NEW ORLEANS, La. (bamastatesports.com) – The Alabama State University baseball team under head coach Mervyl Melendez completed an unprecedented run by winning the Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship (SWAC) in New Orleans with a 7-5 win over defending champion Texas Southern. This is the ASU baseball team’s first-ever SWAC championship title. Tournament MVP Dillon Cooper capped off a ‘week to remember’…
NEW ORLEANS, La. (bamastatesports.com) – Yamil Pagan went 4-for-4 with a grand slam and drove in a career-high seven runs as Alabama State moved to the SWAC Tournament semifinals with a 16-3 win over Alcorn State in seven innings. Ray Hernandez hit a solo homer, his third of the tournament and ASU record 15th of the season as the Hornets…
NEW ORLEANS, La. (bamastatesports.com) – Dillon Cooper’s two-home run, seven-RBI night powered the Alabama State Hornets to a 27-9 win over Southern in the opening round of the 2016 SWAC Baseball Tournament. Cooper’s performance was the biggest in a night of nights for the Hornets, who scored 27 runs for the second time this season in a five home run…
NEW ORLEANS, La. (bamastatesports.com) – There’s always a worry about maintaining the proper mindset after storming through the conference schedule unbeaten, but Alabama State University baseball coach Mervyl Melendez has experience in that department. The Hornets became the first team in Southwestern Athletic Conference history to go through the 24-game schedule unbeaten since the format was unveiled in 2006, so…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (bamastatesports.com) – For the second time in three weeks, Alabama State outfielder Dillon Cooper was named Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Week. Cooper (6-0, 220, Sr., Palm Bay, Fla.) hit .462 last week, scoring three runs with two doubles, one home run (a grand slam), and six RBI. He also walked four times and was hit by pitch…
LORMAN, Miss. (bamastatesports.com) – The Alabama State baseball team outlasted a scrappy Alcorn State team 7-3 in game one of the weekend series at Willie McGowan Stadium / Bill Foster Field. Joseph Camacho improved to 8-0, allowing two unearned runs in the first inning, yielding seven hits and one walk while striking out eight. Dillon Cooper went 4-for-4 with two…
ITTA BENA, Miss. (bamastatesports.com) – Alabama State hit a season-high six home runs in a 28-1 win in seven innings at Mississippi Valley State, completing the three-game sweep to remain unbeaten in Southwestern Athletic Conference play. Dillon Cooper had his first-career two-homer game, scored twice, and drove in a career-high five runs to lead the six-homer onslaught as Alabama State…
ITTA BENA, Miss. (bamastatesports.com) – Alabama State continued its Southwestern Athletic Conference dominance in taking game one of the its three-game series at Mississippi Valley State, winning 12-0 in seven innings. Joseph Camacho (7-0) continued his unbeaten streak as the Hornets (24-14 overall, 16-0 SWAC) won for the 32nd time in Camacho’s last 33 starts, throwing a complete game three-hitter,…
MONTGOMERY, Ala (bamastatesports.com) – The Alabama State baseball team returns to Southwestern Athletic Conference play in a three-game series beginning Friday at Mississippi Valley State. Game times are 3 p.m. Friday, and 1 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday on the MVSU campus as the teams meet for the second time this season. Alabama State swept the three-game series at…
JACKSON, Miss. (bamastatesports.com) – The Alabama State baseball team took game one of its three-game weekend series at Jackson State with a 7-4 over the Tigers at Braddy Field. Alabama State improved to 21-12 overall, 13-0 in league play as the Hornets won game one of a conference series for the 10th straight time. Jackson State falls to 17-13, 6-4….
