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\n\t\t\tField Player of the Week
\n\t\t\tElijah Pelayo, Cal State Bakersfield | Senior \u2022 Infielder \u2022 Pico Rivera, Calif.
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\n\tCal State Bakersfield infielder Elijah Pelayo\u00a0slashed .556\/.629\/.722\u00a0with 10\u00a0hits, two RBI and nine runs scored in four games to win The Big West Baseball Field Player of the Week award. It is Pelayo’s first career weekly honor from the conference.
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\n\tThe Roadrunner senior started the week going 2-for-3 with one double, one walk and three runs scored in a 7-3 home victory against Cal State LA, Tuesday night.\u00a0
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\n\tPelayo recorded two hits and scored a run in Friday’s series-opener at UC Riverside.
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\n\tThe Pico Rivera, Calif. native compiled three hits, two RBI and one run as Cal State Bakersfield earned a 10-0 win against the Highlanders on Saturday.\u00a0
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\n\tPelayo\u00a0went 3-for-4 with one walk and four runs scored as the Roadrunners clinched the series with a 14-1 triumph over UC Riverside in Sunday’s series finale.\u00a0
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\n\tCal State Bakersfield is 19-25 overall and tied for seventh in the league standings with a 9-12 conference mark. Pelayo is hitting .335 with 22 RBI and 35 runs scored.\u00a0
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Also Nominated: Nate Castellon (Cal Poly), Michael Crossland (UC Irvine), Cameron Kim (Cal State Fullerton), Daniel Polasek (UC Irvine), Nate Vargas (UC Santa Barbara).<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tEthan Minaker, Cal State Bakersfield\u00a0| Junior \u2022 Left-Handed Pitcher \u2022 Winnipeg, Canada
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\n\tCal State Bakersfield starting pitcher Ethan Minaker\u00a0threw six innings of shutout ball\u00a0to earn The Big West Baseball Pitcher of the Week award. It is Minaker’s first career weekly honor.\u00a0
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\n\tThe left-handed starter threw 6.0 innings allowing no runs, three hits and one walk, while collecting three strikeouts,\u00a0as the Roadrunners defeated\u00a0UC Riverside 10-0 on Saturday.
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\n\tThe Winnipeg, Canada product retired the side in order in the first, second and fifth innings.
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\n\tCal State Bakersfield is 19-25 overall and tied for seventh in the league standings with a 9-12 conference mark. Minaker has a 3.48 ERA with 25 strikeouts in 44.0 innings on the mound this season.
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Also Nominated:\u00a0Nick Bonn (Cal Poly), Raymond Olivas (UC Santa Barbara), Dylan Smith (Cal State Fullerton).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links All-Time Big West Baseball Weekly Winners >>> Field Player of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-308926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}