The Wittenberg University baseball team took some small, but extremely significant, steps toward reaching the goals of climbing to the top of the North Coast Athletic Conference and getting into the NCAA Division III Tournament for the first time since 1994.
Another banner spring sports season has reaped rich rewards for 43 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams over the last two weeks.
Denison senior right-hander Cam Cowden (Zionsville, OH/Zionsville) and Wooster senior second baseman Matt Miller (Millersburg, OH/Hiland) have been named Pitcher and Player of the Year to highlight the 2004 All-North Coast Athletic Conference baseball selection.
CLEVELAND -- Ohio Wesleyan senior Tyler Mott (Grove City, OH/Grove City) and Wooster’s John
Werner head an impressive list of stellar athletes named to the North Coast Athletic Conference’s 20th
Anniversary baseball team. Mott and Werner together earned seven First-Team All-NCAC honors.
The Wittenberg baseball team put the finishing touches on its season by going through a three-day span that serves as a perfect synopsis of its season.
The Wittenberg baseball team may have come up a little short over the weekend, but that doesn't mean all was lost. For the second straight weekend, the Tigers were defeated three out of four games by a veteran North Coast Athletic Conference West Division rival. But also for the second straight weekend, Wittenberg ended things on a positive note with a seventh-inning rally in the fourth game to earn a win.
It wasn't supposed to go like this. On a beautiful, cloudless day in a setting that couldn't have been more perfect for a college baseball game, the Wittenberg Tigers couldn't come up with the goods in their first game in Carleton Davidson Stadium, losing two lopsided games to the visiting Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops, 7-3 and 10-4.
A new era begins this weekend for the Wittenberg University baseball program with the opening of Carleton Davidson Stadium. The new municipal stadium was built on the site of Springfield's old stadium that was demolished in March 2001 after serving the community for 64 years and playing host to Wittenberg baseball games between 1981 and 2000.
The Wittenberg baseball team has a big week ahead, and possibly the momentum necessary to make it an extremely positive one as well. That is, unless Mother Nature continues to play tricks on the team.
The Wittenberg baseball team opened North Coast Athletic Conference West Division play last week and the results were extremely encouraging. After struggling through a 4-12 conference season in 2003, the Tigers won three of four at Wabash over the weekend to move into an early first-place tie with Denison.
Selected Wittenberg University baseball and softball games can be heard this spring on WUSO-FM, the student-run campus radio station that can be found at the 89.1 frequency in the Springfield area.
The Wittenberg baseball team is off to a solid start to the 2004 season, winning six of the first nine games while in Port Charlotte, Fla., before returning to two postponed games. The "northern" portion of the schedule opened on Sunday with a 17-3 victory over local rival Urbana.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Defending champion Ohio Wesleyan and Wooster have emerged as the preseason favorites
in balloting by North Coast Athletic Conference baseball coaches in their annual preseason poll.
The Wittenberg University baseball team enters the 2004 campaign with high hopes of returning to the top of the North Coast Athletic Conference West Division, which Wittenberg last won in 2002.
The Tiger baseball team enters the 2004 campaign with high hopes of returning to the top of the North Coast Athletic Conference West Division, which Wittenberg last won in 2002. With the opening of the Carleton-Davidson Stadium, the return of 14 letterwinners and an influx of exciting new talent this spring, the Tigers hope to improve upon last season's 17-22-1 record.
The Wittenberg University baseball program is looking forward to a great 2004 - a year in which the team will move into one of the best facilities in all of college baseball.