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2009 Season Stats
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The 2009 Lobo baseball team showed some promise despite a 39-game slate which yielded five victories.

A 5-2 win at University of Dallas gave the Lobos their first taste of the victory column for 2009. Sul Ross then took a 4-1 win in the second game of a three-game conference series against Mary Hardin-Baylor before a taking two games out of three against Howard Payne by scores of 13-8 and 11-8. The Lobos then bit McMurry in the series opener by 5-2 edging.

All-American Javier Arrieta (El Paso Mt. View) returns for his senior season in 2010. Arrieta was tabbed as the American Southwest Conference West division Player of the Year in 2009. Arrieta earned the award after batting .461 with 17 home runs, 15 doubles and 51 RBIs for 2009. He led the league with a .921 slugging percentage. His home runs total of 17 and 140 total bases were top marks in the West. Arrieta was also 15-for-17 on stolen bases.

His 17 homers were just two shy of tying the school single season record of 19 set by Isaac Beard in 1996.

Arrieta also earned a slot on the 2009 ASC West Division First Team All-Conference list and was named as a DIII Baseball.com and American Baseball Coaches Association 2009 Rawlings® NCAA Division III All-American following the 2009 campaign.

The ABCA award is the fourth post season honor for Arrieta.

Other Lobos who received post season honors include junior first baseman James Johnson (Killeen Shoemaker) and freshman third baseman Eric Mata (El Paso Andress). Both players were selected as ASC West Division Honorable Mentions.

Johnson posted a second team-high .331 batting average after 118 at-bats. He scored 16 runs, posted 39 hits and 12 RBIs.

Mata was third on the team in hitting at .328 with 15 runs, 40 hits and 18 RBIs and three homers.