MISENHEIMER — With seven wins in 15 USA South Athletic Conference matchups so far, the Pfeiffer Falcons baseball team is hoping to heat up as it reaches the final stretch of the 2025 regular season.
The Falcons (11-20, 7-8 USA South) have won three of their past five games, now approaching the .500 mark in conference play as they sit in fifth place in the USA South standings.
While they are likely to fall short of the 21-21 overall record they landed at last season, they still have a chance to match or surpass their previous 10-11 conference record.
The Falcons recently picked up two victories in a three-game home series with Mary Baldwin (6-26, 4-11 USA South), notching a 14-5 win and a 9-2 win this past weekend.
Fifth-year coach Craig Bolton now has a 81-91 record as the team’s head coach after five seasons in an assistant role. To date, the Falcons’ top seasons in program history are a 31-7 campaign in 2018 and a 30-8 campaign in 2019.
While Pfeiffer achieved a winning conference record in both 2022 (13-8) and 2023 (12-9), finishing in third place and fifth place, respectively, it has not had an overall winning season since that high-water mark campaign in 2019.
Junior infielder Joe Javier, graduate student outfielder C.J. Acosta and senior infielder Wilson Lohrer have emerged as three of the Falcons’ top threats at the plate this year. Javier leads the team in batting average (.397), while Acosta has the most runs (32), home runs (eight) and RBIs (36).
Lohrer is the team leader in total hits (49).
Scoring hasn’t been a huge issue for the Falcons this season — their 219 runs scored lands them with the third-most in the conference.
On the mound, however, the Falcons have struggled to keep opposing lineups in check, surrendering 260 total runs, which is tied for the third-most of any team in the conference.
Graduate student Thad Lewis has a 4.70 ERA and a 4-2 record with the most innings pitched (46) on the team; his four wins and 42 strikeouts are also a team-best.
Pfeiffer is currently scheduled for a four-game road trip — with three contests against first-place Methodist (22-11, 11-4 USA South) followed by a non-conference game at Roanoke (18-13-1, 10-5-1 ODAC) — before returning to Misenheimer’s Joe Ferebee Field for three games against last-place William Peace (10-23, 5-10 USA South).
The USA South Tournament is set to begin on May 1.