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When the Point University Sky-hawks take the field to open the 2016 Avista NAIA World Series today, there’s a pretty good chance that many of those watching will have no idea who they are.

As the No. 10 seed in a 10-team tournament and a club that needed to upend two former Series participants in the Opening Round just to get to Lewiston, the Skyhawks probably won’t take offense to the quizzical looks.

Of course, it’s not every day that a team makes history by becoming the first Opening Round No. 5 seed to reach the national tournament by pulling off three upsets.

Nor is it common for a school to move the campus, change the name, change the mascot and expand the

> athletic program by switching as-sociations and adding three sports 74 years after its inception.

But that’s exactly what Point did in 2011 as it completely rebranded itself.

Formerly known as Atlanta Chris-tian College, Point officially changed its name in July of 2011. In addition to that, the school also dropped the Chargers in favor of the Skyhawks, moved from the National Christian College Athletic Association to the NAIA and added football, cross coun-try and softball.

And if that wasn’t enough, the university revealed — and eventually followed through on — plans to move the main campus from East Point, Ga., 60 miles southwest to West Point.

“Atlanta Christian College was in position in East Point where they were very land-locked,” second-year Point baseball coach Jeremy Chris-tian said. “There wasn’t a whole lot of room for growth, physically. They

were trying to grow as a campus, grow our mission statement and see what they can do.

“They were looking for opportuni-ties to grow and the opportunity pre-sented itself 60 miles down the road.”

The move however, wasn’t quite a logistical paradise as Point took up residence in the corporate offices of an old textile mill in town and needed to build up and rearrange several of the athletic fields in the area, Chris-tian added.

Like many other institutions of higher education, Point is constantly renovating to update classrooms, dormitories and its new chapel.

“We’ve had a great working rela-tionship with the city of West Point and it’s allowed the school to grow by leaps and bounds,” Christian said.

Since the move in 2011, enrollment at Point has steadily increased. For the 2015-16 academic year, Point set a school-record with 1,582 students.

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Top phoTo: Under the falling rain, the Warriors crowd around coach Ed Cheff after they won the first World Series held at Lewiston, in 1984. boTTom phoTo: LCSC players storm the mound at the end of their 10-7 victory over St. Thomas in the 2015 championship game of the Avista nAiA World Series.

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By Sean KramerOf the tribune

The statistics are gaudy. The record makes it clear: Faulkner should be one of the clear favorites to win the Avista NAIA World Series.

Patrick McCarthy wouldn’t put it that way.

“Playing in Lewiston is a complete-ly different world,” the seventh-year Faulkner coach warns.

He would certainly know. His Eagles have plenty of experi-

ence at Harris Field. In 2013, they beat host Lewis-Clark State in the championship game to bring the title back to Alabama. Last season they fell to No. 9-seeded St. Thomas a game be-fore playing for the title.

Expect the unexpected.“Baseball is baseball: You don’t

play well here, then it’s a lot differ-ent than not playing well,” McCarthy said. “You don’t play well two out of three here, you don’t have a fun plane ride home.”

One of two clubs from Montgomery,

Ala., in this tournament, the Eagles bring perhaps the hottest offense to Lewiston.

Nine hitters in the lineup are hitting over .300 while as a team the Eagles have bopped 83 home runs and 141 doubles.

That may have been because of a weaker schedule, since many of the top teams in NAIA don’t have the bud-gets to travel to the Deep South, and vice versa.

But Faulkner has proven in Lewis-ton in the past it has the talent to back up those numbers.

“I just think baseball is baseball and a coach is a nonfactor, if you have the best players you will be in a position to be successful,” McCarthy said.

Faulkner opens the Series on Sat-urday, taking on the winner of Lind-sey Wilson and The Master’s with the potential of facing host Lewis-Clark State on Monday.

McCarthy would rather avoid that. “The last thing we want to do is play

Fa u l k n e r s tat sBATTING

Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOT.J. Condon .397 141 30 56 15 3 8 46 28 29David Palenzuela .360 189 54 68 15 1 8 43 38 15Mario Amaral .347 213 31 74 20 0 13 67 30 37Dennis Morton .344 189 48 65 14 0 15 58 18 37Deivy Palmeiro .343 143 26 49 12 0 5 30 19 17Nick Cain .335 182 46 61 14 1 17 67 31 44Dario Polanco .325 212 48 69 10 2 6 40 26 41Darrius Jennings .323 161 46 52 11 0 3 25 25 32Chase Morris .320 50 24 16 5 1 3 15 6 16Onix Martinez .301 173 37 52 8 1 1 20 26 38Brandon Suttles .263 38 34 10 1 0 0 7 5 10Alexis Cruz .261 203 53 53 15 3 4 34 60 54Totals .328 1,936 498 635 141 13 83 456 314 376Opponents .236 1,834 190 433 68 3 20 163 141 509

PITCHINGMinimum six appearances

ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SOMiguel Castellanos 0.35 4-1 26 19 1 1 11 37Brandon Suttles 0.73 0-0 12.1 10 1 1 2 11Austin Moreland 1.13 0-1 24 16 4 3 8 34Mark Vasquez 1.72 11-0 94.1 77 29 18 22 118Marco Blanard 2.00 5-0 36 27 9 8 10 43Preston Szuch 2.35 0-0 7.2 4 4 3 2 10Ivan Pelaez 2.54 5-2 63.2 59 26 18 13 51Phil Anderson 2.60 6-3 55.1 46 22 16 13 51Kurt Libscomb 3.78 2-2 50 55 27 21 13 48Christian Torres 4.02 10-2 71.2 59 36 32 32 63Victor Arche 4.40 6-2 43 51 25 21 10 38Totals 2.66 49-13 487 430 190 144 150 510Opponents 8.47 13-49 484.1 631 498 437 313 375

Saves (10) — Austin Moreland 7, Miguel Castellanos 3.

> FaulknerLocation: Montgomery, Ala.nickname: eaglesCoach: Patrick McCarthy

(seventh year)Season record: 49-13Rank in final NAIA poll: no. 3How qualified: Won faulkner bracketNumber of previous appearances; best

finish: four; champions in 2013

> Juice (of five stars)STarTerS: «««½

Vasquez is the ace of the rotation with 118 strikeouts in 94.1 innings of work and a 1.72 erA, but the eagles will need to dig deep to find depth. torres is second in strikeouts with 63 but his 4.02 erA is worrisome. Pelaez and his 2.54 erA and only 13 walks on the season could prove key.

RELIEvERS: «««««Castellanos, Suttles and

Moreland conceded only five earned runs between them in a combined 62.1 innings of work. even more unbelievable, they’ve

combined to strike out 82 hitters and walk only 21. throw blancard (2.00 erA) and even Palaez in this group on occasion and faulkner shouldn’t often give away late leads.

FIELDING: ««½the eagles committed 70 errors on

the season and turned only 14 double plays, but they’re so well-rounded in other facets that it shouldn’t be a major issues.HITTING: ««««

nine players have registered at least 141 at-bats and are hitting over .300. Condon leads the way with a

.397 average and 26 extra-base hits. the eagles are prone to go deep every once in a while with three players in double-figure home runs and 83 as a team. they also have 141 doubles on the season, with nine players having at least 10 apiece. SPEED: ««««

faulkner stole 105 bases on the season and got caught stealing only 12 times. Good luck keeping an eye on the eagles. INTANGIBLES: «««««

faulkner came to Lewiston and won the championship as the top seed just three years ago and made it to the final three a year ago before falling to underdog St. thomas. the eagles came from behind to win their own regional, so they have as much experience through adversity as any team in this field.

