Baseball | 5/6/2026 11:06:00 AM

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Panhandle State baseball shortstop Genesis Nunez was named Second Team All-Sooner Athletic Conference, as announced Wednesday in the SAC's yearly awards as voted by the conference's head coaches.
 
Nunez ranks fifth in the SAC with a .386 batting average and fourth among qualified hitters with a .787 slugging percentage. He knocked out 11 home runs, five triples and eight doubles on his way to driving in 36 runs.
 
The infielder from Queens, New York, also set the tone on the basepaths, stealing eight bags and scoring 41 runs. In his debut season with the Aggies, Nunez led the team in 10 categories: batting average, walks, slugging percentage, runs scored, hits, RBIs, triples, homers, at-bats and total bases. His eye-popping numbers saw him finish runner-up in SAC Newcomer of the Year voting.
 
Nunez' season was highlighted by an early-February, five-game stretch in which he posted an on-base-plus-slugging percentage (OPS) of 1.915, which led to him being honored as the first NAIA Ball Player of the Week in program history.
 
The all-conference honor for Nunez is the first for OPSU baseball under head coach Jared Mayeda, and it is the first yearly award for an Aggie position player since outfielder Ethan Hunt was named Second Team All-SAC in 2022.
 
2026 SAC Baseball Awards | OPSU Honors Page