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1 Reagan Ratcliff, SID • [email protected] • M: 214-356-6309 Thomas Donley • [email protected] • M: 217-740-2875 PATRIOT BASEBALL DBU VS BAYLOR 2019 SCHEDULE FEB.15 KENT STATE W, 3-0 GAME DAY FEB.16 KENT STATE W, 8-4 Site: Waco, Texas FEB.17 KENT STATE W, 8-1 Stadium: Baylor Ballpark Feb.20 Oklahoma L, 2-4 Date: February 26 FEB.22 MINNESOTA W, 9-0 FEB.23 MINNESOTA L, 7-9 First Pitch: 6:35 pm FEB.24 MINNESOTA W, 7-5 DBU (5-2) Series History: 51-26 Baylor BAYLOR (7-0) Feb.26 Baylor 6:35 PM PATRIOTS Live Video: foxsportsgo.com BEARS MAR.1 HOUSTON BAPTIST 6:30 PM Live Audio: dbupatriots.com/watch Conference: MVC Conference: Big 12 MAR.2 HOUSTON BAPTIST 2:00 PM Head Coach: Dan Heefner Live Stats: baylorbears.com Head Coach: Steve Rodriguez MAR.3 HOUSTON BAPTIST 1:00 PM Alma Mater: Northern Iowa Twitter: @dbu_baseball Alma Mater: Pepperdine MAR.5 OKLAHOMA 6:30 PM Career: 435-231 (12th season) Career: 388-373 (16th season) DBU: 435-231 (12th season) Baylor: 102-73 (4th season) Mar.8 Oral Roberts 6:00 PM Mar.9 Oral Roberts 2:00 PM DBU BAYLOR Mar.10 Oral Roberts 1:00 PM •The Patriots are coming off their 30th series win in 32 •The Bears are 7-0 to start the season with sweeps MAR.12 TEXAS A&M 6:30 PM tries at Horner Ballpark since the start of the 2015 season. at home over Holy Cross and Cornell, two mid- MAR.15 HOUSTON 6:30 PM •DBU’s weekend rotation has been a strength major teams coming who have a combined record MAR.16 HOUSTON 2:00 PM this season, anchored by senior lefthander Jordan of 0-10 in 2019. MAR.17 HOUSTON 1:00 PM Martinson. Martinson has held opponents scoreless •Baylor was picked to finish second in the Big 12 MAR.19 OKLAHOMA STATE 6:30 PM through 12 innings in two starts and taken over Preseason Poll, receiving two first-place votes. Mar.22 Air Force 4:00 PM eighth place in DBU’s Division I era in wins with 15, •Cody Bradford is the reigning Big 12 Pitcher Mar.23 Air Force 2:00 PM while MD Johnson passed Cy Sneed at second with of the Year and was picked to repeat in the Mar.24 Air Force 1:00 PM his 21st career victory Sunday. conference’s preseason poll. He is joined on the MAR.26 UT ARLINGTON 6:30PM •Christian Boulware leads the Patriots with three preseason All-Big 12 team by Shea Langeliers, Nick MAR.29 VALPARAISO* 6:30 PM home runs on the season. The junior transfer hit 19 Loftin, and Davis Wendzel. MAR.30 VALPARAISO* 2:00 PM home runs in 2018 as a sophomore at Panola College. •Seven Bears who have played in at least four of MAR.31 VALPARAISO* 1:00 PM •DBU is in search of their first win in Waco since 2015. the team’s seven games enter Tuesday with and APR.2 BAYLOR 6:30 PM •Tuesday marks the eighth straight game for the OPS over 1.000 – Ricky Martinez (1.417), Davis Apr.5 Evansville* 6:00 PM Patriots against 2018 NCAA Tournament teams. Wendzel (1.373), Davion Downey (1.279), Josh Apr.6 Evansville* 2:00 PM •Jordan Martinson has held opponents scoreless Bissonette (1.275), Kyle Harper (1.204), Ryan Apr.7 Evansville* 1:00 PM through 12 innings to start the year, the longest such Bertelsman (1.042), and Cole Haring (1.031). APR.9 TCU 6:30 PM streak since Colin Poche started the 2016 season with •Baylor pitching has recorded a 1.97 team ERA Apr.12 College of Charleston 5:00 PM 13.1 scoreless innings. through seven games. Apr.13 College of Charleston 1:00 PM •The Patriot pitching staff is tied for third nationally •The Bears have outscored opponents 73-18. Apr.14 College of Charleston 1:00 PM with two shutouts. •Shea Langeliers, a preseason All-American at Apr.16 Oklahoma State 6:05 PM •The DBU bullpen has been a strength in 2019. Burl catcher, is expected to miss several weeks with a APR.19 BRADLEY* 4:00 PM Carraway, Zach Heaton, MacGregor Hines, broken hamate bone suffered opening weekend. APR.20 BRADLEY* 2:00 PM Peyton Sherlin, and Travis Stone have combined •Baylor fields the ball at a .973 clip this season, APR.20 BRADLEY* 6:30 PM for a 0.00 ERA through 10.1 innings with a 13-to-4 fifth-best in the Big 12. Apr.23 TCU 6:30 PM strikeout-to-walk ratio. APR.26 ILLINOIS STATE* 6:30 PM • The Patriots are 6-for-9 stealing bases on the season, APR.27 ILLINOIS STATE* 2:00 PM paced by Augie Isaacson’s two steals. APR.28 ILLINOIS STATE* 1:00 PM •DBU set a school record for fielding percentage in Apr.30 UT Arlington 6:30 