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Faulkner University/Ryan BartelsSlugger Nick Cain (left) listens to his coach, Patrick McCarthy, during the Eagles’ Series-qualifying 5-3 victory May 20 against Vanguard. Cain leads the team in home runs this season with 17, and is tied for most RBI with 67.

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the best team in the country with the season on the line,” McCarthy said. “It would be like playing in Yankee Stadium down by three runs.”

Faulkner had to come back from a one-run loss and a mid-game defi-cit in the Opening Round to bounce back and clinch a place at the Series.

After falling 5-4 to Vanguard the night before, Faulkner trailed 3-1 in the fifth inning before blast-ing a pair of home runs to rally back and win the Faulkner Brack-et, clinching Faulkner’s fourth trip in a row to Lewiston.

“We’re excited about once again earning the right to play for a national championship,” McCarthy said. “This is a special team and one that feels they can be in the hunt. Their goal all season has been to win a national championship. They’ve done everything they needed to do to earn the opportunity. This is one of the most special groups I’ve ever coached, and I’m so happy and proud of them.”

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By TROY WARZOCHAOF THE TRIBUNE

The last time the Bulldogs of Tennessee Wesleyan were seen at Harris Field, the players were found in a pile on the pitcher’s mound and then-coach Billy Berry was proclaiming his love for Lew-iston as the perfect hype-man for a host city which, at the time, feared it could lose its grasp on both its tournament and its identity.

With Berry now plying his trade at Baylor School, a private prep school located on the outskirts of Chattanoo-ga, Tenn., and the long moonshots of Jordan Guida and Taylor Oldham now a distant memory, much has changed since the Bulldogs clubbed their way to the 2012 title as the most prolific collec-tion of home run hitters in the history of the NAIA World Series.

And although the names and faces will be vastly different, the goal re-mains the same for No. 2 seed Ten-nessee Wesleyan College (48-13) four

years later.“The program has always been

highly successful,” first-year TWC coach Travis Watson said. “From that standpoint, you’re expected to keep it going. You’re supposed to fill the shoes of previous teams and previous coaches. Not that there was pressure to be successful the first year, but that was kind of the goal from day one — and that was to try to recruit and get to Lewiston in your first year.

“Maybe I put more pressure on my-self than anyone else, but I wouldn’t

want it any other way.”Formerly an assistant for Series

regulars Lee of Tennessee and Faulkner of Alabama, Watson is no stranger to the successes and the perils that a team can face while in Lewiston.

While with Lee, Watson and the Flames made it to Lewiston five times and with Faulkner, the coach made the trip another four times — including 2013 when the Eagles beat LCSC in the title game.

“(Having experience at the Series) makes a big difference,” said Watson, who was honored as Appalachian Ath-letic Conference coach of the year this season. “You can prepare the team for what to expect, what to be on the look-out for. I remember our first year go-ing with Lee, it was like being a deer in headlights. We didn’t even get to stick around long enough for the pic-nic. That’s the experience you share with the team and it makes a big, big

Bulldogs are back, but this time led by their pitchers

Ryan Hartman

DiegoIbarra

Wardy Polanco

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Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOPedro Barrios .389 216 84 48 13 2 3 36 28 15Wardy Polanco .350 214 75 62 11 2 16 45 23 37Alfred Cruz .305 190 58 48 13 1 8 39 19 64Malik Stephens .239 155 37 21 6 2 0 15 18 48Cody Stroud .298 151 45 36 11 1 7 34 28 27Sully Rios Reyes .290 145 42 30 5 2 5 34 33 40Omar Gomez .340 141 48 28 12 0 5 26 10 26Paolo Montezuma .408 130 53 26 7 0 8 46 28 21Marlor Villafana .281 128 36 32 6 0 7 32 13 29Luis Estevez .267 101 27 4 3 0 3 18 22 37Ryan Phillips .253 75 19 24 1 0 0 12 5 24Chevis Hoover .323 65 21 11 8 0 2 16 10 16Totals .315 1865 588 414 104 11 65 374 253 422Opponents .234 1835 429 193 78 10 23 168 113 529


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SORyan Hartman 0.60 9-9 89.1 52 14 6 11 120Diego Ibarra 2.09 10-2 81.2 81 33 19 10 87Chris Washington 3.57 6-2 63 71 34 25 13 42Tyler Thornton 3.35 6-2 53.2 45 24 20 9 54Chevis Hoover 3.31 5-3 51.2 51 24 19 19 66Danny Guido 1.85 3-1 43.2 37 -18 9 8 55Dillon Dove 2.08 3-0 34.2 28 12 8 9 23Reed Bright 1.87 1-2 33.2 28 12 7 16 47Austin Goss 3.75 2-1 24 25 14 10 9 20Ty Fowler 2.45 1-0 11 11 8 3 0 15Totals 2.33 46-13 486.1 429 193 126 113 529Opponents 6.64 13-46 465 588 414 343 253 422

Saves (9) — Reed Bright 4, Chris Washington 2, Chevis Hoover, Danny Guido, Dillon Dove.

> Tennessee WesleyanLocation: Athens, Tenn.Nickname: BulldogsCoach: Travis Watson, first

year)Season record: 48-13Rank in final NAIA poll:

No. 5How qualified: Won

Kingsport BracketNumber of previous

appearance; best finish: three, won championship in 2012

> Juice (of five stars)STARTERS: «««««

Hartman and Ibarra provide one of the more potent

mound combinations in the NAIA. Hartman was arguably the best pitcher in the NAIA this season

and Ibarra wasn’t that far off his teammate’s pace.

RELIEvERS: ««««½Outside of TWC’s impressive

rotation, the Bulldogs also boast a bullpen that helped the club com-pile the lowest ERA in the NAIA this season. The combination of Guido, Dove and Bright is as close as TWC will get to having human fire extinguishers.FIELDING: ««½

A fielding percentage of .954 isn’t really anything to write home about. The Bulldogs’ defense may not win many games, but it’s likely that it won’t lose any for them

either.HITTING: «««

Definitely not the mashers of yesteryear, the Bulldogs still have enough pop in the form of Polanco to do some damage. Behind a dev-astating pitching staff, the Bulldog bats may just need a bit of timely hitting to go the distance.SPEED: «««½

The Bulldogs were eighth in the NAIA in stolen base attempts per

game and ninth in stolen bases per game. On the year, TWC has converted 134 of its 176 attempts.INTANGIBLES: «««½

Although the Series will be a first-time experience for nearly everyone on the Bulldogs, TWC has leadership where it counts. First-year coach Watson, who previously was on staffs at Lee of Tennessee and Faulkner of Alabama will be making his 10th trip to Lewiston.

difference.“I’m the only one on the staff

that has even been in the state of Idaho, I’m assuming.”

By virtue of their seeding, the Bulldogs have the luxury of play-ing the waiting game as one of only two clubs that get a first-round bye in the double-elimi-nation tournament. Tennessee Wesleyan will play the winner of No. 10 seed Point and No. 7 seed Sterling on Saturday at 3 p.m.

While the Bulldogs will surely be remembered by many Series-goers as a free-swinging assembly of sluggers that rallied for a 10-6 win over plucky Rogers State, the 2016 edition couldn’t be more dif-

ferent.Paced by all-everything pitcher

Ryan Hartman, the Bulldogs are No. 1 in the NAIA in ERA (2.33) and No. 4 in strikeouts with 529.

Hartman, a senior southpaw from Anaheim, Calif., was 9-0 in 12 starts this season and led the NAIA with a 0.60 ERA and only six runs allowed in 89� innings. The AAC’s Pitcher of the Year also held opponents to a .165 bat-ting average and racked up 120 strikeouts.

