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LSC Baseball Release – Week 4

Schedule and Results
Standings
Stats – LSC / National
Record Books – LSC / National
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The 2026 Lone Star Conference baseball season is four weekends in and two teams are atop the standings at 12-2: No. 2 UT Tyler and St. Mary’s. They have both won every series they have played.
 
New league member UT Dallas (10-4) and Texas A&M International (7-7) are coming off series sweeps.
 
West Texas A&M leads the league in hitting (.320) and fielding percentage (.974), while UTT is tops in pitching (3.97 ERA).
 
Austin Beck of No. 24 Angelo State was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) National Hitter of the Week on Feb. 19.
 
UTT was voted as the favorite to win the conference title in the LSC preseason poll. UTT junior shortstop Drew Schmidt and senior left-hander Caden Copeland were named LSC Preseason Player and Pitcher of the Year, respectively, to headline the 28 players on the league’s Preseason Watch List.
 
The LSC Baseball Championship will feature a two-week tournament. The opening round is best-of-three series and will be held May 1-3 (Friday-Sunday) at the sites of the No. 2 (vs. No. 7), 3 (vs. 6) and 4 (vs. 5) seeds. The league’s top seed will receive an opening-round bye and host the four-team, double-elimination championship round on May 7-9 (Thursday-Saturday). The LSC Tournament Champion will receive the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Championship.
 
The South Central Regionals are scheduled for May 14-17 with the Super Regional following on May 21-23. The campus sites are TBD. The national finals are set for May 29-June 6 at USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C.
 
Due to being NCAA Division II provisional members, UT Dallas and Sul Ross State are not eligible for the LSC or NCAA tournament but are eligible to win the LSC regular season title and postseason awards.
 
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NCBWA Division II Top 25 Poll / Feb. 18: #2 UTT, #24 ASU. Receiving Votes: SEU. Next ranking: Feb. 25.
 
ABCA Coaches Poll / Feb. 17: #3 UTT, #12 ASU, #27 StMU, #T30 SEU. Next ranking: Feb. 24.
 
D2Baseball Top 25 Poll / Feb. 23: #4 UTT, #15 ASU. Receiving Votes: StMU. Next ranking: March 2.
 
NCBWA South Central Region Poll / Feb. 11: #1 UTT (7 of 8 first-place votes), #3 SEU, #5 ASU, #6 StMU (1 first-place vote), #8 TAMUK, #9 UTD. Receiving Votes: LCU, CU. Next ranking Feb. 18.
 
 
LONE STAR CONFERENCE BASEBALL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

(Feb. 20-22 games)
 
HITTER
Austin Beck, Angelo State, 2B, Sr., MBA, Allen, Texas
Angelo State senior second baseman Austin Beck hit .563 (9-for-16) with two doubles, nine RBI and was 8-for-8 on stolen bases to lead the No. 24-ranked Rams to a series win over Oklahoma Christian. Beck, who wins the league’s top weekly hitting award for the second consecutive week, scored six runs and walked once. He was also hit by a pitch. Beck, who is also the reigning National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association National Hitter of the Week, has hit safely in 13 of 14 games this season. He was 4-for-5 with four stolen bases in the series opener. Beck has a .491 batting average and leads the league in hits (28), RBI (28), doubles (10), runs (24) and stolen bases (15).
 
PITCHER
Corbin Kwan, Oklahoma Christian, LHP, Jr., Finance, Edmond, Okla.
Oklahoma Christian junior left hander Corbin Kwan earned the win on the road against No. 24 Angelo State by tossing six shutout innings with nine strikeouts and allowing just two hits – both singles (one was a bunt). Kwan had at least one strikeout in five of the innings and retired the final four batters he faced in the 2-0 game that tied the series at one game each. Nine strikeouts is the most by any pitcher against the Rams this season.
 
 
WEEKLY AWARDS
 
LSC Hitter of the Week
Feb. 3      Garrett Brooks, St. Mary’s
Feb. 9      Ciro Benavides, Texas A&M International
Feb. 17    Austin Beck, Angelo State
Feb. 23    Austin Beck, Angelo State (2)
 
LSC Pitcher of the Week
Feb. 3      Tyler Schumann, Texas A&M-Kingsville
Feb. 9      Connor Freeman, St. Edward’s
Feb. 17    David Dean, UT Dallas
Feb. 23    Corbin Kwan, Oklahoma Christian
 
NCBWA South Central Region Hitter of the Week
Feb. 4      Garrett Brooks, St. Mary’s
Feb. 11    Ciro Benavides, Texas A&M International
Feb. 18    Austin Beck, Angelo State
 
NCBWA South Central Region Pitcher of the Week
Feb. 4      Tyler Schumann, Texas A&M-Kingsville
Feb. 18    David Dean, UT Dallas
 
NCBWA National Hitter of the Week
Feb. 19    Austin Beck, Angelo State