The University of Southern Indiana baseball team and Head Coach Tracy Archuleta have announced the incoming signees for the 2020 season, featuring ten athletes, including three from Evansville. All ten athletes have their senior seasons remaining in anticipation of graduation in the spring of 2019.
Alex Archuleta (Evansville, Indiana), Blake Ciuffetelli (Newburgh, Indiana), Michael Conner (Moline, Illinois), Isaac Housman (Evansville, Indiana), Tyler Kapust (Sellersburg, Indiana), Steven Molinet, Jr. (Elberfeld, Indiana), Seth Seniour (Evansville, Indiana), Drew Taylor (Jeffersonville, Indiana), Tyler Wheeler (Sellersburg, Indiana), and Peyton Young (Thorntown, Indiana) have all chosen to join the Screaming Eagles to continue their academic and athletic careers.
“I am very excited to get these young men to campus and watch them mature into great student-athletes,” Archuleta said. “This group has seen a lot of success in their high school and summer careers in baseball and other sports throughout their high school careers.  We hope they can continue that success here at USI.”
Archuleta: Manned the middle infield for Evansville North High School…second-team All-Conference and All-Metro selection…posted a .348 batting average as a junior…son of USI Head Coach Tracy Archuleta.
Ciuffetelli:Â Pitcher at Castle High School…second-team All-Conference and All-Metro team selection as a junior…member of conference, sectional, and regional championship team in 2018…went 8-3 over 60.1 innings with a 1.39 ERA, posted 59 Ks as a junior.
Conner:Â Corner infielder for Moline Senior High School…earned varsity letters for baseball and basketball…won Western Big 6 championships in 2017 and 2018.
Housman:Â Pitcher at Reitz Memorial High School…plays four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and bowling…three-sport academic All-City (baseball, bowling and football)…posted a 4-2 record in 38.2 innings pitched with a 1.99 ERA and 36 Ks as a junior…member of Reitz’s 2018 sectional championship and regional runner-up squad.
Kapust:Â Catcher from Silver Creek High School…two-time All-Area selection (first-team in 2017, honorable mention in 2016)…member of back-to-back sectional-championship squads, semi-state championship in 2018.
Molinet, Jr.: Outfielder from Tecumseh High School in Lynnville, Indiana…played baseball and basketball…currently in the top ten of his class academically.
Seniour: Center fielder from Evansville North High School…earned varsity letters in baseball, basketball and football…member of the 2018 sectional-championship team in basketball.
Taylor: Outfielder at Jeffersonville High School…hit for a .423 average, knocking in 20 runs, including four home runs, as a junior…All-State honorable mention in 2018…two-time first-team All-Conference and All-Area selection…member of three consecutive conference-title teams.
Wheeler: Middle infielder and pitcher from Silver Creek High School…led his team in ERA and fielding percentage over the past two seasons.
Young: pitcher from Western Boone High School…has earned multiple varsity letters in baseball, basketball and football…voted team captain seven times between his three sports.
