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South Dakota State University Athletics
Streaking Jacks host Southern Utah
4/21/2011 3:18:00 PM | Baseball
The South Dakota State University baseball team will play its first Summit League home series of the season, opening a four-game set Friday afternoon against Southern Utah.
First pitch Friday is set for 3 p.m. at Erv Huether Field on the SDSU campus. The two teams are scheduled to play a doubleheader Saturday, starting at noon, with the series finale slated for a 1 p.m. start on Sunday.
The Jackrabbits enter the weekend atop The Summit League with a 7-1 mark after sweeping a four-game series at Centenary (La.) last weekend. SDSU is riding an eight-game winning streak and has won 17 of its last 18 games to compile a 20-10 overall record.
Southern Utah has posted a 15-18 overall record so far this season and is 4-4 in The Summit League after splitting their first two series of the season against North Dakota State and IPFW.
Audio broadcasts of all four games of the series will be available through the Jackrabbit Extra subscription service at GoJacks.com. Pre-game shows begin 15 minutes prior to scheduled first pitch each day, with Tyler Merriam calling the play-by-play. Links to live stats also will be available at GoJacks.com.
The Jackrabbits outscored Centenary by a 20-6 margin from the sixth inning on in the four-game series. SDSU received pinch-hit home runs from Daniel Telford in the series opener on April 15 and Phil Paquette in the series finale on April 17.
First pitch Friday is set for 3 p.m. at Erv Huether Field on the SDSU campus. The two teams are scheduled to play a doubleheader Saturday, starting at noon, with the series finale slated for a 1 p.m. start on Sunday.
The Jackrabbits enter the weekend atop The Summit League with a 7-1 mark after sweeping a four-game series at Centenary (La.) last weekend. SDSU is riding an eight-game winning streak and has won 17 of its last 18 games to compile a 20-10 overall record.
Southern Utah has posted a 15-18 overall record so far this season and is 4-4 in The Summit League after splitting their first two series of the season against North Dakota State and IPFW.
Audio broadcasts of all four games of the series will be available through the Jackrabbit Extra subscription service at GoJacks.com. Pre-game shows begin 15 minutes prior to scheduled first pitch each day, with Tyler Merriam calling the play-by-play. Links to live stats also will be available at GoJacks.com.
THE SERIES: Friday's game marks the 15th meeting between SDSU and Southern Utah on the baseball diamond. The series is tied at 7-all after the two squads split a four-game series last season in Cedar City, Utah.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: SDSU extended its winning streak to eight games with some timely hitting in last weekend's series at Centenary.The Jackrabbits outscored Centenary by a 20-6 margin from the sixth inning on in the four-game series. SDSU received pinch-hit home runs from Daniel Telford in the series opener on April 15 and Phil Paquette in the series finale on April 17.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: Five different Jackrabbit players have been honored as Summit League Player/Pitcher of the Week so far in 2011.
Most recently, relief pitcher Trever Vermeulen was named Summit League Pitcher of the Week for the first time this season and sixth time in his record-setting career.
A senior from Mitchell, Vermeulen increased his school-record saves total to 18 by recording three saves in the Jackrabbits' four-game sweep of Centenary (La.) this past weekend. The right-hander did not allow a run as he pitched at least 1 2/3 innings in each of his appearances. He struck out a combined seven batters, did not issue a walk and held opponents to a .105 batting average (2-for-19) in 5 2/3 total innings.
Vermeulen also set the Jackrabbit career record for pitching appearances over the weekend with 73, breaking the previous mark of 71 set by Gary Olechoski from 2003-06. An All-America selection last season, Vermeulen was honored as Summit League Pitcher of the Week four times in 2010 and once in 2009.
Southern Utah shortstop Bo Cuthbertson was honored as Summit League Player of the Week.
Other Jackrabbits honored by The Summit League this season have been:
• Blake Treinen, Pitcher of the Week (March 7);
• Stephen Bougher, Pitcher of the Week (March 21);
• Andrew Phelan, Player of the Week (March 21);
• Eric Cain, Player of the Week (April 4).
PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS: South Dakota State University seniors TreverVermeulen and Jesse Sawyer have each been honored on the preseason All-America baseball team selected by College Baseball Lineup.
A second-team selection as a relief pitcher, Vermeulen was named to his third preseason All-America team. A Mitchell native, Vermeulen was a first-team all-Summit League selectionin 2010 after leading the league with single-season school records of 10 saves and 35appearances. He compiled a 9-1 record, struck out 62 batters in 68 1/3 innings and posteda league-leading 1.45 earned run average.
Earlier in the preseason, Vermeulen was named to the 2011 Proline Athletic National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Preseason All-America Second Team and the Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America Third Team, as chosen by Collegiate Baseball.
Sawyer was a third-team selection as a third baseman to the College Baseball Lineup
Preseason All-America Team. A native of Calgary, Alberta, Sawyer holds the Jackrabbits' single-season home run record of 19 - accomplishing the feat in both 2009 and 2010. A two-time all-Summit League performer, Sawyer hit .359 with 73 runs batted in last season, while drawing a single-season school-record 50 bases on balls.
RECORD WATCH: Four Jackrabbit seniors - Joel Blake, Jesse Sawyer, Billy Stitz and Trever Vermeuelen - have already or are on pace to further rewrite the SDSU record book this season.
Following is a look at where the SDSU quartet currently stand in a number of career
categories:
Joel Blake
• Doubles: First with 60 (previous record: 54, by Greg Geary, 2002-05)
• Total Bases: Tied for seventh with 348 (record: 439, by Greg Geary, 2002-05)
Jesse Sawyer
• Bases on Balls: Sixth with 87 (record: 123, by Dave Lane, 1983-86);
• Home Runs: First with 45 (previous record: 43, by Greg Geary, 2002-05);
• Runs Batted In: Eighth with 152 (record: 192, by Billy McMacken, 1987-90);
• Slugging Percentage: Seventh at .652 (record: .713 by Billy McMacken, 1987-90)
• Total Bases: Sixth with 356 (record: 439, by Greg Geary, 2002-05)
Billy Stitz
• At-Bats: First with 804 (previous record: 779, by Nick Adams, 2005-08);
• Doubles: Second with 56 (record: 60, by Joel Blake, 2009-present);
• Games Played: Tied for seventh with 191 (record: 207, by Nick Adams, 2005-08)
• Hits: First with 273 (previous record: 256, by Greg Geary, 2002-05);
• Runs Batted In: Tied for ninth with 150 (record: 192, by Billy McMacken, 1987-90);
• Runs Scored: Fourth with 168 (record: 173, by Korby Mintken, 2005-08);
• Total Bases: Second with 412 (record: 439, by Greg Geary, 2002-05)
• Triples: Second with 13 (record: 21, by Korby Mintken, 2005-08)
Trever Vermeulen
• Appearances: First with 73 (previous record: 71, by Gary Olechoski, 2003-06);
• Earned Run Average: Third at 2.46 (record: 2.09 by Bob Ehrke, 1954-56);
• Saves: First with 18 (shares record with Gary Olechoski, 2003-06)
In addition, junior shortstop Eric Cain currently stands second in career assists with 353 — 45 behind all-time leader Pat Schmidt (380 assists from 1992-95).
TREINEN ON TRACK: Senior pitcher Blake Treinen has picked up where he left off last season as a front-line starter for the Jackrabbits.
A right-hander from Osage City, Kan., Treinen has posted a 3-2 record with a 2.39 earned run average in seven starts this season. The Summit League Pitcher of the Week on March 7, Treinen has averaged nearly a strikeout an inning by fanning 45 batters in 49 innings. In his last outing, Treinen struck out seven batters and allowed only one run and four hits in a complete-game victory April 16 at Centenary (La.).
In 2010, Treinen was a first-team all-Summit League selection after posting a 7-1 record with 82 K's in 75.1 innings. He was a 23rd-round draft choice of the Florida Marlins in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft, but opted to return to SDSU for his senior season.
COACH PRICE: Ritchie Price is in his third season as head coach of the South Dakota State University baseball team in 2011.
