MILWAUKEE - Senior Sam Koenig of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team has been named the Horizon League Player of the Week, the league office announced this morning.

The award is the fifth of Koenig's career and the third this season, with him repeating the honor this week as well as making it three out of four this season. It also marks the sixth time a UWM player has been honored this season (Joe Pavlovich, March 9 / Justin Langley, March 2 / Brian Keller, Feb. 16).

Koenig continues his red-hot 2015 campaign, piling up 10 hits in four games last week in which the Panthers went 3-1.

He batted .526 (10-for-19) and scored seven runs, drove in six and slugged an eye-popping 1.053 on the strength of four doubles and a pair of home runs.

He started the week with two hits and two RBI in the win over Northern Illinois. Friday against Valparaiso, he tied a career-high with four hits, driving in three and scoring twice in the 7-6 walkoff victory. He capped it Saturday with three more hits, including his second home run of the series.

Not only is he topping the Horizon League in batting average, slugging percentage and on-base percentage, but he ranks high among all NCAA national leaders as well, placing first with his .857 slugging percentage (second is .797) and second in both average (his .462 trails Arizona's Scott Kingery at .477) and .555 OBP (just behind Eric Hsieh of Yale .579).