ATLANTA -- Leading baseball to a 2-0 start to the season, senior Ryan Blanton is this week's Georgia State Student-Athlete of the Week, powered by the U.S. Marines.
Blanton got the Panthers off to a perfect start with three hits, a homer and five RBIs in wins over Marshall and Western Michigan.
Blanton led off the Marshall game and the 2017 season with a home run, the fifth time in his career he has led off a game with a homer. He added an RBI-single in the Panthers' four-run eighth inning that broke the game open, sending Georgia State to an 8-3 Opening Day victory.