lone star conference baseball weekly release - West Texas A&M
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LONE STAR CONFERENCE BASEBALL WEEKLY RELEASE May 1, 2018 LSC BASEBALL West Texas A&M remains atop the Lone Star Conference standings at 17-3 in league games with one week of the regular season remaining. This week’s schedule consists of a few non-conference games along with league contests on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. LSC teams are playing a 10-week schedule with a four-game series against every other team during weeks 8-14 determining the LSC Champion. Conference series scheduled weeks 5-7 will not count toward the league standings. Each four-game series shall consist of a 9-inning game Friday, a 7x7 doubleheader Saturday and 9-inning contest Sunday. The overall LSC Champion will be the team(s) with the best winning percentage in regular-season conference games, while the winner of the postseason championship will be recognized as LSC Tournament Champion and receive the league’s automatic qualification into NCAA postseason. This season, the top six teams play a single-elimination championship on May 10-11-12, at the No. 1 seed. LSC baseball teams are 173-139 overall this season. In the NCAA South Central Region, the teams are currently 1013 combined versus Heartland Conference teams and 16-4 against the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. LSC schedule and results available here: http://lonestarconference.org/calendar.aspx?path=baseball&& PLAYERS OF THE WEEK HITTER Nick Canas, West Texas A&M University, SR, OF, San Antonio, Texas, Burbank HS Canas had a great week helping the Buffs to a 3-1 series win over No. 18 Texas A&M-Kingsville. He went 6 of 10 from the dish (.600) with a team-high nine runs scored, belted two home runs and drove in six. He slugged 1.2000 and reached base at a .765 clip with six walks, one hit batsmen and only one strikeout. Canas had at least one hit in each game and recorded his first home run since March 4 in the 12-9 win as his blast in the third inning game WT lead for good in the game. His home run in the 5-4 win of Saturday's doubleheader split plated two runs as WT tied the game in the bottom of the sixth and winning in walk-off fashion in the seventh. PITCHER Jarred Taylor, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, SR, RHP, Vidor, Texas, Vidor HS Taylor stymied the potent West Texas A&M lineup in his outing for the second game of the series holding the Buffs to a .130 batting average. Taylor went the distance for the complete game win after scattering three hits over seven innings while striking out five and allowing only one run in a 23-1 throttling of the Buffs. It was Taylor's first complete game of the season and the Vidor, Texas, native currently leads the team with a 1.29 ERA. Angelo State | Cameron | Eastern New Mexico | Midwestern State | Tarleton State | Texas A&M-Commerce Texas A&M-Kingsville | Texas Woman’s | UT Permian Basin | West Texas A&M | Western New Mexico
WEEKLY AWARDS Hitter F-6 Michael Urquidi, Angelo State F-13 Nicholas Novak, Angelo State F-20 Francisco Rodriguez, Tarleton State F-27 Christian Loya, West Texas A&M M-6 Luis Amaro, West Texas A&M M-13 Francisco Rodriguez, Tarleton State (2) M-20 Luis Amaro, West Texas A&M (2) M-27 Luis Amaro, West Texas A&M (3) A-3 Bradley Mathiowetz, Angelo State A-10 Kohl Ullman, Texas A&M-Kingsville A-17 Bodie Bryan, West Texas A&M A-24 Jacob Boston, Angelo State M-1 Nick Canas, West Texas A&M
Pitcher F-6 F-13 F-20 F-27 M-6 M-13 M-20 M-27 A-3 A-10 A-17 A-24 M-1
Isaiah Lybarger, Texas A&M-Kingsville Cesar Capellan, Eastern New Mexico Tyler Lesley, Angelo State Carson Childers, Angelo State Tyler Lesley, Angelo State (2) Joshua Valdez, Texas A&M-Kingsville Trent Baker, Angelo State Evan Pontley, Tarleton State Trent Baker, Angelo State (2) Tyler Lesley, Angelo State (3) Kyle Craft, Texas A&M-Kingsville Connor Flanagan, Tarleton State Conner Fletcher, Tarleton State Jarred Taylor, Texas A&M-Kingsville
