LSC-Kingwood Baseball Team Highlights Successful Season

Lone Star College Kingwood News

Published on: June 25, 2015
LSC-Kingwood Baseball Team Highlights Successful Season
Lone Star College-Kingwoods club baseball team wrapped up its 2014-2015 season with a .789 winning percentage and winning conference.
This was their first conference championship and post-season appearance since moving up to the Division I level of the National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) in 2010. The NCBA Gulf Coast East Conference consists of teams from University of Houston, Stephen F. Austin University, Louisiana State University, and Tulane University.
I am very proud of this team for a number of reasons. They accepted the challenge presented to them and in all honesty, they accomplished more than even they thought, said Daniel Jauregui, head baseball coach.
LSC-Kingwoods baseball team was the number one seed in the Gulf Coast Regional Tournament where they competed against the University of North Texas (UNT), University of Texas (UT) and Texas Tech University. They defeated UNT 4-2, but was eliminated with losses to UT 9-4 and to Texas Tech 5-3. LSC-Kingwoods conference record was 10-1 with an overall record of 15-4 which earned them a ranking of 20th in the nation.
This years team understood the long steep climb they had to do to gain the respect of the league and country, Jauregui said. This desire to prove they belonged is what drove their success in a number of first for LSC baseball.
In addition to the teams success, players also earned individual recognition. Stephen Kwiatkowski won the 2015 Gulf Coast Pitcher of the Year Award with 5 wins and 0 losses and a 0.35 ERA. Kwiatkowski and Chris Carrell earned 1st Team All Region, Patrick Welmer earned 2nd Team All Region, and Chandler ONeal earned 3rd Team All Region in the Gulf Coast Conference Spring 2015.
The key to our success was our team chemistry. We worked together and pushed through the tough times, which led us to be a great ball team, Kwiatkowski ...

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