By Blake Meacham–The Morningside baseball team won their first five games before dropping their final two games in Los Angeles last week. The Mustangs arrived in California on Saturday, March 5th, but didn’t play their first game until Tuesday the 8th due to rainy weather. “In LA, it hardly ever rains, and when it does,…
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Prey Becomes Predator in Mustangs vs. Tigers 4-0 Sweep
By Blake Meacham–On the last weekend in February, the Morningside baseball team posted a 4-0 record against the Central Christian Tigers. The sweep started on Friday, Feb. 26, with two Mustang victories, with scores of 4-0 and 4-1. Game 1 The first game of the four-game series was carried by home runs from Nate DeChaine…
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Mustang Baseball Win One, Lose Two in Topeka
By Blake Meacham–The Morningside baseball team lost its first game of the 2016 season on Friday night due to a hit parade put on by the Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes. When the final out was recorded, the scoreboard read 14-1. The double digit run total for Wesleyan came from the large amount of extra base hits tallied….
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Weather To Be Major Factor In Opening Weekend for Mustang Baseball
By Blake Meacham–The Morningside baseball team, coached by Brian Drent, is supposed to be opening their 2016 campaign against Ashford University in Joplin, MO, this Saturday and Sunday. The four-game set, split between the two days, is in trouble. Recent weather changes have made the probability of snow on Sunday much more likely. “Our original…
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Player Profile: Derek Clayton
By Blake Meacham–Derek Clayton has been robbed of a baseball season for 2016. The junior was walking back to his apartment from Dairy Queen one afternoon in September when he stepped awkwardly off of a foot-high retaining wall. He tore his ACL, forcing him into reconstructive surgery. “I’m more accepting of it now, but I…
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Mustangs Picked To Finish Second In Pre-Season GPAC Poll
By Blake Meacham–Coach Brian Drent’s baseball team started the 2015 season with 20 wins in its first 27 games. He was very pleased with the start. However, an 11-9 conference record to end the season left Drent and his squad wanting more. In the 2016 GPAC Pre-Season Coach’s Poll, Morningside claims the second spot with 86…
