Bearkat baseball players etch names in record book
6/3/2010 11:20:00 AM | Baseball
Pitcher Dallas Gallant and second baseman Braeden Riley moved up in the career rankings.
Gallant now stands fifth all-time in career strike outs with 202. Riley moved up to 11th in Sam Houston career batting average with a .356 mean. During his senior season in 2011, Riley is 48 hits away from breaking Terry Pirtle's career mark for most hits (271).
As a team, the Bearkats' 597 hits this year ranks as the fourth highest single season total. Before Mark Johnson became head coach at Sam Houston, the school record was 556 in 1987. The Kats have topped that mark each of the last four seasons, rolling up 740 hits in 2008, 722 in 2009 and 707 in 2007.
Sam Houston's 15-inning game with Creighton went into the books as the sixth longest game in Bearkat history. The longest contest was 19 innings in a 6-4 loss to Houston in 1956 that lasted five hours and 10 minutes. This year, the Kats defeated Creighton 4-3 in three hours and 47 minutes.
Designated hitter Chris Andreas ended the 2010 season with the third longest hitting streak in school history. Pirtle holds the record with a 34 game streak in 1987. Andrew Kasparek had a 28-game streak that spanned both the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
Andreas's .376 batting average this season stands as the 13th best hitting mean since Sam Houston moved up to the NCAA Division I level.
Several single game performances made the record books.
Gallant's 13 strike outs in the Creighton game ties with Jesse Marshall's mark against Lamar in 2007 as the most strike outs by a Bearkat pitcher in an NCAA Division I baseball game. The school record for strike outs in one contest is 20 set by Ron Kainer against Adams State in 1974.
Tyler Jones and Payton Wisener became the 14th and 15th Bearkats to score four runs in a single game. Wisener and Riley became the 11th and 12th players to total five hits in one contest (both in the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi season finale victory).
Mark Hudson's three doubles against Texas State ties six other Bearkats as the second highest single game doubles total. Brandon Foster set the record with four at Southeastern Louisiana in 2003.
Daniel Nottebert, Mark Hudson and Taylor Davis each hit two home runs in one game this year. Nottebart's and Hudson's performance came against Houston Baptist while Davis parked two against Southeastern Louisiana. Only 25 Bearkats have ever hit two or more homers in one game. Steve Hume (1981), Tommy Cliffe (1989), Lou Ferrell (2001) and Bobby Verbick (2008) own the school record of three homers in one contest.
Greg Olson's three stolen bases at A&M-Corpus Christi ranks second in school single game annals. Todd Sebek set the record with four steals in 2007.
