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Year In Review: Baseball

6/23/2022 1:10:00 PM

Year In Review

The 2022 season finished for the Patriots Baseball team in the Championship game of the NAIA Opening Round, after they finished the season 46-16. UC took home their second straight Mid-South Tournament title.


Year In Number
47

Sean Cheely led the Pats on the base path as he recorded 47 stolen bases. The 47 stolen bags put Cheely at fifth in the NAIA this season and placed him at second in the Patriots record books for steals in a single season.


 

464

The Cumberlands pitching staff came away with 464 strikeouts this season. Hunter Rigsby finished with the most strikeouts with 87, followed by Thomas Gutierrez with 75 and Garrett DeClue with 51.


 

5
The season Cumberlands rewrote their offensive record books, as they set five new program records in a single season. The new records are hits at 724, doubles at 154, runs batted in with 508, runs scored with 561, and walks with 271.

 

7
Seven different Pats ended the season with at least 65 hits and a batting average over .300. Charlie Muniz totaled 92 hits with a .418 average, then Sujel Arias had 89 hits with a .374 average, and Raphy Almanzar had 86 hits and a .354 average. While Sean Cheely had 83 hits with a .336 average, and Ray Villanueva with 83 hits and a .329 average. The final two were Seth Benner with 71 hits and a .399 average, and Candido Encarnacion had 68 hits with an average of .315.
 

19

 Charlie Muniz led the team and the Mid-South in home runs with 19. That mark also put Muniz at fifth in the Cumberlands record book for home runs in a single season.


 
 

5 
The Patriots have had five seasons with at least 40 wins in a season. Excluding the Covid shortened season it would be five straight seasons hitting the 40-win mark.


 

15UC took home 15 All-Conference awards, starting with Seth Benner winning Freshman of the Year and Coach Jared Martin taking home Assistant Coach of the Year. Seth Benner, Sean Cheely, Thomas Gutierrez, and Charlie Muniz were named First-Team All-Conference. Raphy Almanzar, Sujel Arias, Candido Encarnacion, Hunter Rigsby, and Ray Villanueva were named Second-Team. Luis Alvarez and Braxton Cottongame were Honorable Mention, while Sean Cheely and Candido Encarnacion took home Gold Gloves. 
 

2

The Pats had two All-Americans this season, one was NAIA while the other was CoSIDA. Charlie Muniz earned NAIA First-Team All-American honors, and Sean Cheely took home CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-American honors. 


 


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