OTHER TOP PERFORMERS Jacob Boston, Angelo State University, reached base 12 times on the weekend without striking out as the Rams swept UT Permian Basin in Odessa. The senior had seven hits, including two for extra bases, leading the team in both onbase and slugging percentage. After the series he has now hit safely in eight straight games, bringing his average up to .353 for the year. Ruben Rodriguez, Tarleton State University, was a catalyst for the Texan offense in a crucial four-game sweep of Cameron last weekend to help Tarleton keep pace in the race for the LSC title. The senior second baseman hit .500 with a team-high nine runs scored for the weekend. Rodriguez also led the team with seven base hits, including three doubles, and five RBI. He also stole two bases. Pablo Hernandez, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, was consistent for the Hogs over the weekend after batting .471 with eight hits, five of which went for extra bases. The Cuban recorded two hits in game one against West Texas A&M with one double, one RBI and one run and followed up with three hits in game two alongside three RBI, two runs and a triple. Hernandez added double in game three and closed out his weekend with a pair of extra-base hits in game four with a double and a home run to go with one RBI and two runs. Evan Pontley, Tarleton State University, tossed a gem in game three of last weekend's series at Cameron. The senior right-hander threw his second complete-game shutout of the season and struck out a career-high 11 batters. It was Pontley's first career 10-strikeout performance. He held the Cameron hitters to just five hits, including just three over the first six innings. Andrew Croucher, Angelo State University, made just his second start of the season versus UT Permian Basin Sunday and set ASU career highs in nearly every category, including strikeouts and innings pitched, while earning his first win of the year. He allowed just four baserunners all day and limited opponents to just a .150 batting average. He has now pitched eight straight innings without allowing a run over his last two appearances. Darin Cook, West Texas A&M University, pitched a strong seven innings in complete-game win as WT battled back from a 4-0 deficit for a 5-4 win in walk-off fashion to split a doubleheader with No. 18 Texas A&M-Kingsville Saturday. Cook went the distance and stymied the Javelinas over the final six innings, after allowing three runs on four hits in the first inning. TAMUK scored just one run on four hits the rest of the way. Cook improved to a team-best 9-1 on the year
with the win as he allowed eight hits, four runs - two earned, walked one and fanned seven. It was his first complete game of his WT career. LSC NOTES (Submitted by LSC SID’s) Angelo State Rams went 4-0 on the road against UTPB... Pushed their road record to 15-8 this season... Will face conference-leading West Texas A&M this weekend for the final regular season series of the year Cameron 0-4 last week. Eastern New Mexico 2-2 last week. Tarleton State Tarleton swept Cameron to guarantee a top-two finish in the Lone Star Conference standings. The Texans are off on the final weekend of the season and will await the final games of the regular season. Texas A&M-Kingsville 1-3 last week. UT Permian Basin UT Permian basin dropped a four-game LSC series against Angelo State to close out its 2018 home schedule. Tony Oslovar led the Falcon offense on the weekend, going 4-12 at the plate with a team-high four RBI, a pair of walks and a sacrifice fly. Ivan Thomas led the pitching staff, throwing 7.2 innings of three-run ball, allowing two earned runs. West Texas A&M The Buffs won a 3-1 series over No. 18 Texas A&M-Kingsville for a 35-10 record and a 17-3 mark in LSC play heading into the final week of the season...WT won the opener 12-9 and dropped the second game, 23-1, for the worst loss of the season, but responded for a thrilling 5-4 walk-off win in the nightcap and won the finale 11-6...WT finished the regular season home slate 24-3 tying for the most wins at Wilder Park in a season...The Buffs have a shot at clinching the outright LSC regular season title with two wins at Angelo State this weekend...The Buffs hit .317 against TAMUK with 40 hits, eight doubles, two triples, five home runs with 29 runs and 27 RBI...TAMUK hit .350 with 42 runs, 50 hits, 13 doubles, two triples, five home runs and 36 RBI...The Buffs had 14 walks and seven players were hit with pitches...On the mound junior Darin Cook was solid once again for his ninth win of the season in the 5-4 walk-off win...He went the distance allowing eight hits, four runs - two earned, walked one and fanned seven...Junior Braden Baker earned a save and a win, while junior Joe Corbett also earned a win...WT had eight errors for the week leading to an uncharacteristic 13 unearned runs and a season-worst 8.16 ERA...WT improved to 7-1 in one-run games this season.
