{"id":2410,"date":"2011-03-11T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2011-03-11T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:16:26","slug":"baseball-underclassmen-suggest-a-promising-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/2410","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: Underclassmen suggest a promising future"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jared Ogren–
\n<\/strong>After graduating a strong class of 11 seniors last year, the Mustang baseball team is a young and inexperienced bunch. Despite the lack of veteran leadership, head coach Jim Scholten is confident in the young team\u2019s talents and expects just as much success as last year\u2019s squad had.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main thing I\u2019m telling them is we\u2019re a work in progress,\u201d said coach Jim Scholten. \u201cWe\u2019re using a lot of young players and our freshmen and sophomore classes are really strong. It\u2019s not the usual thing for us to be playing a lot of freshmen and sophomores, but because they\u2019re so talented, we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting the season last year, the Mustangs were 2-8 through the first 10 games. As the season progressed the team turned it on and finished at .500 with a 28-28 record.<\/p>\n

Through the first 15 games of this season, the Mustangs are sitting at 5-10 after returning from the Russ Matt Central Florida Invitational Tournament. Despite the rocky start, Coach Scholten has stressed to his players the importance of gaining experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re inexperienced and inexperience costs you early, so the most important thing for us is to get game experience. Our goal is to have them ready and at their peak when the conference starts,\u201d Scholten added.<\/p>\n

Despite losing key players to graduation last year, Scholten disagreed with the idea that the team was in a \u201crebuilding stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRebuilding makes it sound like we\u2019re not counting on much for this year, and that\u2019s not true. We have high goals for this year. We finished fourth in the 12-team conference last year and I\u2019ll be disappointed if we don\u2019t finish at least that high again this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scholten also commented on the difficulty of replacing his senior leaders from last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe graduated a really good class of 11 seniors last year; all graduated I\u2019m proud to say, too. You just don\u2019t plug in someone else and say \u2018Ok, you\u2019re as good as Jared Noteboom was, \u2018or \u2018You\u2019re as good as Bret Hoch was.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Jared Noteboom and Bret<\/strong> <\/strong>Hoch<\/strong>, both from South Sioux City, were named to the 2010 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Baseball First-Team<\/p>\n

While the team may not yet be stacked with all-Americans, Coach Scholten believes the potential is there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have some guys that have that type of ability, but those guys didn\u2019t get there their first year either. I see so much potential in this team and I\u2019m really excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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