| 2003 News Archive |
| Previous Seasons: [2002] |
 Five
Bemidji State baseball players were named to the 2003 All-Northern
Sun Intercollegiate Conference Team, league officials announced
today. Shaun Ross, Brian Beuning and Jon Czech
were named to the All-NSIC First Team, while Tyler Norland and
Brad Johnson earned honorable-mention all-league honors.
[complete story] |
 Bemidji
State junior pitcher Scott Pugliese has been named Northern
Sun Intercollegiate Conference Co-Pitcher of the Week for the
week of May 5, the NSIC office announced today.
[complete story] |
Bemidji State’s 2003 baseball campaign
came to an end this afternoon, with the Beavers splitting a
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference double-header with the
Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears. BSU rallied from a 9-6 deficit
with six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take a 12-9
decision in Game 1, then allowed a season-high five home runs
in an 11-7 Game 2 setback.
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The 2003 Bemidji State baseball team became
just the seventh in school history to win 10 conference games
in a single season, riding a career pitching effort from freshman
Scott Pugliese to win a 1-0 pitcher’s duel in Game 1 of
a double-header with the Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears. But
a seventh-inning rally fell short in Game 2 as the Bears held
on to earn the split, 7-5.
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Bemidji State snapped a four-game losing
streak and wrapped up non-conference play for 2003 in style,
sweeping the St. Cloud State Huskies, 6-3 and 4-3, today at
BSU Baseball Field. It marks just the fourth time in the now-107
game history of the series between the programs the Beavers
have won back-to-back games against the Huskies.
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Jason Fairchild led the North Dakota Fighting
Sioux to a double-header sweep of Bemidji State, 23-1 and 18-7,
with an historic two-game performance. He went 7-for-10 in the
double-header with six RBI and eight runs scored. In Game 2,
Fairchild was 4-for-4 with three triples, tied for second-most
in a game in NCAA history. His eight runs scored matched the
total for the entire BSU lineup in the double-header, which
took five hours and six minutes of game time to complete.
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Officials with the Bemidji State University
baseball program today announced that a scheduled non-conference
double-header against North Dakota on April 28 would be relocated
and is now scheduled to be played in Bemidji.
[complete story] |
Minnesota-Duluth used strong efforts by its
starting pitching and timely late-inning hitting to sweep a
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference baseball double-header
at Bemidji State, 4-1 and 4-3 in eight innings. The sweep gave
UMD a series victory over the Beavers, taking three of four
games played this weekend at BSU Baseball Field.
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 Bemidji
State sophomore Russell Berner struck out nine batters, the
most by a BSU pitcher this season, and Brian Beuning picked
up his team-leading third save of the season in a 5-4 win over
the Minn.-Duluth Bulldogs this afternoon at BSU Baseball Field.
The victory gave BSU a split of the double-header, as Minn.-Duluth
used a five-run sixth to post an 8-4 win in Game 1.
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 Bemidji
State designated hitter Tony Klaers has been named Northern
Sun Intercollegiate Conference Co-Player of the Week, the league
office announced late yesterday.
[complete story] |
| Bemidji State's scheduled double-header against
Southwest State today has been rained out. The games will not
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The start of the contests were delayed nearly six hours as
the Bemidji State baseball staff finished preparing the fields
after a four-inch snowfall in Bemidji Wednesday night. But
five and a half hours after the scheduled start time, BSU
and Southwest State got the games in, with the teams splitting
the double-header. The Beavers captured Game 1, 7-0, while
the Mustangs rallied for a 9-5 Game 2 win.
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 Bemidji
State’s Shaun Ross homered twice, but
it was not enough for the Beavers as they dropped an 11-8 decision
to the North Dakota Fighting Sioux this afternoon in non-conference
action at Kraft Memorial Field.
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The Bemidji State baseball team finally made
its 2003 home-field debut, completing a four-game season sweep
of the Minn.-Crookston Golden Eagles with 9-5 and 13-6 wins
this afternoon at BSU Baseball Field.
