LSC Baseball Weekly Release (03/13/17)

1. LSC BASEBALL
Angelo State and West Texas A&M have identical 16-2 overall records with a four-game series on tap this week.
Lone Star Conference series continue this week with the games not counting toward the league standings.
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.
LSC baseball teams are 96-35 overall this season. In the NCAA South Central Region, the teams are currently
25-5 combined versus Heartland Conference teams and 6-3 against the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
HITTER
Adam Adkins, West Texas A&M University, JR, OF, Northglenn, Colo., Northglenn HS
Adkins had another outstanding week against top competition as he hit .467 in a series sweep of No. 10 Texas
A&M-Kingsville. Adkins had seven hits in 15 at bats and led the team with seven runs score, while hitting a
team-high four doubles, one triple and drove in six. He slugged a team-best .867 and reached base at a .529
clip, with one stolen base and had two put outs with no errors. He had a hit in each game and three games of
two hits against the Javelinas. He has hit safely in the last seven games and has driven in a run in each of the
last eight. Adkins leads the team with 11 doubles and three triples on the year.
PITCHER
Joshua Payne, West Texas A&M University, SR, RHP, Westhaven, Utah, Freemont HS
Payne pitched a gem of a game against No. 10 Texas A&M-Kingsville as he tossed a complete game shutout
allowing two hits in nine innings, while walking one and fanning a career-high 16 Javelinas in a 7-0 win on
Saturday. It was Payne’s first complete game shutout as a Buff and TAMUK hit just .069 against him. After
allowing two hits in the first three innings, Payne retired the next 12-straight and a walk in the eighth was the
only other base runner for the Javelinas the rest of game. Payne’s performance gave WT the second win of the
series en route to the sweep.
OTHER TOP PERFORMERS
Matt Waller, Angelo State University, was a run-producing machine at the plate this weekend as the Rams
swept Texas Permian Basin in four games. Waller had six hits in 12 at-bats in the series for a .500 batting average
and had a slugging percentage of 1.000 against the Falcons. In game two of the series on Saturday, Waller went
3-for-4 and was just a double shy of the cycle. He drove in six runs in that game alone, with two on his second
home run of the year, and had 10 RBI on the weekend.
Blake Adams, Tarleton State University, continued his impressive debut season at the dish for Tarleton as
the junior left fielder hit .412, scored 5 runs, had two home runs, four RBIs, and stole a base for the Texans in
four wins last week. Adams led the Texans to a win over St. Mary’s Wednesday and three wins in four games at
Cameron over the weekend. He slugged .824 and boasted an on-base percentage of .500.
Eli McLane, Tarleton State University, was superb in three appearances out of the Tarleton bullpen last week.
The sophomore right-hander helped Tarleton secure four wins in five games, including a series win at Cameron
over the weekend. McLane started his week with one inning of scoreless work to finish off Tarleton’s win over
St. Mary’s Wednesday. In the series opener with Cameron, McLane came out of the bullpen with two outs
and two on and got a groundball out to keep Tarleton on top 2-1. McLane sat the Aggies down in order in the
seventh to earn a save in Tarleton’s 2-1 win Friday. On Saturday afternoon, Tarleton was on top of Cameron
3-0 in the seventh when the Aggies threatened Tarleton’s lead once again with a walk and a hit by pitch with
two away, but McLane came on in relief and got the Texans out of the game with a ground ball back to himself
for the final out of the inning. He sat the Aggies down in order in the eighth with two strikeouts and a lineout
to first base. For the week, McLane threw 3.2 innings of scoreless relief with one save and helping secure one
Tarleton shutout of Cameron. He allowed two hits in three appearances and struck out three.
Joe Hauser, Angelo State University, continued his dominant start to the season with two appearances and a
save against UTPB. The senior pitched three innings without giving up an earned run and stuck out one batter.
NOTES (Submitted by LSC SID’s)
Angelo State
4-0 last week.
Cameron
1-3 last week.
Eastern New Mexico
2-1 last week.
Tarleton State
Tarleton won four of five games last week with a win over St. Mary’s Wednesday before taking three of four on
the road at Cameron.
