March 2, 2005 Brian Shoup Robert Barrett
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Baseball Player of the Week
Shoup finished the week batting .500 with a three game hitting streak still in tact as he belted out two home runs. Shoup hit his first homer of the season to straight-away center field in game two and then ripped his second long ball to the short porch at Allen Field. Shoup is now batting .353 on the season as the Raiders starting third baseman and carries a .429 on-base percentage.
Baseball Pitcher of the Week
Wright State junior Robert Barrett is the Horizon League Baseball Pitcher of the Week for the period ending Feb. 28. Barrett's second Pitcher of the Week honor this season comes in consecutive weeks.
Barrett surrendered his first earned run of the season in the second inning of his second start of the season, giving him eight innings without an earned run in 2005. Barrett held the Eagles to a .143 batting average and allowed only three batters past second base in the second game of the doubleheader. Barrett threw 80 pitches this week and improves to 2-0 on the season for the Green and Gold with a minuscule 1.46 ERA.
Horizon League News & Notes
The Bulldogs open the 2005 season with a mid-week contes on the road against state rival Indiana on March 2 (
UIC Flames (0-5, 0-0 HL)
The third contest against Mchigan this past weekend wsa cancelled due to rain. Freshman first baseman Mark Hallberg has hit safely in his first five collegiate contests. Redshirt freshman Travis Kempf has not allowed a run in three relief appearances for the Flames this season. UIC turned four double plays in Saturday's 11-4 loss to
UW-Milwaukee Panthers (1-2, 0-0 HL)
The UWM baseball team faced some tough starting pitching in the opening weekend of the season as it went 1-2 at the Austin Peay Baseball Classic in Clarksville, Tenn. Milwaukee dropped the opener 9-1 to the host Governors on Friday, lost 5-3 to Akron on Saturday, and
finished the weekend with a 10-inning, 8-7, victory over
weekend. UWM did out-homer the opposition
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team prepares for its first weekend series of the season when it will face
the non-league three-game set with all three games taking place at Tomlinson Stadium on the ASU campus. Friday's game is set for
The Raiders take to the field again this weekend (Mar. 5-6) as they travel to
The Raiders have improved both offensively and with their pitching this season as the Raiders are hitting at a .317 clip as a team, that compared to the .250 after as many games last season. Pitching wise the Raiders are holding opposing hitters to a .260 batting average compared to the .363 average they carried after six games last year.
The Green and Gold currently have nine batters that have carried a hitting streak of three games or more, led by junior Amin Abusaleh who is riding a six-game hit streak and junior Chris Coleman who has hit in four straight.
YSU had a tough weekend going 0-3 against one of the nations top teams, the Texas Longhorns. Saturday's game was cancelled due to weather and a double header was played on Sunday to make up for the missed game. On the Penguins radar this week is a weekend series at Wofford. They will play two games on Saturday, March 5 and the third game in the series on Sunday, March 6.