Tiger Baseball senior Kyle Pope will end his ETBU career on the field this weekend in Clarksville, Ark., when ETBU plays its finale series against University of the Ozarks. It will mark the end of one of the most successful playing careers in the history of the program, and perhaps one of the most underrated. Pope has been a model of consistency for the baseball program since walking onto campus three years ago as a transfer. He will leave as the program's all-time leader in doubles and will finish just a handful or so hits away from being the all-time leader in that category. And again, he played just three years here.
But Pope is also walking away with at least a share of a statistic that just sort of popped up this week around the ASC. There is currently no listed record for longest hitting streak in the ASC but the conference SIDs, through some e-mail correspondence this week, listed all the top hitting streaks in the conference from each school. As it turns out, Pope's 29-game hit streak to open this season is at least tied for a conference record for longest hitting streak.
Kyle has been so consistent and so dependable at the plate this streak just kind of snuck up on us. The fact is that Kyle had at least one hit in every one of the Tigers' first 29 games this season, a streak that I didn't realize until beginning the research for this SID-conference project. The streak ended in game one of a series against the University of Houston-Victoria, and going into this weekend Pope has hit in 34 of ETBU's 36 games this season.
Not bad for a guy who also kicked four field goals in a game once for the ETBU football team, which also is a school record. Thanks Kyle, for all the good stuff as a Tiger!
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