ARLINGTON, Texas -- UTA completed a historic baseball season in 2017 with the first Sun Belt Western Division Championship in school history with a program best 20-10 record in league play.

Final Season Notes

• UTA finished the season 30-25, including a program record 20-10 in conference play.
• The Mavs set a program record with a 17-8 road mark, including a school-record 12-3 record in road conference games.
• UTA moved into the top-25 poll for two consecutive weeks, ranking as high as No. 23 by Collegiate Baseball. It marked UTA's first national ranking since 2001.
• UTA won 10 consecutive league games, tying the school record, also set in 1992, 2006, 2014 and 2017.
• UTA won its first western division title in its brief history in the Sun Belt.
• The Mavs reached 30 wins for the 25th time in program history and the sixth time under Coach Darin Thomas.
• UTA won 30 or more games for the second consecutive year, a first since 2013-14.
• The Mavs swept No. 20 Louisiana, the first sweep over the Ragin' Cajuns in program history and UTA's first series win over ULL since 1976.
• UTA set a new program record with a 5-4 record vs. top-25 teams, the most wins in a season over ranked teams in school history.
• The Mavs earned ranked midweek wins over No. 4 Texas Tech and No. 23 Texas A&M.
• UTA boasted two of the top attendances in school history, including setting a new Clay Gould Stadium record with 2,008 fans vs. No. 1 TCU on Feb. 21.
• The Mavs had the second-most saves in single-season history (18).
• After starting 2-7 to open the year, UTA went 28-18 over the last three months of the year.
• UTA ranks as the third most successful program in Sun Belt Conference play since joining the league in 2014. Overall, UTA has the fourth-most wins of any team in the league since 2014.
• UTA is 108-3 over the last four years when holding an eighth-inning lead, including 30-1 in 2017.

Awards

• Coach Darin Thomas was named Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year, the first UTA skipper honored since Butch McBroom in 1992.
• • Thomas has the best conference coaching record in program history (.562), ranking just behind McBroom with a .514 overall winning percentage.
  • Junior 1B/DH Omar Salinas was tabbed first-team All-Sun Belt Conference.
  • Sophomore C/DH Will Olson was named second-team All-Sun Belt.
  • Junior RHP Trae Patterson was named second-team All-Sun Belt Conference as a starting pitcher.
  • Junior LHP Jakob Hernandez earned second-team All-Sun Belt honors.
  • Junior RHP Daniel James was tabbed second-team All-Sun Belt Conference.

Individual Notes