Bearkat baseball sweeps Player of Week honors; receiving votes in NCBWA poll
4/20/2009 3:15:00 PM | Baseball
Sam Houston State swept the Southland Conference weekly baseball awards for April 20, 2009.
Bearkat second baseman Braeden Riley has been named the hitter of the week while right-hander Sean Weatherford has been named the Southland Pitcher of the Week, the league office announced Monday. Also on Monday the Bearkats returned to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Top 30 Poll, getting metioned in the also receiving votes section.
In five games last week, Riley was 15-for-25 (.600) with four doubles and a triple to drive in three runs and score nine. The sophomore from Woodville, Texas, was 3-for-5 in each of the five games, which included non-conference victories over Houston and Texas Southern. He was 9-for-15 in the three-game conference sweep of Nicholls State and hit two doubles in the series finale. Riley is batting .402 this season to rank sixth in the Southland. His 74 hits paces the conference.
Weatherford hurled the first complete game of the season for Sam Houston State Friday in the opening game of the Nicholls State series. He allowed only five hits and struck out eight in the 6-0 victory. The freshman from Bryan, Texas, walked one and limited opposing batters to a .161 batting average. Weatherford's 3.23 earned run average this season ranks fourth in the conference.
Sam Houston State won all five games last week to run its win streak to seven games. The Bearkats are 25-13 overall and 14-7 in the Southland Conference and are tied for second with UT Arlington (22-17, 14-7 Southland), just one and a half games behind Texas State (27-10, 15-5 Southland) in the standings with 12 conference games to play.
Sam Houston State begins a seven-game home series Tuesday night when the Kats play host to the Baylor Bears at 6:30 p.m. at Don Sanders Stadium.
NCBWA DIVISION I TOP 30 POLL (APRIL 20)
Rk.
School
Conference
Overall
Week
Pvs.
1.
North Carolina
Atlantic Coast
31-10
4-1
4
2.
Texas
Big 12
29-8
5-0
6
3.
Arizona State
Pacific-10
28-8
3-0
5
4.
Georgia
Southeastern
31-8
2-2
2
5.
Rice
Conference USA
27-10
2-2
3
6.
UC Irvine
Big West
26-10
4-1
7
7.
LSU
Southeastern
28-12
2-3
1
8.
Georgia Tech
Atlantic Coast
26-8-1
5-0
11
9.
Cal State Fullerton
Big West
24-11
2-2
8
10.
Florida State
Atlantic Coast
25-12
4-1
15
11.
Mississippi
Southeastern
28-11
3-1
16
12.
Miami
Atlantic Coast
26-13
1-3
9
13.
Arkansas
Southeastern
26-11
2-3
12
14.
Oklahoma
Big 12
29-11
1-3
10
15.
Baylor
Big 12
25-12
2-2
13
16.
Virginia
Atlantic Coast
30-8-1
2-1
17
17.
Cal Poly
Big West
27-9
3-1
19
18.
Texas A&M
Big 12
25-14
4-0
23
19.
Coastal Carolina
Big South
30-9
1-2
14
20.
TCU
Mountain West
23-11
1-1
21
21.
Clemson
Atlantic Coast
26-14
3-2
18
22.
Florida
Southeastern
26-14
3-2
22
23.
Ohio State
Big Ten
29-8
3-1
26
24.
East Carolina
Conference USA
28-12
2-3
20
25.
Oklahoma State
Big 12
25-15
4-1
28
26.
Oregon State
Pacific-10
23-9
3-2
25
27.
Alabama
Southeastern
27-13
5-1
-
28.
San Diego
West Coast
25-15
2-2
27
29.
Georgia Southern
Southern
28-9
4-0
-
30.
Kansas State
Big 12
29-11
3-2
29
Also receiving votes: Dallas Baptist (25-11), Elon (24-12), George Mason (30-7), Hawaii (24-13),
Kansas (25-14), Kent State (28-8), Liberty (26-12), Louisville (27-10), New Mexico (30-11), New Mexico State (32-8), Oral Roberts (21-9), Rhode Island (24-12-1), Sam Houston State (25-13), San Diego State (26-15), San Jose State (26-11), South Carolina (26-14), Texas State (27-10), West Virginia (28-9).
Dropped out: San Diego State (24), Kansas (30).
By conference: Atlantic Coast 6, Big 12 6, Southeastern 6, Big West 3, Conference USA 2, Pacific-10 2, Big South 1, Big Ten 1, Mountain West 1, Southern 1, West Coast 1.
