Tusculum's Torres Tabbed NCBWA Southeast Region Pitcher of the Week

Tusculum College's Placido Torres has been named the NCBWA Southeast Regional Baseball Pitcher of the Week.  Torres earns this honor for a third time this season.

The North Brunswick, New Jersey senior tossed a five-hit shutout and recorded 14 strikeouts to lead the Pioneers to a 7-0 league victory over Brevard last Friday. Torres improves to 5-0 on the season while pitching his second shutout in his last three starts. It was his third career shutout with the Pioneers, which is a new school record.

Torres retired the first nine batters of the game before surrendering lead-off doubles in both the fourth and fifth innings, but worked out of both jams.

Torres carried the shutout bid to the ninth as Brevard led off with back-to-back singles.  Torres recorded a strikeout and ended the game on a double-play.

Torres allowed five hits, one walk in his 128-pitch performance.  He has recorded 12 or more strikeouts in each of his last five starts and has fanned 80 batters this year so far, which currently leads all divisions of the NCAA.

The 80 strikeouts are already tied for the fifth-most in a single season and his 190 career strikeouts the fourth-most in program history (28 shy of the Tusculum record 218 set by TC Hall of Famer Ken Hughes from 1991-1994).

With the shutout, Torres lowers his season earned run average to a league-best 0.39 (6th in NCAA II), allowing just two earned run in his 45 2/3 innings pitched this season.