Wildcats tabbed fourth in LSC pre-season baseball poll
1/25/2012 2:01:00 PM | Baseball
RICHARDSON – Defending regular season champion Incarnate Word was selected to win the 2012 Lone Star Conference baseball title as the preseason polls were announced by league officials on Wednesday.
UIW received 13 of the 21 first-place votes on the ballots cast by LSC coaches, sports information directors and various media representatives for 157 total points. The Cardinals – who finished 37-18 last season – fell to Central Missouri in the NCAA Division II South Central Region championship game.
The Cardinals' Kirk Jewasko was named LSC Preseason Pitcher of the Year. The senior from San Antonio, led the league with a 12-1 overall record and 103 strikeouts last season. Jewasko threw 91.1 innings with five complete games and a 3.31 ERA to earn the league Pitcher of the Year and first-team all-LSC honors.
West Texas A&M's Jess Cooper was tabbed LSC Preseason Player of the Year. The senior infielder from Belle Fourche, S.D., topped NCAA Division II in batting average and on-base percentage en route to first team All-LSC acclaim in 2011. Cooper finished the year with a school-record .494 average with 19 doubles, three triples, six homeruns, 50 RBI and 122 total bases for a slugging percentage of .763 and an on-base percentage of .565.
Tarleton State tallied 126 points with one first-place nod to finish second in the voting, while Cameron was third with 105 points and two top votes.
Angelo State and Abilene Christian tied for fourth place with 91 points, followed by WTAMU sixth (83), Texas A&M-Kingsville seventh (78) and Eastern New Mexico (25) rounded out the poll.
The 2012 season starts in early February with LSC teams playing a 7-week, single round-robin schedule with a four-game series against every other team. Each series shall consist of a 9-inning game Friday, a 7x7 doubleheader Saturday and 9-inning contest Sunday.
The overall LSC Champion will be the team(s) with the best winning percentage in regular-season conference games, while the winner of the postseason championship will be recognized as LSC Tournament Champion and receive the league's automatic qualification into NCAA postseason. The championship will be played May 5-8 in San Angelo.
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