Friday, May 3
Canyon, TX
3:30 p.m.
Abilene Christian
vs
Texas A&M - Kingsville
Photo by: Daniel Gomez
Wildcats begin quest for 7th tournament title against Javelinas
5/3/2013 12:56:00 AM | Baseball
CANYON – The ACU Wildcats begin their quest for a seventh and final Lone Star Conference Tournament championship Friday when they take on Texas A&M-Kingsville in a first-round game.
The Javelinas and Wildcats will play the second game of the tournament at 3:30 p.m. at Wilder Park inside the Buffalo Sports Complex. The first game of the day at noon features regular-season champion and No. 1 seed against No. 6 seed Incarnate Word, followed by the No. 2 seed Javelinas and No. 5 Wildcats. The 7 p.m. game features the No. 3 seed Rams from Angelo State against the No. 4 seed Buffaloes from West Texas A&M.
Each of ACU's games in the tournament will be broadcast locally on KSLI 1280 AM.
The Wildcats are 3-2 this season against the Javelinas having lost, 8-5, on Feb. 4 in Houston in the final game of the Astros in Action D-II Invitational at Minute Maid Park before going on to win three of four games from the Javelinas in Kingsville, March 22-24.
Angelo State is the defending tournament champion, defeating Tarleton State in last year's final to win its second league tournament title (2007 was the first title for the Rams). ACU has won more tournament titles (six), more tournament games (38), played in more tournament games (59) and in more tournament championship games (11) than any other program in the LSC.
ACU is a combined 17-8 in tournament play against the other five teams in this year's field, including 4-4 against Friday's first-round opponent, Texas A&M-Kingsville. The Wildcats eliminated the Javelinas from last year's tournament with a 7-2 win in the loser's bracket game.
The Wildcats enter the tournament on a bit of a skid having lost their last three games of the season to Angelo State, despite allowing just 13 runs in those three games. ACU had a 2-1 lead over the Rams in the top of the eighth of Sunday's regular-season finale, but a two-out, three-run double turned the game around in favor of Angelo State as the Wildcats dropped the series finale.
ACU head coach Britt Bonneau (670-223-1 in his 16th season at the helm of the Wildcats' program) will likely send senior righthander Aaron Lambrix to the mound Friday to face the Javelinas. Lambrix dominated Angelo State last Friday in his last start of the regular season, scattering six hits and two unearned runs over seven strong innings of work as he got the win to improve to 4-4 on the season.
Lambrix is 4-4 with a 2.78 ERA in 68.0 innings of work. He has struck out 40 batters and walked just 14 while giving up 60 hits and 31 runs (21 earned). He pitched against the Javelinas in the second game of the March 23 doubleheader and went all seven innings, allowing just one hit and one walk while striking out five in a 4-0 Wildcat victory.
ACU's offense, which has sputtered most of the season, is led by junior third baseman Kyle Giusti, who is hitting .342 with one home run and a team-high 39 RBI. The Wildcats, however, are hitting just .286 as a team and have hit just eight home runs on the season.
The winner of Friday's ACU-Kingsville game will play again Saturday at 3:30 p.m., while the loser will play Saturday at noon in an elimination game.
OTHER TOURNAMENT NOTES
• ACU won the LSC Post-Season Tournament title in 1993 in Abilene, in 2000 in Stephenville, in 2001 in Edmond, Okla., and in 2002, 2009 and 2010 in Abilene.
• In tournament games, ACU is 6-1 against Tarleton State, 5-3 against Angelo State, 4-4 against Texas A&M-Kingsville, 1-0 against West Texas A&M and 1-0 against Incarnate Word.
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