the Year, and he was selected to the SCAC All-Tournament Team.
Coming off an injury-shortened 2015 in which he tossed only 8-2/3 innings and received a medical redshirt, Malinovsky produced a 9-1 record in 2016 with a 1.97 ERA in 87 innings of work. He struck out 58, walked 21 and posted six complete games. He held opponents to a .215 batting average. He led the SCAC in ERA, WHIP, complete games, and opponent batting average.
TLU returns its entire outfield with junior right-fielder Riley Schaefer (Thorndale/Thorndale), senior center-fielder Rayce Gatlin (Orange Grove/Orange Grove/Coastal Bend JC) and senior left-fielder Colby Schrade (Shiner/St. Paul/Trinidad JC). The outfield will look a little different since Schrade, who saw some time in the infield early last season, will move to third base for 2017.
Schaefer scored a team-best 43 runs in 41 games. He played and started in every game for TLU last season. Schaefer hit .371 with six doubles and a triple, and he stole seven bases and drove in 16.
Gatlin also played and started in all 41 games and hit .365 with 23 RBI. He was third on the team in on-base percentage, at .457. Schrade, another 41-game starter, was third on the team in RBI (27), second on the team in hits (53), and third on the squad in runs scored (34).
The only other returning position starter is junior shortstop Eric Rabinowitz (Schertz/Clemens). He started 38 of TLU's 41 games and hit .278 with 26 runs scored. Rabinowitz made just nine errors all year.
The Bulldogs will have new starters at catcher, first base, second base, third base (with Schrade moving from left to third), and left field. TLU has an influx of new pitchers (a collection of junior college transfers and true freshmen) that are expected to rack up a good deal of innings in 2017.
TLU opens the 2017 season with a 7 p.m. home game on Feb. 3 against regional rival Concordia Texas. The Bulldogs and Tornados play a doubleheader on Feb. 4 at Tornado Field in Austin. The doubleheader starts at 2 p.m.
TYLER – The UT Tyler baseball team will enter the 2017 season ranked No. 18 in the nation with the release of the Collegiate Baseball Preseason Poll.
The Patriots are coming off winning their second straight American Southwest Conference Championship after running through the tournament as the fourth seed. UT Tyler advanced to the program’s sixth NCAA tournament where it opened the Spokane Regional with a 4-3 win over No. 14 Cal Lutheran and then a 6-4 win over No. 18 Whitworth. The Patriots, who are the only ASC team that is ranked in the preseason poll, would fall to No. 3 Trinity and Pacific Lutheran to end its 2016 season with a 32-19 overall record.
UT Tyler will be led by head coach Brent Porche in 2017 after he took over the program in August. Porche has 26 returners on the roster, including Trenton Buchhorn and Alex Bishop who earned ABCA/Rawlings All-Region honors and Brady McCoy, Cason Adams, Graham Welch, Blake Wilson and Reese Read who are returning all-conference selections
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