2005
Appeared in 23 games while starting 11 times…He went 6-7 with an ERA of 5.98 in 2005…The six wins were second best on the team…Went the distance in a 5-3 win over Southeastern Louisiana on April 23…Collected 50 strikeouts and recorded a season-high six strikeouts in a 8-7 win over I-35 rival Texas State on May 25…Made a relief appearance against Baylor in the NCAA Regionals on June 4…Pitched three and two-third innings, giving up one run on four hits, while fanning four batters against Baylor.

2004
Made 21 relief appearances for the Roadrunners, tossing 35 innings and finishing the season with a 5.40 ERA...Allowed 42 hits and 21 earned runs on the year...Longest outings of the season came on April 13 at Texas-Pan American and again on May 26 against Lamar with four innings of work in each appearance...In final appearance of the year fanned three batters and gave up just one hit in a loss to Lamar...Tossed a perfect inning of relief against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on April 28...Combined with Steven Vasquez for a 4-0 shutout over Army on Feb. 21.

High School
A two-year letterman as a pitcher and a first baseman out of Humble High School...Garnered all-district honors as a junior and a senior...Named all-greater Houston his senior year with the Wildcats...Led his junior team to a District 22-5A championship...Started two years on the Humble football team...Was all-district his junior and senior campaigns on the way to back-to-back district titles...Graduated with a 4.96 GPA...A member of the National Honor Society.

Personal
Full name is Joshua Ryan Ruffin...Born on Oct. 22, 1984, in Humble, Texas...Parents are Ricky and Dena Ruffin...Brother Mark is a sophomore on the UTSA team...Also has a sister, Sara...Major is mechanical engineering.

 

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