UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS • 2019 BASEBALL SID Contact: Steve East • Phone: (501) 450-5743 • Cell: (501) 339-8215 E-mail: [email protected] • www.ucasports.com 2019 BEARS BASEBALL SCHEDULE UCA BEARS (27-24, 17-10 SLC) DATE OPPONENT TIME/RES GAMES FEBRUARY 15 vs. Bradley University L, 2-5 @ Lamar Cardinals (17-34, 8-19 SLC) 16 vs. Bradley University L, 3-4 17 vs. Bradley Universitry W, 13-9 52-54 Thursday 6:00 • Friday 6:00 • Saturday 2:00 23 vs. Illinois State W, 6-4 Vincent-Beck Stadium • Beaumont, Texas 24 vs. Illinois State (DH) L, 0-8; W, 4-1 26 @ Missouri State L, 7-9 27 @ Missouri State L, 3-15 MARCH • BEAR TRACKS • 1 vs. S. Dakota State W, 8-3 • SERIES HISTORY 1 vs. Missouri L, 0-4 The Bears lead the overall series with the Cardinals 15-13. The Bears are just 2-7 in games played in 2 vs. S. Dakota State L, 5-7 Beaumont. 3 vs. S. Dakota State canceled The teams have not met since 2016 when the Cardinals swept the Bears in Beaumont during the regular 5 vs. Arkansas State L, 6-9 season, winning 19-5, 7-6 and 9-2. UCA then beat Lamar 3-0 in the Southland Conference Tournament. Over four games that season, UCA hit .250 and had a 6.55 ERA, while Lamar hit .306 and had a 3.50 ERA. 8 @ SE Louisiana* W, 3-1 (12 inn) Tyler Langley hit .467 with a home run, triple and two doubles. UCA used 10 different pitchers in the four 9 @ SE Louisiana* W, 3-2 games, with freshman Cody Davenport picking up the only victory in his tournament start. The Cardinals hit six 10 @ SE Louisiana* L, 2-3 (11 inn) home runs and 14 total extra-base hits in the four games. The 19 runs allowed in the opener was the most since 12 vs. Little Rock L, 1-5 allowing 18 to Ole Miss the previous season. 15 vs. Nicholls State* W, 4-3 16 vs. Nicholls State* W, 5-0 • LAST WEEKEND The Bears won their seventh Southland Conference series in nine tries last weekend, sweeping Abilene 17 vs. Nicholls State* L, 1-2 Christian 3-0 at Bear Stadium on Senior Weekend. UCA won 4-1, 11-3 and 10-4. 19 vs. Oral Roberts W, 9-3 For the weekend, the Bears hit .322 and had a 2.67 earned-run average. ACU hit .225 with a 9.00 ERA. 22 vs. Stephen F. Austin* L, 1-3 Senior starter Cody Davenport started the weekend off right on Friday, striking out a career-high 13 in 8 23 vs. Stephen F. Austin* W, 7-0 innings of work, allowing just one run. UCA made the most of just four hits, along with four walks and two hit 24 vs. Stephen F. Austin* W, 9-3 batters. 26 vs. UA-Pine Bluff W, 8-1 UCA got another solid performance from freshman left Noah Cameron on Saturday as he improved to 6-1 with the victory. He allowed three runs and struck out 12, one short of his season high of 13. Junior 3B Beau 29 @ Texas A&M-CC* L, 4-5 Orlando went 4 for 4 with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored _ UCA’s first four-hit game of the season _ while junior LF 30 @ Texas A&M-CC* L, 8-9 (10 inn) Cole Fiori had 3 RBI, getting hit by a pitch twice with the bases loaded and three times total. Junior C Nathaniel 31 @ Texas A&M-CC* L, 6-7 Sagdalhl went 2 for 4 with 2 RBI. APRIL The Bears pounded out 12 hits in Sunday’s home finale, with junior SS Christian Brasher going 3 for 3 with 2 @ Oklahoma State W, 8-4 6 RBI and senior DH Tanner Wiley going 4 for 4 with 2 runs scored. Fiori scored four times in the win. 5 vs. McNeese State* W, 4-2 • GOVERNOR’S I-40 SHOWDOWN 5 vs. McNeese State* L, 1-2 The Bears and Little Rock Trojans are competing in the first year of the “Governor’s I-40 Showdown” in a 6 vs. McNeese State* W, 5-1 year-long battle between the schools who are just 25 miles apart. The teams will compete for points in each sport 9 @ Arkansas State L, 4-6 that both schools sponsor, with the exception of women’s basketball this year (scheduling issue), amounting to 12 @ Tennessee Tech* L, 2-3 17 contests and a total of 43 points available. 12 @ Tennessee Tech* W, 9-7 (10 inn) UCA actually wrapped up this year’s trophy way back in December after a victory over Little Rock in men’s 14 @ Tennessee Tech* W, 11-5 basketball. After Tuesday’s 5-1 loss to the Trojans in at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock, UCA outscored Lamar 26.5 points to 16.5 to win the inaugural traveling trophy. