Outlook

Paul Rector is ranked 233^rd on the 2021 Perfect Game USA Top 300 Prospect List  ..  A side arm pitcher with a nasty slider, and has added a lot of velocity to go with it … Possesses the most proven and best arm returning, and is expected to be the team’s closer in 2020 … Committed to play at Lamar University in 2021-22.

Career

Made 39 career appearances all in relief … Struck out 121 batters in 82.1 innings for a strikeout-per-9-inning ratio of 13.23 ... Finished his career 6-2 with six saves and an earned run average of 3.84 … His six career saves tie for eighth at Johnson County ... His 121 career strikeouts rank 16^th all-time.

Sophomore Year 2021

Made 13 appearances on the mound, all in relief … Finished 4-1 with 46 strikeouts in 32.0 innings pitched, and an earned run average of 5.34 … Held opposing hitters to a .234 average … Hurled three innings of scoreless relief, allowing just two hits with four strikeouts in a 10-1 win over Southwestern (2-23-21) … Allowed a run off two hits with five strikeouts over two innings in a 36-4 win over Rockhurst JV (3-6-21) … Struck out three without allowing a hit or a run over 3.1 innings pitched in a 16-6 win over Fort Scott (3-20-21) … Earned his first victory logging four innings in relief, allowing two hits and no runs with a season high eight strikeouts in a 15-4 win at Kansas City Kansas (4-3-21) … Was the pitcher of record in an 8-7 win at Highland, allowing two runs off three hits with three strikeouts over the final three innings (4-9-21) … In a 6-4 win over Neosho County, allowed one run off three hits with two strikeouts over the final 2.2 innings to notch his third straight win (4-15-21) … Logged 4.1 innings of relief, allowing four runs off three hits with six strikeouts to pick up the victory in a 13-9 win at Coffeyville (5-1-21).

Sophomore Year 2020

Made nine appearances all in relief … Was 2-1 with one save and 37 strikeouts in 19.0 innings pitched … Allowed just seven runs, five earned, off seven hits for an earned run average of 2.37 … His seven hits allowed ranks as the fourth fewest recorded in a season in program history ... Was the week 2 Kansas Jayhawk Conference Pitcher of the Week after pitching five innings of hitless relief to help the Cavaliers to a 6-5 win over Ellsworth (2-16-20) … Struck out eight of the 18 batters faced to earn the victory … Struck out a career high 12 batters, and allowed just one run off two hits in 5.0 innings to pick up his second win in a 7-4 triumph over Southwestern (2-21-20) … Picked up a save after logging 3.0 innings of hitless relief with seven strikeouts in a 4-1 win over Kirkwood (2-29-20) … Did not allow a hit and struck out two in an inning of relief in a 11-3 win over Labette (3-5-20) … Followed with another inning of hitless relief in a 32-0 win at Labette (3-7-20) ... Earned NJCAA All-Academic third-team with a grade point aveage between 3.60-3.79.

Freshman Year 2019

Earned All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference second-team honors … Made 18 appearance on the hill and logged 33.1 innings, all in relief … Finished with an ERA of 3.24 and earned five saves, which ranks tied for eighth at JCCC … Did not allow a hit of run in the first eight innings of work that spanned five games … Made his collegiate debut with an inning of hitless relief with two strikeouts in a 7-2 win over Ellsworth (2-13-19) … Did not allow a hit and struck out two to earn his first save in a 4-2 win over Metropolitan (2-25-19) … Pitched a season-high four innings and struck out a season-high six batters while allowing no hits or runs to notch his season save in an 8-3 win at Labette (3-17-19) … Shutdown Highland the final two innings of a 3-2 win to earn save number three (3-22-19) … Struck out four batters in 1.1 innings of scoreless relief in an 8-2 win over Metropolitan (4-9-19) … Allowed  one hit and struck out six over 3.2 innings in a 9-4 win at Coffeyville (5-3-19).

High School  

Was a three-year starter for coaches Austin Jarvis and Rusty Wood at Victory Christian High School in Broken Arrow, Okla. … Missed his junior year with an injury … Graduated 2018 … Earned honorable mention All-Pinnacle Conference and All-Tulsa World as a senior … Hit .342 with 25 hits, five doubles, two triples and four home runs, and was 7-3 on the mound, with 90 strikeouts in 60 innings and posted an ERA of 2.12 … Helped his team win conference and region titles and reach the semifinals in the state tournament his senior season … As a sophomore, he batted .388with 36 hits, 15 doubles, three triples, two homers and 20 runs scored … He was 4-2 on the hill with an ERA of 4.00 and 30 strikeouts in 25 innings pitched.

Personal  

Born Paul A. Rector on Jan. 21, 2000, in Tulsa, Okla. … Nickname is Pablito … Son of Bardon and Christina Rector … Has two brothers, Jeremy and Robert … Jeremy played soccer at Harding University … Majoring in business … Also recruited by Eastern Oklahoma State College, Fort Scott Community College and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College … Favorite fast food restaurant is Whataburger … Favorite restaurant is Nola’s  … Favorite TV show is 11.22.63 … Favorite movie is I See You … Favorite actor is Christoph Waltz … Favorite author is Eleanor Dark … Favorite music entertainer is Easton Corbin … Favorite cartoon character is Peter Griffin … Favorite athletes are Kobe Bryant and Tony Ferguson … Favorite sports team is the Los Angeles Dodgers … His greatest sports moment was making an over-the-head game-saving diving catch … The best player he played against is Ryan Vilade, a shortstop for the Colorado Rockies organization.