THEMIAA.com - MIAA expected to be one of the best baseball conferences in 2015

The MIAA Conference announced on January 14, 2015, that two schools were ranked in the American Baseball Coaches Association Top 25 pre-season polls.  2014 MIAA baseball tournament champion Emporia State was ranked 6th in the nation.  2014 MIAA baseball regular season champion Central Missouri was ranked 22nd in the nation.

Furthermore, the University of Central Oklahoma, Missouri Western, and Nebraska-Kearney all received votes in the poll.

With 5 squads receiving consideration for being tops in the Country, expect 2015 MIAA Conference to be a remarkably exciting year of college baseball.  With the present MIAA baseball post-season tournament format, the top 8 squads will qualify and face each other in a best of 3 series with the games played at the higher-seeded team's field.  The winner of the 4 series will then face-off at Community America ballpark in Kansas City in a double-elimination tournament.

You can read the article by clicking on the link below:

http://www.themiaa.com/news/2015/1/14/BB_0114152327.aspx

Your Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats baseball team will start the 2015 season on February 6, 2015, when they travel to Alva, Oklahoma, to play Northwestern Oklahoma State University.  The Bearcats are led by Head Coach Darin Loe.  Coach Loe is entering his 16th season as Head Coach at Northwest Missouri State University.  Coach Loe has the most wins at Northwest by a baseball coach with 389 wins.
Only Jim Johnson has been a Head Coach at Northwest Missouri State for more seasons than Coach Loe with Jim Johnson's 17 total seasons and Loe entering his 16th.  Coach Loe has developed 30 All-MIAA performers during his tenure including Adam Bailey who was Northwest's first All-American since 1989.

Go Cats!!
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