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For immediate release 26 June 2002
ABILENE - ACU coaches added six more athletes in four sports Tuesday as those athletes inked binding letters-of-intent to compete for the Wildcats, beginning in the 2002-03 school year.
ACU head baseball coach Britt Bonneau brought in three athletes in pitchers Sam Hall and Brandon Shaw and shortstop Matt Callahan, while softball coach Carol Tabor signed Kristin Alvarado, Todd Mack signed to play golf and Abbie Waters signed to run track.
Here's a brief rundown on each athlete:
BASEBALL
BRANDON SHAW, lhp, 6-4, 210, sr, Cooper, TX -- Shaw will transfer to ACU from Texas Tech for his final year of eligibility. Shaw was used sparingly by the Red Raiders as he went just 1-1 in two innings of work. However, he was one of the top junior college pitchers in the nation at Grayson County Community College in 2000 and 2001. As a freshman, he was 5-0 with a 3.50 ERA. He followed that in 2001 with a 9-4 record and a 3.20 ERA. He collected 74 strikeouts in 84 innings of work as he helped Grayson County win the junior college national crown. As a senior at Cooper High School, he led his team to the Class 2A state championship in 1999. He was first team all-state, district MVP, Red River Valley MVP and played in the Texas High School Baseball Coaches' Association all-star game.
MATT CALLAHAN, ss / rhp, 6-1, 190, jr, Ayer, Mass. -- One of the top junior college players in Oklahoma last year, Callahan hit .380 with seven home runs and 55 RBI at Western Oklahoma State, earning first team all-region honors. While at Ayer (Mass.) High School, Callahan was all-conference as a freshman, sophomore, junior and senior, and was the Lowell (Mass.) Sun All-Star MVP as a junior. As a junior he hit .450 with seven home runs and 35 RBI, and followed that as a senior with a .460 batting average, seven home runs and 30 RBI. He was also a standout baseball player, averaging better than 17 points per game in his career and earning league MVP honors as a senior.
SAM HALL, lhp, 6-5, 210, fr, Hamilton, TX -- Hall joins the Wildcats after a stellar career at Evant High School where the lanky left-hander recorded 480 strikeouts in four years. As a senior at Evant, he struck out 210 batters and had a career-low 1.57 ERA. He was all-district all four years and first team all-state as a senior. He was also all-Super CenTex as both a junior and senior.
GOLF
TODD MACK, sr, Tr, Mansfield -- Mack will have one year of eligibility left when he joins the Wildcats in the fall of 2002. Mack, who previously played at Texas-Arlington, Weatherford Junior College and Tyler Junior College, was the runner-up at the 1999 Class 5A state golf tournament. He was third as a freshman in 1996 out of Mansfield High School. He won the For Worth City Boys championship in 1999.
SOFTBALL
KRISTIN ALVARADO, 2b, 5-5, jr, Tr, Morgan Hill, Calif. -- Alvarado was an all-league player at San Jose City College. She was a two-time second team all-league player at Live Oak High School, following first team all-league honors as both a freshman and sophomore.
WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
ABBIE WATERS, fr., 5-3, Enid, Okla. -- Waters will run the middle-to-long distance races for the Wildcats, as well as competing on the cross country team. Waters has personal bests of 2:23 in the 800 meters, 5:25 in the 1600 meters and 11:53 in the 3200 meters. She also lettered in basketball and swimming.
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