Socorro grad Brandon Pimentel named National Player and WAC Hitter of the Week

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – After a week in which he tore up basically every pitcher he faced, UTRGV’s Brandon Pimentel was honored with two major awards on Monday.

A graduate of Socorro High School, Pimentel was named a Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Hitter of the Week on Tuesday.

Pimentel’s honors were well-deserved. He hit .438/500/1.063 while leading the Vaqueros to a 2-1 week, going 7-for-16 with three home runs, one double, one walk, 11 RBI and six runs scored. Pimentel has now homered in five-straight games, the second UTRGV player to do so in the last two seasons.

or the season, Pimentel is hitting .361, which ranks 12^th in the WAC and 183^rd in the NCAA, and slugging .630, which ranks seventh in the WAC and 207^th in the NCAA.
 
UTRGV is back in action on Tuesday at 6 p.m. CT at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on ESPN+.