ABILENE – Abilene Christian plays four home games this week, including a Tuesday matchup with Texas Christian.
TCU at ACU | 6:05 p.m. | Tuesday | Crutcher Scott Field | ESPN+ | Live Stats
California Baptist at ACU | 6:05 p.m. | Friday | Crutcher Scott Field | ESPN+ | Live Stats
California Baptist at ACU | 3:05 p.m. | Saturday | Crutcher Scott Field | ESPN+ | Live Stats
California Baptist at ACU | 12:05 p.m. | Sunday | Crutcher Scott Field | WAC International | Live Stats
ACU Storylines
PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Miller Ladusau, a senior outfielder, batted .615 with a home run, four doubles, five RBIs, a .600 on-base percentage, a 1.154 slugging percentage and six runs scored over four games against Texas Tech and UC Davis. Ladusau opened the UC Davis series 3-for-4 with a double, stolen base, two RBIs and a run on April 12, two hits, two RBIs and two runs in game two on April 13 and 2-for-4 with a solo home run and three runs scored in the series finale on April 14.
BIG SERIES: California Baptist is tied for the lead in the WAC and ACU is third heading into the weekend.
SAC FLIES: Abilene Christian has posted some productive outs this season, especially via the sacrifice fly. The Wildcats are second in the NCAA and lead the WAC with 28 sacrifice flies this season.
Gino D'Alessio and
Garrett Williams are tied for the WAC lead and 18
th in the NCAA with five each.
SHUTTING IT DOWN: ACU is 17
th in the NCAA this season with three shutouts. The Cats have blanked Tarleton State, Sacramento State and UC Davis.
RBI GINO: Gino D'Alessio leads the Western Athletic Conference with 39 RBIs this season. It's been a pretty steady flow all season with a single-game high of four RBIs against Northern Illinois.
WINNERS: Iain Campa and
Brett Lanman lead the Western Athletic Conference with five wins this season. The Wildcats have not lost a conference game that either of those two pitchers have started.
STRIKEOUTS: Brett Lanman leads qualifying WAC pitchers with 10.96 strikeouts per nine innings and he leads the Wildcats with 56 strikeouts in his 46 innings.
Brett Garcia has 36 strikeouts in 20.2 innings of work for a K-per-9 of 15.67.
ERA: The Wildcats have a team earned run average of 4.98 and are led by
Brett Lanman at 2.35.
HIT SQUAD: The Wildcats have a .273 team batting average, led by
Gino D'Alessio at .376 and
Miller Ladusau at .360. D'Alessio leads ACU with eight home runs and 39 RBIs and Ladusau leads with 33 runs scored and a .616 slugging percentage.
HISTORY WITH TCU: TCU has a three-game winning streak in the series, including a 4-0 win in Fort Worth in March.
Brett Garcia struck out five batters in two scoreless innings of relief and
Gino D'Alessio had two hits.
HISTORY WITH CBU: The teams have met four times with ACU losing two out of three in the regular season but taking a 4-3 win in the WAC Tournament last season. This will be CBU's first trip to Abilene.
About TCU
- Texas Christian is 22-12 on the season after taking two of three against Texas Tech last weekend.
- TCU is hitting .268, led by Logan Maxwell at .350.
- Kurtis Byrne leads the Horned Frogs with five home runs and 27 RBIs.
- TCU carries a 4.92 team earned run average.
About CBU
- CBU is 23-13 overall and 11-4 in the WAC after sweeping Stephen F. Austin last weekend.
- Michael Carpentier has 18 doubles and is fourth in the NCAA.
- The Lancers have five shutouts this season.
- CBU's 3.76 team earned run average is 11th in the NCAA. Lukas Pirko leads the team with a 2.14 ERA and Brandon Downer is at 2.21.
- California Baptist hits .273 as a team, led by Nicholas Dumesnil at .333
- Mitchel Simon has 12 home runs and 28 RBIs.
