Its a bittersweet day when senior day comes around for the Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats baseball team. Guys that I grow extremely attached to culminating their collegiate baseball careers. Guys that watched my son grow-up and guys that I watched grow-up. Thank you for being Bearcats. Thank you for giving us everything you had for our school.
What a way to spend senior day. Notwithstanding the weather (it stunk), the Bearcats dominated Saturday afternoon in pitching, hitting, and defense. In game 1, Northwest beat Lincoln 7-0 in a seven-inning contest at Bearcat field on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University. With the win, Northwest's 2013 record advanced to 17-25, 14-22 MIAA. With the loss, Lincoln's 2013 record fell to 5-29, 4-25 MIAA.
Offense, Northwest had a balanced attack with 4 players having multi-hit games. Ryan Abernathy, CF, went 2 for 4 with 2 RBIs and a run scored. Tyler Durant, RF, went 2 for 4 with a RBI, a stolen base, and a run scored. Charlie Krueger, LF, went 2 for 3 with 2 RBIs, a stolen base, and 2 runs scored. Steven Garber, 1B, went 2 for 2 (including a double) with 2 RBIs a run scored and a walk. Derek Meyer, C, went 1 for 1 with a run scored when he came into the game when JJ Baccari re-aggravated his knee injury. In total, Northwest scored 7 runs off of 9 hits, 7 RBIs, 4 walks, 5 strike-outs, and left 6 runners on base.
Defensively, Northwest committed one error (Swain) and executed a double play in the game.
Pitching, Ryker Fox battled his way to a complete game victory to see his 2013 record advance to 5-4. In total, Ryker worked 7.0 innings, allowed 3 hits, no runs, 5 walks, 9 strike outs, 0 wild pitches, 0 balks, and did not hit a batter. Kudos to Ryker as he battled through the start the game to get into a rhythm. In the start of the 1st inning, Ryker walked the first two LU batters. The LU runner on 2nd base stole 3rd to have runners on the corners without any outs. Ryker struck out the 3rd and 4th batters in an absolute clutch performance. Ryker forced the 5th LU batter to line-out to the rightfielder for the 3rd out and without giving up any runs. Northwest would go on to score 1 run in the bottom of the inning. After 1 inning, Northwest led 1-0. In the top of the 2nd inning, the first LU batter tripled to right-center field. Ryker struck out the 2nd LU batter. Ryker walked the 3rd LU batter to have runners on the corners with 1 out. Ryker struck out the 4th batter. Ryker got the 5th batter to hit a chopper back to the pitcher, where he calmly threw the ball to Steven Garber at 1st base for the 3rd out and without giving up any runs. In the bottom of the inning, Northwest scored 2 more runs. After 2 innings, Northwest led LU 3-0. In the top of the 3rd inning, Ryker got into a groove and got the first LU batter to line out to Ryan Abernathy for the first out. Ryker struck out the 2nd batter, walked the 3rd batter, and struck out the 4th batter to end the inning without giving up any runs. In the bottom of the 3rd inning, Northwest scored 3 more runs to increase their lead over LU to 6-0. In the top of the 4th inning, the first LU batter got a bunt base hit but the 2nd batter hit into a 6-4-3 double play. The 3rd LU batter grounded out 6-3 for the 3rd out of the inning and without scoring any runs. In the bottom of the 4th inning, Northwest did not score any more runs and the score remained 6-0 in Northwest's favor. In the top of the 5th inning, Ryker struck out the first LU batter and got the 2nd LU batter to fly out to Abernathy for the 2nd out. The 3rd LU batter walked and the 4th LU batter reached on an error. Ryker got the 5th LU batter to ground out for the 3rd and final out of the inning without allowing any runs. In the bottom of the 5th inning, Northwest scored one more run to increase the lead to 7-0. In the top of the 6th inning, Ryker got the first LU batter to ground out Swain to Garber. Ryker got the 2nd LU batter to fly out to Abernathy. The 3rd LU batter singled to left field, but Ryker struck out the 4th LU batter to end the inning. Northwest did not score any more runs in the bottom of the 6th to keep the scored at 7-0 Bearcats. In the top of the 7th inning, Ryker got the first LU batter to ground out to Bedard. The 2nd LU batter grounded out to Swain. Ryker struck out the 3rd LU batter to end the game with the final score 7-0 in favor of Northwest.
In game 2, Northwest defeated Lincoln University 8-3 in a 9-inning game to complete the double header sweep of the Blue Tigers on Saturday. With the win, Northwest's 2013 record advanced to 18-25, 15-22 MIAA. With the loss, Lincoln fell to 5-30, 4-26 MIAA.
Offensively, Brandon Huske, SS, led the way for the Bearcats with his 2 for 3 performance at the plate, 3 RBIs, a walk, a stolen base, and a run scored. Steven Garber, 1B, went 2 for 3 (including a double) with a RBI, a walk, and 2 runs scored. Ryan Abernathy, CF, went 1 for 1 with 4 walks, a RBI, 2 stolen bases, and 2 runs scored. Tyler Durant, RF, went 1 for 3 with a RBI and a walk. Eric McGlauflin, DH, went 1 for 3 with a RBI and a run scored. Derek Meyer, C, went 1 for 4 with a RBI. In total, Northwest scored 8 runs off of 8 hits, 8 RBIs, 8 walks, and 2 strike-outs. Northwest left 8 runners on base.
Defensively, Northwest committed one error and did executed a double-play in the game.
