Since it appears that no one has talked about the Sioux baseball team since 2004, I decided that I would start up a thread for it, hopefully getting the ball rolling.
It appears that the Sioux are off to a very marginal start at 4-8. Once again the baseball team had trouble in Emporia, KS, getting beat by the Hornets 3 times for the 4th consecutive year (was nice to see them mix in a win against a pretty good Wayne State (Neb) program). Also was sad to see that the usual 5 game weekend with Washburn University was cancelled this year due to financial reasons beyond the program's control.
The team then travelled to the annual Gene Cusic Classic trip in Ft. Myers, FLA. They ended that trip going 4-5 with a sweep of a very weak Wayne State (Mich), single game win over Calumet College(?), and also a split against a Regional rival in South West State University. A bright spot came on the last day of the trip when the Sioux beat the Rookie squad for the Minnesota Twins. While the contests have been fairly competitive since the first match-up of these two teams, I do believe this is the first time that UND has come out on top. Congrats!
Some individual statistics up to this point in the season:
Chris Gulsvig and Scott Schmidt are leading the offense for UND thus far with averages of .378 and .375 respectively. JUCO transfer Tim Burns is next with .302. Still waiting for the Seniors in the middle of the lineup to get going....
The pitching staff has been a little shaky thus far with the exception of Sophmore Aaron Dehn. Dehn is 2-1 with an ERA of exatcly 3.00....as a staff the Sioux are sitting at just a hair under 5.00 for an ERA which isn't ALL that bad considering the aluminum bat factor, but the Sioux have issued 31 free passes in 86 innings.
UND travels to Brookings next Monday to play former NCC opponent SDSU in a couple of nine inning affairs.