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The Bemidji State baseball team seemed to
have things back on track after taking five of six games to
open Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference play last weekend.
But Wayne State showed BSU that it still has some work to do,
sweeping a four-game NSIC series by scores of 7-1, 9-2, 12-1
and 3-2 yesterday and today at the WSC Baseball Field.
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Bemidji State’s pitching corps was
impressive today, allowing only two earned runs in a double-header
sweep of Minnesota-Crookston, 10-2 and 8-4 in Crookston, Minn.
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The Bemidji State baseball team split its double-header with
the University of Minnesota-Morris today in Morris, Minn.
Despite Brad Johnson going 3-4, scoring a run and batting
two men in, the Beavers fell to the Cougars 15-7.
But the Beavers came back in the second game for
10-2 win. Jon Czech led the way for BSU going 3-4 with a walk,
a run scored, and three RBI's.
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After two days of waiting for the Minnesota weather to cooperate,
the Bemidji State baseball team opened its NSIC season with
a pair of wins at the University of Minnesota-Morris.
In the first game of the double-dip, Aaron Schmitz drove in
two runs in the top of the 12th inning to give the Beavers
a 4-2 lead. Brian Beuning shut the Cougars down in the bottom
of the inning giving BSU its first win in 12 games.
In game two Jon Czech went 3-3, scoring two runs, while collecting
an RBI as the Beavers swept the double-header with an 8-6
victory.
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The North Dakota State Bison sent the Bemidji
State baseball team to its 10th and 11th consecutive defeats,
sweeping a double-header from the Beavers, 1-0 and 8-7, this
afternoon at Newman Outdoor Field.
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Bemidji State's early-season struggles continue as the team
dropped all five of its contests at the Missouri Southern
Tournament held jointly in Pittsburg, Kan. and Joplin, Mo.
March 21-23. During the tourney, the Beavers dropped 12-0
and 13-9
decisions to Cameron University from Lawton, Okla. and also
suffered 13-7
and 7-3
losses to Pittsburg (Kan.) State. BSU closed play at the tournament
with a 4-1
loss to the University of Sioux Falls (S.D.).
Bemidji State stands 2-11 on the season and has dropped each
of its last nine starts - the team's longest losing streak
since a 16-game skid from March 14-April 14, 2000. The Beavers
are back in action April 1 with a double-header at North Dakota
State.
[schedule][updated
stats]
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Stats have been updated with available information from BSU's
run at the Gene Cusic Collegiate Classic in Florida. The team
went 2-6 on its eight-game trip, although the final score
from Game 8 is not available. Season team and individual stats
have been updated to reflect the seven games of information
currently available, and will be updated as soon as possible.
BSU opens play at the Missouri Southern tournament on Saturday.
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Bemidji State has gotten off to a 2-2 start at the Gene Cusic
Collegiate Classic in Ft. Myers, Fla., splitting double-headers
on March 10 and 11.
BSU split its season-opening twinbill with West Liberty,
taking a 6-5 loss in Game 1 and bouncing back for a 7-0 Game
2 win. Yesterday, BSU split with Wayne State (Mich.), again
dropping Game 1 by a 4-3 count and rallying to take the nightcap
8-7.
Complete game accounts and stats will be available as soon
as they are available.
[updated schedule]
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The Bemidji State University baseball program
has been picked sixth in a pre-season poll of coaches in the
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, the league office announced
late last week.
[complete story] |
Bemidji State University head baseball coach
Chris Brown today announced the program's 2003 baseball schedule.
The 52-game slate features eight games at the Gene Cusic Classic
in Ft. Myers, Fla. and six games against to-be-determined opponents
at the Missouri Southern tournament in Joplin, Mo.
[complete
story][complete schedule] |
 Bemidji
State University director of athletics Rick Goeb today announced
the hiring of Chris Brown as the university’s head baseball
coach. Brown, who has been on BSU’s staff the last two
years as a graduate assistant, will fill an adjunct coaching
position for BSU vacated by the retired Jim Grimm.
[complete story] |
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