If that wasn’t enough, sitting behind Hartman is all-conference first-teamer Diego Ibarra. A se-nior righty from Riverside, Calif., Ibarra went 10-2 this season with a 2.09 ERA and a team-best eight complete games.

“Pitching is the strength of our team, and sometimes that doesn’t always equate to Harris Field, but you’d think our pitch-ing should be able to keep us in

the game. However, you have to score runs,” Watson said.

“Every team that I’ve been a part of that’s had success out there has been more offensive.”

Leading the charge at the plate will be Wardy Polanco, who led the Bulldogs this season with 62 runs scored, 16 home runs, 138 total bases and 32 steals in 38 chances. Along the way, the first-team all-conference senior infielder also batted .350, had 45 RBI and 75 total hits.

“You always try to get as much good pitching as you can, but it al-ways comes down to the team that gets the hottest,” Watson said. “It’s not taking anything away from the pitching but that ballpark plays small at certain times of the day.

“You look at a lot of champion-ship scores and it takes eight or 12 runs to win that game.”

Or in the case of TWC back in 2012, 10 runs were just fine.

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Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOJoe Moran .478 138 41 66 10 5 3 23 4 10Derik Bontempo .413 223 49 92 18 1 11 75 14 23Trevor Jones .403 236 60 95 9 2 4 41 18 36Joe Mancuso .393 107 25 42 5 1 8 32 17 28Colton Nash .339 221 51 75 16 0 3 44 16 16Matt Evans .337 205 40 61 9 0 1 24 19 22Ross Feeley .337 205 55 69 6 0 0 26 38 28Jake Browne .330 179 16 59 5 0 5 40 21 14Connor Garrison .283 92 24 46 2 0 0 10 5 29Todd Nicks .276 105 19 29 4 0 4 23 11 14Gabriel de la Rosa .262 84 9 22 0 0 2 14 10 24Kevin Rodriguez .242 95 28 23 4 1 0 13 9 13Totals .347 1,981 438 688 95 10 42 374 197 282Opponents .242 1,799 215 435 66 11 22 199 129 480


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SOKevin Rodriguez 0.82 1-0 11 5 1 1 2 12Leland Tilley 1.77 9-1 35.2 32 9 7 8 39Ben McKendall 1.80 11-2 105 76 31 21 15 113Todd Nicks 2.20 11-1 82 49 20 20 28 91Braulio Torres-Perez 2.88 10-1 97 81 36 31 19 92Kameron Miner 3.60 2-0 15 15 8 6 8 10Aaron Bain 4.40 4-1 47 51 27 23 11 37Tony Monroy 4.50 3-1 38 37 20 19 16 32John Timmins 6.39 0-0 12.2 20 11 9 6 15Blake Phelps 7.36 0-0 7.1 6 6 6 4 9Zach Larrison 8.22 0-2 15.1 24 15 14 4 11Totals 3.37 51-10 484 432 215 181 128 480Opponents 6.85 10-51 471.2 688 438 359 196 282

Saves (9) — Leland Tilley 8, Kevin Rodriguez.

> BellevueLocation: Bellevue, Neb.Nickname: BruinsCoach: Duane Monlux

(sixth year)Season record: 51-10Rank in final NAIA poll:

No. 2How qualified: Won Grand

Rapids BracketNumber of previous

appearance; best finish: 12; won championship in 1995

> Juice (of five stars)STARTERS: «««½

The Bruins have ace quality in McKendall, who has tossed three shutouts this year, and can rely on Nicks. But it’ll be the heart of the rotation that will need to prove it can sustain a run. Or, they might just have

to be good enough for the Bruins’ potent offense to get the job done.

RELIEvERS: ««½Rodriguez has struck

out 12 and allowed only seven baserunners in 11 innings of work. Tilley has a 1.77 ERA through 22 appearances. It’s not very deep after that. Luckily

for Bellevue, the top three starters often eat up innings with 14 combined complete games between them.

FIELDING: ««««

The Bruins lead the NAIA with only 51 errors this season and have turned 44 double plays. Bellevue prides itself on being a sound defensive team and making opposing teams beat them.

HITTING: «««««Three players — three — come into

the Series hitting .400. They hit .347 as a team and average over seven runs a game. They’ll do it endlessly with singles and drawing walks. SPEED: «««

Bellevue won’t often put runners on the move, as they don’t need to. They come in with only 56 stolen bases on the season, but runners are moved along often through a barrage of singles. INTANGIBLES: ««««

Bellevue knows how to win with its back against the wall. It experienced the heartbreak of being one game away from Lewiston last year and learned from that experience by mak-ing it out of the losers’ bracket this time around. Don’t be surprised to see Bellevue storm back should it lose an early game this year.

By SEAN KRAMER / Of ThE TRIBuNE

The trip to Lewiston might be a little weird for Duane Mon-lux and his road-tested Bellevue baseball squad.

The Nebraska-based school is well used to travel. The Bruins this season have traveled — by bus — to Florida, the Dakotas (twice) and most recently to Grand Rapids, Mich., for the Open-

ing Round of the NAIA championships. It’s approximately 27 hours from Nebras-

ka to Lewiston, Monlux estimates. Luckily, Bellevue boarded a flight bound for north-ern Idaho on Tuesday.

It’s a just reward for the Bruins’ first trip to the Avista NAIA World Series since 2008.

“We are road warriors, we’re used to be-ing on a bus and van,” Monlux said. “Travel hasn’t been an issue for us, our guys are used to traveling. Our guys are very excited.”

Road warriors is probably an understate-ment. The Bruins played 23 of their last 29 games outside of the state of Nebraska, including the last 13. Since the start of the conference tournament, they’ve won eight of their last nine.

And now they’re excited to … play in Bellevue UniversityJunior outfielder Derik Bontempo is the Bruins’ offensive engine, having batted .413 this season with 11 home runs and 75 runs batted in.

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front of familiar fans?“Our guys are very excited

to be in the West Coast. ... A lot of times their families can’t make it to the games,” Mon-lux said of the 17 players on his roster from California and Washington. “(Former play-ers from the) NWAC are going to come over. NWAC has been a huge conference for us get-ting players, West Coast into California, we’re very excited about the number of people who are going to be there.”

The No. 3-seeded Bruins open against Auburn Montgomery, with a win giving them the next two days off and a loss sending them to the losers’ bracket.

Bellevue will bring one of the most uniquely potent of-fenses in the country to Lew-iston. The Bruins score over seven runs a game, boast three players hitting over .400 and are hitting .347 as a team. But the Bruins only knocked 147 extra-base hits all season, and only a measly 42 home runs.

The singles-heavy, death-by-a-thousand-cuts offense isn’t quite by design, Monlux says.

“You always want to get a little bit part of power. Part of that is Mother Nature has played into that a little bit,” Monlux said. “Eighty percent of our games happen to be played with the wind blowing in, some of that plays into that. We have singles guys, it’s been a combination of things.”

Junior Derik Bontempo may be one of the best hitters in the tournament, boasting an on-base percentage of .464

and leading the Bruins with 30 extra-base hits.

Ben McKendall leads the rotation having conceded only 21 earned runs in 105 innings, including tossing three com-plete-game shutouts.

Monlux isn’t worried about the top end of his rotation. He’s just wondering who it is who might step up in the latter stages of the tournament.

“As you get deeper in the tournament, you’re going to

have people step up,” Monlux said. “Maybe a No. 4 or arm out of the bullpen, that’s going to have to happen. Front-end guys are going to have to play well, also go deep in a game so you don’t kill your bullpen.”

