VanAllen Adds Big 12 Weekly Honor
2/17/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 17, 2004
WACO, Texas - Baylor's Cory VanAllen joined Oklahoma's David Purcey and Texas A&M's Zach Johnson as Big 12 Conference Pitchers of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday. VanAllen was so honored after combining with Zane Carlson to no-hit Loyola Marymount in Baylor's 1-0 series-finale victory Sunday at the Baylor Ballpark.
A true-freshman from Sugar Land, Texas, VanAllen carried a perfect game into the seventh inning before leadoff batter Billy Lockin reached by virtue of an error. Carlson then came in and closed the door on LMU, preserving Baylor's seventh no-hitter and first since 2000.
VanAllen is the first Baylor freshman to ever participate in a no-hitter. The southpaw did not walk a batter and struck out four in his 6.0-plus innings of work.
Jackson also tossed a no-hitter as the Aggies blanked Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 15-0 in seven innings Saturday. Purcey hurled seven shutout innings as the Sooners blanked Arizona State 6-0 Sunday, snapping ASU's NCAA-record of 506 consecutive games without being shutout.
Texas 2B Seth Johnson earned Big 12 Player of the Week honors.
The Bears return to action Tuesday, hosting Texas-San Antonio for a 6 p.m. contest at Baylor Ballpark.
