Just wanted to get a quick blog entry posted, sorry this will be so short, but our turnaround time is pretty quick.  Late last night, we found out that we will be playing as the #1 seed in the Augustana Regional in Moline, IL.  While seedings don’t really matter much, it was a nice tribute to our players.  We will play Illinois Wesleyan at noon on Wednesday.  Directions to the field in Moline can be found here:[Read More]

This past weekend was our traditional ‘Senior Weekend’ as we hosted our last home games of the season.  As sad as it was to see each of our players take their last at-bat on their home field, we are also quick to remember that there are still a lot of games to be played before they take off the uniform for the last time.[Read More]

Changing game times/start times is not as easy some people might think. 

For instance, in November, 2008 or as soon as the 2010 Conference Schedule was released by our league office, I begin the process of coming up with our non-conference schedule.  But before I can fully schedule those games, I have to keep an eye on our Academic Calendar, which tells us when spring break falls, Buenafication Day, and Easter Break.  When I noticed the 2010 spring break was scheduled for March 29-April 5 (includes Easter Break, which is extremely late), I questioned if there would be any other teams that are:

  1. Not already in their conference season

  2. going to have as late of a Spring Break as BVU[Read More]

We finally experienced baseball outside of the Lamberti Rec. Center last weekend, but it wasn’t as easy as it sounds.  What was supposed to be a seven hour trip to play a 3-game set vs. Westminster turned into one of the most miserable weekend trips imaginable. 

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For the last 28 years, I have watched hundreds of Twins home games on TV and a dozen or so in person.  There have been so many great memories including the final regular season game against the Tigers, one in which the Twins won in their last at-bat to qualify for the playoffs.  We have taken the team there a handful of times over the last few years, and we have yet to experience a win.  Each time we make the trip home, I swear I am never going back.[Read More]

In college baseball, the shutout is about as rare as hitting for the cycle.  In games played by Iowa Conference schools in 2009, there were only 19 shutouts.  Since 2001, BVU has a 14-14 record in shutouts.[Read More]

It’s been awhile since I have posted an entry, probably because there really isn’t much going on right now.  It’s a heavy recruiting time right now, but that isn’t really something that I can go public with.  But as I was cleaning up my office one day this past week, I started looking at some of our team pictures from the past nine years. So I figured I should start blogging about some of the top memories over the years.   [Read More]

In case some of you haven’t noticed, Major League Baseball is wrapping up the regular season this weekend.  I can’t blame you if you haven’t been keeping up, there really aren’t many exciting stories to follow.[Read More]