Bethune-Cookman

Last but not least, fourth seeded Bethune-Cookman out of the MEAC. Bethune-Cookman is the MEAC regular and post-season champion. Bethune-Cookman finished 17 -1 in conference and were 36-20 overall. The MEAC is not a very strong conference seeing as only one other team had a record above .500 and the team was only a game over .500. At least Bethune-Cookman did what they had to do and ran through through the conference without any problems. They have a tough first day match-up against Miami.

hitting-.297 average
pitching- 3.86 ERA
defense-.959 fielding pct (Led the conference in fielding!)

Hitting

Led the conference in hitting with a .297 batting average. They dont score very many runs scoring 419 runs in 56 games throughout the year, walks taken (255) and SO (506). Two hitters to watch for them are JOse Lazada who lead the conference in hitting with .404 average. However Lozada is not a good fielding, seeing as he committed 20 errors which led the team. The other hitter to watch is Osvaldo Torres who is hitting .339, with 12HR and 72RBIs.

Pitching

Their starting pitching just by looking at their stats is actually pretty good. Again the level of competition faced compared to the other teams in the regional is not very high, but they got the job done. Leading the way for the pitching staff is HIram Burgos who is 9-1 with a 1.20 era with 1 save. Burgos made 15 appearances, 12 of them starting and only gave up one HR. He will need probably the start of his life on Friday afternoon to beat a strong Miami offense.


latest line up for Bethune-Cookman

ORTIZ,Jose cf.
FORD,Kenneth ph/rf
HOYTE,Justin rf
VELEZ,Jorge ph/c
LOZADA,Jose ss
TORRES,Osvaldo 1b
JONES,Neal dh
CASTRO,Emmanuel 3b
RUPERTO,Jeremy c
DE LA ROSA,Devin lf
BROOKS,Mark 2b.
PATTERSON,Aaron 2b
JONES,Patrick lf/cf


To look at more stats if interested

http://www.meacsports.com/artman/publish/baseball.shtml
http://bccathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/beth-m-basebl-body.html