Junior (2018)
Appeared in 16 games with 11 starts, posting a 3-3 record and a 3.96 ERA … Worked 63.2 innings, allowing 53 hits and 29 walks, striking out 56 … Allowed five homers and held opponents to a .226 average … Went 2-3 with a 4.94 ERA in 11 games and nine starts in C-USA play … Worked 47.1 innings, allowing 43 hits and 26 walks, striking out 42 … UTSA went 5-6 in his starts … Was 3-3 with a 4.01 ERA in his 11 starts … Made five quality starts … Worked two innings over two relief outings to open the year, tossing 1.1 innings vs. UF before getting two outs around a hit at Texas … Worked six shutout innings in his first start of the year, allowing three hits and a walk at McNeese State … Tossed a season-long eight innings with one earned runs allowed vs. Columbia … Worked seven shutout innings at WKU … Tossed six one-run innings vs. FIU … Worked six shutout innings vs. Charlotte.
Sophomore (2017)
Pitched in 15 games, including seven as the starter … posted a 2-3 record with a 7.28 ERA in 38.1 innings of work … struck out 31 batters … posted a 3.86 ERA in three conference relief appearances … struck out five hitters in his first start of the season, a six-inning stint, against Quinnipiac on Feb. 18 … tied his season high of six innings against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on April 4 … named to the league’s Commissioner’s Honor Roll for the second straight season.
Freshman (2016)
Posted a 5.30 ERA in first season and made 18 appearances, including 10 starts … tossed 56 innings on the bump and led the pitching staff with 59 strikeouts … set the single-season record for walks by a freshman with 44, surpassing Jeff Johnston’s mark in 1992 … went 2-5 on the season and had opponents hitting a C-USA 13th best .238 … scattered a league second-best 49 hits and did not allow an earned run in five of his last six appearances … matched a career best seven strikeouts on three occasions, including his final appearance of the season at Middle Tennessee (5/19), where he also matched a career best seven innings of work … named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.
High School
Appeared in 16 games with 11 starts, posting a 3-3 record and a 3.96 ERA … Worked 63.2 innings, allowing 53 hits and 29 walks, striking out 56 … Allowed five homers and held opponents to a .226 average … Went 2-3 with a 4.94 ERA in 11 games and nine starts in C-USA play … Worked 47.1 innings, allowing 43 hits and 26 walks, striking out 42 … UTSA went 5-6 in his starts … Was 3-3 with a 4.01 ERA in his 11 starts … Made five quality starts … Worked two innings over two relief outings to open the year, tossing 1.1 innings vs. UF before getting two outs around a hit at Texas … Worked six shutout innings in his first start of the year, allowing three hits and a walk at McNeese State … Tossed a season-long eight innings with one earned runs allowed vs. Columbia … Worked seven shutout innings at WKU … Tossed six one-run innings vs. FIU … Worked six shutout innings vs. Charlotte.
Sophomore (2017)
Pitched in 15 games, including seven as the starter … posted a 2-3 record with a 7.28 ERA in 38.1 innings of work … struck out 31 batters … posted a 3.86 ERA in three conference relief appearances … struck out five hitters in his first start of the season, a six-inning stint, against Quinnipiac on Feb. 18 … tied his season high of six innings against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on April 4 … named to the league’s Commissioner’s Honor Roll for the second straight season.
Freshman (2016)
Posted a 5.30 ERA in first season and made 18 appearances, including 10 starts … tossed 56 innings on the bump and led the pitching staff with 59 strikeouts … set the single-season record for walks by a freshman with 44, surpassing Jeff Johnston’s mark in 1992 … went 2-5 on the season and had opponents hitting a C-USA 13th best .238 … scattered a league second-best 49 hits and did not allow an earned run in five of his last six appearances … matched a career best seven strikeouts on three occasions, including his final appearance of the season at Middle Tennessee (5/19), where he also matched a career best seven innings of work … named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.
High School
Played all positions at Kempner High School under the direction of Marc Jones … tabbed a first team all-district (pitcher) and third team All-Houston Area (outfielder) selection … helped lead the Cougars to a pair of district championships and another two bi-district titles … as a pitcher, Patel worked 55.1 innings and compiled a 5-3 record while racking up 86 strikeouts and one save for a 1.265 ERA … as a position player, he batted a .322 clip his senior season and registered 100 at-bats, 30 hits, seven doubles, three home runs and 18 RBIs … top performance of his prep career was when he fanned 17 batters in one game and connected for a 4-for-4 plate appearance with two walks and a home run … earned academic all-district and all-state honors.
Personal
Son of Kuldeep and Deepali Patel … played cricket for the U.S. National Team … majoring in finance.