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2023 Air Force Falcons baseball team

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2023 Air Force Falcons baseball
Conference[[Mountain West Conference]]
2023 record28โ€“31 (17โ€“13 MW)
Head coachMike Kazlausky (13th season)
Home stadiumFalcon Baseball Field
(capacity: 1,000)
Seasons
← 2022
2024 →
2023 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Air Force  ‍‍‍ 0 0   โ€“     0 0   โ€“
[[{{{school}}}|Fresno State]]  ‍‍‍ 0 0   โ€“     0 0   โ€“
[[{{{school}}}|Nevada]]  ‍‍‍ 0 0   โ€“     0 0   โ€“
[[{{{school}}}|New Mexico]]  ‍‍‍ 0 0   โ€“     0 0   โ€“
[[{{{school}}}|San Diego State]]  ‍‍‍ 0 0   โ€“     0 0   โ€“
[[{{{school}}}|San Jose State]]  ‍‍‍ 0 0   โ€“     0 0   โ€“
[[{{{school}}}|UNLV]]  ‍‍‍ 0 0   โ€“     0 0   โ€“
โ€  – Conference champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of November 30, 2022[1]; Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2023 Air Force Falcons baseball team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 2023 NCAA Division I baseball season. The season was the team's 66th overall and 23rd as a member of the Mountain West Conference. The team played their home games at Falcon Field and was led by 13th-year head coach Mike Kazlausky.

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Previous Season[edit]

The Falcons finished the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball season with a record of 32-27 and 15-15 in the Mountain West. The team won their first ever Mountain West Baseball Championship over San Jose State. They were invited to the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament where they were eliminated by Texas in the Austin Regional finals.

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Personnel[edit]

Coaching Staff[edit]

2023 Air Force Baseball Coaching Staff
Name Position Season College
Mike Kazlausky[9] Head Coach 13th Air Force
Ryan Forrest[10] Assistant Coach 6th West Virginia
Jimmy Roesinger[11] Assistant Coach 8th Heidelberg University
Tyler Dawson[12] Volunteer Assistant Coach 1st Bridgewater College

[13]

Roster[edit]

2023 Air Force Baseball Roster
 

Pitchers

  • 9 - Dylan Rogers - Sophomore
  • 13 - Luke Schlimm - Freshman
  • 18 - Ben Weber - Freshman
  • 19 - Duke Benge - Senior
  • 21 - Jaxson Crump - Sophomore
  • 26 - Sawyer Hawks - Sophomore
  • 27 - William Price - Freshman
  • 29 - Jason Shuger - Senior
  • 30 - Doyle Gehring - Junior
  • 31 - Alex Rohm - Freshman
  • 32 - Kyle Moats - Junior
  • 35 - Jake Sansing - Senior
  • 36 - Joey Collier - Freshman
  • 37 - Jimmy Hebenstreit - Junior
  • 38 - Cooper Loveridge - Freshman
  • 40 - Seungmin Shim - Junior
  • 44 - Ryan Stohr - Senior
 

Catchers

  • 17 - Aaron Reyes - Sophomore
  • 28 - Walker Zapp - Freshman
  • 34 - Landon Boyd - Sophomore

Infielders

  • 1 - Jay Thomason - Junior
  • 2 - T.J. Oster - Freshman
  • 5 - Sam Kulasingam - Junior
  • 11 - Charlie Jones - Freshman
  • 12 - Aerik Joe - Junior
  • 25 - Trayden Tamiya - Senior
  • 33 - Ben Niednagel - Freshman
 

Outfielders

  • 3 - Blake Covin - Senior
  • 7 - Jake Greiving - Junior
  • 10 - Tripp Garrish - Freshman
  • 22 - Chris Stallings - Junior

Utility

  • 4 - Zach Peters (INF/RHP) - Sophomore
  • 14 - Chase Spencer (INF/RHP) - Sophomore
  • 20 - Matt Thompson (INF/OF) - Senior
  • 23 - Jack Bello (LHP/1B) - Freshman
 

Roster Source:[14]

Schedule[edit]

2023 Air Force Falcons Baseball Game Log
Regular Season (28โ€“31)
Postseason (2โ€“2)

* = Mountain West Conference Opponents

Schedule Source:[15] [16]

Statistics[edit]

Final Statistics for the 2023 Season

Team Batting[edit]

