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No. 4 Texas A&M Welcomes SFA to Blue Bell Park
COLLEGE
STATION, Texas – Following a season-opening series sweep of
Illinois-Chicago, the No. 4 Texas A&M baseball team is back in
action on Tuesday night when it hosts Stephen F. Austin in a 6:35 p.m.
contest on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS (2011 Stats)
TUESDAY (FEB. 21)
Texas A&M - #37 Derrick Hadley (So., RHP, 0-1, 5.40)
SFA - #4 Justin Choate (Jr., RHP, 0-0, 0-0)
TEXAS A&M/SFA SERIES NOTABLES
Tuesday
will mark the 21st time the Aggies and Lumberjacks have met on the
baseball diamond ... The 2012 season will also be the seventh
consecutive year the two schools have meet in the series ... the
initial meeting came way back in 1949 ... Texas A&M won the first
18 meetings between the two schools before SFA broke into the series
win column on Feb. 24, 2010, with a 7-6 victory at Olsen Field ... A
year ago, the Aggies defeated the ‘Jacks 7-5 in College Station, led by
three RBI from first baseman Jacob House.
MORE ON SFA
The
Lumberjacks opened their season last weekend at the Lamar Tournament in
Beaumont, Texas, dropping a pair of contests to Portland ... Sophomore
shortstop Hunter Dozier emerged as the team’s early offensive leader as
he went 4-for-6 with a pair of home runs during the season’s opening
weekend ... head coach Johnny Cardenas is in his fourth season at the
helm of the SFA program with a 57-54 overall record ... projected
starter Justin Choate will be toeing the rubber for the first time as a
‘Jacks after transferring from Texarkana College.
NOTES AND NOTABLES
•
Texas A&M swept away the Illinois-Chicago Flames on opening weekend
to start the season 3-0 ... It marked the fourth straight season the
Aggies have earned a sweep on opening weekend.
• Additionally,
the Aggies won on Opening Night for the 12th straight year ... A&M
is now 32-3 all-time in season openers on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
•
Reigning Big 12 Player of Year Tyler Naquin picked up right where he
left off during last season’s breakout sophomore campaign as over the
weekend the All-American right fielder hit .545 (6-for-11) with a team
high eight runs scored while also going a perfect 3-for-3 on the
basepaths.
• Senior Jacob House etched his name in Aggie
baseball history as he became the first player to homer in the newly
renovated Blue Bell Park, taking a first inning pitch from UIC starter
Joey Begel over the wall into the newly-constructed right field bullpen
... The Mansfield, Texas, native repeated the shot on Saturday, hitting
an encore first inning, two-run home run.
• Sophomore Rafael
Pineda flirted with perfection during Sunday’s series finale, carrying
a perfect game into the sixth inning and a no-hitter into the eight ...
to find the last no-hitter thrown by a Texas A&M pitcher you have
to go back to Feb. 14, 2004, when Zach Jackson held Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi out of the hit column during a seven-inning
contest.
• For the weekend, the Texas A&M pitching staff
yielded just two runs to finish with an impressive 0.67 ERA ... All
three Aggie starters (Michael Wacha, Ross Stripling and Pineda) picked
up the win on the mound, while the A&M bullpen allowed just three
hits in 7.1 innings of work.
UP NEXT
Texas
A&M is back in action this weekend when it welcomes Holy Cross to
Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park for a three-game series ... the will be
the season-opener for the Crusaders, who have never face the Aggies in
program history ... game times are set for 6:35 p.m. Friday, 2:05 p.m.
Saturday and 12:05 p.m. for Sunday’s series finale.
UPCOMING PROMOTIONS
•
TUESDAY - Junior Aggie Club Members get in FREE ... Twitter
Tuesday: Anyone who tweets @aggie_baseball before 4:00 will
receive a promotions code to purchase a $4 GA ticket for that day’s
game ... Baseball Bingo: Diamond Darlings will be passing out
Bingo Sheets on the concourse. Fans may fill them out based on
the plays the Aggie’s make to win minibats and other Aggie Baseball
prizes
• FRIDAY - Free Giveaway Friday - First 250 Fans will receive Aggie Baseball koozies
• SATURDAY - Have-A-Catch ... fans are invited to play catch on the field for 30 minutes following the game.
•
SUNDAY - Kids are invited to come down to the field and run the bases
following the game and The Junior Aggie Club will be passing out
drawstring bags courtesy of Southwest Dairy Farmers ... Junior Aggie
Club members get in FREE.
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