As evidenced on Thursday evening, Legacy head coach Eric Garcia has confidence at hand the ball to senior reliever Alek Kowalczyk to pitch high-leverage innings within the later parts of shut ballgames.
Kowalczyk pitched 1 2/3 innings of no-hit ball to register the win within the Rebels’ 3-1 victory over Midland Excessive within the Match of Champions at Momentum Financial institution Ballpark.
Kowalczyk has additionally made a believer out of Schreiner College baseball coach Ryan Brisbin.
Earlier this week, Kowalczyk signed with the Schreiner College, which is an NCAA Division III baseball program in Kerrville.
Kowalczyk was planning to attend the varsity academically as a arithmetic main however reached out to Brisbin to specific curiosity in enjoying baseball there, too.
“I simply fell in love with the college first after which having the ability to play baseball there,” Kowalczyk mentioned. “Schreiner was the primary one I reached out to. That’s the place I wished to go both method.”
Along with his pitching contributions, Kowalczyk additionally has the flexibility to play each second base and third base.
The 5-foot-6, 180-pound right-hander assaults batters with a four-pitch combine, which features a fastball, curveball, changeup and splitter.
“It’s like we inform the youngsters on a regular basis, there’s tons of alternatives on the market to go play on the subsequent stage, you’ve bought to need it and also you’ve bought to go search for it,” Garcia mentioned. “He’s labored onerous. He’s a first-year varsity participant however he wasn’t afraid to go check out for them and present them what he’s bought. They’re going to present him a chance over there. He’s going to be an enormous reduction man this yr for us on the mound.”
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