2023 Baseball Roster

Danny Elizondo
Kristella Cruz
Kristella Cruz
Kristella Cruz
Kristella Cruz
Kristella Cruz
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Kristella Cruz

18 Brandon Pimentel

18 Brandon Pimentel

  • Position:
    Outfielder/First Baseman
  • Height:
    6-3
  • Weight:
    210
  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Hometown:
    El Paso, TX
  • Highschool:
    Socorro High School

Summary

Biography

2023 Season Highs Category Career Highs
4 4/8/23 vs. Houston Christian Hits 5 3/5/22 vs. Youngstown State
3 3x, Last 4/11/23 @ TAMUCC Singles 4 3/19/22 @ Tarleton
1 9x, Last 5/23/23 vs. UTA Doubles 2 2x, Last 4/3/22 @ SHSU
0 N/A Triples 1 2x, Last 5/1/22 vs. Tarleton
3 5/18/23 @ Stephen F. Austin Home Runs 3 5/18/23 @ Stephen F. Austin
5 5/18/23 @ Stephen F. Austin RBI 6 2/20/22 vs. GW
4 5/18/23 @ Stephen F. Austin Runs 4 2x, Last 5/18/23 @ SFA
3 2/17/23 vs. Houston Christian Walks 3 2/17/23 vs. Houston Christian
1 10x, Last 5/23/23 vs. UTA Stolen Bases 2 2/25/20 vs. Texas Southern

Career: Broke program records in home runs (31) and batting average (.389) … First player in program history to hit 10+ home runs in multiple seasons … Tied for the fifth most RBI (120) and recorded ninth-most hits (175) in program history … Went 70 games without an error in left field or at first base, the third-longest streak in program history.

2023 (Graduate Student): Jody Ramsey Memorial Award winner … Hit 19 home runs, the third-highest single-season total in program history and most in 23 years … Became sixth player in program history to hit .400+ in a season and the first in 11 years, batting .402, the fifth-highest average in program history … Recorded 86 hits, the fifth-highest total in program history … Drove-in 73 runs, tied for the third-highest total in program history … Totaled 152 bases, the second-highest total in program history … Led the WAC in RBI (73) and RBI per game (1.30), ranking 24th and 22nd nationally, respectively … Ranked second in the WAC three categories, ranking 44th in the NCAA in hits per game (1.54), 47th in slugging (.710), and 52nd in home runs (19) … Ranked third in the WAC in two categories, ranking 21st in the NCAA in hitting (.402) and 68th in home runs per game (0.34) … Ranked fifth in the WAC in three categories, ranking 39th in the NCAA in hits (86), 44th in hits per game (1.54), and 55th in total bases (152) … Recorded team-high 29 multi-hit games, including 10 of 3+ hits, and team-high 20 multi-RBI games, including three of three RBI, five of four RBI and one of five RBI … Hit 2-run home in WAC Tournament vs. Abilene Christian (5/25) … Went 2-for-3 with a double, a steal, two RBI and three runs scored in WAC Tournament vs. UT Arlington (5/23) … Earned Howser Trophy National Hitter of the Week honors (5/23) … Earned All-WAC First Team and WAC All-Defensive Team honors (5/22) … Earned D1Baseball National Player, Collegiate Baseball National Player, and WAC Hitter of the Week honors (5/22) … Went 3-for-3 with a home run, a walk, four RBI and two runs scored at Stephen F. Austin (5/20) … Went 3-for-3 with a home run, two walks, four RBI and three runs scored at Stephen F. Austin (5/19) … Broke career program record for home runs with 28 by hitting career-high three home runs while driving in season-high five runs and scoring career-high tying four times at Stephen F. Austin (5/18) ... Went 3-for-5 with a double, two RBI and a run scored at Lamar (5/16) … Reached base four times with double, single and two walks while stealing a base, driving in a run and scoring a run at Sacramento State (5/6) … Recorded first multi-homer game of the season with pair of 2-run shots at UT Arlington (4/30) … Blasted go-ahead 3-run home run over center field wall in eighth to beat Incarnate Word (4/25) … Earned UTRGV Male Student-Athlete of the Year honors (4/19) … Belted 2-run game-tying home run in eighth at Utah Valley (4/16) … Blasted home run over scoreboard at Utah Valley (4/14) … Went 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (4/11) … Earned Collegiate Baseball National Player and WAC Hitter of the Week honors (4/10) … Homered in fifth-straight game with 2-run shot vs. Houston Christian (4/8) … Went season-best 4-for-5 with a 3-run home run, a double, season-high tying four RBI and season-high tying three runs scored vs. Houston Christian (4/8) … Hit a grand slam vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (4/4) … Homered and drove-in season-high three runs vs. Tarleton (4/2) … Homered, doubled, drove-in two runs and scored twice vs. Tarleton (4/1) … Went season-high tying 3-for-4 with season-high three runs scored vs. Tarleton (3/31) … Went 2-for-3 with a double, two walks and a run scored vs. Texas State (3/29) … Homered at New Mexico State (3/26) … Went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI and one run scored vs. California Baptist (3/11) … Homered while going 2-for-5 at Rice (3/7) … Went 3-for-4 vs. Houston (3/4) … Homered and drove-in two runs vs. Central Michigan (2/24) … Went 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI and a run scored vs. Houston Christian (2/18) … Reached base four times while drawing career-high three walks vs. Houston Christian (2/17) … Named to Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List (2/15) … Earned Preseason All-WAC honors (2/9).