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LONE STAR CONFERENCE BASEBALL WEEKLY RELEASE May 1, 2018 LSC BASEBALL West Texas A&M remains atop the Lone Star Conference standings at 17-3 in league games with one week of the regular season remaining. This week’s schedule consists of a few non-conference games along with league contests on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. LSC teams are playing a 10-week schedule with a four-game series against every other team during weeks 8-14 determining the LSC Champion. Conference series scheduled weeks 5-7 will not count toward the league standings. Each four-game series shall consist of a 9-inning game Friday, a 7x7 doubleheader Saturday and 9-inning contest Sunday. The overall LSC Champion will be the team(s) with the best winning percentage in regular-season conference games, while the winner of the postseason championship will be recognized as LSC Tournament Champion and receive the league’s automatic qualification into NCAA postseason. This season, the top six teams play a single-elimination championship on May 10-11-12, at the No. 1 seed. LSC baseball teams are 173-139 overall this season. In the NCAA South Central Region, the teams are currently 1013 combined versus Heartland Conference teams and 16-4 against the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. LSC schedule and results available here: http://lonestarconference.org/calendar.aspx?path=baseball&& PLAYERS OF THE WEEK HITTER Nick Canas, West Texas A&M University, SR, OF, San Antonio, Texas, Burbank HS Canas had a great week helping the Buffs to a 3-1 series win over No. 18 Texas A&M-Kingsville. He went 6 of 10 from the dish (.600) with a team-high nine runs scored, belted two home runs and drove in six. He slugged 1.2000 and reached base at a .765 clip with six walks, one hit batsmen and only one strikeout. Canas had at least one hit in each game and recorded his first home run since March 4 in the 12-9 win as his blast in the third inning game WT lead for good in the game. His home run in the 5-4 win of Saturday's doubleheader split plated two runs as WT tied the game in the bottom of the sixth and winning in walk-off fashion in the seventh. PITCHER Jarred Taylor, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, SR, RHP, Vidor, Texas, Vidor HS Taylor stymied the potent West Texas A&M lineup in his outing for the second game of the series holding the Buffs to a .130 batting average. Taylor went the distance for the complete game win after scattering three hits over seven innings while striking out five and allowing only one run in a 23-1 throttling of the Buffs. It was Taylor's first complete game of the season and the Vidor, Texas, native currently leads the team with a 1.29 ERA. Angelo State | Cameron | Eastern New Mexico | Midwestern State | Tarleton State | Texas A&M-Commerce Texas A&M-Kingsville | Texas Woman’s | UT Permian Basin | West Texas A&M | Western New Mexico
WEEKLY AWARDS Hitter F-6 Michael Urquidi, Angelo State F-13 Nicholas Novak, Angelo State F-20 Francisco Rodriguez, Tarleton State F-27 Christian Loya, West Texas A&M M-6 Luis Amaro, West Texas A&M M-13 Francisco Rodriguez, Tarleton State (2) M-20 Luis Amaro, West Texas A&M (2) M-27 Luis Amaro, West Texas A&M (3) A-3 Bradley Mathiowetz, Angelo State A-10 Kohl Ullman, Texas A&M-Kingsville A-17 Bodie Bryan, West Texas A&M A-24 Jacob Boston, Angelo State M-1 Nick Canas, West Texas A&M
Pitcher F-6 F-13 F-20 F-27 M-6 M-13 M-20 M-27 A-3 A-10 A-17 A-24 M-1
Isaiah Lybarger, Texas A&M-Kingsville Cesar Capellan, Eastern New Mexico Tyler Lesley, Angelo State Carson Childers, Angelo State Tyler Lesley, Angelo State (2) Joshua Valdez, Texas A&M-Kingsville Trent Baker, Angelo State Evan Pontley, Tarleton State Trent Baker, Angelo State (2) Tyler Lesley, Angelo State (3) Kyle Craft, Texas A&M-Kingsville Connor Flanagan, Tarleton State Conner Fletcher, Tarleton State Jarred Taylor, Texas A&M-Kingsville
