2019 Oklahoma State Cowboy Baseball Season Superlatives

2019 Oklahoma State Cowboys

July 31, 2019 | Cowboy Baseball

• Oklahoma State finished the season with a 41-20 record. The Cowboys were third in the Big 12 Conference standings with a 14-9 league mark.

• The Cowboys earned an NCAA Tournament bid for the seventh consecutive year.

• OSU's NCAA Regional berth was the 45^th in program history, which ranks fourth all time.

• The Cowboys were the No. 9 national seed in the 2019 NCAA Baseball Championship and were the top seed at the NCAA Oklahoma City Regional. It marked the first-ever time OSU had been awarded a national seed and was the third time in seven seasons under Josh Holliday that the Pokes have been a Regional top seed.

• OSU won the NCAA Oklahoma City Regional, which marked the Cowboys' third NCAA Regional championship in seven seasons under Josh Holliday.

• Three Cowboys were selected to the NCAA Oklahoma City Regional All-Tournament Team — Trevor Boone was named the Most Outstanding Player and was joined on the all-tourney team by Jensen Elliott (P) and Hueston Morrill (2B).

• OSU advanced to the NCAA Lubbock Super Regional, which marked the fifth Super Regional appearance in program history and the third in the last six seasons.

• OSU was ranked as high as No. 11 in the final national polls. The Cowboys came in at 11^th in the D1Baseball.com, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, USA Today coaches and NCBWA polls and were ranked No. 12 by Perfect Game.

• The Cowboys were ranked in at least one national poll for 13 weeks in 2019.

• OSU concluded the regular season at No. 7 in the NCAA RPI.

• Trevor Boone was named a 2019 ABCA/Rawlings All-Midwest Region First Team outfielder.

• OSU claimed the 33^rd conference championship in program history when it won the 2019 Big 12 Baseball Championship title. The championship marked the Cowboys' fourth in the Big 12 era, with three tournament crowns (2004, 2017 and 2019) and a regular season title in 2014.

• OSU had nine players garner All-Big 12 accolades in 2019. Named to the All-Big 12 First Team was outfielder Trevor Boone, while Jensen Elliott, Christian Funk, Andrew Navigato and Colin Simpson were named to the All-Big 12 Second Team. Four Cowboys — Peyton Battenfield, Ben Leeper, Carson McCusker and Hueston Morrill — were honorable mention selections.

• Hueston Morrill and Brett Standlee were named to the 2019 Big 12 All-Freshman Team.

• OSU swept a three-game series at No. 2 Oregon State in May, marking the first time the Beavers had been swept on their home field since 2010.

• OSU had two players named Big 12 Player of the Week in 2019 — Christian Funk (April 15) and Trevor Boone (April 22).

• The Cowboys' 93 home runs in 2019 were the most by an OSU team since 1999 when the Pokes had 132. OSU ranked fourth in the NCAA in homers in '19.

• The OSU pitching staff tossed seven shutouts, the sixth most in the NCAA in 2019. The total tied for the fourth highest in a season in program history and marks only the seventh time the Cowboys have recorded seven or more shutouts in a season.

• OSU had four players reach double figures in home runs for the first time since 2009 as Trevor Boone (21), Colin Simpson (17), Christian Funk (12) and Andrew Navigato (12) hit the mark.

• OSU smashed a program single-game record 12 home runs in its series opener at Kansas in a 27-6 win on April 12. The 12 homers tied for the fourth most in a single game in NCAA history.
Other notables from that game:

Christian Funk and Trevor Boone both tied OSU's record for home runs in a game with three. The feat has been accomplished 17 times by 13 different players in program history.
Seven different Cowboys homered in the win, and OSU hit at least one homer in each of the final eight innings.
OSU's 27 runs were its most ever in a Big 12 game and the most runs by the Cowboys in a conference game since they had 28 at Iowa State in a Big Eight game on April 16, 1995.
The 27 runs were the most in a Big 12 conference game since 2009.

• Trevor Boone set an OSU record by hitting three home runs in the series opener against Texas as he became the first Cowboy player to record three homers in a game three times in a career. He reached the mark against Baylor in 2018 and against Kansas and Texas in 2019.

• Christian Funk tied an OSU single-game record by scoring six runs in the series opener at Kansas.

• Carson McCusker's two triples against Kansas State on March 23 tied OSU's single-game record.

• Trevor Boone's 21 homers were the most by an OSU player since Corey Brown had 22 in 2007. The total led the Big 12 and ranked 12^th nationally in 2019.

• Jensen Elliott led the Big 12 with 10 wins, finishing with a 10-4 record.

• Colin Simpson led the Big 12 in conference-only games with 27 RBIs.

• Parker Scott's 1.11 ERA in Big 12 Conference play led the league.

• Jensen Elliott became the first Cowboy pitcher to record consecutive complete game performances since 2016 when he did it against Oklahoma and Baylor.

• Jensen Elliott tossed a one-hitter in the series opener against Texas, becoming only the seventh OSU pitcher to hold a team to one hit in a nine-inning game.

• The OSU trio of Jensen Elliott (7.0), Peyton Battenfield (1.0) and Ben Leeper (1.0) threw the 14^th combined one-hitter in program history against Southeastern Louisiana on March 15.

• Jensen Elliott started in five of the seven games in which OSU posted a shutout in 2019.

• Colin Simpson tallied eight sacrifice flies in 2019, tying him for fourth on OSU's single-season list and ranking eighth in the NCAA in '19.

• Ben Leeper's seven saves in 2019 tied for the eighth most in a season in OSU history.

• Peyton Battenfield's 30 appearances tied for the sixth most in a season in program history, while Ben Leeper's 29 tied for ninth.

• Colin Simpson finished his career tied for ninth on the OSU career home runs list with 48. He is also tied for fourth in career sacrifice flies with 14.

• Joe Lienhard made 76 pitching appearances in his career, which ranks seventh on OSU's all-time list.

• Jensen Elliott's 22 career wins are tied for 10^th on OSU's career list.

• OSU had eight players selected in the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft. The eight draft picks tied for the ninth most of any Division I program in '19; all eight Cowboys drafted were selected in the first 30 rounds, tying them for the fifth-highest total in Division I.

Logan Gragg, RHP, 8^th round, St. Louis Cardinals
Peyton Battenfield, RHP, 9^th round, Houston Astros
Brady Basso, LHP, 16^th round, Oakland Athletics
Trevor Boone, OF, 18^th round, Colorado Rockies
Jensen Elliott, RHP, 19^th round, Baltimore Orioles
Andrew Navigato, SS, 20^th round, Detroit Tigers
Jake Lyons, RHP, 22^nd round, Baltimore Orioles
Colin Simpson, C, 29^th round, Colorado Rockies

• The Cowboys have had at least five players drafted in each of the last six years. In seven seasons under Josh Holliday, OSU has had 45 MLB Draft picks.
• OSU had 12 players earn Academic All-Big 12 honors, including nine on the first team. Earning first-team honors were Brady Basso, Cade Cabbiness, Jensen Elliott, Dylan Gardner, Max Hewitt, Joe Lienhard, Carson McCusker, Noah Sifrit and C.J. Varela. Named to the second team were Trevor Boone, Ben Leeper and Brett Standlee.