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2023: Pitched in 12 games making three starts … Threw 23.2 innings in his first season with the program … Struck out 15 batters

PREVIOUS COLLEGE: 2022 graduate of Trinidad State College with an Associates of Science degree ... 2022 Season: 7-1 record, 40 IP, 4.5 ERA, 60 K’s, 26 BB’s, 13.5 K/9 ... Voted Region IX Pitcher of the Week during the 2022 season ... Helped Trojans to a 44-17 record in 2022 ... Two-time President's List selection.

HIGH SCHOOL: 2019 graduate of Nucla High School ... Four-sport student-athlete (baseball, basketball, football, and wrestling) ... A three-time All-Conference and two-time All-State (QB/LB) selection in football ... Baseball: 2019 CHSAA 1A Player of the Year and Colorado Preps Second Team All-State (1A-5A), two-time CHSAA First Team All-State, two-time SJBL Player of the Year, four-time All-Conference selection ... Wrestling: 2019 2A State Champion, 2018 2A State Runner-Up, four-time All-Conference, and 2018-19 SJBL Wrestler of the Year ... Posted an 8-3 record, 3.89 ERA, 63 IP, 103 K’s, 26 BB’s junior year ... Registered a 7-1 record, 0.83 ERA, 59.1 IP, 113 K’s, 19 BB’s, and two no-hitters ... Helped the Mustangs' baseball team to three straight State Championship appearances, including the school's first State Championship (2017) in their 108-year history and back-to-back runner-up finishes in 2018 and 2019 ... Also won two league championships (2017 and 2019), two regional championships (2017 and 2018), three district championship (2017-19) ... In football, Gabriel and the Mustangs' football team won a league championship and made a state sem-final appearance in 2016 then came back to a State Final 8 appearance in 2017 ... Valedictorian and four-time honor-roll selection ... Member of the Student Council as Class President, FFA, and National Honor Society.

PERSONAL: Parents are Randy Gabriel and Kristi Wheeler ... Father played college football and uncle was a college wrestler.