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With seven weeks of Lone Star Conference baseball in the books, there are three teams locked up at the top of the standings with .750 winning percentages: St. Edward’s (21-7), UT Tyler (21-7) and Angelo State (18-6).
 
SEU has won seven of their last eight conference games and is 10-2 on the road. UT Tyler split with Eastern New Mexico last week and ASU had a bye weekend.
 
West Texas A&M is right on the trio’s heels with a 17-7 record fueled by a five-game winning streak.
 
ASU is leading the conference in hitting (.396) and fielding (.976), while UT Tyler leads in pitching (3.89 ERA). LCU has hit a league-high 43 home runs, led by Brevin McCool’s 17. McCool is also leading the LSC in RBI (41), slugging percentage (1.068) and OPS (1.603). ASU’s Jacob Guerrero has the league’s top batting average at .485. UT Permian Basin’s Kaleb Scull has 14 doubles, while UT Tyler’s Drew Schmidt and Cameron’s Zane Roos have four triples. SEU’s Travis Chestnut has 25 stolen bases.
 
SEU’s Kobe Jaramillo is 7-0 on the mound with a league-leading 60 strikeouts. His teammate Parker Tennill has seven saves to also lead the conference. UT Tyler’s Rawley Hector has an LSC-best 1.96 ERA over 41 1/3 innings of work.
 
Two Lone Star Conference records have been broken this season as West Texas A&M senior first baseman Dylan Fesperman had 13 RBI in a game and Lubbock Christian senior infielder Brevin McCool hit four home runs in a game.
 
Four players from the LSC have won national player of the week honors by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association – three hitters and one pitcher. Fesperman (March 5), McCool (Feb. 13) and Cameron senior third baseman Lance Barnett (Feb. 6) have won the hitting award, while LCU senior left-hander Ryan Markwardt (Feb. 20) was honored for pitching.
 
ASU was the top pick in the LSC preseason poll. ASU graduate student and outfielder Jacob Guerrero and UT Tyler senior right-hander Rawley Hector were named LSC Preseason Player and Pitcher of the Year, respectively.
 
The LSC Baseball Championship will feature a two-week tournament comprised of the top seven teams. The opening round is best-of-three series and will be held May 2-4 at the sites of the No. 2 (vs. No. 7), 3 (vs. 6) and 4 (vs. 5) seeds. The league’s top seed from the regular season will receive an opening-round bye and host the double-elimination championship round on May 8-10. The LSC Tournament Champion will receive the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Championship.
 
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NCBWA Division II Top 25 Poll / March 12: #4 UT Tyler; #6 ASU; #14 SEU. Receiving Votes: WT. Next ranking: March 19.
 
D2Baseball Top 25 Poll / March 17: #4 ASU; #5 UT Tyler; #25 WT. Receiving Votes: SEU. Next ranking: March 24.
 
NCBWA South Central Region Poll / Week 5 (March 12): #1 UT Tyler (7 of 8 first-place votes); #2 ASU Tyler (1 first-place vote); #3 SEU; #5 WT; #6 LCU; #8 StMU; #9 TAMUK. Receiving Votes: ENMU. Next ranking March 19
 
 
LONE STAR CONFERENCE BASEBALL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Games March 11-17
 
HITTER
Dylan Fesperman, West Texas A&M, 1B/DH, Sr., Finance, Phoenix, Ariz.
West Texas A&M senior first baseman/designated hitter Dylan Fesperman recorded a cycle and hit .571 with two home runs, a triple, two doubles and 10 RBI to fuel a four-game sweep of Sul Ross State. Fesperman, who wins the league’s top weekly hitting award for the second time in three weeks, scored 11 runs, walked twice and stole two bases. He also played errorless defense. In his cycle – the second one for the Buffs this season (joining Kyle Micklus) – Fesperman went 5-for-5 and drove in eight runs. His eight RBI are the second most in an LSC game this season, trailing only his NCAA Division II-record 13 he drove in on Feb. 28.
 
PITCHER
Ryan Markwardt, Lubbock Christian, LHP, Sr., Management Information Systems, Itasca, Texas
Lubbock Christian senior left-hander Ryan Markwardt threw a complete-game, two-hit shutout with five strikeouts on the road against Texas A&M International. Markwardt, who wins the league’s top weekly pitching award for the second time this season, walked only one batter and needed just 92 pitches in his gem. Both the hits Markwardt surrendered were singles – one in the first inning and one in the third – and he did not allow a runner past second base. There have been seven complete-game shutouts in the LSC this season and Markwardt has two of them.
 
 
Weekly Awards

LSC Hitter of the Week
Feb. 3      Lance Barnett, Cameron
Feb. 10    Brevin McCool, Lubbock Christian
Feb. 17    Kyle Micklus, West Texas A&M
Feb. 25    Weston Valasek, Angelo State
March 3   Dylan Fesperman, West Texas A&M
March 11 Brevin McCool, Lubbock Christian (2)
March 18 Dylan Fesperman, West Texas A&M (2)
 
LSC Pitcher of the Week
Feb. 3      Kobe Jaramillo, St. Edward’s
Feb. 10    Tristan Copeland, Oklahoma Christian
Feb. 17    Ryan Markwardt, Lubbock Christian
Feb. 25    Rawley Hector, UT Tyler
March 3   Ulises Quiroga, Texas A&M-Kingsville
March 11 Julius Carpio, West Texas A&M
March 18 Ryan Markwardt, Lubbock Christian (2)
 
NCBWA South Central Region Hitter of the Week
Feb. 4      Lance Barnett, Cameron
Feb. 11    Brevin McCool, Lubbock Christian
Feb. 18    Kyle Micklus, West Texas A&M
March 4   Dylan Fesperman, West Texas A&M
March 11 Brevin McCool, Lubbock Christian (2)
 
NCBWA South Central Region Pitcher of the Week
Feb. 4      Kobe Jaramillo, St. Edward’s
Feb. 11    Tristan Copeland, Oklahoma Christian
Feb. 18    Ryan Markwardt, Lubbock Christian
Feb. 25    Rawley Hector, UT Tyler
March 4   Ulises Quiroga, Texas A&M-Kingsville
March 11 Julius Carpio, West Texas A&M
 
NCBWA National Hitter of the Week
Feb. 6      Lance Barnett, Cameron
Feb. 13    Brevin McCool, Lubbock Christian
March 6   Dylan Fesperman, West Texas A&M
 
NCBWA National Pitcher of the Week
Feb. 20    Ryan Markwardt, Lubbock Christian