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DBU PATRIOTS BASEBALL Reagan Ratcliff, SID • [email protected] O: 214-333-5942 • C: 214-356-6309 dbupatriots.com • @dbu_baseball DBU VS IOWA GAME DAY INFO Location: Dallas, Texas TV: None dallas baptist patriots iowa hawkeyes Field: Horner Ballpark Radio: None 2015 Record: 46-15 MVC: 15-6 2015 Record: 41-18 Big10: 19-5 Live Stats: sidearmstats.com/dbu/baseball Head Coach: Dan Heefner Head Coach: Rick Heller Live Audio/Video: dbupatriots.com/watch Record at DBU: 302-168 (9th Season) Record at Iowa: 71-41 (3rd Season) Twitter: @dbu_baseball Career Record: 302-168 (9th season) Career Record: 761-606-4 (29th season) Rank: 31 NCBWA vs Iowa: 1-1 Rank: NR vs DBU: 1-1 2016 SCHEDULE DBU NOTABLES IOWA NOTABLES FEB.19 IOWA 6:30PM FEB.20 IOWA 2:00PM •The Patriots are coming off a season in •Iowa’s 41 wins last year was the second- FEB.21 IOWA 1:00PM which they won a school-record 46 games most all-time and just the fourth 40-win Feb.23 Rice 6:30PM and finished the year ranked No. 15. season in program history. FEB.26 ORU 6:30PM •DBU spent eight of the final nine weeks of •The Hawkeyes’ trip to the NCAA FEB.27 ORU 2:00PM the 2015 regular season with the nation’s Regionals last year was their first since FEB.28 ORU 1:00PM MAR.1 TX SOUTHERN 6:30PM No. 1 RPI. 1990 and they won their first postseason Mar.4 New Mexico 7:00PM •Seven Patriots were selected in the Major game since 1972 when they went 2-2 at Mar.5 New Mexico 3:00PM League Draft last year, tying a school- the Springfield Regional. Mar.6 New Mexico 2:00PM record set in 2006. •Rick Heller is the winningest coach in his first MAR.8 SFA 6:30PM MAR.1O VALPARAISO 6:30PM •Among the 15 players DBU placed on the two seasons in the history of Iowa baseball. MAR.11 VALPARAISO 6:30PM All-MVC team in 2015, the Patriots return •Five Hawkeyes were drafted in 2015, MAR.12 VALPARAISO 1:00PM two First Team selections in Duzenack making it the most players taken from MAR.15 OKLA STATE 6:30PM (SS) and Sweet (OF), as well as Second Iowa in the MLB Draft since 1992, Mar.18 La-Monroe 6:00PM Team selection Wall (OF) and Honorable including highest pick Blake Hickman, 7th Mar.19 La-Monroe 6:00PM Mar.20 La-Monroe 1:00PM Mention selection Stutzman (LHP). round to Colorado Rockies. MAR.22 INCAR.WORD 6:30PM •Dan Heefner enters the 2016 season as •Iowa closer, Luke Vandermaten, was named Mar.24 Baylor 6:30PM the 24th winningest active coach in NCAA to the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch MAR.25 BAYLOR 6:30PM Division I Baseball. List, after going 2-0 with four saves and a MAR.26 BAYLOR 2:00PM Mar.29 ACU 6:30PM •DBU enters the 2016 season as one of 1.06 ERA in 22 appearances last year. APR.1 LIPSCOMB 6:30PM only 26 teams in the nation to advance to •Iowa was picked to finish fourth in the APR.2 LIPSCOMB 2:00PM the NCAA Tournament in at least four out Big 10 Preseason Coaches’ Poll. APR.3 LIPSCOMB 1:00PM of the last five years. •The Hawkeyes return 2nd Team All-Big 10 Apr.5 Oklahoma 6:00PM •DBU has been picked to finish second in selection, Calvin Mathews, along with Tyler Apr.8 Illinois State* 4:30PM Apr.9 Illinois State* 2:00PM the Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Peyton (1B/RHP) and Nick Roscetti (SS). Apr.10 Illinois State* 1:00PM Coaches’ Poll. -Offensively, Iowa returns 52 percent of Apr.12 TCU 6:30PM their RBIs from 2015, 46 percent of their APR.15 SOUTHERN ILL.* 6:30PM runs, 45 percent of their hits, and 43 APR.16 SOUTHERN ILL.* 2:00PM APR.17 SOUTHERN ILL.* 1:00PM HEAD-TO-HEAD percent of their doubles. Apr.19 UT-Arlington 6:30PM •Series tied 1-1: the only time DBU and Iowa met came during the 2007 season in Apr.22 Indiana State* 6:30PM Fresno, California. In their first-ever meeting on March 17, 2007, Iowa defeated DBU Apr.23 Indiana State* 2:00PM Apr.24 Indiana State* 1:00PM in a slug-fest, 17-13. The following day, the Patriots rolled to an 18-5 win, highlighted APR.26 TCU 6:30PM by a 7 RBI day from DBU’s Garrett Baker. Apr.29 Bradley* 6:30PM Apr.30 Bradley* 2:00PM PROBABLE STARTING LINEUP (with 2015 Stats) May 1 Bradley* 1:00PM Pos. No. Name Avg. HR RBI Note MAY 3 UT-ARLINGTON 6:30PM C 7 Matt Duce .208 0 3 14 games in 2015 MAY 6 EVANSVILLE* 6:30PM 1B 22 Darick Hall N/A N/A