What’s In This Issue?
• Ugly Reality About Playing In Cold: In 41 years, Scott Berry’s teams at Mayville St. (ND) have rarely played home games due to freezing conditions, high winds.
• Special Collegiate Baseball Report: Perry Husband explains that Oklahoma softball’s national champions utilize revolutionary hitting approach that allows batters to hit more homers while batting average rockets upward.
• Editorial: There is nothing worse than reporters who rush stories to be first but ultimately are wrong with facts.
• Lou Pavlovich
Column: Forget all of the fancy ballpark food. There is absolutely nothing better than the perfectly cooked all-meat hot dog, and here’s how to do it.
• NAIA Notes: Tainted water cooler with field line paint still being investigated in Kansas.
• Collegiate Baseball’s NCAA Div. I Top 30 Presented By Big League Chew: Oregon St. No. 1 with wins in 11 of past 12 games and No. 1 nationally in fielding percentage.
• National Players Of The Week Powered By Diamond Sports: RHP Juaron Watts-Brown of Long Beach St. fires the first complete game no-hitter in school history. RHP C.J. Mayhue (East Carolina) and RHP Landon Gartman (Memphis) are involved with one of the most amazing games in college baseball history. Mayhue didn’t surrender a hit for 9 innings while Gartman also didn’t allow a hit for 8 innings before both were pulled because of pitch counts, plus much more.
• NCAA Div. I Notes: State of New Mexico will offer tuition, fees free, new NCAA Div. I record for walks in a 9-inning game (34) set during a contest between Mount St. Mary’s and Coppin St., plus much more.
• Collegiate Baseball¹s National H.S. Top 30 Presented by Diamond Pro: St. Mary’s (MI) No. 1 as winning streak grows to 47 consecutive games.
• High School Notes: Long winning streaks still alive across USA as Silo (OK) wins 52 games in a row, plus much more.
• Adam Sarancik Column: Coaches should be totally prepared to give sage advice on game of baseball.
• Powerful New Company: Diamond Allegiance has been formed which will help travel ball organizations thrive on multiple fronts.
• NCAA Div. 3 Notes: Webster’s Alek Elges fires first perfect game in school history, Concordia Wisconsin’s Sam
Beers goes on a tear over a 7-game stretch as he blasts 6 home runs and 3 doubles with 14 RBI, plus much more.
• NCAA Div. 2 Notes: Colorado Mesa’s Haydn McGeary hits 4 home runs in a 20-7 win over Colorado Christian as he goes 5-for-5 with 6 RBI, St. Cloud State freshman pitcher Luke Tupy became the 28th person in NCAA Division II history to record a perfect game. In seven innings against Northern State, he struck out 15 batters, plus much more.
• Ruleball With Rich Marazzi: Interference plea by Tony La Russa falls on deaf ears.
• Junior College Notes: Madison College head coach Mike Davenport earns his 1,000th career junior college coaching victory as part of a doubleheader sweep of McHenry County College, Ohlone College (CA) still has
mammoth win streak going at 36 entering the California Community College Athletic Association championship playoffs, plus much more.
• Gary Ward Column: More verbal cues presented for hitters.
