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Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Player, Pitcher of Week - April 19

April 19, 2005

DALLAS--Drew Stubbs (Texas) and Adrian Alaniz (Texas) have been selected as Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week in voting by a of media covering Big 12 baseball for games played Apr. 12-18. Stubbs has been Big 12 Player of the Week twice this year (and in his career) while Alaniz receives the honor for the first time.

Player: Drew Stubbs, So., OF, 6-4, 199, Texas (Atlanta, Texas)
Stubbs batted a team-high .545 (6-for-11) with two homers, five RBI, three runs, a 1.091 slugging percentage with 12 total bases and a game-winning home run in the 10th inning of the Longhorns' opening 2-0 victory in a three-contest sweep of Oklahoma last weekend in Austin. His two-run clout highlighted a 2-for-4 evening in the 2-0 lidlifting win and was Stubbs' second walkoff homer of the season. He later belted his team-best eighth homer of the year and was 3-for-4 in Sunday's 11-7 finale of the series. In that slugfest he drove in three runs, scored twice and stole a base while producing his sixth game-deciding RBI of the season. Stubbs now leads UT with 41 runs scored, the eight home runs, 90 total bases, a .570 slugging percentage, seven sacrifice hits, and 17 and stolen bases.

Pitcher: Adrian Alaniz, Fr., 6-2, 202, Texas (Sinton, Texas)
The redshirt freshman tossed the 19th no-hitter in UT history and the third in Big 12 Conference annals against Oklahoma in a 4-0 triumph on Apr. 16. He also came within a fourth-inning walk of throwing a perfect game and allowed the minimum of 27 total at-bats to Sooner hitters. He advanced to 3-0 on the year with 49 strikeouts over 55.1 innings while throwing the first Longhorns' no-hitter since Feb. 11, 2000, by Beau Hale against Sam Houston (10-0) in Austin. Alaniz recorded the first UT no-hitter against a conference foe since Dave Seiler worked nine no-hit innings against SMU at Disch-Falk Field on March 22, 1980, and it was the first no-hitter by a Longhorns' freshman since Greg Swindell fired a no-hitter against Texas Wesleyan in seven innings in Austin on March 17, 1984.