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Little Rock's Scott Earns Third Student-Athlete of the Week Honor; Jaguars Remain Undefeated in League Play
NEW ORLEANS - The South Alabama Jaguars swept their third consecutive Sun Belt series over the weekend to pushtheir record to 9-0 in the early goings of league play. The series sweep over Texas State was USA's fourth series sweep this season as they swept Evansville to open the season.

USA leads conference play by three games over Georgia Southern, UL Lafayette and Texas State. The Jags picked up a win in game one, 6-4, and followed that up with a 7-3 win in game two. USA picked up the sweep in extra innings, defeating the Bobcats, 3-2, on Saturday in 11 innings.

USA will look to continue the streak as they host UL Monroe in a three-game set this coming weekend. Midweek the Jaguars will take on Nicholls State in a game to be played at MGM Park in Biloxi, Miss.

The Ragin' Cajuns also swept their weekend series with Georgia State led by solid pitching and defensive performances in the three-game set. It was the Cajuns' fourth series win and third sweep on the season.

The Cajuns will now head out on the road for a four-game road trip beginning midweek with a contest against Nicholls State on Tuesday before heading to Jonesboro to take on Arkansas State.

UT Arlington swept its three-game set with Incarnate Word, outscoring the Cardinals 32-5 over the weekend. UTA won Saturday's finale 13-0 in a seven-inning run-rule affair.

Little Rock swept Troy over the weekend giving the LR Trojans six straight wins and five consecutive in Sun Belt play. After starting the season 0-4 in league play the Trojans have won back-to-back series over UL Lafayette (two-out-of-three) and Troy.

Ryan Scott has been instrumental in those six wins as he was once again named the Community Coffee Student-Athlete of the Week. Scott, who leads the NCAA in batting average (.489), went 7-for-15 with seven RBIs, five runs, four walks, a double, a stolen base, a .533 slugging percentage and a .579 on-base percentage last week in four games played. Scott also extended his reached base streak to 19 games.

His efforts gave him his third Sun Belt honor this season becoming the first student-athlete of the week to win three honors in a single season since Troy's Danny Collins in 2013. Appalachian State's Taylor Thurber won three pitching accolades in 2015.

ULM's Brayden Bouchey was the recipient of the Community Coffee Pitcher of the Week honor after shining on the mound in his appearance against Appalachian State. He pitched seven innings against the Mountaineers, striking out 12 and allowing just one earned run and one hit in his 108-pitch performance.

Bouchey retired the first seven batters he faced and then retired the final nine batters he faced.

Recent Results

March 22 (Tuesday)
Appalachian State 3, UNC Asheville 8
Georgia State 4, Savannah St. 1 (10)
Little Rock 7, UAPB 2
UL Monroe 1, Louisiana Tech 7
UT Rio Grande Valley 4, Texas State 3 (10)
Troy 8, Alabama A&M 0
New Orleans 8, South Alabama 2
UT Arlington 6, Baylor 3
No. 15 Missouri St. 15, Arkansas State 11
No. 13 LSU 8, No. 29 UL Lafayette 5 @

March 24 (Thursday)
Little Rock 11, Troy 8 *
Arkansas State 3, Georgia Southern 8 *
UL Monroe 10, Appalachian State 5 *
Texas State 4, South Alabama 6 *
UT Arlington 10, Incarnate Word 2
UL Lafayette 4, Georgia State 2 *

March 25 (Friday)
Texas State 3, South Alabama 7 *
Little Rock 4, Troy 3 *
Arkansas State 6, Georgia Southern 5 *
UL Monroe 4, Appalachian State 5 *
UL Lafayette 7, Georgia State 3 *
UT Arlington 9, Incarnate Word 3

March 26 (Saturday)
Arkansas State 7, Georgia Southern 9 *
Texas State 2, South Alabama 3 (11) *
Little Rock 10, Troy 9 *
UL Monroe 6, Appalachian State 2 *
UL Lafayette 4, Georgia State 1 *
UT Arlington 13, Incarnate Word 0 (7)

@ - Game played at Zephyr Field in New Orleans, La.

