Roadrunner Baseball Splits with Panola College

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Cox Tosses Gem in Opener

Angelina College pitcher Grant Cox appears to have found his groove at home.

Teammates Tucker Redden (4) and Josh Elvir (8) greet Angelina College’s Jacob Finke after Finke’s homer in the Roadrunners’ 3-0 win over Panola College. The Roadrunners earned a split with the Ponies, falling 7-3 in the nightcap at Roadrunner Field. (AC Press photo/Marcy Flores)

  The sophomore lefty tossed another gem on Friday, pitching a complete-game, three-hit shutout over Panola College in the opener of a doubleheader. The Roadrunners took the game 3-0, with
Jacob Finke and Roberto Malinowski each homering in the contest.

Cox struck out eight and issued just two walks in earning the win.

Panola bounced back to take the nightcap by a 7-3 score. Tony Lima homered and Josh Elvir drove in a run for the Roadrunners.


AC will host Alvin College on Tuesday in a single, nine-inning game starting at 3 p.m. at Roadrunner Field.

 

The e-mail address for AC’s Sports Information Director is gstallard@angelina.edu.

 

 

 

 

Gary Stallard
Gary Stallard
Sports Information Director Gary Stallard, who also serves as a Liberal Arts Instructor, begins his eleventh season with Angelina College. Following a career as a U.S. Marine, Stallard completed his bachelor’s degree at Stephen F. Austin University, where he majored in English and Journalism. For more than 16 years, he has worked as a sports writer/columnist/photographer for the Lufkin Daily News; he continues to contribute free-lance articles on occasion. Stallard has won several awards for writing, including the Golden Hoops Award for basketball writing in 2003, Regional Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, and the Texas Press Association’s first-place award for column writing in 2007 and in 2014. He has also done basketball, football and baseball radio and live streaming play-by- play and color commentary for an ESPN affiliate. Currently Stallard serves as play-by-play broadcaster for AC basketball, baseball and softball games. Prior to arriving at Angelina College, Stallard taught English at Lufkin High School for four years. He currently teaches Developmental Writing classes at AC. He and his wife Susan live in Lufkin.

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