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DeKalb | Junior outfielder Tommy Hook is working to help NIU get back to .500 after a rough 9-22 start. Hook is a career .277 hitter, playing and starting in more than 100 games in his NIU career. He has spent time as an infielder, outfielder and catcher. The junior is coming off a sophomore year where his numbers took a dip - he hit .257 with 46 hits after a freshman year in which he hit .298 with 51 hits. Hook has bounced back with great play through 31 games this year, hitting .342.
Q: What were your thoughts at bat in the 10th inning and in that last play of [game three against Central Michigan University on Saturday]? A: In the 10th inning I was up and seeing the ball pretty well and I knew I had to get on. I found a way to get a hit and unfortunately Coach [Kunigonis] pinch ran for me. He doesn’t think I’m fast but I am. The last play I was at the edge of my seat all game long kind of losing my mind a little bit, and to see Alex [Smith] cross the plate was unbelievable and probably one of the best feelings of the year so far.
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Junior outfielder Tommy Hook winds up for a hit in a game against Central Michigan University on Friday. Hook is hitting .342 this season.
working with Coach [Kunigonis and] our hitting coach, Coach [Luke] Stewart. I had to get healthy — my foot was banged up so I got that healthy and Coach Stewart was telling me [to] be short to the ball, get the barrel out and see balls up the middle. My success is mainly because of the coaches.
guys on — myself included. Q: Do you think the team’s current record speaks to how hard you guys actually play? A: No, and it’s very cliché obviously to say that our record doesn’t show that, but honestly if you or anyone else was at a practice [or] at a baseball game, every single game you’ll see how hard we play. The talented teams that we played, we should of won at least six or seven more games if not more if we played like we did today.
Q: What did you like from the team overall in the series? A: Our resilience. All weekend long we were winning games. We ended up losing later on, then we lost the first game of the doubleheader only to battle back. It was a long day Q: Is there anything you want and we pulled out one of the cooler to take from this weekend headthings in baseball which is a walk- ing into your next matchup? off. I couldn’t be more proud of every A: Yeah, we just can’t play this long. single guy on this team. Those games took too long. Now we just need to take on not giving up. We Q: Was there anything you need to remember this win because could have capitalized better on? there have been times in the past this A: As a team we needed to do year [when] things might not have Q: Was there anything Coach a better job of capitalizing on the gone our way. We were dealt adversiKunigonis was trying to imple- lack of confidence that the pitcher ty and we would fold, and in this case ment leading up to this point? had on the other team. We could we weren’t playing our best baseball, A: It started last week. I was have done a better job getting but we found a way to win in the end. Q: How do you feel you played during the series against Central Michigan [last weekend]? A: I felt great. Overall, my performance didn’t matter whatsoever. We won the series and that’s all we have to do to make our ultimate goal, which is to get to the MAC Championship and to advance to regionals. Other than that, I was seeing the ball well and hits were falling, but I feel a lot better today than I did at the beginning of the week.
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