Senior star batting at career-high level

Senior Joe Davis has raised the home run hammer eight times this season. It was welded together by his brother John to look like Thor’s famous Mjölnir hammer and is lifted after every home run by the hitter. | Andres Chio/The CougarThe Cougars are a third of the way through the season and are about to start up league play in the American Athletic Conference with one of the hottest bats in college baseball.

Senior leader Joe Davis has led Houston through a tough non-conference schedule with a positive record, and the team is ready to keep battling for more wins.

Davis heated up at the end of last season and hit seven home runs in the AAC and NCAA tournaments across nine games to help the team…