Lamar picked to finish third in SLC baseball race

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[quote]Texas State is favored to win its fourth Southland Conference regular-season baseball championship, and Lamar University is picked third by a vote of the league's head coaches and sports information directors, the conference announced Tuesday.

The Bobcats received five fi rst-place votes and 114 points in the coaches' poll and five fi rst-place votes and 112 points in the SIDs poll. Texas State returns 19 letterwinners, five position starters and nine pitchers from a Bobcat squad that won its first regular-season title since 1997 and posted its best record in program history with 41 over-all victoriess and 24 league wins.

Sam Houston State, the three-time defending SLC tournament champion, was picked a close second to Texas State. The Bearkats received four first-place votes and 107 points in the coaches' poll and four first-place votes and 103 points in the SIDs poll.

The remaining first-place votes went to Lamar University, which came in third in both polls with three first-place votes and 105 points in the coaches' poll and two first-place votes and 100 points in the SIDs poll. [/quote]

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