2024 Baseball

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The 2024 season is officially a month away with Central Michigan in the season and home opener.

Taking a look at the roster, the Jacks welcome many new faces in the bullpen, a place where SFA struggled greatly in 2023.

#26 Cody Haley-Smith (Sr.) RHP
#21 Garrett Landry (Jr.) RHP
#42 Caleb Garcis-Rameau (Jr.) RHP
#47 Andrew Kithill (Jr.) RHP
#51 Cody Ausmus (Jr.) RHP
#25 Elian Balmaceda (Jr.) LHP
#31 Trent Nickerson (Jr.) LHP
#40 Will Larson (Jr.) LHP
#39 Kade Parker (So.) RHP
#23 Jack James (So.) LHP
#43 Dylan Mulcahy (Fr.) RHP
#37 Lawson Moreno (Fr.) LHP

Returning to the mound from 2023

#10 Skyler Jaco (G/Sr.) RHP IP 46.2 H 53 R 40 ER 39 BB 22 SO 44 HR 10 ERA 7.52 W-L 2-4
#38 Cade Stapleton (Sr.) RHP IP 56.2 H 81 R 55 ER 48 BB 27 SO 38 HR 15 ERA 7.62 W-L 1-8
#12 Reid Boyett (Jr.) RHP IP 35.0 H 45 R 32 ER 31 BB 16 SO 21 HR 9 ERA 7.97 W-L 1-1
#13 Reid Bowyer (So.) RHP IP 24.2 H 42 R 31 ER 23 BB 13 SO 18 HR 4 ERA 8.39 W-L 1-1
#19 Conner Woods (Sr.) RHP IP 54.2 H 82 R 55 ER 52 BB 23 SO 36 HR 16 ERA 8.56 W-L 1-5
#30 Caleb Rutledge (Jr.) RHP IP 28.1 H 37 R 27 ER 27 BB 16 SO 26 HR 5 ERA 8.58 W-L 2-1
#16 Dylan Savino (Sr.) RHP IP 9.1 H 11 R 11 ER 10 BB 11 SO 14 HR 1 ERA 9.64 W-L 0-0
#35 Carter Hines (Sr.) LHP IP 8.1 H 9 R 16 ER 14 BB 16 SO 9 HR 2 ERA 15.12 W-L 0-2
#34 Cre Wilson (Sr.) RHP IP 6.2 H 12 R 13 ER 10 BB 4 SO 3 HR 3 ERA 17.55 W-L 0-0
#32 Caleb Cude (Jr.) LHP IP 3.0 H 6 R 9 ER 7 BB 3 SO 3 HR 1 ERA 21.00 W-L 0-1

RETURNERS - IP 132.9 H 199 R 162 ER 143 BB 86 SO 109 HR 32 ERA 10.37 W-L 7-21

The bats of Rogers, Loranger, and Hill will be missed, but everyone else returns, off of a potent offense that batted.288 for the season with 348 runs off of 507 hits, 313 RBI's and 50 HRs, .447 slugging% and an OB% of .374.

New to the team

#3 Colton Griffin (Fr.) INF
#17 Brock Knoerr (Fr.) UTL
#28 Zerrick Warren (Jr.) C

Returning from 2023

#18 Peyton Parker (Sr.) (3B) .351 R:36 H:54 RBI:36 HR:6 BB:18 SB:10
#8 Cal Martin (Sr.) (1B) .312 R:29 H:54 RBI:37 HR:5 BB:23 SB:1
#2 Tom Biggs (Sr.) (2B) .286 R:23 H:48 RBI:35 HR:3 BB:19 SB:2
#4 Nolan Brown (Sr.) (3B) .276 R:28 H:40 RBI:24 HR:3 BB:17 SB:1
#29 Sam Adams (Jr.) (C) .244 R:21 H:22 RBI:15 HR:2 BB:17 SB:0
#20 Cody Fleischer (Sr.) (DH) .230 R:18 H:23 RBI:17 HR:3 BB:8 SB:0
#41 Hunter Prescher (Sr.) (C) .215 R:12 H:14 RBI:4 HR:1 BB:7 SB:0
#9 Julian Thompson (Sr.) (SS) .203 R:17 H:25 RBI:14 HR:5 BB:6 SB:0
#22 Alex Gomez (Jr.)
#14 Bryce Yosko (So.)

RETURNERS - GS:273 AB:1,038 R:184 H:281 RBI:183 2B:53 3B:6 HR:28 BB:111 SB:14 AVG: .265

You always just hope that this is the season, where everything comes together, as
the Jacks look for their first winning season since 2017 and that elusive WAC Conference tournament appearance in 2024, with the question of can the bullpen hold what the offense can provide?

Axe'Em

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10.37 ERA amongst the returning pitchers. O.U.C.H.!!!!
SFAXE93
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Lots of new pitchers to try and improve that number (I hope)
SFAJack_76
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And, a new, highly respected, pitching coach. Hopeful.
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TallTexan
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SFAXE93 said:




Nice.

