Trojan Shield Weekly Update: May 6, 2019

Greetings from Trojan Country!

Atheltes

Scott Award

We had a great night on Tuesday for the 2019 Athletic Banquet. The coaches took turns telling about their seasons and praising the effort of the student-athletes. It was also a great opportunity to thank our boosters for their support and the faculty, staff and administration for all that they do for us every year. We also had the chance to honor the academic success of our student-athletes as the coaches spoke of academic excellence. I was able to give the George Scott award. Each year this award is given to the top academic sophomore athletes. It was my privilege to award a pair of Scott awards this year to a pair of excellent students. Earning the Scott Award this year were baseball player Jess Pratt and basketball player Hannah Gilmore. Each of them are 4.0 students and team leaders. Congratulations to Hannah and Jess.

Also, this week, our volleyball and softball teams did some community service as they volunteered to be a part of the Trinidad Community Foundation’s annual COMCAST Cares spring cleanup. Thank you to the coaches and athletes for taking part of this event, and thank you to the TCF for the work they do to keep Trinidad beautiful.

Last Week's Results

Baseball –

Defeated Northeastern 7-3
Fell to Northeastern 12-2
Fell to Northeastern 5-2

Track and Field – was at the Air Force Twilight Open at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado – for complete results go to https://goairforcefalcons.com/documents/2019/5/3//AFTO2019.pdf
the TSJC results were as follows

Men's 200 Meters
11 MOORE-FORD, Dontavis Trinidad State JC 23.61
13 SALAZAR, Alejandro Trinidad State JC 26.83 (+0.7) 2(5)

Men's 400 Meters
2 HOLDSWORTH, Derek Trinidad State JC 48.43
5 SALAZAR, Alejandro Trinidad State JC 52.25
7 MOORE-FORD, Dontavis Trinidad State JC 54.31

Men's 800 Meters
4 CHAMA, Godfrey Trinidad State JC 1:53.93
15 ALLEN, Riley Trinidad State JC 2:05.41
18 SAIS, Richard Trinidad State JC 2:09.13
19 DANLEY, Cody Trinidad State JC 2:09.99
20 MCMAHON, John Trinidad State JC 2:12.98
21 ENRIGHT, Joseph Trinidad State JC 2:16.20

Men's 1500 Meters
23 ALLEN, Riley Trinidad State JC 4:21.51
28 MCMAHON, John Trinidad State JC 4:25.82
30 ENRIGHT, Joseph Trinidad State JC 4:27.04
32 SAIS, Richard Trinidad State JC 4:34.11

Women's 800 Meters
4 MOORE, Toni Trinidad State JC 2:40.10
5 RUGGLES, Camille Trinidad State JC 2:49.67

Women's 1500 Meters
5 CHELIMO, Benadine Trinidad State JC 4:59.05
10 MOORE, Toni Trinidad State JC 5:19.20
16 RUGGLES, Camille Trinidad State JC 5:38.16

This Week

Thursday -

Softball travels to Scottsbluff, Nebraska for the Region IX Softball Tournament (vs Otero at 2pm)
Baseball hosts the Region IX Tournament

Friday -

Softball travels to Scottsbluff, Nebraska for the Region IX Softball Tournament
Baseball hosts the Region IX Tournament

Saturday -

Softball travels to Scottsbluff, Nebraska for the Region IX Softball Tournament
Baseball hosts the Region IX Tournament

Softball heads to Region IX Tournament

Teddi Garcia

The Lady Trojans took the week off to prepare for the upcoming Region IX tournament as the rest of the conference teams wrapped up play. When the dust finally settled on Saturday afternoon the Trojans were the third overall seed, joining Western Nebraska, Otero and McCook in the double elimination tournament. TSJC will face Otero at 2pm on Thursday afternoon in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Western will host McCook in the other first round game. The first-round winners will then square off at 6pm that evening. The losers of the opening round matchups will then play each other at 8pm in the first elimination game of the tournament. Play will continue on Friday with a pair of games (an “if needed” game will be played on Saturday) until a Region IX Champion is crowned.

The Trojans head into the post season with a 24-25 overall record and they are 15-15 in region play. TSJC split their regular season games with Otero and WNCC, but dropped the season series to McCook 4-2. They have hit .309 this season with 57 home runs and they scored 316 runs. Sheyanne Sandoval led the way offensively with a .485 average and 13 home runs. Pitching wise, Teddi Garcia set the TSJC career strikeout record with 299 so far. This year she had 144 K’s with a 3.93 ERA. Freshman Gabryella Williams led the team with a 2.86 ERA. Garcia was 15-9 on the season and is two wins away from the TSJC career wins record.

Below are the final Region IX Softball standings -

	W	L	R	W%
WNCC	24	6	0	0.800
OJC	19	11	0	0.633
TSJC	15	15	0	0.500
MCC	13	17	0	0.433
LCC	13	17	0	0.433
NJC	6	24	0	0.200

Baseball claims the Empire Conference Crown

Baseballs

The baseball team did just enough on the road this week to defend their Empire Conference Crown. TSJC defeated Northeastern 7-3 on Thursday for their 22nd league win of the season. That win coupled with other happenings in the region, left the Trojans on top of the standings when the dust cleared.

The Trojans will host the Region IX Tournament this week. As of writing this NJC and McCook still have a game to be played on Monday afternoon. We will have tournament information coming out as soon as it becomes available.

	W	L	R	W%
TSJC	22	14	0	0.611
LCC	21	15	0	0.583
NJC	20	15	1	0.571
SCC	20	16	0	0.556
WNCC	20	16	0	0.556
MCC	15	20	1	0.429
OJC	7	29	0	0.194

Basketball’s Trujillo headed to York

Trujillo Signing

TSJC Basketball player Julia Trujillo recently signed to play next season with the Panthers of York College in York, Nebraska. Trujillo averaged over ten points a game this past season for the Trojans. She had 167 career rebounds and average five boards a game this past season. Julia is from Pomona High School in Brighton, Colorado. She will join a Panther team that competes in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference of the NAIA where they were 5-24 this past season.

Congratulations Julia #TrojanProud