Blazer baseball hopes big bats help in post season
Evan Segler, Angel Caban provide power to optimistic team
By Matt Anderson
Sports Editor
The North Lake Blazers men’s baseball team
heads into the post season on May 4 at The Ballfi
elds at Craig Ranch in McKinney. The team enters
the post season with a 17-16 conference record
and are 19-28 overall.
What looked like a promising season started
off slow as the Blazers dropped 8 of their first
11 conference games. The team has rallied with
some strong hitting by Evan Segler and Angel
Caban. Seglar is leading the conference in hitting
with an amazing .480 batting average, going 47
for 98 and 18 RBI. Caban is 35 for 105 with a .372
batting average and has 10 doubles, a triple and a
dinger. Strong pitching from Mason Thompson
and Michael Haddad help the Blazers’ late season
surge. Thompson is pitching a 2.38 ERA with 34
innings pitched allowing only 9 earned runs, despite
his 1-3 record.
Haddad has a 3.14 ERA in 66 innings pitched
with a 5-4 record. The Blazers are sitting a game
above .500 in conference play. The team is in the
middle of the pack, sitting in fourth place with
three teams on either side of them in the standings.
They remain optimistic heading into the
tournament but know they will need to have great
defense and solid hitting to advance.
The Blazers have its work cut out for them
with Richland and Tyler Junior College sitting
first and second in the nation in Division lll baseball.
North Lake has built a good foundation for
next year and has improved its team from a last
place finish from just one season ago.
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