The youngest head baseball coach at the Division I level, Price has compiled an 85-61 career record (.582 winning percentage) with the Jackrabbits, including a breakthrough
39-21 season in 2010 as he was named Summit League Coach of the Year. SDSU tied a school record for most wins in a season, shared the regular season league title and earned the No. 1 seed for the Summit League Championship after becoming the first league team to win a four-game regular season series from perennial conference champion Oral Roberts.
Also included in the record-tying 39 victories were a win at nationally ranked and returning College World Series qualifier Arkansas, a three-game season sweep of Big Ten Conference champion Minnesota and a win over the third-place team in the Big Ten, Iowa.
En route to their second consecutive appearance in the Summit League title series, the Jackrabbits re-wrote the record book in 2010, establishing new standards in eight different offensive categories, including batting average (.350), hits (769), runs scored (578), home runs (84) and runs batted in (549). SDSU was far from one-dimensional, however, as the Jackrabbits also set a new single-season record for fielding percentage at .972 and relief pitcher Trever Vermeulen became the first player in the Division I era to earn All-America recognition. The Jackrabbits' eight all-league honorees led The Summit League.
In 2009, Price directed a dramatic mid-season turnaround during his inaugural season with the Jackrabbits. After starting the 2009 campaign with a 5-22 overall record and 1-6 mark in Summit League play, SDSU went 19-6 over the final five weeks of the regular season to earn the third seed in the Currington Mortgage Summit League Championship.
At the league tournament, the Jackrabbits dropped their opening game to Southern Utah but came back to defeat both Centenary (La.) and Southern Utah the next day to advance to the title series, where they lost to Oral Roberts.
Overall, SDSU finished the 2009 season with a 26-30 record, including a 17-10 slate in Summit League regular season games.
Price began his association with the Jackrabbit baseball program by serving as infield and third base coach in 2008, and was elevated to interim head coach following the resignation of Reggie Christiansen in June 2008. During his tenure, two SDSU players have been drafted by Major League teams: left-handed pitcher Caleb Thielbar in the 18th round of the 2009 draft by the Milwaukee Brewers and right-handed pitcher Blake Treinen in the 23rd round of the 2010 draft by the Florida Marlins.
A native of San Luis Obispo, Calif., Price comes from a baseball family. His two brothers - Ryne and Robby - also played at the University of Kansas, where their father, Ritch, is currently the head baseball coach.
Ritchie Price also played at Kansas, setting Jayhawk career records for games played (255), at bats (1,022), hits (312), runs scored (204), sacrifices (35) and hit by pitches (53). Price's graduating class owns the most wins of any class in Kansas baseball history.
In 2006, Price helped lead the Jayhawks to a Big 12 Conterence championship, as Kansas went 4-0 to win the conference title. After earning an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament, Price's squad went 1-2, earning a win over Hawaii in the opening game.
Price was one of the ironmen of college baseball, starting 252 consecutive games at shortstop. Although no official records are kept by the NCAA, this is most certainly among the best in college baseball history.
He was a four-time all-Big 12 selection, and was named the conference's best defensive shortstop in 2004 by Baseball America.
Following his career with the Jayhawks, Price was an 18th round draft pick of the New York Mets in Major League Baseball's first-year player draft. Price started with the Kingsport Mets of the Appalachian League, but also spent a week in Class A, playing for the Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York-Penn League.
THE ROSTER: The 2011 SDSU baseball roster features 28 players from 10 different states plus Canada. Of the 28 players, six are from South Dakota, while four are from Colorado. Minnesota and Texas are represented by three players, while California, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and Washington feature one player each. In addition, six players are from Canada. By class, nine are seniors, seven are juniors, seven are sophomores, two are redshirt freshmen and three are incoming freshmen.
A LOOK AHEAD: Inclement weather forced the postponement of the April 20 matchup between SDSU and Minnesota.
The game is scheduled to be made up on Tuesday, April 26. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m. at Siebert Field on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. The two squads are slated to complete their home-and-home series the next day (Wednesday, April 27) with a 3 p.m. contest at Erv Huether Field.
SDSU will continue its homestand with a four-game Summit League series April 29-May 1 against Oakland.
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