The top six Lone Star Conference baseball teams will meet in
Abilene, Texas, this weekend for the annual LSC Baseball
Championship. The tournament features six teams for the fifth
straight year. The double-elimination event begins on
Saturday and concludes on Tuesday with the championship game set
for 1 p.m. All games will take place at Crutcher Scott Field
on the campus of Abilene Christian University.
LSC regular season champion ACU is the top
seed, while Southeastern Oklahoma is the No. 2 seed. Cameron
is seeded third, followed by Texas A&M-Kingsville at No. 4,
Angelo State at No. 5 and Tarleton State at No. 6.
The championship starts Saturday at 11 a.m.
with TAMUK facing CU. ASU will take on SE at 3 p.m., followed
at 7 p.m. with Tarleton against host and defending champions
ACU.
All the championship games will be aired live
via internet video streaming here. The webcasts are available
free of charge. Each webcast includes both video and audio,
with viewers needing only a computer with a high-speed DSL or cable
modem connection to the internet.
ACU earned the LSC regular season title for the 10th time with a
28-11 record.
LSC action continued last week with Southeastern Oklahoma sweeping
its four-game series, while Cameron, Tarleton State, Texas
A&M-Kingsville and West Texas A&M each won three of four
games.
LSC Baseball teams are 297-284 overall this season. In the
NCAA South Central Region, the LSC is currently 11-10 combined
versus Heartland Conference squads and 6-2 against the Mid-America
Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA).
Diamond Players of the Week
HITTER
KC Pfister, Southeastern Oklahoma, Jr., Infielder, Plano,
Texas/Plano HS
Pfister posted a monster weekend in a 4-0 sweep of rival East
Central. Pfister posted a .857 batting average, going
12-for-14 at the plate, while boasting an .800 on base percentage
and a 1.857 slugging percentage. He finished the series with
five doubles, three home runs and 12 RBI, in addition to scoring 12
runs. He also drew four walks and did not strike out.
Pfister posted a streak of 12 at bats in which he reached base
safely, and only four times on the weekend did he not reach base,
with two of those producing runs on sac flies.
Chris Casazza, Tarleton State, Jr., Outfield/First Base,
Temecula, Calif./Chaparral
Casazza tallied a pair of home runs on the weekend, helping the
Texans take three of four from the Wildcats at Crutcher Scott Field
in Abilene and lock in the No. 6 seed into this weekend’s LSC
Championships. His two run shot in the second inning of game one
helped give the Texans a 4-3 win over ACU. He hit his second homer
of the series in the third game of the series, a three-run shot in
the first inning to put the Texans up early 3-0. Tarleton closed
out the game with a 6-3 win, taking the first series from ACU in
Abilene, since 2003.
PITCHER
Jerry A’Hearn, Cameron, Jr., Pitcher, Tuscon,
Ariz./Central Arizona
Aggie game one starter Jerry A’Hearn pitched lights out for
the playoff-bound Cameron Aggies this week in a complete game,
shutout victory over the SWOSU bulldogs. He held opposing batters
to a measly .087 hitting percentage while only allowing 4
baserunners all game.
PJ Granado, West Texas A&M, Sr., Pitcher, San Antonio,
Texas/South San Antonio HS
Granado had his best performance of the year in game two against
Eastern New Mexico as he threw 6.0 shutout innings of relief,
giving up just 4 hits in a 11-4 win on Senior Weekend at The Dilla
Villa as the Buffs finished the season 23-20 overall with a 17-19
mark in the LSC.