Upcoming Games

March 28 (Monday)
Texas State at Sam Houston State - 6:30 PM

March 29 (Tuesday)
Oklahoma at Little Rock - 6:00 PM
UL Lafayette at Nicholls State - 6:00 PM
UL Monroe at Northwestern State - 6:00 PM
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Texas State - 6:00 PM
Alabama State at Troy - 6:00 PM
Arkansas State at Memphis - 6:30 PM
TCU at UT Arlington - 6:30 PM

March 30 (Wednesday)
North Carolina Central at Appalachian State - 5:00 PM
Georgia Southern at Georgia Tech - 5:00 PM
Georgia State at Mercer - 5:00 PM
Mississippi Valley State at Arkansas State - 6:00 PM
Northwestern State at UL Monroe - 6:00 PM
South Alabama vs. Nicholls State # - 6:30 PM

April 1 (Friday)
Little Rock at Appalachian State * - 5:00 PM
UT Arlington at Georgia State * - 5:00 PM
UL Lafayette at Arkansas State * - 6:00 PM
Texas State at Georgia Southern * - 6:00 PM
New Orleans at Troy - 6:00 PM
UL Monroe at South Alabama * - 6:30 PM

April 2 (Saturday)
UT Arlington at Georgia State * - 1:00 PM
Little Rock at Appalachian State * - 2:00 PM
New Orleans at Troy - 3:00 PM
UL Lafayette at Arkansas State * - 4:00 PM
Texas State at Georgia Southern * - 6:00 PM
UL Monroe at South Alabama * - 6:30 PM

April 3 (Sunday)
UT Arlington at Georgia State * - 11:00 AM
Little Rock at Appalachian State * - 12:00 PM
Texas State at Georgia Southern * - 12:00 PM
UL Lafayette at Arkansas State * - 1:00 PM
UL Monroe at South Alabama * - 1:00 PM
New Orleans at Troy - 1:00 PM
North Carolina A&T at Appalachian State * - 5:00 PM

# - Game played in Biloxi, Miss.
* - denotes Sun Belt Conference game

Week 6 Community Coffee Student-Athlete of the Week

Ryan Scott
Little Rock | Senior | OF
Senior outfielder Ryan Scott had another great week as he went 7-for-15 with seven RBIs, five runs, four walks, a double, a stolen base, a .533 slugging percentage and a .579 on-base percentage. In his first game of the week, Scott went 3-for-5 with a two RBIs and a stolen base against UAPB. In the series opener against Troy, Scott went 2-for-2 with four runs, one RBI and was walked three times. In the final game of the week, Scott went 2-for-5 with four RBIs, a double and a run. Scott also extended his reached base streak to 19 games.

Week 6 Community Coffee Pitcher of the Week

Brayden Bouchey
UL Monroe | Junior | RHP
Despite earning a no-decision, Brayden Bouchey shined on the mound against Appalachian State as he struck out a career-best 12 batters during a career-high seven innings of work… Bouchey retired the first seven batters he faced and then retired the final nine batters he faced… He surrendered just one hit and one earned run during his 108 pitch performance.

Student-Athlete of the Week Archive
2.23 - Kyle Clement, UL Lafayette
3.01 - Luke Sherley, Texas State
3.08 - Ryan Scott, Little Rock
3.15 - Jonathan Ortega, Texas State
3.21 - Ryan Scott, Little Rock
3.28 - Ryan Scott, Little Rock

Pitcher of the Week Archive
2.23 - Chase Cohen, Georgia Southern
3.01 - Kevin Hill, South Alabama
3.08 - Lucas Humpal, Texas State
3.15 - Dylan Moore, UL Lafayette
3.21 - Jeremy Hallonquist, Texas State
3.28 - Brayden Bouchey, UL Monroe

AROUND THE SUN BELT CONFERENCE

• Community Coffee is the official coffee of the Sun Belt Conference. They are sponsoring this season’s baseball student-athlete and pitcher of the week awards as well as the Most Outstanding Player award at the tournament.
• Little Rock’s Ryan Scott earned his third SBC Community Coffee Student-Athlete of the Week honor this season. This is the first time since 2013 an offensive student-athlete of the week earned the honor three times in a single season.
  
• April is traditionally when Appalachian State baseball starts to heat up. Since 2009, App State is 84-41 in the month of April (.672). In all other months, the Mountaineers are 134-156-1 (.462).
• The Mountaineers’ 5-4 comeback triumph at ULM marked only the ninth time since the beginning of the 2014 season that Appalachian has won a game that it trailed at any point after the third inning.
• South Alabama’s Danny Martinez is currently riding an on-base streak of 29 games which dates back to last season. He’s made it safely on-base in every game this season (26) and ended last season with five consecutive.
  
• Georgia State senior catcher Joey Roach is the Sun Belt’s active leaders with 169 career hits while ranking second in RBI (105) and tied for third in home runs (19).
  
• The UL Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns posted their fourth series win and third sweep of the year taking three games from Georgia State to improve to 15-9 overall and 6-3 in Sun Belt play.
• Texas State senior ace Lucas Humpal creeped closer to the school record for strikeouts with four strikeouts Thursday night in the loss to South Alabama. He is just three shy of tying the record of 241 strikeouts and four shy of breaking it to be the all-time strikeout leader at Texas State.