Thursday night was the final home game for UTSA seniors Timea Toth (15), Evelyn Omemmah (1), Deja Cousin (13) and Tija Hawkins (23).The UTSA women’s basketball program honored its seniors on Thursday night in the Roadrunners’ final home game of the season.
It was the last game at the Convocation Center for Evelyn Omemmah, Deja Cousin, Timea Toth and Tija Hawkins.
UTSA lost to Louisiana Tech 69-30 in a Conference USA game. The Roadrunners fell to 6-22 on the season and 2-15 in conference with one game left.
I’ve never seen a college basketball team hit by as many injuries in a season as this group.
The UTSA women’s basketball team has 14 players listed on its roster, but was down to eight players in uniform Thursday due to a series of injuries that plagued the Roadrunners all season.
Cousin and Hawkins were not in uniform Thursday, spending the game on the bench in warmups. Cousin has been limited to 11 games this season due to injury and Hawkins played only five games before being sidelined.
Omemmah and Toth both started Thursday. Omemmah was hurt late in the first half and spent the second half sitting with a boot on her right foot.
Karrington Donald, Charlene Mass and Toth are the only UTSA players who have not missed any games this season.
Evelyn Omemmah
Deja Cousin
Timea Toth
Tija Hawkins
Evelyn Omemmah
Karley Larson
Karrington Donald
Ceyenne Mass
Adryana Quezada
Charlene Mass
Elena Blanding
Timea Toth
Thursday night was the final home game for UTSA seniors (from left) Timea Toth, Evelyn Omemmah, Deja Cousin and Tija Hawkins.
Zack Brown of the 2019 San Antonio Missions pitching for the Milwaukee Brewers in a 2020 spring training game on Feb. 24 at American Family Fields of Phoenix.One in a series of brief looks at players with ties to the San Antonio Missions as we get ready for the 2020 baseball season.
Zack Brown led the 2019 San Antonio Missions in games started on the mound.
The 6-foot-1 right-hander pitched in 25 games – 23 of them starts. He had mixed results and some tough nights and finished the season with a 3-7 record and 5.79 EAR.
Brown was second on the team in innings pitched with 116 2/3 and recorded 98 strikeouts and 64 walks.
Zack Brown
Zack Brown
Zack Brown
Brown dominated in Double-A in 2018. He had a 9-1 record and 2.44 ERA in 22 games at Biloxi. He pitched 125 2/3 innings with 116 strikeouts and 36 walks.
The 25-year-old is currently with the big league Milwaukee Brewers in spring training. He was a fifth-round draft pick of the Brewers in 2016 out of Kentucky.
Brown has pitched 4.0 innings in three Cactus League games so far this spring and has a 6.75 ERA. He pitched two scoreless innings against the San Diego Padres on Tuesday and struck out four batters with no hits.
MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy on Twitter reported the following quote from Brewers manager Craig Counsell on Brown after Tuesday’s game:
“It’s a name we don’t talk about a lot, but a name who can help us this year,” Counsell said. “One of those we’re maybe not counting on on Opening Day, but one of those guys who can impact us during the season.”
The Brewers’ Angel Perdomo on the mound for a spring training game on Feb. 24 at American Family Fields of Phoenix.One in a series of brief looks at players with ties to the San Antonio Missions as we get ready for the 2020 baseball season.
Angel Perdomo enters his second season pitching in the Milwaukee Brewers organization.
The 6-foot-6 left-hander spent most of last season with the Triple-A San Antonio Missions. He was third on the team in appearances with 40, all in relief, and compiled a 3-2 record and 5.17 ERA. He recorded 38 strikeouts in 54.0 innings.
Angel Perdomo
Angel Perdomo
Angel Perdomo
Perdomo started the 2019 season with the Double-A Biloxi Shuckers. He dominated in five games and put together a 2-0 record with a 1.17 ERA and 21 strikeouts and 5 1/3 innings before being called up to the Missions.
The 25-year-old from the Dominican Republic was added to the Brewers’ 40-man roster on Nov. 4, 2019. He is with the big club for spring training. In his first two appearances in the Cactus League this spring, he pitched scoreless innings with four strikeouts, one hit and one walk.
