April 30, 2001
DALLAS -- Missouri junior shortstop-pitcher Ryan Stegall and Kansas State senior first baseman Mark English and Iowa State sophomore pitcher Alan Bomer have been tabbed as Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Co-Baseball Players of the Week and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, in voting by a select panel of media covering Big 12 baseball for games played from Apr. 23-29.
Stegall, who registered a save in the second "Wood Bat Game" win over Saint Louis in O'Fallon, Mo., last Wednesday, enjoyed his finest week of the year over five contests. The 2000 All-America utility man batted .571 (12-for-21) with seven runs, five doubles, three homers, and 11 RBI while rolling to a 1.238 slugging percentage. He also played errorless baseball (1.000 percentage) in 18 chances at short and on the mound. Stegall, from Liberty, Mo., moved into a fifth-place tie for career doubles at MU with 46 and brought his three-year home run total to 30-sixth on the all-time school list. Stegall also ranks second on the school's all-time save list with 18.
English keyed a KSU sweep over Missouri with three home runs and eight RBI over a five-game period last week. He also notched 18 total bases for a 1.000 slugging percentage, aided by a pair of doubles and three singles. His batwork helped the Wildcats down the Tigers three times in one series for the first time since 1974 as he went 6-for-10 (.600), scored six runs, had all three homers and seven RBI in the conference games.
Bomer pitched eight innings of four-hit, shutout ball against No. 21 Texas in a 2-0 triumph by the Cyclones to assure ISU of a series edge last Saturday in Ames, Iowa. In the combined blanking, he allowed just four singles, walked two and struck out four Longhorns. Bomer raised his team-leading strikeouts' total to 55 while lowering his earned run average to 3.52-13th among all Big 12 hurlers this year. He also lowered his conference-only ERA to 2.03 for 44 1/3 innings pitched in 2001.
Missouri will play Southwest Missouri State Tuesday at 7 p.m. The Tigers will face Eastern Kentucky Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.