ZACK SPEER OF TRINITY UNIVERSITY, a junior right-hander from Bellaire, Texas, picked up where he left off last season when he was named First Team All-SCAC, First Team D3baseball.com All-Region, Second Team ABCA All-Region and a D3baseball.com Honorable Mention All-American. Heading into this weekend’s conference tournament, he leads the SCAC in wins (8) and strikeouts (52) and is second in ERA (1.99) and fifth in innings pitched (63.1) – one of just two players in the SCAC who ranks in the top five of all four categories. Speer earned wins against five of the league’s six other conference teams this year and his 17 wins the last two seasons are the most by any pitcher over that stretch.

In a tightly contested vote, Speer earned four votes for SCAC Pitcher-of-the-Year while Dwayne Snider of Texas Lutheran received three votes. The award marks the fourth consecutive year that a Trinity hurler has won or shared SCAC Pitcher-of-the-Year honors and the ninth time in program history.