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson threw out the 16 @ Little Rock L, 2-4 ceremonial first pitch for the series finale on Tuesday. 19 vs. Sam Houston* W, 6-1 19 vs. Sam Houston* W, 4-1 • 500 CLUB 20 vs. Sam Houston* W, 6-2 UCA head coach Allen Gum joined the 300 Club in 2013 and the 400 Club in 2016 and last weekend hit 23 @ UA-Pine Bluff W, 13-3 the 500-win mark with a win over ACU on Sunday. He now stands at 500-296 as a collegiate head coach He 26 @ Houston Baptist* W, 4-1 ranks fourth in the Southland Conference in career victories behind Jim Gilligan at Lamar, Butch McBroom at UT-Arlington and Pat Patterson at Louisiana Tech. 27 @ Houston Baptist* W, 2-1 Gum was 226-68 in five seasons at his alma mater Division II Southern Arkansas (Magnolia, Ark.), and is 28 @ Houston Baptist* L, 2-4 now 274-229 in his ninth season at UCA. He is the winningest coach in UCA history, ahead of second-place Doug MAY Clark (209, 2003-10). 3 @ Incarnate Word* L, 6-14 4 @ Incarnate Word* W, 5-4 • SENIOR WEEKEND 5 @ Incarnate Word* L, 7-10 Six UCA seniors played their final home games of their careers last weekend. They include: pitchers Cody 10 vs. Abilene Christian* W, 4-1 Davenport, Tanner Wiley and Taylor Anders; 1B Tyler Smith; 2B Jay Anderson, and OF Brett D’Amico. Those seniors have combined to win 122 games, and counting, and have made four consecutive trips to 11 vs. Abilene Christian* W, 11-3 the Southland Conference Tournament in Sugar Land, Texas. 12 vs. Abilene Christian* W, 10-4 The graduating seniors _ Davenport and D’Amico _ went through graduation ceremonies with UCA President 14 vs. Little Rock (NLR) L, 1-5 Houston Davis, UCA Provost Dr. Patricia Poulter and UCA athletic director Dr. Brad Teague prior to Friday’s game. 16 @ Lamar* 6:00 Also, senior Conner Williams (year of eligibility left) and junior Christian Brasher graduated on Friday. 17 @ Lamar* 6:00 All six seniors were honored on Sunday, along with their mothers on Mother’s Day at Bear Stadium. 18 @ Lamar* 2:00 • AROUND THE SLC 22-25 SOUTHLAND TOURNAMENT The Bears clinched their eighth straight SLC Tournament appearance with Saturday’s victory. UCA is cur- Constellation Field • Sugar Land, TX rently in a three-way tie for second place with SE Louisiana and Incarnate Word, one game behind Sam Houston State, which the Bears swept in Conway last month. UCA could at least tie its highest seed since they have been eligible for the tournament. UCA was a No. 4 seed in 2017 with a 17-13 league mark. The Bears lost to Sam Houston State in the championship game that season. The 17 conference victories ties the most since joining the league in 2007 (also in . UCA, with a series against last place Lamar remaining this weekend in Beaumont, could finish anywhere from first to seventh in the final regular-season standings. UCA owns the tiebreaker on both SHSU (sweep at home) and SLU (won 2 of 3 in Hammond) but lost 2 of 3 at UIW. UCA was a No. 5 seed last season and went 0-2. The Bears won the SLC Tournament in 2013 as a No. 7 seed with a 16-17 SLC record, winning five straight elimination games after losing their opening game. UCA 2019 CENTRAL ARKANSAS BASEBALL • PAGE 2 reached the title game against in 2014 as a No. 6 seed when the tournament was played in Conway. UCA has reached the championship game three times since 2013. Since 2011, only two No. 1 seeds have won the tournament. Texas State won it in 2011 as the top seed and Sam Houston State won it in 2016 as No. 1. • SLC HONORS True freshman left hander Noah Cameron earned UCA’s first Southland Conference weekly honor on March 18 when he was named the SLC Pitcher of the Week. Cameron, from St. Joseph (Mo.) High School, tossed a complete-game, four-hit shutout against Nicholls State on Saturday, striking out a career-high 13 and walking just 1, while allowing just four singles. Junior lefty Brad Verel earned POW honors on April 8 after earning two victories that week. He got the W in relief against No. 23 Oklahoma State with 4.2 innings, allowing six hits and two runs while striking out five and walking none.