SAN ANTONIO ? While the 2008 season does not begin for another three weeks, the preseason honors are starting to rack up for the UTSA baseball team.
In the last month, the Roadrunners have received votes in both the Collegiate Baseball and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association preseason polls. That marks the first time in school history that the program has earned such mention.
That comes on the heels of senior first baseman Trent Lockwood being named to the Brooks Wallace Award (nation's top player) Watch List on Dec. 12.
More honors should be on the way, as the preseason All-Southland Conference polls and teams are to be announced a week from today. Last year, nine Roadrunners were all-conference selections and five of those players return this season.
UTSA is coming off a 2007 season that saw it post a 36-22 record and claimits first-ever Southland Conference Regular Season Championship inschool history. The Roadrunners, who set a league record with a 24-6mark in league play, have won two conference titles in the past threeseasons (2005 SLC Tournament). Twenty letterwinners, including seven position starters and eight pitchers, return this year.
The Roadrunners open the 2008 campaign on Friday, Feb. 22, when they host the three-day, four-team UTSA Baseball Classic at Wolff Stadium. UTSA will host 40th-ranked Oral Roberts at 6 p.m. in its season opener. Army and #32 Louisiana-Lafayette will make up the rest of the tournament field.
