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PING!BASEBALL SPOTLIGHT PERFORMANCE
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DIVISION I
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five games on offense last week, Texas A&M Corpus
Christi Islander Trey Hernandez was
on an island of his own, batting .714 with a 1.381
slugging percentage and a .731 on-base percentage.
The freshman first baseman finished
the week with 12 RBI and seven runs scored. Eight
of his 15 hits on the week were for extra bases.
Hernandez stared the weekend going 1-3 against TCU.
He followed it up by tying a school record with five
hits in five at bats at Baylor in a tough 11-8 loss.
In the Islanders three game series with Nicholls State,
Hernandez went 9-of-13 from the plate with three home
runs. In Saturday's 15-9 win over Colonels he had
two home runs in a single inning and finished the
game 4-or-5 with five RBI and two runs scored. He
launched his third home run in Sunday's series finale
going 3-for-4 with 3 RBI and two runs scored.
As if that wasn't enough , Hernandez pitched a complete
game against TCU, hurling 8.1 scoreless innings before
the Frogs scraped together the game's only run with
one out in the bottom of the ninth. He scattered seven
hits, walked two and fanned two in the longest outing
of his career.
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 Louisiana
Tech junior Jericho Jones hit .500
against San Jose State last weekend, highlighted by
a 5-for-7 performance in the 14-inning marathon on Saturday.
The outfielder/pitcher socked two home runs in the game,
including the game-tying 2-run shot in the bottom of
the ninth to treat those in attendance to some free
baseball. His slugging percentage for the week was a
tidy palindrome .929 and his on-base percentage was
.563. Despite pitching 7.1 innings in the first game
of Saturday’s doubleheader, Jones played all 14
innings of the second game.
In Saturday's first game Jones provided
his best pitching performance of the season for the
Bulldogs, earning his fifth win in just seven appearances
on the year. He held San Jose State to just two runs
(only one earned) on six hits.
For the season Jones leads the Bulldogs
with a 5-1 record and a 3.44 ERA and 30 strikeouts in
36.2 innings pitched. He has held opponents to a .216
average while he is batting .333 with five homeruns
for the 15-11 Bulldogs.
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 Santa
Clara freshman pitcher Thain Simon
has been nothing short of incredible his first season
for the Bronocs. Last week the right handed hurler
from El Dorado Hills, California was crucial to
the Broncos 3-1 week. Simon pitched six innings
on the week, and stuck out a jaw dropping 10 batters
while only facing 18 batsmen. Opposition was only
able to muster one hit and failed to plate any runs.
 Simon
registered his sixth win of the season to improve
to 6-0 against Cal, throwing two innings without
allowing and hits or runs while striking out four.
He earned his first collegiate save against San
Diego in game two of
the weekend series when he pitched three innings
and only allowed one hit while fanning four Toreros.
He tallied his second save of the season against
in the rubber game of the series to help Santa Clara
to a 2-1 series win by pitching a shutout ninth
and striking out two Toreros.
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DIVISION II
Freshman Matt Walsh
did it all for Mercy last week, batting .471 (8-for-17)
in four games while also contributing on the mound.
Walsh collected a pair of doubles to post a .588 slugging
percentage, knocked in two runs and made like a bandit,
swiping six bases in six attempts.
Walsh also took to the mound, tossing
5.2 innings of one-hit relief at Dowling. He struck
out four batters and allowed just a single earned
run in a no-decision. In the same game he went 2-for-2
with two stolen bases, including a steal of home that
would make Jesse James envious.
Walsh hit in all four games for the
Mavericks, He went 3-for-5 with a double, two runs
scored, a pair of RBI, and three stolen bases in Mercy's
first of three wins over Bridgeport, and went 2-for-5
with a stolen base in the third win of the series.
He currently leads the Mavericks with a .333 batting
average on the year, a .444 slugging percentage, a
.463 on base percentage, and has stolen 11 bases while
being caught only once.
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