Cats Continue Texas Trip at Kleberg Bank College Classic
Feb 19, 2020 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State continues its eight-game road trip through Texas Thursday at the Kleberg Bank College Classic in Corpus Christi, as the Wildcats will take on host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Missouri and Utah.
K-State (2-2) will open the weekend against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (0-3) on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Chapman Field before moving to Whataburger Field to meet former conference-rival Missouri (2-1) on Friday at 2 p.m. and Utah (1-3) Sunday at 11 a.m. The Cats and TAMU-CC will meet Saturday at 6 p.m. at Whataburger Field, the home of the Corpus Christi Hooks (double-A affiliate of the Houston Astros).
The Wildcats earned a four-game series split at UTRGV in the season's opening weekend, picking up back-to-back victories on Sunday and Monday.
Thursday night's game against the Islanders will stream free on the Islanders Digital Network. The rest of the weekend will be broadcast on FloBaseball (paid). Radio coverage will be available all weekend on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with live streaming audio at K-StateSports.com/watch and the K-State Sports app.
GAME #5
K-STATE (2-2) vs MISSOURI (2-1)
Friday, February 21 // 2 p.m. // Whataburger Field (7,679) // Corpus Christi, Texas
Projected Starters: RHP Connor McCullough (0-0, 1.50 ERA) vs. RHP Ian Bedell (1-0, 6.00 ERA)
Watch: FloBaseball (paid)
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner, Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #6
K-STATE (2-2) at TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI (0-3)
Saturday, February 22 // 6 p.m. // Whataburger Field (7,679) // Corpus Christi, Texas
Projected Starters: RHP Carson Seymour (0-1, 8.31 ERA) vs. RHP Hayden Thomas (0-1, 4.50 ERA)
Watch: FloBaseball (paid)
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner, Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #7
K-STATE (2-2) vs UTAH (1-3)
Sunday, February 23 // 11 a.m. // Whataburger Field (7,679) // Corpus Christi, Texas
Projected Starters: LHP Jordan Wicks (1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. RHP Kyle Robeniol (0-1, 18.00 ERA)
Watch: FloBaseball (paid)
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner, Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State heads to the Kleberg Bank College Classic after it split a four-game series at UT Rio Grande Valley over the season's opening weekend ... After dropping the first two games of the series, the Wildcats responded with back-to-back wins to earn the series split ... K-State got seven shutout innings from sophomore Jordan Wicks Sunday in a 4-0 win ... Wicks struck out seven without a walk and scattered four hits ... Kasey Ford followed suit Monday night, as the senior struck out seven in 5 1/3 innings with just two hits allowed in a 9-2 win ... Connor McCullough turned in a quality start in his K-State debut Saturday, allowing one earned run on four hits over six innings ... Caleb Littlejim and Dylan Phillips each homered over the weekend, as Phillips led the Cats with five RBI in the series ... K-State retains 20 letterwinners from a season ago while welcoming 15 newcomers (five freshmen).
A LOOK AT THE FIELD
While in Corpus Christi, Texas, K-State will meet host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi along with Missouri and Utah ... TAMU-CC, who was picked to finish sixth in the Southland Conference, was swept in a three-game series over the weekend ... Senior utility man Itchy Burts was a first-team preseason all-Southland Conference pick while junior starting pitcher John Gaddis earned second team honors ... Missouri took two of three games at Jacksonville State in the opening weekend ... MU was voted sixth in the SEC East in the league's preseason poll ... Utah finished a California road swing with a 1-3 record, including dropping two of three games at UC Davis ... Shea Kramer paced the Utes in going 9 for 19 with a homer and seven RBI ... Utah was slotted in 10th in the Pac-12's preseason poll.
INSIDE THE SERIES
K-State will meet Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for the first time in program history ... The Wildcats have an all-time record of 21-7 from teams currently in the Southland Conference ... Dating back to a series that began in 1907, Missouri owns a 169-101-1 edge ... A season ago, MU defeated K-State 17-2 in Columbia, marking the first meeting between the teams since Mizzou left the Big 12 (2012) ... The Cats have lost eight of the last nine in the series and 12 of the last 14 ... The Wildcats are a perfect 3-0 against Utah, including a 6-4 victory at the Tony Gwynn Legacy in San Diego, California ... In the win, Wicks went seven innings with six strikeouts with two earned runs allowed.
WEEKEND REINFORCEMENTS
K-State's four starting pitchers over the weekend (Carson Seymour, Connor McCullough, Jordan Wicks, Kasey Ford) combined to turn in a 2.38 ERA (6 ER, 22.2 IP) ... The quartet collected 25 strikeouts - with each reaching at least five strikeouts - while issuing just six walks and limiting UTRGV to a .203 average ... K-State welcomed two new arms to its weekend rotation in Seymour and McCullough, who both had to sit out the 2019 season due to NCAA transfer rules ... Seymour, a Dartmouth transfer, enters 2020 with some major MLB Draft buzz after he was tabbed the country's No. 55 prospect by D1Baseball.com and the 96th-best prospect by MLB Pipeline ... Originally an Arkansas commit, McCullough earned an All-Star nod in the prestigious Cape Cod League with the Harwich Mariners ... The 6-foot righty posted a 1.51 ERA in eight outings (six starts) with 41 strikeouts ... The duo were teammates for the Mariners and played for K-State volunteer assistant coach Steve Englert, leading Harwich to the championship series.
