Collegiate Baseball Poll
SAN ANGELO, Texas – The Angelo State baseball team will go into Lone Star Conference play ranked No. 4 in the nation.
ASU (16-4, 0-0 LSC) did not play last week, but jumped from No. 8 to No. 4 in this week's Collegiate Baseball poll which was released on Monday. The Rams will open conference action this weekend with a four-game series at Texas A&M-Kingsville (9-3) at Nolan Ryan Field.
“It's sort of like at the beginning of the season where it was like we were caged up and ready to go pounce on somebody,” ASU head coach
Kevin Brooks said. “Hopefully it's the same thing now. We have been held back not able to compete and hopefully when we hit it on Friday we'll be ready to go.”
Angelo State, which has outscored their opponents 131-64 this season, also advanced in the CollegeBaseballLineup.com's poll by moving to No. 22 from No. 23. The Rams slipped one spot to No. 21 in D2BaseballNews.com's rankings and are ranked No. 22 in CollegeBaseballLineup.com's poll.
The Collegiate Baseball ranking of No. 4 is the highest ever for the Angelo State baseball team following the previous high from last week at No. 8. The 2009 Rams were ranked No. 9 which was the highest in program history previous to this season. ASU remains the highest ranked Texas team in Collegiate Baseball's poll, while St. Mary's comes in at No. 2 by CollegeBaseballLineup.com and are No. 8 by D2BaseballNews despite the Rams beating the Rattlers on their home field this season and having the same loss total.
Ram Season Notes
The Rams are hitting .307 as a team this year with seven players hitting over .300…
Ryan Greer leads the team with a .373 average and 11 stolen bases… Greer is tied with
Toby Semler for the team lead with 25 hits for the year… Semler leads the team with five doubles and 72 plate appearances…
Andrew LaCombe is hitting .351 with four doubles in his first season with the Rams after transferring from Texas State…
Tate Allison leads ASU with three home runs this season is double-digits in runs scored (12) and hits (11)…
Lee Neumann (.333) and
Quaid McKinnon (.324) have provided consistent hitting and run production. McKinnon leads the team with 17 RBI with Neumann and
Brett Parsons adding 14 RBI each…
Doug Snover leads the team with 50 fielding assists from second base and has become a threat at the plate, boosting his batting average to .305 and scoring 18 runs… Senior shortstop
Zach Cohen missed the first two weeks of the season with injury but has returned to solidify the defense and add to the offense…
Jake Feckley (3-0) carries a 2.52 earned run average and 26 strikeouts into the weekend and is coming off win over Central Oklahoma in his previous start…
Rick Reyna (3-2) is a two-time LSC Pitcher of the Week and leads the team with 32 strikeouts…
James Conlee (2-0) is coming off his best start of the season in a win over UCO in the series finale and his a .253 ERA coming into the Rams' trip to Kingsville…
Michael Lange (2-0) has added depth to the Rams' pitching staff this season, earning both of his wins in starts and also serving as a reliever… Lange has a 2.70 ERA and has struck out 11 in 13 innings of work this season… Michael Weatherly (2-0) has solidified his spot as the team's closer and showed he can go more than an inning if needed. Weatherly went three innings of relief of Conlee in the Rams' series finale over UCO and pushed his strikeout total to 22 in only 13 innings of work.
Angelo State is 281-153 all-time in program history after going through its 2012 non-conference schedule with a 16-4 record... The Rams are 10-1 this season at Foster Field and 148-58 all-time when playing in San Angelo… The Rams are outscoring opponents 17-7 in the first inning, 15-6 in the second, 16-2 in the fifth and 7-0 in the eighth… ASU is 4-1 in away games and 2-2 in neutral site games this season… The Rams are 13-3 when playing during the day and 3-1 at night… ASU has had a six-game and eight-game winning streak this season... Defensively, the Rams have 27 errors in the first 20 games of the season… ASU is 18-10 all-time against the Javelinas and are 8-4 when playing at Nolan Ryan Field.