2022 (Junior): Earned ABCA/Rawlings All-Central Region Second Team honors (6/15) … Ranks second in program history with 146 total bases, third with 89 hits, four with 236 at-bats, tied for fifth with 12 home runs, and tied for eighth with 17 doubles … Recorded 27 multi-hit games, including four of three hits, three of four hits, and one of five hits, and nine multi-RBI games, including four of at least three RBI … Went 2-for-4 with a walk and two RBI vs. Sacramento State at WAC Tournament (5/27) … Went 2-for-3 with a double vs. New Mexico State in WAC Tournament Quarterfinals (5/26) … Scored go-ahead run while going 2-for-3 vs. Sacramento State in opening round of WAC Tournament (5/25) … Earned All-WAC Second Team honors (5/24) … Reached base three times, including career-high tying two walks, at Stephen F. Austin (5/19) … Homered vs. Sam Houston (5/15) … Homered at (RV) UTSA (5/3) … Doubled, triple, drove-in two runs and scored three times vs. Tarleton (5/1) … Hit first-career triple to drive-in two runs while going 2-for-5 vs. Tarleton (4/29) … Added to Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Midseason Watch List (4/21) … Went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored at New Mexico State (4/17) … Went 3-for-5 with a double, an RBI and three runs scored at New Mexico State (4/16) … Went 2-for-6 with an RBI and a run scored at New Mexico State (4/15) … Homered vs. Stephen F. Austin (4/10) … Went 2-for-5 with a double, an RBI and a run scored vs. Stephen F. Austin (4/8) … Went 3-for-4 with a run scored at #6 Texas (4/5) … Posted second-straight four-hit game with career-high tying two doubles and two runs scored at Sam Houston (4/3) … Went 4-for-5 wih a double and two runs scored at Sam Houston (4/2) … Homered and drove-in three runs vs. Lamar (3/27) … Homered at Tarleton (3/20) … Went 4-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored at Tarleton (3/19) … Scored three times while going 2-for-4 with a walk and an RBI vs. Abilene Christian (3/13) … Earned Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week honors (3/7) … Homered and then was walked intentionally twice vs. Youngstown State (3/6) … Went career-best 5-for-5 with career-high tying two home runs, career-high two doubles, four RBI and career-high four runs scored vs. Youngstown State (3/5) …  Hit grand slam as part of 2-for-4 game vs. Youngstown State (3/4) … Doubled-in UTRGV’s lone run at Houston (2/27) … Homered as part of career-high tying three-hit game at Houston (2/27) … Posted third-straight multi-hit game by going 2-for-4 with two runs scored vs. Texas Southern (2/25) … Hit pair of three-run home runs as part of first-career three-hit and first multi-home run game while driving-in career-high six runs and scored career-high three runs vs. GW (2/20) … Posted second-career multi-hit game, going 2-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored vs. GW (2/19).

2021 (Sophomore, Mississippi State): Part of National Championship team … Hit .286/.412/.500, going 4-for-14 in 10 games (one start) with one home run, six RBI and three runs scored.

2020 (Sophomore, Mississippi State): Appeared in 14 games, making 13 starts in left field … Made debut in a start versus Wright State (2/14) in the season opener … Posted first hit against Wright State (2/15) … Owned a season-long four-game hitting streak from Feb. 15-21 … Owned a pair of four-game on-base streaks: Feb. 15-21 and Feb. 26-March 6 … Recorded two multi-RBI games … Homered against Oregon State (2/21) Scored game-winning run on two occasions: Oregon State (2/21) and Texas Tech (3/10) … Reached base via hit-by-pitch in his lone pinch hit appearance versus Alcorn State (2/26).

2019 (Freshman, Howard College): Earned Second Team NJCAA All-American Designated Hitter, All-Region 5 Infielder, Western Junior College Athletic Conference Co-MVP and First Team All-WJCAC Infielder honors … Tied for the WJCAC lead in RBI (70) and was No. 3 in home runs (14) … Led the team in batting average (.458), hits (82), doubles (11), home runs, RBI, slugging percentage (.765), on-base percentage (.515) and total bases (137) … Posted a hit in 44 of 54 games … Reached base in 49 of 54 games … Recorded 24 multi-hit and 17 multi-RBI games … Reached base in a season-long 13-straight games from April 19-May 11 … Had 12-game reached base streak from March 15-March 31 … Recorded a pair of double-digit hitting streaks: 10 games (Feb. 24-March 9) and 12 games (April 20-May 11) … Homered against Clarendon College (March 9), at New Mexico Military Institute (3/16), versus West Texas College (3/23), against Midland College (3/31), at New Mexico Junior College (4/16), at El Paso C.C. (4/20), in both games of a doubleheader against Frank Phillips College (4/27), three times in the series finale with Frank Phillips College (4/28) and in three-straight games at Luna C.C. (5/3-4) … Collected a season-high five hits on two occasions: vs. Frank Phillips College (4/28) and at Luna C.C. (5/4) … Drove in a season-best 10 RBI and was 5-for-5 at the plate with three home runs against Frank Phillips College (4/28) … Had five RBI on two occasions: versus Clarendon College (3/9) and at Luna C.C. (5/4).

2015-18 (Socorro High School): Helped team to the Bi-District championship as a junior and senior … Guided team to area championship as a junior … Garnered first-team all-district honors as a junior and senior … Member of the National Technical Honor Society.

Off the Diamond: Son of Griselda Beltran and David Pimentel … Has one older brother, David Jr., and one older sister, Tiffany.
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  • 18

    2022Junior

    Outfielder
    6'3" 210 lbs
    18
  • 18

    2023Graduate Student

    Outfielder/First Baseman
    6'3" 210 lbs
    18