Team AB Avg. H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB
Air Force 2108 0.299 631 140 21 57 386 258 474 63
Opponents 2133 0.327 697 174 28 73 446 247 393 53

Team Pitching[edit]

Team IP H R ER BB SO SV ERA
Air Force 509.1 697 472 420 247 393 11 7.42
Opponents 517.2 631 421 369 258 474 11 6.42

Individual Batting[edit]

Note: Leaders must meet the minimum requirement of 2 PA/G and 75% of games played

Player GP AB Avg. H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB
Sam Kulasingam 59 235 0.426 100 28 4 6 51 50 24 6
Jay Thomason 58 227 0.344 78 21 1 21 74 31 40 6
Trayden Tamiya 59 249 0.329 82 14 3 2 43 12 25 3
Jake Greiving 59 246 0.297 73 24 3 7 62 17 51 1
Chase Spencer 59 192 0.292 56 15 2 4 30 33 58 18
Matt Thompson 51 181 0.292 53 7 2 2 22 11 30 8
Aerik Joe 58 225 0.271 61 9 4 0 19 29 49 7
Blake Covin 58 191 0.257 49 8 0 4 25 29 49 10
Jack Bello 3 3 0.333 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Ben Niednagel 6 3 0.33 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
T.J. Oster 28 19 0.316 6 0 0 0 1 4 3 1
Aaron Reyes 32 83 0.277 23 2 2 2 18 1 22 0
Charlie Jones 21 31 0.258 8 3 0 2 7 5 14 0
Landon Boyd 41 93 0.204 19 6 0 3 17 17 38 0
Chris Stallings 40 82 0.183 15 2 0 4 13 11 39 1
Walker Zapp 21 37 0.162 6 1 0 0 3 4 14 2
Zach Peters 25 9 0.000 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0
Tripp Garrish 4 1 0.000 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0

Individual pitching[edit]

Note: Leaders must meet the minimum requirement of 1 IP/G

Player GP GS W L IP H R ER BB SO SV ERA
Jake Sansing 18 11 7 4 79.2 90 38 38 24 50 1 4.29
Doyle Gehring 16 15 4 4 74.0 83 57 52 33 63 1 6.32
Dylan Rodgers 15 15 2 5 67.2 112 75 64 24 46 0 8.51
Sawyer Hawks 22 1 4 0 50.2 40 16 16 27 70 8 2.84
Ben Weber 21 5 2 3 54.1 70 40 37 20 30 0 6.13
Seungmin Shim 18 7 4 3 42.2 56 44 35 26 36 0 7.38
Cooper Loveridge 8 0 0 0 7.0 12 15 6 8 4 0 7.71
Duke Benge 29 1 3 4 53.0 80 51 46 13 29 1 7.81
Zach Peters 17 1 1 4 26.1 50 35 33 18 22 0 11.28
Ryan Stohr 12 0 0 2 23.0 44 35 33 10 15 0 12.91
Joey Collier 9 0 0 0 10.0 16 16 15 11 8 0 13.50
Jason Shuger 6 1 1 1 6.1 11 12 11 12 7 0 15.63
Kyle Moats 5 2 0 0 8.2 18 18 17 10 8 0 17.65
Chase Spencer 5 0 0 0 3.1 7 9 8 5 4 0 21.60
Jimmy Hebenstreit 3 0 0 0 1.2 3 6 5 3 0 0 27.00
Jaxson Crump 2 0 0 0 1.0 5 5 5 3 1 0 45.00
Legend
  GP  Games played   GS  Games started  AB  At-bats
  H  Hits  Avg.  Batting average  2B  Doubles
 3B  Triples  HR  Home runs  RBI  Runs batted in
  IP  Innings pitched   W Wins  L  Losses
 ERA  Earned run average  SO  Strikeouts  BB  Base on balls
 SV  Saves  SB  Stolen bases  High  Team high

Statistics Source:[17]

Awards and Honors[edit]

Preseason
Postseason

Rankings[edit]

Ranking movements
Legend: โ–ˆโ–ˆ Increase in ranking. โ–ˆโ–ˆ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Final 
Coaches'[31] NR NR* NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 
Baseball America[32] NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 
Collegiate Baseball^[33] NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 
NCBWAโ€ [34] NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 
D1Baseball[35] NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR

^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
โ€  NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
* New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.

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