Texas Border Business
EDINBURG, Texas – D1Baseball.com and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) announced on Monday that junior Angelo Cabral of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) is both the National and WAC Baseball Pitcher of the Week.
Cabral struck out a career-high 15 batters in a career-high 6.1 scoreless innings of two-hit, two-walk ball to beat No. 27 Central Michigan 9-2 in the second game of a doubleheader on Friday.
The 15 strikeouts are the most by a UTRGV pitcher since prior to 2010.
UTRGV finished with 19 strikeouts in the game, the team’s highest total since May 5, 2012 at NJIT, when two pitchers combined for 19 strikeouts in 17.2 innings.
Cabral now has 17 strikeouts in 8.2 innings across two appearances, tied for the 23rdhighest total of strikeouts in the NCAA. Cabral ranks 10th in the NCAA in strikeouts per nine innings at 17.65.
UTRGV took three out of five from Central Michigan and is now 6-2 this season. UTRGV hosts Houston for three games Friday and Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday at 12 p.m. at UTRGV Baseball Stadium.