OTHER TOP PERFORMERS Jacob Boston, Angelo State University, reached base 12 times on the weekend without striking out as the Rams swept UT Permian Basin in Odessa. The senior had seven hits, including two for extra bases, leading the team in both onbase and slugging percentage. After the series he has now hit safely in eight straight games, bringing his average up to .353 for the year. Ruben Rodriguez, Tarleton State University, was a catalyst for the Texan offense in a crucial four-game sweep of Cameron last weekend to help Tarleton keep pace in the race for the LSC title. The senior second baseman hit .500 with a team-high nine runs scored for the weekend. Rodriguez also led the team with seven base hits, including three doubles, and five RBI. He also stole two bases. Pablo Hernandez, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, was consistent for the Hogs over the weekend after batting .471 with eight hits, five of which went for extra bases. The Cuban recorded two hits in game one against West Texas A&M with one double, one RBI and one run and followed up with three hits in game two alongside three RBI, two runs and a triple. Hernandez added double in game three and closed out his weekend with a pair of extra-base hits in game four with a double and a home run to go with one RBI and two runs. Evan Pontley, Tarleton State University, tossed a gem in game three of last weekend's series at Cameron. The senior right-hander threw his second complete-game shutout of the season and struck out a career-high 11 batters. It was Pontley's first career 10-strikeout performance. He held the Cameron hitters to just five hits, including just three over the first six innings. Andrew Croucher, Angelo State University, made just his second start of the season versus UT Permian Basin Sunday and set ASU career highs in nearly every category, including strikeouts and innings pitched, while earning his first win of the year. He allowed just four baserunners all day and limited opponents to just a .150 batting average. He has now pitched eight straight innings without allowing a run over his last two appearances. Darin Cook, West Texas A&M University, pitched a strong seven innings in complete-game win as WT battled back from a 4-0 deficit for a 5-4 win in walk-off fashion to split a doubleheader with No. 18 Texas A&M-Kingsville Saturday. Cook went the distance and stymied the Javelinas over the final six innings, after allowing three runs on four hits in the first inning. TAMUK scored just one run on four hits the rest of the way. Cook improved to a team-best 9-1 on the year
with the win as he allowed eight hits, four runs - two earned, walked one and fanned seven. It was his first complete game of his WT career. LSC NOTES (Submitted by LSC SID’s) Angelo State Rams went 4-0 on the road against UTPB... Pushed their road record to 15-8 this season... Will face conference-leading West Texas A&M this weekend for the final regular season series of the year Cameron 0-4 last week. Eastern New Mexico 2-2 last week. Tarleton State Tarleton swept Cameron to guarantee a top-two finish in the Lone Star Conference standings. The Texans are off on the final weekend of the season and will await the final games of the regular season. Texas A&M-Kingsville 1-3 last week. UT Permian Basin UT Permian basin dropped a four-game LSC series against Angelo State to close out its 2018 home schedule. Tony Oslovar led the Falcon offense on the weekend, going 4-12 at the plate with a team-high four RBI, a pair of walks and a sacrifice fly. Ivan Thomas led the pitching staff, throwing 7.2 innings of three-run ball, allowing two earned runs. West Texas A&M The Buffs won a 3-1 series over No. 18 Texas A&M-Kingsville for a 35-10 record and a 17-3 mark in LSC play heading into the final week of the season...WT won the opener 12-9 and dropped the second game, 23-1, for the worst loss of the season, but responded for a thrilling 5-4 walk-off win in the nightcap and won the finale 11-6...WT finished the regular season home slate 24-3 tying for the most wins at Wilder Park in a season...The Buffs have a shot at clinching the outright LSC regular season title with two wins at Angelo State this weekend...The Buffs hit .317 against TAMUK with 40 hits, eight doubles, two triples, five home runs with 29 runs and 27 RBI...TAMUK hit .350 with 42 runs, 50 hits, 13 doubles, two triples, five home runs and 36 RBI...The Buffs had 14 walks and seven players were hit with pitches...On the mound junior Darin Cook was solid once again for his ninth win of the season in the 5-4 walk-off win...He went the distance allowing eight hits, four runs - two earned, walked one and fanned seven...Junior Braden Baker earned a save and a win, while junior Joe Corbett also earned a win...WT had eight errors for the week leading to an uncharacteristic 13 unearned runs and a season-worst 8.16 ERA...WT improved to 7-1 in one-run games this season.
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