N/A All-American at Cochise MAY 7 EVANSVILLE* 2:00PM 2B 2 Luke Stratman N/A N/A N/A Transfer from Lamar CC MAY 8 EVANSVILLE* 1:00PM May 10 Okla State 6:00PM 3B 3 Austin Listi N/A N/A N/A Led team in HR in 2014 MAY 13 MISSOURI ST* 6:30PM SS 4 Camden Duzenack .286 4 39 All-MVC 1st Team in 2015 MAY 14 MISSOURI ST* 2:00PM LF 44 Daniel Sweet .265 1 12 All-MVC 1st Team in 2015 MAY 15 MISSOURI ST* 1:00PM CF 33 David Martinelli .267 10 37 2nd in HR in 2015 MAY 17 ACU 6:30PM May 19 Wichita State* 6:30PM RF 29 Justin Wall .301 12 58 Team best in 7 off. cat. in 2015 May 20 Wichita State* 6:30PM DH 19 Trooper Reynolds .269 7 32 39 starts in 2015 May 21 Wichita State* 2:00PM W-L ERA IP Note May 25-29 MVC Tournament TBD SP 14 Colin Poche N/A N/A N/A Transfer from U of Ark. SP 8 Dalton Higgins 0-1 2.95 36.2 Fr. All-Amer. in 2015 BOLD CAPS denotes home game Times listed are central SP 22 Darick Hall N/A N/A N/A All-American at Cochise *Missouri Valley Conference contest DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY PATRIOTS • DBUPATRIOTS.COM • @DBU_BASEBALL DBU NOTES/STARTS BY POSITION 2 PATRIOTS TABBED NO. 31 ENTERING 2016 and Darick Hall in the weekend rotation. Higgins is the lone returner who DBU checks in at No. 31 in both the Collegiate Baseball and the saw action on the mound last year, emerging as a key part of the DBU National Collegiate Baseball Writers Preseason Polls. The Patriots will pitching staff late in the season. Higgins’ first start came in the season finale face five teams in 2016 ranked in each of those preseason polls, including versus Wichita State. He also earned the starting nod against Bradley in Oklahoma State (No. 11 NCBWA & No. 25 CB), TCU (No. 11 NCBWA & the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament and tossed a complete game. No. 15 CB), Rice (No. 20 CB & No. 26 NCBWA), Missouri State (No. 17 Higgins final start of the year came against Virginia Commonwealth in the CB & No. 28 NCBWA), and Oklahoma (No. 30 NCBWA). Dallas Regional, in which he allowed just one run over 4.1 innings. WALL NAMED PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN As for DBU’s Opening Day starter this year, Colin Poche sat out last DBU Baseball redshirt-senior, Justin Wall, has been named a Second season after transferring from the University of Arkansas. In two seasons Team Preseason All-American by the NCBWA. Wall, who has played with the Razorbacks, Poche made 26 appearances, including eight starts. in 170 games over his three-year career as a Patriot, is coming off a Prior to signing with Arkansas, Poche was a fifth round selection of the banner year in which he was named a Second Team All-Missouri Valley Baltimore Orioles in 2012 out of Flower Mound Marcus High School. Conference selection, after leading DBU in seven different offensive The Patriots’ Sunday starter, Darick Hall, is a transfer from Cochise categories. Wall also pieced together a spectacular postseason in the College, where he was named a Third Team All-American last year after Dallas Regional, hitting .412 with two home runs and eight RBI to earn going 10-4 with a 2.09 ERA. Hall also stars as a first baseman and hit .365 All-Tournament recognition. As Wall enters his final season as a Patriot, in 2015 with five home runs and 53 RBI. he sits just 22 hits shy of reaching 200 for his career. DBU’s DRAFT CLASS OF 2015 With the announcement from the NCBWA, Wall becomes the fifth DBU tied a school record with seven draft picks in the 2015 Major player from DBU in the last seven years to be named a Preseason All- League Draft, matching the previous high set in 2006. Drew Smith was American, joining former Patriots Ryan Enos (2010), Landon Anderson the highest draft selection from DBU this year, as the junior right-hand (2012), Boomer Collins (2013), and Brandon Koch (2015). pitcher was taken by the Detroit Tigers in the third round. With the MVC PRESEASON POLL selection of Smith in round three, DBU is the only school from the state DBU checks in at No. 2 in the Missouri Valley Conference Preseason of Texas and one of only nine programs in the nation to have a player Coaches’ Poll, slotted just behind reigning conference champion, Missouri taken in the top three rounds in each of the last three years.