The Bruins are no strangers to the drama of a double-elim-ination tournament. One win away from Lewiston last year, they watched Tabor steal their spot from the losers’ bracket with back-to-back wins over

Bellevue. That motivated Bellevue

to make a run from the los-ers’ bracket in the qualifying rounds and served as a remind-er that as long as pitches are left to be thrown, you still have a chance. “It’s the best teams left of 187 baseball schools with that format. I think every-body is in the same boat right now. As far as our team, we’re just very excited to have made it,” Monlux said.


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Bellevue University photosLEFT: Right-hander Ben McKendall is 11-2 for Bellevue this season, with an earned-run average of 1.80 and he leads the team with 113 strikeouts. RIGHT: Duane Monlux is 253-95-3, a winning percentage of .721, in six seasons as the Bruins’ coach.

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During a rollicking sea-son that saw the Lewis-Clark State baseball team pitch sharply, field crisply and hit productively, coach Jeremiah Robbins hasn’t had much to quibble about.

But if the Warriors had one deficiency during the 2016 season, it was an occasional hesitance to rise to the chal-lenge — to play boldly in pres-sure-pack moments. And it usually manifested itself in the batter’s box.

LCSC seemed to put that is-sue to rest by winning its last 14 games. And the Warriors say they’ve made strides over the last three weeks, when they closed ranks and turned their full attention to the Avis-ta NAIA World Series.

“It’s the animal that we call L-C State baseball,” said Robbins, in his fourth sea-son in charge of the War-riors and coming off his first Series championship last year. “Our guys know exactly where they’re going to be at the end of the season, so you fight that all year long. You say, ‘You’ve got to have an ap-proach, you’ve got to have an approach,’ and they’re saying, ‘Coach, we know where we’re going to be.’ That piece has fi-nally come into our favor now, where they’re really locked in to instruction and focused and doing a phenomenal job in the cages.”

The Warriors, who qualify for the Series via a host berth, sit idle for much of May since they don’t play in the Opening Round. While rust is always a concern, the break allows them to fine-tune their ap-proach.

And following LCSC’s grad-uation ceremony (it was on May 13 this year), the campus sits mostly empty. The War-riors’ roster is cut to the Se-ries-required 25. And there is little to distract them from baseball.

“We make our final ros-ter. It’s a small group — it’s a more intimate group,” Rob-bins said. “It’s different — it’s 100 percent different than ev-erything we did all year. It’s been really good. Their focus has been pretty incredible.”

The fourth-seeded War-riors open pursuit of their 18th national championship at 7 tonight at Harris Field when they take on Series newcomer Science and Arts of Oklaho-ma.

This team boasts the best

pitching staff L-C has had in years. The Warriors’ 2.64 earned-run average ranks fourth nationally, and they have a full complement of starters and relievers. None of

Lewis-Clark State College photoLewis-Clark State pitcher Quin Grogan prepares to fire the final offering of his seven-inning no-hitter earlier this season. Grogan spun the Warriors’ first no-hitter since 1999 on March 20 at Harris Field in a 10-0 victory over Simpson (Calif.).

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Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SODylan Tashjian .420 50 13 21 9 0 2 12 4 9Jacob Zanon .395 200 74 79 19 0 12 49 20 18J.J. Robinson .360 197 56 71 25 2 14 78 30 29Micah Brown .339 165 36 56 21 1 5 33 16 32Tyler McDowell .336 146 29 49 11 2 4 33 15 21Hayden Meier .299 97 16 29 7 0 0 18 12 13Robert Smith .296 199 52 59 16 1 5 52 21 33Logan Griffin .290 169 32 49 10 2 3 25 13 18Cabe Reiten .282 177 43 50 12 0 4 28 30 18Chase Hafer .279 61 29 17 3 1 0 6 8 15Gunnar Buhner .253 154 31 39 13 0 3 34 22 46Cooper Goldby .246 61 3 15 8 0 0 7 4 18Julian Ramon .234 128 9 30 9 1 2 19 19 15Totals .310 1,901 452 590 166 10 57 409 222 303Opponents .229 1,757 170 402 65 8 15 147 146 442


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SONoel Gonzalez 0.95 2-0 19 14 3 2 10 15Quin Grogan 1.69 4-1 64 32 15 12 31 65Shane Desmond 1.77 3-0 20.1 20 6 4 3 16Anthony Balderas 1.80 4-0 25 18 6 5 2 23Kevin Hamann 2.04 8-1 84 73 25 19 11 66Peter Irvin 2.31 4-1 35 31 11 9 9 32Gunnar Swanson 2.70 1-0 16.2 16 6 5 6 17Jake Barnett 2.72 5-1 43 36 17 13 14 47Connor Brogdon 2.81 6-0 51.1 42 19 16 10 48Henry McAree 2.97 7-0 36.1 31 13 12 8 38David Wilson 3.55 0-2 12.2 15 6 5 8 11Daulton Blackwell 4.20 0-0 15 14 7 7 2 15Matthew Fish 4.41 3-1 34.2 32 21 17 24 33Bryce Jackson 6.43 1-0 7 15 7 5 2 2Totals 2.64 48-7 474.1 401 170 139 146 442Opponents 7.59 7-48 452.2 589 452 382 222 303

Saves (19) — Noel Gonzalez 8, Anthony Balderas 4, Daulton Blackwell 2, Kevin Hamann, Jake Barnett, Henry McAree, David Wilson, Matthew Fish.

> Lewis-Clark StateLocation: LewistonNickname: WarriorsCoach: Jeremiah Robbins (fourth year)Season record: 48-7Rank in final NAIA poll: No. 4How qualified: Host berthNumber of previous appearance; best

finish: 34; first in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2015

> Juice (of five stars)STARTERS: ««««½

A reliable four-man rotation of

Hamann, Grogan, Irvin and Brogdon took shape late in the season. Hamann has been the most rugged of the bunch and Grogan might have the best stuff (as illus-trated by his seven-inning no-hitter in March).RELIEvERS: ««««½

Lots and lots of options out of the ’pen. Gonzalez has served as the closer, but has also become capable of making longer relief appearances.FIELDING: «««««

Quietly, this might be the Warriors’ strongest area. Reiten at shortstop and Buhner at second are both top-

notch defenders.HITTING: «««

This group has plenty of potential but hasn’t always lived up to it. How will the bat-ting order respond to the bright lights of the Series?

SPEED: «««The Warriors in general don’t run

much, though Zanon is a perfect 26-for-26 in steal attempts.INTANGIBLES: ««««½

The Warriors are always a threat to win the national title. And don’t count them out even if they lose early: They are 10-2 in elimination/title games in the Series under Robbins.

the hurlers will be asked to duplicate Beau Kerns’ four-appearance performance in last year’s march to the national title.

The well-balanced staff comes into the Series having shut out its last four opponents — a streak of 44 consecutive scoreless innings.

“We’ve got a bevy of arms that we can use, and they’re all battle-tested, they’re all in very good shape, their minds are right,” Robbins said. “We’re going in with a complete pitching staff, I feel.”

The pitchers have also been able to lean on the best L-C defense in recent memory. Its fielding per-centage of .975 ranks second nationally.

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As for the Warriors’ hitting, their .310 batting av-erage ranks a middling 48th, but they average 8.2 runs per game and lead the nation with 166 doubles. This team can’t match the home run pop of last year’s club, but opponents had better work carefully against hitters like J.J. Robinson (.360 batting aver-age, 78 RBI), Jacob Zanon (.395, 49), Micah Brown (.339, 33) and Tyler McDowell (.336, 33).

The Warriors have advanced to the title round in each of Robbins’ first three seasons. They finished runner-up in 2013 and ’14 before last year’s title breakthrough.

