A lot of the talk around the Arizona Wildcats heading into the 2017 season has centered around all the new, promising faces that have made their way to Tucson.
But it was a lineup mainstay that slayed in the team’s first weekend of games.
JJ Matijevic went 9-for-19 at the plate, drove in nine runs, and scored eight of his own. All of those numbers led the team.
“Raking,” Cesar Salazar said flatly about what he saw from Matijevic this weekend. “Since the fall, he’s been lights out hitting, and we all know about his capability of hitting.