COLLEGE BASEBALL BEAT: THE MASTER'S TRIES TO GET ATTENTION OF TOP 25 VOTERS.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer About the only two things slowing The Master's College History The Master's College was founded as Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary on May 25, 1927 to meet the need for a fundamental Baptist school on the West Coast. baseball team is the rain and coaches who vote to determine the national rankings. As El Nino rained out scheduled games with Cal Lutheran on Tuesday and Concordia on Wednesday, the team worked out in the school gymnasium, hitting whiffle whif·fle v. whif·fled, whif·fling, whif·fles v.intr. 1. To move or think erratically; vacillate. 2. balls. The Mustangs can't control the weather, but neither can they do anything about their situation. They're 22-5 heading into Thursday's makeup at Concordia and have defeated several nationally ranked teams. Yet there they are, unranked, while Albertson (seventh), Bellevue (16th) and Biola (19th) stay ranked. At least Azusa Pacific and Cal Baptist have fallen out of the rankings, but the Mustangs beat them while they were in the top 25. The Master's received 16 votes in the latest NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes poll that was released Tuesday. That would put them 37th. ``We're getting votes but not respect,'' sports information director Don Gilmore said. It's easy for Gilmore to be bitter. He compiles the statistics. He sees Preston Sprinkle's .412 batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. , .556 on base percentage, .675 slugging percentage In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (abbreviated SLG) is the most popular measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats: and 33 hits. He sees Chris Kollman's .384, 33 hits and 27 runs. He watched Danny Cato's numbers rise from less than .250 in the first 18 games to .349 with 27 runs and 22 walks. He sees Rob Avila's .350, 36 hits, five home runs and 32 RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in ; Aaron Penberthy's nine home runs, .313 average and .677 slugging and Kurt Fillmore's 18 stolen bases. He knows the team's .321 batting average is well ahead of last year's .264 and ahead of 1990's .313. The 26 home runs are six more than last year. The slugging and on-base percentage records could fall this season. |
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