COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY - PUEBLO (4-6) at No.12 LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (8-3)
Friday, February 24 - 5:00 PM                                                      
Hays Field (Lubbock, Texas)
Radio: KJTV am950/100.7fm
All-Time Series: Series Tied 2-2
#LCUvsCSUP
 
IN THE BOX
Lubbock Christian University returns home to Hays Field, coming off a 3-2 win over No.24 West Texas A&M Tuesday, to open a four-game series with CSU-Pueblo.  LCU, 3-1 at home this season, will play a nine-inning game at 5 p.m. Friday, a pair of seven-inning games in a Saturday doubleheader before closing the series with a Sunday nine-inning affair.
 
RANKINGS (as of 2/23/17)
LCU: No. 12 (Perfect Game), No. 16 (d2baseballnews.com), No. 39 (Collegiate Baseball Newspaper)
CSU-P: Unranked
 
PROJECTED STARTING PITCHERS
LCU – Ricky Contreras (1-1, 2.08 ERA)
            - Contreras is scheduled for his fourth start of the season and is looking for his first win of the season. LCU is 2-1 in games Contreras started, but all three games have been decided by two runs or less. He went 4.1 innings at Angelo State in his last start (Feb. 17) and he allowed four runs off nine hits. Contreras made two relief outings last season against CSU-P and allowed two runs in 1.2 innings.
 
CSU-P – Kyle Lazcano (2-0, 1.40 ERA)
            - Lazcano will make his fourth start of the season. He is coming off a win over Regis (Feb. 17) in which he allowed one earned run off seven hits in 7.1 innings. Lazcano has 16 strikeouts in his last two combined starts covering 13.1 innings. He went five innings against LCU on Feb. 27, 2016 and suffered the loss allowing five runs off seven hits.
 
LOOKING BACK
University of Houston transfer Marshall Kasowski struck out 16 batters and No.24 West Texas A&M set a program single game record with 22 strikeouts, but No.6 Lubbock Christian University, with 10 strikeouts from Daniel Crooks, was able to garner a 3-2 road victory at Wilder Park for the Chaparrals first road win of the season.
 
Of the game's 54 outs, 36 were via strikeouts. The first 10 outs WT recorded in the game were via strikeouts by Kasowski, who had struck out at least eight of the nine batters in the Chaps starting lineup 3.1 innings into the game. Despite the incredible numbers, LCU took a first inning lead and never trailed in the game.
 
STREAKS
Tony Reyes leads the team with a 10-game hit streak. Logan Nethercot, who has hits in his last eight games, has reached base safely in all 12 games this season. Reyes is next on the list with reaching base safely in the last 10 games.
 
RECOGNITION
Chaps outfielder Caleb Koedyker has earned the first National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) South Central Region Hitter of the Week honors for games played from Feb. 13 - Feb. 19.
 
Koedyker, a senior outfielder from Seminole, Texas, had a solid series against No.8 Angelo State registering a .500 batting average, which included a trio of home runs and a double for a 1.214 slugging mark and eight runs driven in. The Heartland Conference Hitter of the Week recipient opened the series with a pair of home runs and five RBI off a 3-for-5 performance from the plate. He followed with a 3-for-4 outing in the second game of the series, leading to three RBI. He also had a pair of stolen bases and four runs scored for the Chaps. This is Koedyker's first NCBWA Region Hitter of the Week honor. He is the first Chap to receive the honor since Brett Wilhelm did last season.
 
FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT CSU-P
-The ThunderWolves are coming off a 28-19 season in 2016. They went 11-5 on the road and 19-12 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play.
-The RMAC has CSU-P preseason picked to finish second in the conference, with Gilbert Sauceda (1B), Cameron Weinberg (P), Kyle Peeler (P) and Josh Nuernberg (RP) claiming Preseason All-RMAC honors.
-The T-Wolves are 4-6 this season and seeking to end a two-game losing streak. Adams State is their only common opponent. LCU went 3-1 against ASU and CSU-Pueblo is 1-1 against Adams State this season.
-CSU-P is hitting .300 as a team, with Ambrose Romero leading the team batting .469 with a homer and team-leading nine RBI.
-They have a staff ERA of 6.11, with opponents hitting .328 against them this season.
 
HISTORY WITH CSU-P
The two programs had never met until a four-game series last season. The teams alternated wins and losses, with the two teams splitting the four-game series.