ABILENE – Abilene Christian has four games on the schedule this week, including the home conference opener against Texas-Arlington.
ACU at UTSA | Tuesday | 4 p.m. | WAC International | Live Stats | San Antonio |
ACU vs. UT Arlington | Friday | 6:05 p.m. | WAC International | Live Stats | Crutcher Scott Field
ACU vs. UT Arlington | Saturday | 3:05 p.m. | WAC International | Live Stats | Crutcher Scott Field
ACU vs. UT Arlington | Sunday | 1:05 p.m. | WAC International | Live Stats | Crutcher Scott Field
ACU Storylines
WALKS: Heading into the weekend, ACU was 35th nationally with 76 walks and they added 15 to that total over the weekend at Tarleton State.
SCORING: ACU is second in the WAC with 105 runs this season and fifth with 6.18 runs per game.
SERIES WIN: After winning the series at Tarleton State over the weekend, ACU is in a three-way tie for third with Sacramento State and UT Arlington at 2-1. ACU and Grand Canyon (3-0) are the only teams that took a series on the road over the weekend.
PITCHING IN: ACU is third both in ERA at 4.62 and runs allowed per game at 5.31. The Wildcats are atop the league in opponent batting average at .238. Hitters are struggling against
Brett Lanman at .206 and
Iain Campa at .222.
D'RBIS: Gino D'Alessio leads the WAC with 22 RBIs this season. He leads the league with four sacrifice flies.
TOP 10 HITTERS:
Miller Ladusau is third in the WAC with a .389 batting average and
Gino D'Alessio is 10th at .349. Ladusau also is third in the WAC with a .514 on-base percentage.
TRIPLES: There have been 23 triples in the WAC this season and
Reese Borho is the league leader with two.
STARTERS SHINE: Three ACU starting pitchers are in the WAC's top 12 for ERA.
Brett Lanman is fifth at 2.50,
Iain Campa is seventh at 2.92 and
Austin Glaze is 12th at 4.08.
GOTCHA: Brett Lanman is tied for the WAC lead with nine strikeouts looking this season. He is second in the league with 12.00 strikeouts per game.
LAST MEETINGS: ACU scored a 10-8 win over UTSA in Abilene last season. The Wildcats took two of three from Arlington last season, winning 6-4 and 12-7 after opening the series with a 4-3 loss.
About UTSA
- UTSA is 8-8 after dropping two of three at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi over the weekend.
- The Roadrunners are hitting .302 as a team with 19 home runs.
- Isaiah Walker leads the team with a .571 batting average.
- Caleb Hill is hitting .400 with four home runs and shares the team RBI lead at 13 with James Taussig.
- UTSA comes in with a 5.14 team earned run average and 141 strikeouts in 140 innings.
- Ruger Riojas is 3-0 with a 0.93 earned run average.
About UTA
- UT-Arlington is 6-10 overall and 2-1 in the WAC after winning a home series against Utah Tech this weekend.
- UTA hosts Oklahoma on Wednesday before coming to Abilene.
- The Mavericks are batting .234 as a team with eight home runs.
- Ryan Black leads UTA with a .300 average.
- Parker Airhart has the team lead with three home runs.
- Garrison Berkley has a team-best 11 RBIs this season.
- UTA's team earned run average is 5.16.
- The most used starting pitchers are Caylon Dygert (2-1, 1.99 ERA), Zach Norris (3-1, 2.92 ERA) and Aaron Calhoun (0-1, 7.13 ERA).