Wish it was the on campus proposed Pilgrim Park proposed in the 2000s though.
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TallTexan said:

SFAXE93 said:




Nice.

Wish it was the on campus proposed Pilgrim Park proposed in the 2000s though.


100%. We can only dream.
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CENTRAL MICHIGAN 9 SFA 4

Pitching by committee for the Jacks sending 6 pitchers to the mound for about an ending and a half per pitcher.

9 runs (8 earned) off of 11 hits, striking out 12, with 10 walks, and 5 batters hit.
Jack James takes the loss.

Central Michigan going with 2 pitchers give up 4 runs (3 earned) off of 4 hits, striking out 17 with 8 walks and no battters hit.

DH Cody Fletcher had 1 hit, 2 runs and 1 RBI, while center fielder Cole Hill added 2 hits and 1 RBI.

TEXAS A&M CC 3 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 1 (11 INNINGS)
TEXAS A&M CC 13 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 1 (7 INNINGS)

SFA (0-1) VS. TEXAS A&M CC (2-0) (SAT. 2:00 P.M.)
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The Islanders have a 10-9 lead over the Jacks in the top of the 7th with 2 outs

Griffin and Biggs each with a pair of HRs

Griffin is on fire with 3 runs off of 3 hits, 3 RBIs, a triple and 2 HRs
Biggs 2 runs off of 2 hits, 2 RBI's, and 2 HRs

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Bottom of the 7th Griffin walks and then steals 2nd only 1 out, Hill to the plate with Biggs on deck.
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Biggs scores Griffin on a fielder's choice 10-10 with 2 outs.

Biggs to 2nd on a wild pitch.

Parker at the plate.
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Parker hit by a pitch, runners at 1st and 2nd

Come on Fleischer!
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Runners now at the corners, Islanders losing it on the infield

And now Parker steals second, runners at 3rd and 2nd.

Martin on deck

Fleischer with a full count.
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HR!!!! Martin sends it out!

14-10 Jacks
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Keeping it going as Adams walks, Bourgeios pitch hits for Brown.
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HR!!!

The flood gates have opened as Bourgeios homers to right center scoring Adams.

16-10 Jacks!
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To the top of the 8th

16-10 SFA!
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Nickerson now on the mound for the Jacks
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Nickerson with the K!

runner at 1st on a walk
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You cannot be serious as McEnroe goes down swinging

2 straight Ks for Nickerson
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By the way the Jacks have scored in 5 straight innings, capped by a 7 run inning in the bottom of the 7th.
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To the bottom of the 8th.

Back to where it began with Griffin at the plate
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Hill bombs it out of here with a 1 out HR!

17-10 Jacks

7 HRs today for the SFA offense

6-straight scoring innings
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Parker singles, then advances to 2nd on a wild pitch.
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7 run lead going into the top of the 9th.

Rutledge to the mound
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K!

That will do it as the Jacks hand the Islanders their first defeat of the 2024 season 17-10

The bats come alive as SFA gets 17 runs off of 15 hits stranding 9.

Player of the game is the young freshman Colton Griffin 4 runs off of 3 hits, 3 RBI's, a triple, 2 HR's, a stolen base, and 1 walk.

The pitching gave up 9 earned runs off of 9 hits, walking 5.

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Double hitter tomorrow starting at 11:00 A.M. on ESPN+

SFA (1-1) vs. Texas A&M CC (2-1) 11:00 A.M.
SFA (2-1) vs. Central Michigan (1-2) 2:00 P.M.
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SFAXE93 said:

K!

That will do it as the Jacks hand the Islanders their first defeat of the 2024 season 17-10

The bats come alive as SFA gets 17 runs off of 15 hits stranding 9.

Player of the game is the young freshman Colton Griffin 4 runs off of 3 hits, 3 RBI's, a triple, 2 HR's, a stolen base, and 1 walk.

The pitching gave up 9 earned runs off of 9 hits, walking 5.




That pitching ….
Axe 'Em Jacks - Class of 85'
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SFA has some offense!

Colton Griffin is the man!

Solid pitching from the Angelina College transfer Elian Balmaceda

SFA:13 (2-1)
TAMCC:5 (2-2)
Final
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Walk it off!


SFA:6 (3-1)
Central Mich:5 (1-3)
Final

Jacks down 5-4 in the bottom of the 9th, load up the bases with Peyton Parker at the plate with no outs, gets an infield single to left field as the SS missed the ball scoring two.

Skyler Jaco goes 6 innings giving up 4 runs off of 7 hits, walks 4 and strikes out 7.

That's 3-straight and a combined 36 runs for the Jacks offense!

SFA back in action against CMU Tues. at 6:30 on ESPN+

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Liking the run scoring! Take a 3-1 start anyday.

Central Michigan guys getting to spend a few days in the Nac area I see.
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Yep a whole week to take in the sights of the Pineywoods.
 
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