PM 2018 with a mark of .977. Through seven games, the May 2 Missouri State* 6:00 PM Patriots’ fielding percentage sits at .980. May 3 Missouri State* 6:30 PM May 4 Missouri State* 2:00 PM MAY 7 STEPHEN F. AUSTIN 6:30 PM PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP MAY 10 INDIANA STATE* 6:30 PM Pos. No. Name Avg. HR RBI Notes MAY 11 INDIANA STATE* 8:30 PM C 7 Herbert Iser .217 0 5 Tied for the team lead with five RBIs. MAY 12 INDIANA STATE* 2:00 PM 1B 29 Bryce Ball .222 0 4 4-for-10 over last two games. May 16 Southern Illinois* 6:30 PM 2B 2 Blayne Jone .238 0 4 Leads team with 10 base on balls (.484 OBP) May 17 Southern Illinois* 6:30 PM SS 13 Jimmy Glowenke .214 0 4 Reached base safely in 36 straight games May 18 Southern Illinois* 2:00 PM 3B 19 Jackson Glenn .250 0 4 Three multi-hit games tied for team lead LF 4 Augie Isaacson .167 0 0 Two outfield assists on the season CF 42 Luke Bandy .292 2 5 Seven hits tied for team lead May 21-25 MVC Tournament - Normal, Ill. RF 5 Austin Bell .167 0 2 Sat out 2018 after transferring from New Mexico DH 12 Christian Boulware .375 3 6 Team leader with 1.412 OPS BOLD CAPS denotes home game Times listed are central Pos. No. Name W-L ERA IP Notes *Missouri Valley Conference contest RHP 17 Luke Trahan 0-0 4.50 2.0 1st Collegiate start DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY PATRIOTS • DBUPATRIOTS.COM • @DBU_BASEBALL DBU NOTES 2 MVC WEEKLY HONORS FITZ RATED NO. 7 ASSISTANT IN THE NATION Jordan Martinson: Baseball America rated Dan Fitzgerald as the No. 7 assistant coach in the nation in Pitcher of the Week (Feb.11-17) 2018. Since he arrived at DBU in 2013, the Patriots have landed 48 players on the Pitcher of the Week (Feb.18-24) All-Missouri Valley Conference team that were recruited and signed by Fitzgerald. On the national level, four Patriots have earned All-America honors, including Devlin PITCHERS MAKING HISTORY Granberg (2018), Darick Hall (2016), Colin Poche (2016), and Chance Adams (2015). Senior starting pitchers MD Johnson and Jordan Martinson are making their way up the DBU career leaderboards. Through two weekend series, Johnson sits in second HORNER BALLPARK RANKED AS TOP 20 VENUE place in DBU’s Division I era with 21 wins, third in starts (43), sixth in strikeouts The Home of DBU Baseball, Horner Ballpark, was ranked as the 20th-best venue for (179), and seventh in innings pitched at (210.0). Martinson is fifth in starts (38), fifth in college baseball in the nation, as announced by D1Baseball.com in 2017. In a survey strikeouts (176), eighth in wins (15), and ninth in innings pitched (196.1). sent to every full-time coach and sports information director across the landscape of NCAA Division I baseball, Horner Ballpark ranked No. 20, receiving three first-place PATRIOT BASEBALL IN ELITE COMPANY votes and 29 points overall. DBU enters 2019 as one of just 10 programs in the country to advance to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last five years and one of 16 to make the tournament in at Horner Ballpark opened its gates on February 15, 2013, and since then it has offered least seven of the last eight years. 2018 was the Patriots’ fifth-straight 40-win season, fans one of the most picturesque and unique experiences in all of college baseball. making DBU one of just four Division I teams to win at least 40 games in each of the last five seasons, joining Florida, Florida State, and Louisville. PATRIOTS PICKED SECOND IN MVC DBU is picked to finish second in the Missouri Valley Conference in a preseason poll GLOWENKE TAKES AIM AT ENCORE SEASON of conference coaches. The Patriots claimed two first place votes and finished one Sophomore shortstop Jimmy Glowenke gave himself a tough act to follow in his point behind Missouri State, who enters the year as the favorite. debut season, as he was named a unanimous Freshman All-American in 2018. The Lewisville, Texas, native placed in the top 10 in the Missouri Valley Conference in 10 categories, posting a .336/.432/.546 slash line with 10 home runs and 50 RBIs. He played every inning at shortstop, committing just five errors and finishing second among MVC shortstops in total chances handled and assists. Glowenke was named the MVC Freshman of the Year and was the first freshman to be named the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year.