MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Middle Tennessee baseball player Fausto Lopez joined the Blue Raiders after playing two seasons at Pensacola State College. The Brooklyn, N.Y., native racked up a .282 batting average at the JUCO level and swiped 23 bases in his final season with the Pirates.
Lopez started all of the Blue Raiders' 17 games at shortstop in 2020 and got off to a hot start with a team high 12 hits in the month of February. When the season came to an abrupt end, Lopez tied with fellow JUCO transfer Nathan Sanders with a team high five multi-hit games.