STLCC Archer baseball strives for winning season
By: Spencer Gleason
-Sports Editor-
While the STLCC Archers baseball team is in the midst of a five-game winning streak, they have inched their way back to the .500 mark, for the first time since March 23, with a 19-19 record. Over the five-game stretch, the Archers have scored 44 runs, averaging 8.8 runs per game, while only allowing a combined 14 runs to the opposition.
The current stretch of wins is the second longest of the season for the Archers. They had a six-game winning streak that stretched from March 10-16, including sweeping back-to-back doubleheaders against Three Rivers Community College.
Over the five-game stretch spanning from April 10-13, STLCC had two more back-to-back sweeps of doubleheaders, giving the Archers five doubleheader sweeps this season. Of the 16 doubleheaders the 2013 campaign has included, thus far, STLCC has swept 31 percent of them, split (won-lost) seven and been swept four times.
In their 19 victories, the Archers are hitting .319 with a .411 on base percentage (OBP). On the flip side, when the Archers lose, they are barely hitting above .200, with a team batting average of .211.
Pitchers David Mullins (53.1) and Kurt McGuire (46.1) lead STLCC in innings pitched combining for 35 percent of STLCC’s 287.2 innings pitched this season.
Both Mullins and McGuire are tied with the Archer’s lead in wins, with four apiece.
The remaining STLCC baseball schedule will fit 18 games in 19 days, including eight more doubleheaders to close out the regular season, before the Region XVI Tournament.
