OKLAHOMA CITY – The MACU baseball team is back on the road this weekend to face-off against Southwestern College in a three-game series at the Broadway Sports Complex in Winfield, Kansas this weekend. The Evangels will open the slate with a 1 p.m. game on Saturday before battling the Moundbuilders in a doubleheader starting at noon on Sunday.
 
SEASON REPORT

• Record: 5-4
• Last Game: Won vs. Randall (Okla.) – 16-1 – Feb. 13, 2024 – Seminole, Okla.
• Top Performers (Hitting):
  • Kyle Williams – JR – OF
    • .500 BA (13-26), 4 2B, 10 RBI, 5 R, 5 BB, 1 SB, .563 OB%, .654 SLG%
  • Noel McGarry-Doyle – JR – OF
    • .357 BA (10-28), 3 2B, 1 3B, 4 RBI, 10 R, 5 BB, 1 HBP, 3 SB, .471 OB%, .536 SLG%
  • Carlos Medina – SR – SS
    • .321 BA (9-28), 4 2B, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 3 R, 2 BB, .355 OB%, .571 SLG%
• Top Performers (Pitching):
  • Isaac Baez – SR – RHP
    • 2-1 W-L, 2.70 ERA, 3 APP, 3 GS, 13.1 IP, 12 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 4 BB, 13 SO, .235 OBA
  • Zane Robeaux – SR – RHP
    • 1-0 W-L, 2.16 ERA, 3 APP, 1 GS, 8.1 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 7 SO, .200 OBA
  • Carlos Escobosa – JR – RHP
    • 1-0 W-L, 0.00 ERA, 2 APP, 5.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 10 SO, .067 OBA
• Team Notes:
  • Mid-America Christian enters the weekend after coming off a dominant 16-1 victory over Randall played at Seminole State College on Tuesday. In that win, the Evangels scored 15 of their 16 runs through the first four innings in cruising to the victory.
  • As a whole, MACU's pitching staff as a whole pitched extremely well, allowing just one earned run on six hits and didn't issue a single walk or hit-by-pitch while striking out seven. Dylan Lyddon was credited with the win in relief after throwing two scoreless innings, allowing just one baserunner on a hit while tallying a strikeout.
  • Overall, three different Evangels finished with three or more RBIs, led by Carlos Medina, who slashed 2-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs with a two-run homer while Taiga Sakuma had a strong day from the dish as well, notching four RBIs on a 1-for-2 day with a bases-clearing triple. Kyle Williams continued his doubles tear, tallying a pair of two-baggers on a 2-for-2 day, driving in 3 RBIs while scoring three runs.
  • Mid-America Christian in the win tied its NAIA Era (2008-present) single-game triples record with three in the contest. Sakuma hit a bases-clearing three-bagger in the bottom of the second, D'Andre Gaines smashed an RBI triple in the third and Guillermo Velasco smashed an RBI triple to center in the bottom of the fifth to match the record.

SCOUTING REPORT
Southwestern (Kan.)

• Record: 0-4
• Last Game: Lost at Williams Baptist (Ark.) – 8-4 – Feb. 10, 2024 – Wheat Ridge, Ark.
• Series vs MACU (2018-): MACU leads 7-2
• Last Game vs MACU: SWC won 7-3
• Players to Watch (Hitting):
  • Carlos Camacho – JR – OF
    • .364 BA (4-11), 2 2B, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 SB, .417 OB%, .818 SLG%
  • Trevor Abitia – SR – OF
    • .333 BA (3-9), 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB, .364 OB%, .444 SLG%
  • Will Johannsen – SR – 1B/C
    • .300 BA (3-10), 1 RBI, 2 R, 2 BB, .417 OB%, .300 SLG%
• Players to Watch (Pitching):
  • Conner Peck – SO – P
    • 0-0 W-L, 3.60 ERA, 1 APP, 1 GS, 5.0 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO, .294 OBA
  • Dante Bravo – JR – P
    • 0-0 W-L, 6.00 ERA, 1 APP, 1 GS, 6.0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 4 SO, .182 OBA
  • Micah Cleveland – SR – P
    • 0-0 W-L, 0.00 ERA, 1 APP, 3.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 SO, .333 OBA
• Team Notes:
  • Southwestern is coming off a tough showing in its season-opener at Central Baptist (Ark.) last weekend as the Moundbuilders were swept in a close four-game series: 5-3, 7-5, 3-2 and 8-4.
  • So far in the early season, SC is struggling to get the bats going, averaging just 3.2 runs per game on a .202 team batting average, but were able to get a little bit of pop in its bats in that series with the Mustangs, hammering three homers in the four-game series.
  • The pitching staff has also gotten off to a shaky start for the Moundbuilders, turning in a 6.75 team ERA while allowing Central Baptist to hit .309 as a team in that series. Southwestern's pitching staff also struggled to strike out their opposition, notching just 24 for six strikeouts per contest.
  • Despite SC's offensive struggles, the Evangels will need to be careful pitching to junior outfielder Carlos Camacho. Of his four hits this season, Camacho has hammered two doubles and a homer for five RBIs and an .818 slugging percentage.
  • Mid-America Christian and Southwestern will be going against each other for the seventh, eighth and ninth times in the last three seasons. The two teams squared off in a four-game series at the MACU Baseball Field in late February last year. In that four-game slate, the Evangels took the series by winning the first three 8-5, 4-1 and 4-3 before Southwestern took the final game in the slate by a score of 7-3.