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Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOYariel Gonzalez .465 213 76 99 21 3 16 72 24 7Cesar Figuereo .411 192 44 79 13 3 12 65 23 16Dillon White .405 185 42 75 22 0 14 71 15 35Jayland Rodriguez .346 130 32 45 8 0 2 26 9 34Chris Musick .342 225 65 77 11 1 1 36 21 20Raul Centeno .327 150 17 49 12 1 6 35 21 29Nick Johnson .324 176 59 57 13 2 13 60 32 23Hayden Sloan .300 60 5 18 6 0 0 14 8 14T.J. Turner .295 135 40 40 10 1 1 22 13 18Greg Barnette .282 39 8 11 2 0 0 6 2 11Tyler Melton .261 161 40 42 5 2 0 22 38 38Colton Baker .238 63 17 15 5 0 0 9 5 14Freddie Jimenez .211 76 47 16 5 0 0 7 9 13Totals .341 1845 505 630 133 13 66 456 229 290Opponents .206 1696 162 349 54 11 18 141 141 580


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SOBryan Sanchez 0.00 0-0 6.0 1 0 0 2 1Mason Stasyszen 1.04 0-0 8.2 4 1 1 1 12Jordan Watson 1.40 10-2 96.2 50 17 15 29 161Cesar Figuereo 1.53 1-0 17.2 8 5 3 5 29Alsis Herrera 2.39 11-3 105.1 84 40 28 29 139Ruddy Estrella 2.48 2-0 29 18 8 8 13 49Allan Sanchez 3.17 13-1 96.2 100 43 34 26 101Trevor Settles 3.62 2-2 27.1 24 14 11 9 24Zane Breschini 3.65 3-1 24.2 17 11 10 15 26Rudy Gonzalez 4.25 5-2 29.2 32 16 14 7 25Ed Moore 4.82 1-0 9.1 7 6 5 4 12Totals 2.54 48-11 453.2 349 161 128 141 582Opponents 9.17 11-48 429 629 503 437 227 287

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> Science and ArtsLocation: Chickasha, Okla.Nickname: DroversCoach: Mike Ross (seventh year)Season record: 48-11Rank in fi nal NAIA poll: No. 11How qualifi ed: Won Hutchinson

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fi nish: none

> Juice (out of fi ve stars)> STARTERS —

They nearly broke the star rating system, probably deserving fi ve and a half half stars. Opponents bat just .151 against their ace, Watson. Herrera

fanned 139 batters this year, just 22 behind Watson. And Sanchez’s 14-1 mark helped the team reach an im-pressive ERA of 2.54, the second best in the country. > RELIEVERS —

Figuereo ranks No. 7 in the NAIA in saves with 11. Estrella and Settles both provide consistent bullpen op-tions, as well. > FIELDING — ½

Ranked 19th in the NAIA in this category, the Drov-ers recorded 1,358 putouts this year while committing just 70 errors, a ratio helped by over 20 double plays apiece by their two best fi elders, Rodriguez and Figuereo.

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The Dovers consider small ball “a

last resort,” Ross said.> INTANGIBLES

— ½Winners of 23 of

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By BYRON EDELMANOF THE TRIBUNE

After helping Oklahoma Baptist make the Avista NAIA World Series last year, Yariel Gonzalez and Tyler Melton jumped ship for one reason: They wanted to come back to Lewis-ton.

In that case, mission accomplished, as they helped their new team, Science and Arts of Oklahoma, do just that.

“They experienced (the World Se-ries) and loved it,” their new coach, Mike Ross, said of Gonzalez and Melton — whose chances of going to the postseason were nil if they stayed put with OBU, transitioning to the NCAA Division II level this season.

So rather than play their final year with nothing on the line, the two seniors transferred to help Ross’ team make history: Science and Arts’ first trip to the NAIA World Series.

“Everybody’s really excited for us,” Ross said of his team. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It’s the first time we’ve been there and the community ... there’s definitely some excitement on campus.”

The Chickasha, Okla., school punched its ticket when the Drovers beat Tabor 18-2 in the Hutchin-son Bracket final, their team’s 10th straight win.

Winner of 23 of its past 24 games, Science and

Arts carries momentum into its debut today at 7 p.m., facing Lewis-Clark State at Harris Field.

The Drovers, to begin their season, won 14 of their first 15 games, losing only their opener. And after Gonzalez and Melton helped Science and Arts down their former team in a midseason contest, a light bulb went on: “They realized,” Ross said of his team’s 7-5 win over OBU, “that we’ve got the club to do what we want to do.”

What they do, specifically, is attack hitters. Science and Arts leads the country in opposing

batters struck out and ranks second in earned-

Gonzalez, Melton ride point for Droversrun average because of perhaps the most formidable one-two punch in the NAIA: ace Jordan Watson (who leads the NAIA in opponent batting average) and Alsis Herrera (whose 11 wins rank sixth in the country). Both throw left-handed, hide their pitches well, and can throw at least three offerings apiece for strikes with nearly identical motions. That’s helped them nearly evenly account for more than half their team’s 580 fannings this year.

“Between them,” Ross said of his top two aces, “it’s been a strikeout race all year.”

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By MATT BANEYOF THE TRIBUNE

Here, on the first day of the 25th NAIA World Series at Harris Field, it’s obvious that the tournament and its venue have forged an im-pressive shared history.

Two dozen champions, hundreds of teams, thousands of players, hundreds of thousands of fans — all of them have passed through the gates of Harris Field and into the lore of the Series. And then there are the small moments — smiles, nods, handshakes — that cannot be enumerated.

It’s a partnership that, year by year, seems to grow tighter and tighter. But where did it start?

Lubbock, Texas, in June of 1982. Of course.

That was the site of the NAIA’s 26th national baseball tournament, with Lubbock Christian serving as the host. After the home team made a quick 0-2 showing, the crowds at Chaparral Stadium dwindled considerably.

By the time Grand Canyon met Lewis-Clark State in the champion-

ship game, less than 100 people were on hand. It didn’t seem right to LCSC coach Ed Cheff, whose team lost in the title game.

As the story goes, Cheff suggested to his athletic director, Dick Hannan, that Lewiston would provide a better home for the Series. And, with the full support of LCSC President Lee Vick-ers, Cheff and Hannan spent the next several months trying to convince the NAIA that it should bring its baseball tournament to a small, not-so-easy-to-reach community tucked into a far corner of the country.

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Given those factors, it wasn’t an easy sell, Hannan said.

“You have to remember, they — they being the NAIA in general — weren’t excited about coming to Lewiston, Idaho,” Hannan said. “ ‘How do you get there?’ was their first question. They didn’t know if they were going to have

to barge up the river or what.“It took a little bit of a sales job,”

added Hannan, who is now retired and living in Spokane, “and I’d have to say that all of Lee’s connections and all of Ed’s connections were the things that really sold it.”

Actually, all three men were twist-ing the arms of their NAIA colleagues — Cheff with the coaches, Hannan with the athletic directors, Vickers with the presidents.

But maybe more importantly, they were also rallying support in Lewiston. One key idea Hannan borrowed from another tournament was having honor-ary coaches — businessmen in town who would arrange outings and meals for each of the teams in the tournament.

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Tribune file photoFormer athletic director Dick Hannan, photographed in 1984 at the fi rst NAIA World Series in Lewiston.

The front page of the Lewiston Morning Tribune’s sports section on April 22, 1983, had a story announcing that Lewis-Clark State College had won

the right to play host to the NAIA Worlds Series, beginning the following spring.

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businessmen to give us an awful lot of money for the privilege of spending an awful lot more money,’ ” Hannan said. “And that’s true — boy, they went out of their way to do things.”

