A pair of former Patriots progressed in their professional baseball careers this week. Cody Brown signed with the Seattle Mariners while Danny Williams moves to the Utica Unicorns.

UT Tyler Assistant Baseball Coach Erik Grafton will take the Head Coaching position at University of Dallas

UT Tyler baseball coach Brent Porche has been named the ABCA/Diamond NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year after leading the Patriots to the NCAA DIII National Championship. Porche is the first coach to earn the award in program history and is joined by Pat Casey (Oregon State, DI), Tim Huber (Augustana, DII), Adrian Dinkel (Southeastern, NAIA), Jeff Johnson (Chipola, NJCAA DI), Jeff Willis (LSU Eunice, NJCAA DII) and Bill Fratto (Oakton, NJCAA DIII) as collegiate coaches of the year by the coaching association.

Brent Porche has been named the ABCA/Diamond NCAA Division III West Region Coach of the Year after leading UT Tyler to the NCAA DIII National Championship this season.

UT Tyler senior Alex Bishop has been awarded the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove at first base after a season where he had 500 putouts, 23 assists and a .998 fielding percentage for the 2018 NCAA Division III National Champions. Bishop completed his career as the all-time UT Tyler leader with 1,137 putouts and 98 double plays turned, while his 500 putouts and 45 double plays turned in 2018 are both new single-season records.