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Cal State San Marcos Duo Claim Baseball Weekly Honors


After helping Cal State San Marcos to its first 3-0 start in program history, Cougars Grant Buck and Mike Lopez have been tapped as CCAA Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week for Jan. 28-Feb. 3.

Lopez, a redshirt senior from San Diego, opened the season with aplomb, tying the Cal State San Marcos single-game record for strikeouts. Fanning 12 batters in the 6-0 victory over MSU Denver, Lopez earned the win after he tossed eight scoreless innings and allowed just four hist with 90 pitches. Lopez is just the second CSUSM pitcher in program history to record 12 strikeouts in a game as former Cougar James Dykstra did so on two occasions in 2012 and 2013.

Buck backed up the efforts from Lopez with power at the plate, slugging out a home run to score two in the opening game in his debut as a Cougar. The senior transfer from Carlsbad kept the bat hot throughout the series, blasting a three-run jack in the series finale to cap the weekend. All told, Buck finished the series with two home runs and five RBIs while tallying three hits, nine total bases, a 1.000 slugging percentage, a walk and a hit-by-pitch in the Cougars' three wins over MSU Denver in the opening weekend of the 2019 season.

Cal State San Marcos is set to host Concordia-Irvine in another weekend of non-conference action on the diamond. The three-game series between the Cougars and Eagles is slated for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with one game on the docket each afternoon.
 
2019 CCAA Baseball Weekly Awards
Player of the Week Pitcher of the Week
Jan. 28-Feb. 3 Grant Buck, Cal State San Marcos Mike Lopez, Cal State San Marcos