STANDINGS
School LSC Pct. Overall Strk
Angelo State 0-0 0.000 16-2 W4
West Texas A&M 0-0 0.000 16-2 W6
Eastern New Mexico 0-0 0.000 17-5 W2
Texas A&M-Kingsville 0-0 0.000 11-4 L4
Cameron 0-0 0.000 15-6 L2
Tarleton State 0-0 0.000 15-6 W2
UT Permian Basin 0-0 0.000 6-10 L9
SCHEDULE
Friday, March 17, 2017
Lubbock Christian at Tarleton State, 1 p.m.
Lubbock Christian at Tarleton State, 3 p.m.
Cameron at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 6 p.m.
UT Permian Basin at Eastern New Mexico, 6 p.m.
West Texas A&M at Angelo State, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Cameron at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 1 p.m.
Lubbock Christian at Tarleton State, 1 p.m.
UT Permian Basin at Eastern New Mexico, 2 p.m.
West Texas A&M at Angelo State, 4 p.m.
Cameron at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 4 p.m.
UT Permian Basin at Eastern New Mexico, 4:30 p.m.
West Texas A&M at Angelo State, 6 p.m.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
West Texas A&M at Angelo State, 1 p.m.
Cameron at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 1 p.m.
UT Permian Basin at Eastern New Mexico, 2 p.m.
All times are CST; *denotes LSC game
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
Complete results at lonestarconference.org.
WEEKLY AWARDS
Date Hitter
F-7 Adam Adkins, West Texas A&M
F-14 Cody Bower, Cameron
F-21 Elias Aguirre, Angelo State
F-28 Hunter Perkins, Texas A&M-Kingsville
M-7 Micah Kaaukai, Cameron
M-13 Adam Adkins, West Texas A&M (2)
Date Pitcher
F-7 Keenan Dodd, Eastern New Mexico
F-14 Marshall Kasowski, West Texas A&M
F-21 Seth Hubert, Texas A&M-Kingsville
F-28 Marshall Kasowski, West Texas A&M (2)
M-7 Matt Shannon, Angelo State
M-13 Joshua Payne, West Texas A&M
BASEBALL
LONE STAR CONFERENCE WEEKLY RELEASE | MARCH 13, 2017
Contact: Melanie Robotham | Assistant Commissioner | O: 972-234-0033 x. 103
melanie@lonestarconference.org | www.lonestarconference.org | Twitter: @LoneStarConf #LSCbase

2. LONE STAR CONFERENCE BASEBALL WEEKLY RELEASE Page 2
Texas A&M-Kingsville
1-4 last week.
UT Permian Basin
0-4 last week.
West Texas A&M
The Buffs continued their outstanding start to the season blanking 10th-ranked Texas A&M-Kingsville in a four
game series this weekend at Wilder Park...WT now has won six-straight and is a school-best 16-2 on the year...
It was just the second time in school-history WT has swept Texas A&M-Kingsville and the sweep is the fourth
series sweep of the season for the Buffs...For the series, the WT pitching staff tossed three shutouts as senior
Joshua Payne tossed his first complete game shutout of his WT career in a 7-0 win...He went all nine innings,
allowing two hits, one walk and fanned 16 as TAMUK hit just .069 against him...For the series, WT hit .386 on
49 of 127, while scoring 37 runs against a team who entered with a 1.98 ERA...The Buffs banged out 14 doubles,
three triples, while slugging .543 and reaching base at a .453 clip...WT went 4 of 5 in stolen bases and had a
season-low two errors leading to one earned run for the week in probably the most complete series from
batting to pitching this season...WT had a 0.84 ERA for the weekend pitching 31 innings, allowing 18 hits, four
runs - three earned, walked just nine and fanned 48 Javelinas as TAMUK hit just .161 for the series...Eight of
11 batters for the Buffs hit over .300 for the series in players who played in three or four games...Junior Jimmy
Cubillos hit a team-high .533 on eight of 15 from the plate with three doubles, seven runs scored and drove in
three...The Buffs now head to nationally ranked Angelo State in a non-conference match up in a rematch of the
2016 Lone Star Conference Championship which WT won in San Angelo in May earning their third trip to the
NCAA South Central Regional...ASU enters the series next weekend also 16-2.
LSC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
MAY 11-12-13 | NO. 1 SEED