May 22, 2006

HOUSTON - For the second time this season, junior slugger Adam Amar was honored by Conference USA, being tabbed the league's co-Hitter of the Week, league officials announced Monday. Amar led the Tigers to a sweep of East Carolina last weekend to finish the C-USA regular season with a fourth-place ranking in the league standings. The Tiger junior splits the league's weekly honors with Rice shortstop Brian Friday.

Amar was 11-for-19 (.579) in four games last week, leading the Tigers to a sweep of East Carolina and the No. 4 seed in the C-USA Championship. He hit safely in all four games and homered in three. Amar had four total home runs, drove in seven runs and scored five times. He finished one hit shy of tying school and conference records with a 6-for-6 outing on Saturday in which he drove in the game-winning run in the bottom-of-the-ninth inning.

Amar finished the regular season with a league-leading .410 batting average and 10 home runs. In addition, the Tiger first baseman hit .459 in league games--the third-highest league batting average in C-USA history.

Amar continues to climb the U of M career charts, ranking in a sixth-place ties for RBI (135) and hits (187). He leads the team with 80 hits this year, good four fourth on Memphis' single-season list.

Amar and the Tigers have reached the 30-win plateau for just the third time since 1995 and will make their first appearance in the C-USA Tournament since 2004 on Wed., May 24. No. 4 Memphis will face on No. 5 Southern Miss at 7:30 p.m. at Rice University's Reckling Park in the opening round of play.