And it wasn’t just the business community that was on board. LCSC faculty and students, as well as local residents, volunteered to lend any help that was needed, Vickers said. He also mentioned that media outlets in town — KOZE radio, KLEW television and the Tribune — were clearly interested in covering the tournament.

“Everywhere we turned, there was support,” said Vickers, who is now retired and living in the Phoenix area. “And it was also clear the fan support would be there. ... We were able to con-vey that message to the NAIA staff and the presidents council.”

One crucial moment came in Febru-

ary 1983, when NAIA Executive Direc-tor Harry Fritz visited Lewiston. He flew into Spokane with plans on taking a private plane to Lewiston, but fog scuttled that possibility (and probably didn’t quell concerns about getting nine visiting teams to Lewiston).

Fritz attended an annual baseball kickoff luncheon at the Lewiston Elks Lodge, which featured not just Cheff discussing the prospects for the War-riors but appearances by Washington State’s Bobo Brayton and Gary Picone, who was coaching the Canadian na-tional team.

By the end of Fritz’s visit, there was no commitment to bring the Series to Lewiston, “but I think it was clear he was very impressed,” Vickers said.

In the community, the excitement over the potential of the national tour-nament coming to town was starting

to build, Hannan said, and Fritz couldn’t help but be reminded of that.

“Every time he turned around, he’s got somebody telling him how great this is and how great it would be in the community,” Hannan said. “I don’t think he’s ever had that before.”

And finally, the financial pack-age the school proposed to the NAIA was “very good,” Hannan said. That was possible because Vickers had allowed the school to run a debt, if it had to, over the first few years of the Series, Han-nan said.

“Of course we made money the first year,” Hannan said, “and everything was roses.”

Less than a year after Cheff and Hannan had their chat in Lubbock, host duties for the 1984 Series were awarded to LCSC. It was announced April 21, 1983.

But at that point, the hard work had just begun.

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Prior to the first Lewiston Series, LCSC more than doubled the seating capacity at Harris Field, adding stands down the first- and third-base lines and in left field.

Much of the material for these proj-ects came to L-C second-hand — the left-field bleachers, for example, were once in the University of Idaho’s Kibbie Dome, and were purchased by Hannan for $1 — and most of the work was done by volunteers.

Cheff also made sure the field itself was in top-notch shape before the Series. He and his players and coaches handled that task.

“I remember thinking as a young coach I was supposed to teach guys to hit and run and throw,” said Picone, who returned to LCSC as a full-time as-sistant coach in ’84, “and I was spend-ing more of my time trying to get the

ballpark cleaned up.”When the Series finally did make

its Harris Field debut in May ’84, it was a smashing success. An aver-age of 1,769 spectators attended each game — and that was with a number of rain delays — and the numbers grew from there in the years that followed.

For the visiting teams, if there was one flaw of the Lewiston Series dur-ing the 1980s, it was that the Warriors won too often. The home team collected seven national titles in the space of eight years.

And that’s probably the main reason the NAIA decided to move the tourna-ment. In 1992, it was staged in Des Moines, Iowa, which was the first of four host cities that offered beautiful ballparks but very little community support.

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And then it returned. In 1999, both the NAIA and LCSC turned away from other pursuits and hammered out a deal that would bring the Series back to Harris Field in 2000.

Since then, there have been just a few moments of doubt about the tour-nament’s long-term future in Lewiston.

“When we’ve had to bid this thing three times, the level of anxiety among people in the community has been significant,” said Picone, now LCSC’s athletic director. “You take away from that that people are really committed to this thing, even after doing it 25 times.”

LCSC and the NAIA announced a con-tract extension this past January that will keep the tournament at Harris Field through 2019. And it will surprise no one if the partnership goes beyond that.

Perhaps it comes down to this: No town could love the Series the way Lewiston does.

“The people in the community were really the ones who pulled it off,” Han-nan said. “We got the initial surge put forth, got the bid, got it done and got it accepted and, well, even during that process, it was the big strength of the community that got it done.”

———Baney may be reached at [email protected]

or at (208) 848-2258.

Tribune file photoFormer longtime baseball head coach Ed Cheff, photographed in 1984 at Harris Field.

The front page of the Lewiston Morning Tribune’s sports section on April 22, 1983, had a story announcing that Lewis-Clark State College had won

the right to play host to the NAIA Worlds Series, beginning the following spring.

Lee Vickers was the president of Lew-is-Clark State College when the Series first came to Lewiston.


By Byron EdElmanof the tribune

Several times this year, after he fin-ished pitching for the Auburn Mont-gomery baseball team, Raymond Moody went to his other job — some-times before his team even finished its game.

“I know it sounds bad,” Warhawks coach Marty Lovrich said of his star’s early departure to go wait tables at an Outback Steakhouse.

But the truth is, “he had to do it,” Lovrich said, hinting at a deeper truth: that his ace’s motor never stops.

Perhaps that’s how Moody main-tains a 4.0 GPA, works two part-time jobs, and has helped the Alabama school reach the Avista NAIA World Series for the first time since 2006.

The Warhawks will open their tour-nament today at 3 p.m. against Bellev-ue of Nebraska at Harris Field.

To punch their tickets to this year’s World Series, the Warhawks won in extra innings over Keiser University last week.

“At one point, we were down 6-2,” Lovrich said, replaying his team’s

Auburn Montgomery UniversityAuburn Montgomery’s ace, Raymond Moody, is 9-1 this season with a 3.41 earned-run average and 62 strikeouts.

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> Auburn MontgomeryLocation: Montgomery, Ala.Nickname: WarhawksCoach: Marty Lovrich (second year)Season record: 45-15Rank in fi nal NAIA poll: No. 6How qualifi ed: Won Mongomery

BracketNumber of previous appearance; best

fi nish: three; second in 1990

> Juice (out of fi ve stars)> STARTERS —

With as many as six players capable of pitching, “we’re really hunting

for the right matchup,” Lovrich said, explaining his team’s philosophy.> RELIEVERS — ½

While Carter leads the NAIA in saves, with 16, Eldridge, Arroyo and Mason present Lovrich a host of weapons at his disposal. > FIELDING —

Ranked 14th in the NAIA in this cat-egory, the Warhawks recorded 1,445 putouts this year while committing just 74 errors, a ratio helped by over 20 double plays apiece by their two best fi elders, Seibert and Boone. > HITTING —

A true triple threat, Kelley ranks

third in the NAIA in triples (11). Bat-ting .368, Kelley sits second among

Warhawks only to Ar-royo, who’s hitting an impressive .455.

