The Snapper on Facebook
The Snapper on Facebook
Make us your Homepage!
|
|
Advertisement
Clicking an Ad shouldn't interrupt your session.
Just in case, use your browser's back button to return!
Millersville’s baseball team hit the road to begin the 2010 season, spending the weekend in a four game series against The Georgia College and State University’s Bobcat’s in Milledgeville, Georgia. The Marauders got off to a rough start getting swept in the series in four straight games.
On Saturday the baseball community celebrated the birthday of the game’s greatest player, Babe Ruth. Ruth would have been 115 years old. He was born in 1895 in Baltimore and spent most of his youth in St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys.
It was at St. Mary’s where Ruth learned the game of baseball. He eventually caught the eye of pro scouts, and landed a contract with the minor league Baltimore Orioles. Ruth was then traded to the Boston Red Sox where he was a starting pitcher from 1914 to 1919.
With the start of the 2010 baseball season just two weeks away the team has high expectations. Jon Shehan is entering his third year as the Marauders head coach, and has the most experienced roster yet. The team is set to return five position starters and all six starting pitchers.
The Marauders built themselves a four game cushion over East Stroudsburg for the fourth and final playoff spot on Friday, but that cushion was deflated just as quickly as it was established after they dropped two games the following day.
Millersville’s baseball team competed in two games and had another one rained out, in what turned out to be a relatively quiet week for the Marauders. The week off will no doubt help rest and prepare the team to take on the remainder of their schedule as they head into what could possibly be the most important week of their season.
Millersville’s baseball team competed in a four game series with conference foe Shippensburg University over the weekend and split the series after dropping two of the games on Friday before taking back the next two on Sunday.
The Millersville baseball team inched above .500 on the season this week by winning five of six games including three of four games against divisional opponent Bloomsburg.
It has already been somewhat of a streaky season for the men’s baseball team as they near the halfway point of their schedule.
After capturing the PSAC East regular season division title last year, Millersville University’s baseball team was pegged to finish fourth in the division this year.
The Millersville baseball team finally seems to be headed on the right track. After winning the PSAC East division last season while also making an appearance in the PSAC championships, the Marauders seem poised to put to end an era of futility in Millersville baseball.