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2020 Baseball Roster

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44 Javin Drake

  • Position Right-Handed Pitcher
  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 240
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Wilton, Iowa

Biography

SENIOR (2020): Academic All-League... Made two starts… pitched 5.0 innings in season opener at Tennessee… limited opposition to two hits and two runs with five strikeouts… threw 6.2 innings at Butler (Feb. 22) and had four strikeouts. 

JUNIOR (2019): First team All-Summit… Academic All-League... became third all-time in program history with 204 strikeouts… set the program record for 109 strikeouts in a season… became third all-time for innings pitched in a season (103)... tenth all-time in a season in wins (7)... won Summit League Player of the Week three times (March 11, April 8 and May 13)... second in the Summit League in wins and strikeouts… finished 45th in the NCAA in strikeouts… ended as the team leader in ERA (4.37), wins (7), IP (103), strikeouts (109), games started (16) and complete games (2)... fourth on the team in opponents average (.254) and appearances (17)... set career high totals in wins (7), complete games (2), strikeouts (109), IP (103), shutouts (2), appearances (17) and games started (16)... pitch a career-high nine innings in back-to-back starts versus Oral Roberts (May 5) and Omaha (May 11)… threw a career-high 12 strikeouts at Oral Roberts (5/4)... first career shutout came at home against Omaha (5/11). 

SOPHOMORE (2018): Summit League Academic Honor Roll ... Finished the season a 3.96 ERA (the lowest amongst Western's starters) ... ERA also ranked sixth in the Summit League ...  pitched 50.2 innings with 53 strikeouts (ranked 16th in the league) ... allowed one earned run in each of his last three starts ... struck out a career-high nine batters at NDSU (April 21) ... opponents hit .240 against him ... recorded two wins on the year

FRESHMAN (2017): Summit League Academic Honor Roll... Made 13 appearances and 10 starts his freshman year... 3-5 record, 6.47 ERA overall... 55.2 innings pitched, 42 strikeouts and 22 walks... 3-1 record, 5.72 ERA in Summit League games... pitched the final three innings of the Mississippi State finale... worked out of a bases loaded jam with no one out in the eighth... five strikeouts the most by a WIU pitcher on the weekend... matched his season-high of five strikeouts in 3.1 innings at Dayton... allowed just one earned run and two hits... set a career-high throwing 7.1 innings against Fort Wayne, securing Western’s series win... pitched six shutout innings against North Dakota State in the series finale, during the 1-0 decision... pitched 8.0 shutout innings in a no-decision at Oral Roberts... earned the win at Omaha, pitching well for the first five innings before the Mavs staged a rally in the sixth... earned the win at Fort Wayne going five innings.

HIGH SCHOOL: Selected to the 2016 Class 2A All-State team by the Des Moines Register... following his junior year in high school, earned All-State Super Team honors… First Team All-District… First Team All-Conference… First Team All-Area… Muscatine Journal 'Player of the Year'… Ranked as the 11th overall prospect in the state of Iowa and the top-ranked right-handed pitcher by Prep Baseball Report… Louisville Slugger Preseason Second Team All-American.

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2020

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Historical Player Information

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    2017Freshman

    Pitcher
    6'4" 200 lbs
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    2018Sophomore

    Pitcher
    6'4" 200 lbs
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    2019Junior

    Pitcher
    6'4" 200 lbs
    44
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    2020Senior

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'5" 240 lbs
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