> SPEED — ½The Warhawks are lucky

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> INTANGIBLES — ½While they hit just over .300 as a

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Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOSeth Arroyo .455 11 1 5 0 0 0 1 0 1Dalton Kelley .368 228 56 84 13 11 3 50 16 36Kaleb Harris .365 104 11 38 6 0 1 27 15 10John-Mark Cosby .357 157 29 56 5 1 1 28 19 16Mac Seibert .346 153 26 53 6 3 7 36 24 32Jack Folmar .336 107 23 36 2 0 1 19 10 12Cody Rush .320 150 44 48 5 0 0 26 18 9Houston Davenport .318 129 3 41 3 0 1 25 11 15Trey Matherson .316 57 10 18 3 1 0 13 11 17Brandon Pooler .303 132 36 40 3 0 0 17 35 24Brandon Davis .282 206 33 58 11 0 3 30 14 22Blake Grill .281 96 16 27 5 1 1 21 20 20Deric Boone .276 152 27 42 7 3 0 18 21 15Chase Johnson .192 52 7 10 0 0 1 10 6 10Scotty Smith .171 70 26 12 1 0 0 6 9 23Michael Tedford .150 40 15 6 1 0 0 2 11 10Landon Pruitt .143 7 15 1 0 0 0 0 1 3Totals .309 1870 378 577 71 20 19 331 245 280Opponents .270 1844 242 498 62 7 24 219 169 383


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SOClark Gray 1.72 2-0 15.2 10 3 3 6 9Jed Carter 1.76 2-0 30.2 18 6 6 11 47Richard Nason 2.45 2-1 22.0 20 13 6 8 14Raymond Moody 3.41 9-1 87 97 42 33 15 62Brady Eldridge 3.45 4-2 28.2 33 15 11 15 31Chance Calloway 3.49 3-2 38.2 37 16 15 14 29Chase Johnson 3.71 2-0 17 17 8 7 9 17David Carter 3.72 0-0 9.2 5 5 4 7 13Cole Goodwin 3.77 7-3 71.2 73 30 30 22 61Seth Arroyo 4.35 4-3 49.2 59 32 24 12 18Kade Suther 4.89 8-3 77.1 89 53 42 31 58Josh Dewrell 5.13 2-0 26.1 30 16 15 14 22Totals 3.79 45-15 481.2 498 246 203 168 383Opponents 5.85 15-45 466 574 378 303 245 280

Saves (16) — Carter 16.

eventual 8-7 win, that game on their home field. That extra-innings thriller ended when Auburn

Montgomery’s second baseman hit the game-win-ner — on a checked swing.

“He’s very selective at the plate,” Lovrich said of Brandon Pooler, who faced an 0-2 count before knocking the game-winner. He suffered a strikeout earlier in the game, “so you talk about some people biting their nails.”

The win represented one of eight single-run tri-umphs Auburn Montgomery nabbed this year, the very first of which arrived in its season opener against Tennessee Wesleyan, another Series quali-fier. In fact, against teams which made this year’s

Series, the War-hawks stand 9-3.

Without any mon-sters at the plate, or wheels on the bases, the Warhawks rely on a tried and true blueprint: steady pitching and field-ing, the latter of which they find themselves ranked

No. 14 in the nation in. In addition to Moody, Auburn Montgomery can

throw Jed Carter, who leads the NAIA in saves (16), or Cole Goodwin.

“Good story,” Lovrich said of Goodwin, who followed him from Southern Poly, his previous coaching job. That team disbanded its baseball program, immediately after making a 2014 Series appearance under Lovrich. Another Auburn

WARHAWKSContinued from PAGE 14>

Montgomeroy player Lovrich has history with is Dalton Kelley, who “came to our camps when he was 9 and 10 years old,” said Lovrich, who previously served as a Warhawks assistant coach.

Kelley helped spark his team’s comeback in the Montgomery Bracket championship with a triple, one of a school-record 11 this year.

“It’s neat,” Lovrich said of such providence. “You think sometimes, the things that you’re teaching him at camp paid off for him down the road.”Marty Lovrich Dalton Kelley

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By THEO LAWSONOF THE TRIBUNE

Hailing from the Kansas flatlands, many of Ster-ling’s baseball players were taken aback by the roll-ing hills, ridges and mountain ranges they traversed while making the final leg of their 1,500-mile trip to Lewiston on Sunday.

“I think our guys, coming from out there, they fi-nally actually get to see something besides a cow and a flat farm field,” Warriors coach Adrian Dinkel said.

Today, Sterling will be confronted by another mountain — the metaphorical mountain that is the Avista NAIA World Series. And while the Warriors may have all the tools to climb to the summit and play

for a national title, they won’t burden themselves with that expectation.

“We’re more worried about just showing up, following our process and competing every day,” Dinkel said. “Whoever it is, whatever uni-form they’re wearing, we’ve just got to compete that day. I don’t think our guys have any expectations of winning a national title or not.”

That said, the Warriors do have more than a few things going for them.

For one, they lead the nation with a cumulative .357 batting average. Five players are hitting better than .370 and two are over the .415 mark.

Sterling is also the NAIA leader in total at-bats (2,164), home runs per game (1.6) and total hits (773). The Warriors are second in slug-ging percentage, total doubles (147) and hits per game (12.1).

“It’s kind of been everybody,” Dinkel said of the collective hitting effort of his team. “It’s different people at different times, and that’s what I like about this team. … It isn’t just one guy we’re relying on.”

One guy that Sterling can lean on, though, has been Beau Kallas, who owns a .415 average and leads his team, and the NAIA, with 102 hits.

Dinkel also singled out junior outfielder Luke Maher, who didn’t start the first 25 games of the season, but carries a .390 average.

“Which shows you how good of a coach I am,” Dinkel said jokingly.

Despite boasting some of the country’s best offen-sive numbers, Sterling, according to Dinkel, “has

been built a little bit around our pitching staff.”The Warriors skipper will roll out two lefties who

have combined to go 21-5 this season.Eleven-game winner Kade Wagner enters the

tournament with a 1.53 ERA, sixth-best in the na-tion, and 10-game winner Brad Williams boasts an ERA of 2.09. Together, Sterling’s pitchers have struck out 561 batters — a number that ranks sec-ond nationally.

“They’re both left-handed and they both throw strikes,” Dinkel said. “They both just compete around the zone with three pitches and when they’re throwing strikes, they’re going to give us a chance to win.

“Neither one of them is overpowering by any stretch of the imagination, but they both get on the mound and mix and match … and when that hap-pens, they’re pretty good for us.”

Senior Ryan Pope also gives the Warriors one of the nation’s most effective closers.

Pope has registered 15 saves — second among S T E R L I N G S TAT S

BATTINGMinimum 30 at-bats

AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOAndrew Dorado .417 223 58 93 14 2 15 53 38 25Beau Kallas .415 246 71 102 20 0 18 66 17 29Luke Maher .390 177 58 69 7 1 14 45 17 26Gerald Ceballos .389 226 20 88 25 0 9 61 10 19Kendall Radcliffe .376 237 63 89 19 1 19 64 33 41Aaron Stubblefi eld .341 252 59 86 15 4 6 42 20 20Nicholas Domitrovich .339 227 51 77 13 3 7 26 22 33Kyle Ulanday .321 156 27 50 10 1 7 40 16 32Jordan Espino .305 131 28 40 9 1 2 27 18 17Eric Skogseth .280 82 9 23 3 0 3 14 6 21Isaiah Delsi .265 102 16 27 8 0 1 14 11 5Paul Hernandez .245 53 13 13 1 0 1 8 8 16Totals .357 2,164 530 773 147 13 102 465 224 293Opponents .241 1,931 251 466 67 10 34 217 153 561


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SOJarron Monroe 0.00 0-0 13 7 3 0 10 19Jeremy Sylvester 1.13 1-0 8 6 3 1 6 15Kade Wagner 1.53 11-2 82.1 66 24 14 21 79Jacob Hudson 1.64 0-0 11 10 6 2 7 17Brad Williams 2.09 10-3 82 71 34 19 23 115Ryan Pope 2.14 3-1 42 26 16 10 7 59James McDonald 2.23 5-1 48.1 30 15 12 12 56Kenny Hanson 2.31 0-0 11.2 11 10 3 8 9Jose Rendon 2.81 7-4 77 86 45 24 13 62John Seager 3.22 6-1 44.2 49 22 16 9 43Oscar Sandoval 3.48 6-1 62 60 35 24 20 64Mangin Chacon 5.63 1-1 24 29 21 15 11 21Totals 2.70 50-14 510 462 251 153 152 561Opponents 7.74 14-50 496.2 766 530 427 224 293

Saves (18) — Ryan Pope 15, Kade Wagner 2, Jeremy Sylvester.