Pitching, Marcus Garrett took a no-no into the 6th inning and picked up the victory to see his 2013 record advance to 3-2. In total, Marcus worked 7.0 innings, allowed 1 hit, 1 earned run, 6 walks, 6 strike-outs, 1 wild pitch, 1 balk, and did not hit a batter. In the top of the 1st inning, Marcus got the 1st LU batter to ground out to him for the 1st out. The 2nd LU batter struck out looking and the 3rd LU batter flied out to Durant for the 3rd out. LU did not score any runs. In the bottom of the 1st inning, Northwest scored 1 run to take a 1-0 lead over LU. In the top of the 2nd inning, Marcus walked the 1st batter but got the 2nd batter to ground into a 5-4-3 double play. Marcus struck out the 3rd LU batter for the 3rd out in the game. In the bottom of the 2nd inning, Northwest scored 2 more runs to take a 3-0 lead over Lincoln. In the top of the 3rd inning, Marcus struck out the first LU batter, got the 2nd LU batter to ground out to Huske, walked the 3rd LU batter, and got the 4th LU batter to pop fly out to Garber for the 3rd out. LU did not score any runs in the 3rd inning. In the bottom of the 3rd inning, Northwest scored one more run to take a 4-0 lead over Lincoln. In the top of the 4th inning, Marcus walked the first LU batter, got the 2nd LU batter to fly out to Abernathy, runner on 1st advanced to 2nd on a wild throw, got the 3rd LU batter to ground out to Garber to advance the runner to 3rd, and struck out the 4th LU batter for the 3rd out and without allowing any runs. In the bottom of the 4th inning, Northwest scored 2 more runs to take a 6-0 lead over Lincoln. In the top of the 5th inning, Marcus walked the 1st batter, struck out the 2nd batter, picked-off the runner at 1st base for the 2nd out, walked the 3rd batter, and got the 4th batter to ground out back to him for the 3rd out and without allowing any runs. In the bottom of the 5th inning, Northwest did not score any more runs to keep the scored at 6-0 in favor of the Bearcats. In the top of the 6th inning, Marcus walked the 1st batter, got the 2nd batter to ground out to Swain and advanced the runner to second base, struck out the 3rd batter, allowed a RBI double to the 4th batter, and got the 5th batter to ground out to Bedard for the 3rd out. Heading to the bottom of the 6th inning, Northwest's lead over Lincoln was 6-1. In the bottom of the 6th inning, Northwest did not score any more runs to keep the score at 6-1 in favor of the Bearcats. In the top of the 7th inning, Marcus got the first batter to fly out to Durant, got the 2nd batter to ground out to Huske, and got the 3rd batter to ground out to Bedard. In the bottom of the 7th inning, Northwest did not score any more runs to keep the scored at 6-1 in favor of the Bearcats. In the top of the 8th inning, Blane Reutter came in to pitch for Marcus. The 1st LU batter got a dribbler base hit to 3rd base. The 2nd LU batter singled to Johnson to put runners on 1st and 2nd with zero outs. Blane walked the 3rd batter to load the bases without any outs. The 4th LU batter flied out to Abernathy as a sacrifice fly and earned a RBI and scored the runner from 3rd base and advanced the runner on 2nd to 3rd base. The 5th LU batter pop fly out to Garber for the 2nd out in the inning. The 6th LU batter reached on an error by Huske and led to another run scored for LU. The 7th LU batter struck out looking to end the inning. Heading into the bottom of the 8th inning, Northwest led Lincoln by a score 6-3. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Northwest scored 2 more runs to increase the Bearcat's lead over Lincoln to 8-3. In the top of the 9th inning, Patrick Brady came in to pitch for Reutter. In total, Blane worked 1.0 inning, allowed 2 hits, 2 earned runs, 1 walk, 1 strike out, 0 wild pitches, 0 balks, and did not hit a batter. In the top of the 9th inning, the first LU batter grounded out to Bedard, the 2nd LU batter flew out to Abernathy, and the 3rd LU batter grounded out to Bedard for the 3rd and final out of the inning and game. Following 9 innings, Northwest defeated Lincoln by a final score 8-3. In total, Brady worked 1.0 innings, allowed no hits, no runs, no walks, no strike-outs, no wild pitches, no balks, and did not hit a batter.
Next for the Bearcats, Northwest looks to sweep the Blue Tigers by winning game 3 of the series on Sunday, April 21, 2013, with first pitch set for noon at Bearcat field on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University.
Following the double header, the Maryville Pride Lions Club hosted its annual cook-out for the baseball team where members of the civic organization cooked brats, burgers, desserts, potato salad, and drinks for the team and their families. The cook-out is a way the Lions Club can recognize all the players, the coaches, and their families for all of the contributions they make to the greater Maryville and Nodaway County communities. After a fine meal was had by all, Coach Darin Loe announced team awards as follows:
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| Spirit of the Bearcat Award winner Alex Singleton for exemplary hustle, work ethic, and team spirit during the 2013 NCAA baseball season |
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| Newcomer of the Year Award winner Brandon Huske for exemplary athletic performance by a first year player during the 2013 NCAA baseball season |
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| Most Valuable Pitcher Award winner Ryker Fox for exemplary athletic performance by a pitcher during the 2013 NCAA baseball season |
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| Most Valuable Player Award winner JJ Baccari for exemplary athletic performance during the 2013 NCAA baseball season |
Finally, the B2R would be remiss if I didn't mention one of my favorite baseball players is graduating this May. As everybody knows, I love all the Bearcat baseball players. I only single out a player or two that I wear the name and number of at ball games. Cameron Bedard is going to play his final games as a Bearcat on Sunday and Tuesday so it was time the B2R retire the #11 shirt I have worn for a couple of seasons by having ol' stix sign it and take a picture. It means a lot to the B2R and I appreciate Cam taking the time to do it.
Go Cats!!
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