Baseball squares off against Stillman College in HBCUAC Showdown
The defending Gulf Coast Athletic Conference regular season champion Wiley University baseball team will hit the road for the first time in Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletic Conference play when it faces Stillman College in a three-game series on Friday and Saturday at Tiger Field
The series opens with a doubleheader starting at noon on Friday. Saturday's finale is a 1 p.m. start. Live statistics will be available and the links are listed in the baseball schedule on wileyathletics.com.
The Wildcats (9-5, 3-0 HBCUAC) began its title defense with a sweep over Philander Smith University. It fell on Tuesday 7-4 at Texas Wesleyan University in a non-conference game. Kai Woodward dominated last week with a .667 batting average, scoring five runs and brining home three. Three of hits were doubles. Ivan Del Villar leads the HBCUAC with three home runs and is hitting .400. He is tied for third with 14 RBI.
Additionally, the pitching prowess of Keyon Guillory and Nick Rodriguez who each clinched their third victories has been pivotal. Guillory claimed his second HBCUAC Pitcher of the Week award after holding the Panthers to a run on a hit and striking out 10 in the conference opener on February 15. Rodriguez pitched a complete game and struck out seven.
Stillman College (3-6, 2-1) took two out of three games against Voorhees University last weekend. It is led offensively by Gavin Rehorn leading the team with a .400 batting average. Griff Minor, Devin Kelly and Samuel Fleming share the team lead in RBI with six. On the mound Isaac Lopez is 1-1 with a 3.48 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 10 1/3 innings. Minor is 1-1 with 14 strikeouts in 17 innings.
The Wildcats and Tigers will meet in the regular season for the first time in program history. The teams played an exhibition game against each other in the 2022 HBCU Classic at the Pittsburgh Pirates' home stadium PNC Park, which Wiley lost 16-11.
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About Wiley University Athletics
Wiley University sponsors 12 varsity sports, women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's outdoor track and field and baseball. It competes in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletic Conference (HBCUAC) and the Continental Athletic Conference for men's and women's soccer.
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