 14-13 in the A-10, finishing just one spot out of the conference tournament, despite ending the year with a season-best six-game winning streak. It was their 14th straight season with at least 20 wins.

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