Update: Angel Perdomo pitched one inning Wednesday afternoon in the Brewers’ 5-1 loss to the White Sox in a spring training game in Phoenix. Perdomo struck out all three batters he faced.
The Brewers’ Corey Ray in right field in a spring training game Feb. 26 at Scottsdale Stadium.One in a series on players with ties to the San Antonio Missions as we get ready for the 2020 baseball season.
One thing we know Corey Ray can do is chase down fly balls.
Ray has been roaming center field and right field in the Milwaukee Brewers’ first Cactus League games of spring training.
The hope is he regains the form that made the 2016 first-round draft pick a rising star in the Brewers’ minor league system. In 2018, Ray hit .239 and showed his power with 27 home runs in 135 games with Double-A Biloxi.
As a San Antonio Missions center fielder in 2019, he was limited to 53 games due to injuries and had a tough time getting in a groove at the plate for most of the season. He was on the injured list from May 23 to July 3. From there he spent a week on a rehab assignment, then went to Double-A Biloxi.
Ray didn’t rejoin the Missions until Aug. 1, when the Pacific Coast League season was more than half over. He batted .188 for the year with seven home runs.
The 25-year-old from Chicago looks healthy enough to have a sunnier 2020 based on his showing in early Cactus League games. Ray was a late-inning sub in the Brewers first spring training game of 2020, taking over in center field on Feb. 23 at American Family Fields of Phoenix.
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
He was in the starting lineup the next day. He started in right field on Feb. 26 when the Brewers played at the San Francisco Giants’ home field at Scottsdale Stadium. He has gone 1-for-10 to start the spring, but the one hit was a home run.
MY GOODNESS 😱
Corey Ray hits one halfway back to Milwaukee, and the @Brewers tie it!
Adam McCalvy of MLB.com projects Ryan Braun, Avisail García, Lorenzo Cain, Christian Yelich and Ben Gamel as locks to be outfielders on the Brewers’ opening day roster. That might leave room for a spot for Ray, who is currently on Milwaukee’s 40-man roster.
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
Corey Ray
If not, the 25-year-old from Chicago would probably start the season tracking down fly balls at Wolff Stadium for the second year in a row.
Jacob Nottingham was hit on the right hand during the Milwaukee Brewers’ first spring training game of 2020 at American Family Fields of Phoenix.First in a series of brief looks at players with ties to the San Antonio Missions as we get ready for the 2020 baseball season.
As if playing catcher isn’t tough enough.
During the Milwaukee Brewers’ first spring training game in the Cactus League on Feb. 23, Jacob Nottingham was hit on the right hand while batting and had to leave the game.
Jacob Nottingham
Jacob Nottingham
Jacob Nottingham
Jacob Nottingham
Jacob Nottingham
Jacob Nottingham
Jacob Nottingham
Jacob Nottingham
Jacob Nottingham
The Brewers reported that Nottingham wasn’t seriously injured. He returned to action as Milwaukee’s starting catcher three days later.
Jacob Nottingham was in the Milwaukee Brewers’ starting lineup on Feb. 26 against the San Francisco Giants at Scottsdale Field, three days after being hit on the right hand in the Brewers’ first spring training game of 2020. – photo by Joe Alexander
He has played in four of Milwaukee’s first eight Cactus League games.
The 6-foot-2 Nottingham, who turns 25 years old on April 3, started more games at catcher for the San Antonio Missions in 2019 than any other player. He played in 83 games as a catcher, first baseman and designated hitter. Nottingham batted .231 with five home runs and 40 RBIs.
Nottingham had limited action with the Brewers last summer. He played in nine games and had two hits in six at-bats including his first major league home run.
According to an MLB.com projection by Adam McCalvy, Nottingham has a possibility of making the Brewers 2020 opening day roster. David Freitas, who was a teammate of Nottingham on the 2019 Missions, is also listed as a possible at catcher. Brewers’ projected 2020 roster on MLB.com
