LCU set for three-game conference home series against Cameron
Lubbock Christian University had Easter weekend off from the Lone Star Conference softball schedule, and now the Lady Chaparrals start a three-game conference series Tuesday at home.
LCU (32-9, 22-8) hosts Cameron (25-16, 21-12) in the series opener at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Maner Park and in a doubleheader at noon Wednesday. The Lady Chaps had a 13-game win streak snapped their last time out in a series finale April 1 at Texas A&M International.
LCU is in third place in the LSC. The Lady Chaps trail West Texas A&M (35-4, 26-4), the second-place team, by four games. They lead fourth-place Cameron and Oklahoma Christian (26-13, 21-12) by 2 1/2 games, but by four games in the loss column.
Lady Chaps third baseman Kasey Flores (.397, 16 home runs, 52 runs batted in) and designated player Hope Banales (.398-5-27) rank among the LSC's top hitters. The Lady Chaps have a conference-best 1.65 earned-run average behind pitchers Taylor Franco (12-6, 1.18), Maxine Valdez (13-2, 1.60) and Ashlinn Hamilton (6-1, 3.06).
LCU baseball
Lubbock Christian University plays one of its two regular-season non-conference games when the Chaparrals host Wayland Baptist at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Hays Field.
LCU (21-16) is fifth in the Lone Star Conference. The Chaps are coming off three victories in a four-game conference series against Texas A&M-Kingsville. All 13 LSC teams plays a four-game series against each of the other 12, taking up 48 games on the schedule.
Wayland (24-13) is coming off two wins in a three-game Sooner Athletic Conference series against Mid-America Christian.
The Chaps' top hitters include left fielder Eduardo Acosta (.442-4-39), center fielder Chris Shull (.418-10-48), shortstop Carson Ogilvie (.393-4-26), first baseman Nate Van Maanen (.375-8-49), third baseman Brevin McCool (.362-6-36) and catcher Jarred Gibson (.301-7-34).
SPC men's basketball
LEVELLAND — South Plains College forward Malek Abdelgowad made a commitment on Monday to Murray State, a Kentucky school that finished 17-15 this season and 11-9 in the Missouri Valley Conference.
Abdelgowad, a 6-foot-10 sophomore from Cairo, Egypt, averaged 7.6 points and 7.0 rebounds per game this season for South Plains and shot 58.6 percent from the field. The Texans went 22-9 and 10-6 in the Western Junior College Athletic Conference.
Tech baseball
Texas Tech dropped one spot to No. 20 in the weekly poll by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
The Red Raiders (22-10, 4-5 in the Big 12) start a two-game series Monday night at No. 8 Stanford (21-7, 10-2 in the Pac-12). The series finale is scheduled for 4:05 p.m. CDT Tuesday.
Other Big 12 teams in the poll are No. 17 Oklahoma State (23-10, 7-5), No. 19 Texas (23-10, 6-3), No. 25 West Virginia (23-9, 3-3) and No. 27 TCU (20-12, 7-5).
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Area college roundup: LCU set for three-game conference home series against Cameron
