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Chico State baseball player Sonny Cortez

Sonny Cortez

  • Award
    Wildcat Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/22/2016
  • Sport
    Baseball
  • Bio
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Most baseball coaches spend a lot of time laying awake at night thinking about their lineup. Chico State leadoff hitter Sonny Cortez is helping Head Coach Dave Taylor get a bit more sleep this season. Taylor is certainly not worried about who is going to hit leadoff.
 
Cortez is hitting .429 through 12 games as the Wildcats' leadoff hitter and reaching base at a .538 clip. The junior transfer from El Camino Community College was even better this weekend as the Wildcats swept a three-game series at Holy Names University, outscoring the Hawks 35-0 in the process.
 
The Wildcat of the Week had three straight two-hit games, batting .667 (6-for-9) with a double, four runs scored, an RBI, a sacrifice bunt, and two stolen bases. He also walked twice for an on-base percentage of .727.
 
The center fielder had both of the Wildcats' hits and scored two runs in their series-opening 3-0 win Friday. In Saturday's first game, an 18-0 win, Santos singled and scored in the first, hit an RBI single in the second, drew a walk in the fourth, and laid down a sacrifice bunt in the sixth. In the Wildcats' 14-0 win in the nightcap, Cortez went 2-for-4 with a stolen base (his seventh of the year) and scored his team-leading 14th run.
 
It's safe to assume that Taylor will be writing Cortez on top of the lineup card this weekend when the Wildcats open conference play by hosting Cal State Monterey Bay for a four-game series beginning Friday at 2 p.m.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
5/4/2015 Marina Berrios Women's Track & Field
4/28/2015 Justin Wiles Men's Golf
4/28/2015 Bianca Armanini Women's Golf
4/21/2015 Alex Burkhart Women's Track & Field
4/21/2015 Clayton Gelfand Baseball
4/14/2015 Ashley Jones Women's Track & Field
4/14/2015 Sean Goetzl Men's Track & Field
4/7/2015 Barron Maizland Men's Track & Field
4/7/2015 Olivia Watt Women's Track & Field
3/31/2015 Ryan O'Shea Baseball
3/31/2015 Lauren Schnelli Women's Track & Field
3/24/2015 Brynn Lesovsky Softball
3/24/2015 Dylan Garcia Baseball
3/17/2015 4x100 Relay Women's Track & Field
3/17/2015 Kyle Medina Men's Track & Field
3/10/2015 Haley Gilham Softball
3/10/2015 Robert Duncan Men's Basketball
3/3/2015 Abbey McGrew Women's Golf
3/3/2015 AJ Epstein Baseball
2/24/2015 Courtney Brown Softball
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