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General 4/1/2022 3:30:00 PM

It's time to vote for the Prairie Farms Bradley Athlete of the Month! Now that the calendar has shifted to April, it's time to look back at March and vote for which Brave had the best month of action.

Freshman Abbott Badgley of the softball team, junior Josh Kirkham of the men's golf team, junior Bozana Lojpur of the tennis team and junior Connor O'Brien of the baseball team are the four nominees for Prairie Farms Bradley Athlete of the Month in March.

Voting is open until Monday at 11 a.m. and will be conducted through the @BradleyBraves twitter account.

Abbott Badgley • Fr. • Softball • West Lafayette, Ind.
• Led the team with a .324 average, while scoring a team-best eight runs and driving in nine runs
• Posted a 4-1 record with a team-best 1.68 ERA in six appearances (three starts)
• Belted three doubles and three home runs in the 15 games, owning a team-high .457 on base percentage to go with a .649 slugging percentage
• Named MVC Newcomer of the Week on March 1.

Josh Kirkham • Jr. • Men's Golf • Austin, Texas
• Posted a 70.5 stroke average in Bradley's two outings, tying for sixth at the Twin Oaks Intercollegiate & tying for 12th at the Butler Spring Invitational
• His second-round 67 at the Twin Oaks Intercollegiate tied for the seventh-best round in program history and was one shot from matching the low round in program history
• Shot 139 at the Twin Oaks Intercollegiate, which tied for the second-lowest 36-hole score in program history
• Fired a pair of sub-70 rounds in March and now owns the seventh season in program history with four rounds in the 60s (first since 2017-18).

Bozana Lojpur • Jr. • Tennis • Burnaby, British Columbia
• Became the first player in The Valley this season to win three singles matches in a week
• Entered the top five in Bradley Tennis history with 62 career singles wins
• Became the program record holder with four career Missouri Valley Conference Doubles Team of the Week Awards by an individual, while earning Singles Player of the Week and Doubles Team of the Week (Nikki Perlwitz) on March 22.

Connor O'Brien • Jr. • Baseball • San Diego, Calif.
• Led Bradley with a .472 batting average, four home runs, six doubles, 19 RBI and an .811 slugging percentage during the month
• Recorded a hit in all 13 games in March, extending his hitting streak to a career-best 14 games
• Collected multiple hits in more than half of the month's games (seven) with at least two RBI in six contests
• Finished March with a career-best five hits in a win at Tennessee Tech, matching his personal best with four RBI

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