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For Immediate Release: April 8, 2002 BRONCS AT HOME FOR FIVE GAMES
EDINBURG,
TX –After spending the past week on the road, The University of
Texas-Pan American baseball team will return home this week to play five
times. The Broncs will host Texas A&M-Kingsville in a doubleheader
Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. Houston Baptist will be the opponent this
weekend, with the Huskies visiting the Edinburg Baseball Stadium for a
single game Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. and a doubleheader Saturday at
1:00 p.m. “The
way the schedule worked out this year left us with more games on the
road than at home,” said UTPA Head Coach Reggie Tredaway, fresh off
his 100th win as a head coach when the Broncs beat Texas
A&M at Olsen Field in College Station in the second game of a
doubleheader Saturday night. “We just had to play through it, and
we’re glad to be at home.” UTPA
is 9-25, while the Javelinas will bring a 16-27 record into Tuesday’s
contests. TAMU-Kingsville split a doubleheader Saturday against West
Texas A&M before their single game Sunday was rained out. The
Javelinas have won just two of their last twelve games. “Texas
A&M-Kingsville has a lot of players from junior colleges,” said
Tredaway. “We know that they’ll come in here and be very
competitive.” Houston
Baptist is 26-9, and the Huskies are ranked fifth in the latest National
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics poll. HBU won three games
against Wiley College last weekend by an aggregate score of 68-7, and
will play a doubleheader against Incarnate Word Tuesday and a single
game against Texas Southern Thursday before coming to UTPA. The Broncs
and Huskies split a doubleheader at the Edinburg Baseball Stadium March
29th. “Houston
Baptist is a good team, as they showed the first time we played them,”
said Tredaway. “We have a few people injured and a few people who are
sick, and, hopefully, we can take care of those situations.” Senior
righthander Justin Dowd (Waxahachie, TX/Waxahachie HS/Navarro JC) will
join one of two senior righthanders, Mike Killian (Santa Fe, TX/Santa Fe
HS/Hill JC) or Mike Calvert (Grapevine, TX/Grapevine HS/Navarro JC) as
starters against Texas A&M-Kingsville. Junior righthander Travis
Parker (Brownsville, TX/Hanna HS/UT-Brownsville), senior lefthander
Frank James (Elgin, TX/Elgin HS/Navarro JC) and sophomore righthander
Justin Bogy (West Columbia, TX/West Columbia HS) should start against
the Huskies. The Broncs will visit Texas-San Antonio for a doubleheader next Wednesday.
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