IRON MAN, CAM
Cameron Thompson has started all 171 games during his Wildcat career ... Thompson, a four-year senior and team captain, has started games in center field, third base, second base and shortstop ... Now slotted as the everyday third baseman, Thompson has led the Cats in hits in two of the last three seasons ... If the Pasadena, Texas, product starts all 56 scheduled regular-season games in 2020, he would move into second in program history with 223 career starts ... Thompson is also on the brink of K-State's career top-10 list in career at-bats, hits and games played.
FRESHMEN RECORD BREAKERS
K-State freshman Jordan Wicks set the program's all-time single-season record for innings pitched (84.2) and strikeouts (86) by a freshman ... Both records had stood since 1973 and were both set by Andy Replogle (78.2 IP, 78 K) ... Wicks' 86 strikeouts were the eighth-most in a single season in K-State history and 14 strikeouts shy of the program record of 100 strikeouts in a season (A.J. Morris, 2009) ... With 10 home runs, freshman Dylan Phillips broke K-State's single-season freshman home run record, set by Brian Culp (1990) and Todd Fereday (1994) with seven homers.
POWER SURGE
K-State ended the 2019 season with 54 home runs - its highest single-season total since 2009 (58) and tied for the fifth-most in program history ... From April 10-May 4, the Wildcats had a stretch of 14 consecutive games with at least one home run, marking the Cats' longest such streak in the Big 12 era ... 48 of K-State's 54 home runs last season were hit by either a newcomer or someone who did not hit a home run in 2018 ... The Cats' offense hit 32 homers over the season's final 25 contests, with six multi-homer games over that stretch … The Wildcats were 22-14 when hitting a home run and 8-3 when hitting multiple home runs ... The Cats ranked third in the league in homers as a team in both overall games and conference games during the regular season.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE
Catcher Chris Ceballos and outfielder Dylan Phillips became the first Wildcat teammates to reach double-digit home runs since 2009 ... The duo, who each lifted 10 bombs, are the first returning Wildcat teammates with 10 or more homers in the Big 12 era.
K-State (2-2) will open the weekend against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (0-3) on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Chapman Field before moving to Whataburger Field to meet former conference-rival Missouri (2-1) on Friday at 2 p.m. and Utah (1-3) Sunday at 11 a.m. The Cats and TAMU-CC will meet Saturday at 6 p.m. at Whataburger Field, the home of the Corpus Christi Hooks (double-A affiliate of the Houston Astros).
The Wildcats earned a four-game series split at UTRGV in the season's opening weekend, picking up back-to-back victories on Sunday and Monday.
Thursday night's game against the Islanders will stream free on the Islanders Digital Network. The rest of the weekend will be broadcast on FloBaseball (paid). Radio coverage will be available all weekend on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with live streaming audio at K-StateSports.com/watch and the K-State Sports app.
GAME #5
K-STATE (2-2) vs MISSOURI (2-1)
Friday, February 21 // 2 p.m. // Whataburger Field (7,679) // Corpus Christi, Texas
Projected Starters: RHP Connor McCullough (0-0, 1.50 ERA) vs. RHP Ian Bedell (1-0, 6.00 ERA)
Watch: FloBaseball (paid)
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner, Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #6
K-STATE (2-2) at TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI (0-3)
Saturday, February 22 // 6 p.m. // Whataburger Field (7,679) // Corpus Christi, Texas
Projected Starters: RHP Carson Seymour (0-1, 8.31 ERA) vs. RHP Hayden Thomas (0-1, 4.50 ERA)
Watch: FloBaseball (paid)
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner, Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #7
K-STATE (2-2) vs UTAH (1-3)
Sunday, February 23 // 11 a.m. // Whataburger Field (7,679) // Corpus Christi, Texas
Projected Starters: LHP Jordan Wicks (1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. RHP Kyle Robeniol (0-1, 18.00 ERA)
Watch: FloBaseball (paid)
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner, Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State heads to the Kleberg Bank College Classic after it split a four-game series at UT Rio Grande Valley over the season's opening weekend ... After dropping the first two games of the series, the Wildcats responded with back-to-back wins to earn the series split ... K-State got seven shutout innings from sophomore Jordan Wicks Sunday in a 4-0 win ... Wicks struck out seven without a walk and scattered four hits ... Kasey Ford followed suit Monday night, as the senior struck out seven in 5 1/3 innings with just two hits allowed in a 9-2 win ... Connor McCullough turned in a quality start in his K-State debut Saturday, allowing one earned run on four hits over six innings ... Caleb Littlejim and Dylan Phillips each homered over the weekend, as Phillips led the Cats with five RBI in the series ... K-State retains 20 letterwinners from a season ago while welcoming 15 newcomers (five freshmen).
