PREVIEW: Baseball Hoping New Scenery Leads to New Results
| By: Jesse Robinson
DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – For the 10th straight season, the St. Scholastica baseball team will be entering a NCAA Division III Regional Tournament, but for the very first time it will not be playing that regional in Wisconsin.
Game Schedule
Wednesday's opening games
#1 Webster vs. DePauw – Noon
#6 St. Thomas vs. Ruse-Hulman – 3:30 p.m.
#15 Buena Vista vs. St. Scholastica – 7 p.m.
#1 Webster University Gorloks
Record: 37-5 (25-0 SLIAC)
Head Coach: Bill Kurich | Players to Watch: - Isaac Behme (8-0, 3.84 ERA, 59 K, .235 opp. BA) – 2014 SLIAC Pitcher of the Year
- Taylor Stoulp (.417 BA, .577 Slg. pct., 17 2B, 42 RBIs) – SLIAC Tournament MVP
- Corey Lasky (.388 BA, 12 2B, 28 RBIs, 13 SB) – First Team All-SLIAC
- Joe Winckel (.403 BA, .610 Slg. Pct., 12 2B, 6 HR, 49 RBIs) – First Team All-SLIAC
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-The Gorloks won their fifth straight St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) Tournament last weekend.
-Webster is currently tied for the program record for wins in a season.
-The Gorloks are ranked No. 1 in D3baseball.com poll for the first time in program history.
-Webster is ranked third in the country in fielding percentage (.976) and sixth in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.93).
-The Gorloks have hit 33 home runs this season, which is the fourth most in the nation.
-The lone Division III loss since the beginning of April came against Washington University-St. Louis on April 28th.
-Webster has wins over SUNY-Cortland and Marietta, which are top seeds in their respective regionals.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Fightin' Engineers
Record: 26-16 (16-9 HCAC)
Head Coach: Jeff Jenkins | Players to Watch: - Kody Alayon (.424 BA, 10 2B, 19 RBIs, 15 SB) – 2014 First Team All-HCAC, HCAC Tournament MVP
- Hank Akard (.329 BA, 8 2B, 4 HR, 32 RBIs, 22 SB) – 2014 Second Team All-HCAC
- Donnie Waters (19 2B, 3 HR, 30 RBIs)
- Andrew Stull (5-4, 2.76 ERA, 48 K, .247 opp. BA)
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-The Engineers placed third in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) during the regular season, but earned their fourth conference tournament championship in program history.
-This will be Rose-Hulman's sixth NCAA Tournament appearance and its first since 2010.
-Rose-Hulman is ranked third in NCAA Division III in doubles plays turned (45).
-Alex McNally is eighth in the country with nine saves.
-The Engineers fell to Concordia-Chicago 7-0, but did defeat Illinois Wesleyan 1-0 and DePauw 16-9.
Series History: (CSS is 0-0 vs. DePauw)
-The programs have never met. |
