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Mr. MATTHEW "PHIL" HAWKE, II
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Home Phone: 225-933-3953 2 YEARS WITH TEXAS RANGERS ORGANIZATION, SURPRISE, ARIZONA 2 YEARS WITH WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS PROF. BASEBALL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 3 YEARS WITH LINCOLN SALTDOGS PROF. BASEBALL, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA MARRIED TO CINDY PORTER PARENTS: DR. JOHN AND BECKY HAWKE * * * * * * * * Updated Jan. 18, 2017 Played 2 Years in Texas Rangers Organization Current Member of 2007 Windy City Thunderbolts in Chicago, Illionois. Son of Dr. John and Rebecca Hawke; Hawke off to hot start in pro ball Dan McDonald Three members of the 2005 University of Louisiana baseball squad have begun their professional careers, and at least two others should be close behind. The three Ragin’ Cajun position players selected in the June draft saw their first action on Tuesday or Wednesday, and first baseman Phillip Hawke got off to the hottest start as part of the Arizona League’s Rangers squad. Hawke, a 29th-round selection of the Texas Rangers, went 3-for-4 in his club’s season opener Wednesday, an 11-10 winner over the Arizona Royals. Hawke doubled in his first at-bat, singled his second time up and tripled in the eighth inning while also drawing a walk. Hawke started at first base and in the cleanup slot, and was part of two double plays. It’s only through one game, but Hawke’s .750 average ranks him fourth in the Arizona League in hitting. Catcher Justin Morgan, who was picked in the 39th round by the Chicago Cubs, is also playing in the Arizona League and caught the final three innings of his team’s 9-3 loss to the Arizona Angels Wednesday. He came as a defensive replacement but also hit twice, going 1-for-2 and getting a single in his first professional at-bat. Third baseman Dallas Morris shook off a rough start in Tuesday’s opening game of the Orem, Utah, Owlz of the Pioneer League with a 1-for-4 outing with a double on Wednesday in a 7-4 victory over Ogden. Morris, tabbed in the 24th round by the Los Angeles Angels, started at third base and batted third in the Owlz’ first two games, and went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts in an opening 7-0 three-hit loss to Ogden. None of the three Cajun pitchers who have signed pro contracts have seen action, but righthander Kevin Ardoin got some good news on Wednesday. Ardoin, a 10th-round selection by the Detroit Tigers and the Cajuns’ top draft pick, was assigned to the high Class A West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League. The Midwest League plays a split season and was 33-37 in the opening half, and had its mid-season All-Star break Monday-Wednesday before returning to action late Thursday night. Ardoin and P. J. Finigan were assigned after a week-long minicamp in Lakeland, Fla., with the Comstock Park, Mich., team sending two pitchers down to the Tigers’ short-season Class A club in Oneonta, N.Y. Right-hander Kraig Schambough did not see action in the Idaho Falls Chukars’ opening 18-4 Pioneer League win over Casper Tuesday. The Chukars were rained out Wednesday and had a doubleheader scheduled late Thursday. Schambough was signed as a free agent by the Kansas City Royals and was assigned to the Idaho Falls short-season club. New Iberia’s Rusty Begnaud, who played collegiately at McNeese, was the Chukars’ opening night pitcher Tuesday, getting the win with five and two-thirds innings of seven-hit, four-earned-run pitching. Left-hander Austin Faught, a 31st-round pick by the Texas Rangers, agreed to terms with the club this week after a series of physical exams. Faught, the Sun Belt Conference’s Pitcher of the Year this spring and a second-team All-America selection, was assigned to the Rangers’ Arizona League club along with Hawke, but may not see quick action as he continues rehabilitation on the sore elbow that hampered him over the final month of the Cajuns’ season. Originally published June 24, 2005 Baseball: Hawke endures up-and-down campaign Dan McDonald Last season, first baseman Phillip Hawke hit .329 with 10 home runs and 42 RBIs as a junior for Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajun baseball squad. This year, heading into this weekend’s regular season-ending series at Western Kentucky, he’s hitting .329 with 10 home runs and 42 RBIs. So why has it seemed to be an up-and-down season for the guy that has been the Cajuns’ starting first baseman since he sat foot on the campus in 2002? Maybe it’s because he’s been in so many different roles. The burly Hawke has hit anywhere from third to eighth in a Cajun lineup that is stronger top to bottom than at any point in his career. Maybe it’s because as a team, the Cajuns are hitting .333, the second-highest in school history behind only a 1989 team that hit .344 against a questionable schedule. Maybe it’s because he’s done it for so long that UL fans expect more, knowing that whenever they hear public address announcer T.D. Smith draw out “Phillip Haawwwwwwke,” big things can happen. “We know what he’s capable of doing,” Cajun coach Tony Robichaux said. “We’ve moved him around in the lineup a lot so that we haven’t had any holes, and he’s helped make us solid in a lot of those places, especially over the last few weeks.” Or maybe, the sky-high expectations stem from what he did in the off-season. Last summer, in the wood-bat Northwoods League – one of the country’s most respected summer collegiate leagues – Hawke surprised some of the league’s bigger names from bigger schools by leading the league in home runs (11), RBIs (41) and slugging percentage (.510), while finishing second in on-base percentage (.443) and eighth in batting average (.301). For his efforts, he was named the league’s regular-season Most Valuable Player, and won the same honor in the league’s All-Star Game. “Playing up there really helped me a lot,” Hawke said. “It gave me a lot of confidence as a hitter, knowing that I could keep doing there what I’d been doing here. We know that this league (the Sun Belt) is one of the best in the country, but you never know what’s going to happen when you face different pitching from different parts of the country.” Hawke is currently tied with fellow senior and opposite infield-corner Dallas Morris for the team lead in homers, and is one of six Cajuns with more than 40 RBIs. His slugging percentage of .606 leads all the regulars. Yet, even with that, he’s continued to have the team’s best eye at the plate. For an unprecedented fourth straight year, he’s led UL in bases on balls and now holds both the single-season (55, this year) and career (154) marks. “The key is that we don’t want him walking all the time,” Robichaux said. “It’s good to be on base, but we need our 6-3, 240-pound first baseman doing some damage.” That’s what he’s done over the last 12 games, hitting .415 with 12 RBIs and eight extra-base hits. But a more important figure, considering that the senior-laden Cajun squad is so consistent from top to bottom, is that the ex-Woodlawn High star has been on base 28 times in those 12 games. But the number he’s looking more at this weekend is two – the number of games UL needs to win in a three-game conference series at Western Kentucky to lock up the Sun Belt regular-season title. He’s already a lock for his first trip to NCAA postseason play since his freshman season in 2002, but he’s never had the pleasure of hoisting a trophy overhead for anything more than an in-season tournament title. “The last few years, we’ve gone into the last weekend of the season having to rely on others for us to win, and it hasn’t happened,” Hawke said. “We didn’t want to do that this year. We thought going in that we had the best team in the conference, and we just had to keep pushing ourselves. “We’ve been aiming at this weekend for a long time, and this is the position that we wanted to be in this weekend. It’s time to go up there and win a championship.” Originally published May 20, 2005
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