Iowa State will begin Big 12 play this weekend at Kansas State – if the weather cooperates.The three-game weekend series has already been pushed back due to poor field conditions at Frank Myers Field in Manhattan, Kan. The series, which was originally scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, was moved to Sunday as a double-header at noon with a closing game at 1 p.m Monday. But according to a media relations staff member, the chances of the games being played at all are not good.If the games get canceled, they cannot be made up at another date, according to Big 12 rules.If the games do get played, the Cyclones are ready for action, especially after Rob Conway received Big 12 player of the week honors from a panel of Big 12 baseball media experts.Conway leads the team in five categories in starting all 12 games the team has played, including runs scored (12), hits (16), doubles (4), home runs (2) and RBI (11). He has a .348 batting average.He went 6 for 11 at Arkansas State last weekend with three doubles, a home run and five RBI. He had his 16th and 17th career multi-RBI games.”We’re looking forward to it,” right-hand pitcher Alan Bomer said. “We’ve been progressing. We came off a couple of good wins this past weekend and the weekend before.”Iowa State (4-7-1) has only lost one of its last six games since dropping its first six games of the season. The Cyclones took two of three games last weekend from Arkansas State while two weeks ago they lost, won and tied in three games at a weekend series at Northwestern State (La.).”We just need to come in and hit our spots early, and get ahead in the count early. I think we’ve been giving them more pitches to hit than we should have because we get behind in the count,” said Bomer, sophomore who won his first game Sunday against Arizona State.Ryan Wickham, who has 10 hits and eight RBI in 43 at-bats, said there needs to be more adrenaline at the plate.”We need to be more aggressive at the plate,” he said. “We’re taking a lot of first-pitch strikes.”[Coach Tim Evans] said in batting practice, we swing at every pitch, but once we get in games, we’re a lot more passive. We just need our batting practice approach and we need to be ready to hit no matter what [they] throw at us. I think we all know our strike zone pretty well.”Like Bomer, Wickham agrees that the team is making progress. The Cyclones only won two series last season. This season, they have already won two series.”We had two tough series the first two weeks of the season,” Wickham said, “but we’ve bounced back.”Wickham said, “If everything clicks, we’re going to be a team to reckon with.”