A LOOK AT THE FIELD
While in Corpus Christi, Texas, K-State will meet host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi along with Missouri and Utah ... TAMU-CC, who was picked to finish sixth in the Southland Conference, was swept in a three-game series over the weekend ... Senior utility man Itchy Burts was a first-team preseason all-Southland Conference pick while junior starting pitcher John Gaddis earned second team honors ... Missouri took two of three games at Jacksonville State in the opening weekend ... MU was voted sixth in the SEC East in the league's preseason poll ... Utah finished a California road swing with a 1-3 record, including dropping two of three games at UC Davis ... Shea Kramer paced the Utes in going 9 for 19 with a homer and seven RBI ... Utah was slotted in 10th in the Pac-12's preseason poll.
INSIDE THE SERIES
K-State will meet Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for the first time in program history ... The Wildcats have an all-time record of 21-7 from teams currently in the Southland Conference ... Dating back to a series that began in 1907, Missouri owns a 169-101-1 edge ... A season ago, MU defeated K-State 17-2 in Columbia, marking the first meeting between the teams since Mizzou left the Big 12 (2012) ... The Cats have lost eight of the last nine in the series and 12 of the last 14 ... The Wildcats are a perfect 3-0 against Utah, including a 6-4 victory at the Tony Gwynn Legacy in San Diego, California ... In the win, Wicks went seven innings with six strikeouts with two earned runs allowed.
WEEKEND REINFORCEMENTS
K-State's four starting pitchers over the weekend (Carson Seymour, Connor McCullough, Jordan Wicks, Kasey Ford) combined to turn in a 2.38 ERA (6 ER, 22.2 IP) ... The quartet collected 25 strikeouts - with each reaching at least five strikeouts - while issuing just six walks and limiting UTRGV to a .203 average ... K-State welcomed two new arms to its weekend rotation in Seymour and McCullough, who both had to sit out the 2019 season due to NCAA transfer rules ... Seymour, a Dartmouth transfer, enters 2020 with some major MLB Draft buzz after he was tabbed the country's No. 55 prospect by D1Baseball.com and the 96th-best prospect by MLB Pipeline ... Originally an Arkansas commit, McCullough earned an All-Star nod in the prestigious Cape Cod League with the Harwich Mariners ... The 6-foot righty posted a 1.51 ERA in eight outings (six starts) with 41 strikeouts ... The duo were teammates for the Mariners and played for K-State volunteer assistant coach Steve Englert, leading Harwich to the championship series.
IRON MAN, CAM
Cameron Thompson has started all 171 games during his Wildcat career ... Thompson, a four-year senior and team captain, has started games in center field, third base, second base and shortstop ... Now slotted as the everyday third baseman, Thompson has led the Cats in hits in two of the last three seasons ... If the Pasadena, Texas, product starts all 56 scheduled regular-season games in 2020, he would move into second in program history with 223 career starts ... Thompson is also on the brink of K-State's career top-10 list in career at-bats, hits and games played.
FRESHMEN RECORD BREAKERS
K-State freshman Jordan Wicks set the program's all-time single-season record for innings pitched (84.2) and strikeouts (86) by a freshman ... Both records had stood since 1973 and were both set by Andy Replogle (78.2 IP, 78 K) ... Wicks' 86 strikeouts were the eighth-most in a single season in K-State history and 14 strikeouts shy of the program record of 100 strikeouts in a season (A.J. Morris, 2009) ... With 10 home runs, freshman Dylan Phillips broke K-State's single-season freshman home run record, set by Brian Culp (1990) and Todd Fereday (1994) with seven homers.
POWER SURGE
K-State ended the 2019 season with 54 home runs - its highest single-season total since 2009 (58) and tied for the fifth-most in program history ... From April 10-May 4, the Wildcats had a stretch of 14 consecutive games with at least one home run, marking the Cats' longest such streak in the Big 12 era ... 48 of K-State's 54 home runs last season were hit by either a newcomer or someone who did not hit a home run in 2018 ... The Cats' offense hit 32 homers over the season's final 25 contests, with six multi-homer games over that stretch … The Wildcats were 22-14 when hitting a home run and 8-3 when hitting multiple home runs ... The Cats ranked third in the league in homers as a team in both overall games and conference games during the regular season.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE
Catcher Chris Ceballos and outfielder Dylan Phillips became the first Wildcat teammates to reach double-digit home runs since 2009 ... The duo, who each lifted 10 bombs, are the first returning Wildcat teammates with 10 or more homers in the Big 12 era.
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