RRAC News
Sun, Mar 7, 2010 - [Baseball]
WACO, Texas -- Hector Rivera of Wiley College (Texas) was selected as the Red River Athletic Conference Baseball Player of the Week for March 1-7, while Caleb McCool of Texas Wesleyan University was honored as the conference's Baseball Pitcher of the Week for the same dates.

Rivera, a senior second baseman from Aguada, P.R., delivered two game-winning hits in a 4-1 week for the Wildcats. He opened the week going 3-for-3 with a walk-off three-run home run to stun the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 5-4. He also connected on a walk-off hit to defeat Bacone College (Okla.), 8-7, in the second game of a three-game sweep against the Warriors. Rivera had a hit and scored a run in all five games on the week, batting 8-for-16 with a pair of doubles and six RBIs. Wiley is now 9-3 on the season.

McCool, a senior pitcher from Denton, Texas, earned the win in TWU's only game of the week, an 11-6 victory over McMurry University (Texas). He didn't allow an earned run on four hits in five innings of work while striking out two hitters. The Rams are 8-5 overall.

Peter Maldonado of the University of Texas-Brownsville, TWU's Morgan Marr and Jordan Rogers of Huston-Tillotson University (Texas) were also nominated for player of the week, while HT's Enoch Deaton and Wiley's Ismael Marcano were additional pitcher of the week nominees.

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