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Sterling packing some impressive stats

> SterlingLocation: Sterling, Kan.Nickname: Warriors Coach: Adrian Dinkel (fi fth year)Season record: 50-14Rank in fi nal NAIA poll: No. 9How qualifi ed: Won Jamestown BracketNumber of previous appearance; best

fi nish: one; did not place in 2013

> Juice (of fi ve stars)STARTERS:

The Warriors aim to strike out the opponent and have done so 561 times this season — second in the NAIA. Wil-liams has notched 115 K’s, which ranks 10th nationally, and Wagner, the

other staff ace, owns a 1.53 ERA.RELIEVERS:

Closers don’t get much more lethal than senior Pope, whose 15 saves rank him No. 2 in the nation. Pope has rung up 59 batters and walked only seven in 42 innings pitched.FIELDING: ½

The Warriors don’t often falter in the fi eld, ranking seventh in both total put-outs and total assists.HITTING:

Surprise: This bunch can hit, too. The Warriors have compiled more

at-bats, homers per game and total hits than any other team in the NAIA, as well as the top batting average. They’re top-fi ve in fi ve other offen-

sive categories.SPEED: ½

Maybe too aggressive for their own good, the Warriors have attempted 116 stolen bases on the year, but have only swiped 79.

INTANGIBLES: As complete a team as there

is in this year’s fi eld, Sterling also comes in red-hot. The Warriors have scored more than 10 runs per game in their last seven and hung a 22-spot on Midland.

NAIA players — and has 59 strikeouts in 42 innings. The Yuba City, Calif., native takes a 2.14 ERA into the Series and has posted a 3-1 record.

“He wants the ball at the end of the game in those kinds of situations and does an unbelievable job when he’s on the mound,” Dinkel said.

With an offense that’s statistically been one of the country’s most prolific, backed by a sturdy pitching staff, Sterling might be a safe national champion bet.

But there is one fundamental flaw.“Some days we suck,” Dinkel said.Expanding, the fifth-year coach likens his War-

riors to “Jekyll and Hyde.”“One day we’re really hard to beat and the next

day, anybody can beat us,” Dinkel said.

Sterling UniversityBeau Kallas leads the Sterling Warriors’ offensive attack with a .415 batting average, 18 homers, 66 runs batted in and 176 total bases in 2016.

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By Theo Lawsonof the tribune

Hoping his team would be better off upon returning to Lewiston, Lindsey Wilson coach Jonathan Burton considered strength of schedule before any-thing else when he prepared the Blue Raiders’ 2016 slate.

And what a minefield it was.In addition to regular-sea-

son encounters with Mid-South Conference foe Cumberland — a three-time Avista NAIA World Series champ — Lindsey Wilson scheduled a nonconference se-ries against 2013 national champ Faulkner and one against 2015 runner-up St. Thomas. World Series regular Tennessee Wes-leyan was also in the mix.

“There’s no doubt we’re not in this position if we don’t play (those) kind of teams,” Burton said. “I’ve committed to rack-ing up a few more losses on our schedule to play better teams, because if you’re going to get in this situation and you’re going to learn how to win championships and what you need to do to beat these kind of teams, you’re going to have to take your lumps some-times.”

But after an Opening Round loss to Indiana Southeast, the Blue Raiders no longer had the luxury of room for error. So in the next three games — all los-er-out contests — the Blue Raid-ers outscored Olivet Nazarene, British Columbia and Indiana Southeast by a 25-8 margin.

But they weren’t out of the minefield just yet.

Awaiting the Blue Raiders in the Opening Round finale was one final detonator — top-ranked Georgia Gwinnett. To that point, the Grizzlies had compiled a staggering 57-4 record by out-scoring the opposition 558-221.

ABOVE: Lindsey Wilson players pile on each other in the infield after the Blue Raid-ers knocked off No. 1-ranked Georgia Gwinnett 4-3 in the title game of the Law-renceville Bracket on May 20.

LEFT: Southpaw Scott Sebald is a four-year Blue Raider who’s compiled a 10-3 record and 2.88 ERA this season. Sebald’s 112 innings pitched ranks him fifth nationally.

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They entered the Opening Round on a 13-game hot streak and hadn’t lost consecutive games in Law-renceville, Ga., all year.

Meaning Lindsey Wilson would need to pull off the season’s biggest upset, twice, to punch its ticket to the Series.

“They are as advertised,” Burton said. “They are very, very good. … But for whatever reason, we just had a better two days.”

Behind a seven-run second inning, the Blue Raid-ers stomped the Grizzlies 9-3 in the opener. The next day, they trailed Georgia Gwinnett 3-2 going into the bottom of the ninth inning, but were revived

when Ryan Harper bashed a leadoff double to right field. Victor Nazario knocked in the tying run with a single and advanced to second on a wild throw.

“I don’t know if shocked is the right word,” Bur-ton said, “but I was clearly stunned by how we were able to play the way that we did for two days and beat them, but when we got the leadoff double … I felt like we had it.”

The Grizzlies walked the next two batters, then snagged their first out with a force out at home, but a wild pitch skipped past the Gwinnett catcher, al-lowing pinch runner Ray Gonzalez to score the win-ning run from third.

“The celebrations were obviously very exciting, when you get a chance to dogpile at home plate,” Burton said.

The Blue Raiders advance to their second-ever World Series, but their second in as many years. They hope to use their momentous end to the regu-lar season as a springboard for the national tourna-


RAIDERSContinued from PAGE 18>

L I N D S E Y W I L S O N S TAT SBATTING

Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOAustin Atwell .346 179 41 61 11 1 10 44 21 29Aaron Ashton .329 213 39 70 15 0 7 60 35 45Ryan Harper .325 83 19 27 3 0 2 15 15 13Edgar Lebrun .320 222 60 71 10 3 3 31 17 35Miguel Reyes .316 136 35 43 7 1 7 32 16 18Alec Salcedo .299 147 33 44 9 1 0 23 15 14Jan Carlos Ortiz .299 197 39 59 11 3 4 34 21 38Victor Nazario .298 131 22 39 15 1 3 30 7 40Jayden Jackson .288 59 4 17 1 0 1 12 10 8Brandon Munoz .281 221 39 62 6 1 2 39 16 10Caleb Ratzman .238 63 36 15 2 0 0 5 9 9Fabian Chirino .223 139 27 31 5 0 5 18 17 39Dustin Woody .205 132 2 27 1 1 1 18 13 6Javoni Thomas .136 44 8 6 1 0 1 6 12 11Totals .291 2,016 419 587 98 12 46 375 227 328Opponents .290 2,053 299 596 101 8 24 271 162 374


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SOAndy Weddle 2.25 1-0 20 23 10 5 7 6Scott Sebald 2.88 10-3 112.2 95 45 36 19 119Brandon Reynolds 3.12 1-0 17.1 25 8 6 5 10Sam Ross 3.68 2-1 29.1 31 13 12 15 23Aaron Doughty 3.94 8-6 75.1 81 44 33 34 61Daniel Ferrell 4.15 7-3 78 89 51 36 29 48James Doubet 4.54 3-5 35.2 35 21 18 20 26James Roll 4.76 1-0 17 22 9 9 6 5Larry Stewart 5.11 0-0 12.1 10 7 7 7 8Tyler Russell 5.14 7-2 84 122 52 48 7 45Justin Zielinski 7.61 2-3 36.2 57 39 31 13 21Totals 4.17 42-23 520.1 593 299 241 162 372Opponents 5.74 23-42 509.2 587 417 325 228 328

Saves (11) — James Doubet 7, Daniel Ferrell 2, Scott Sebald, Sam Ross.

> Lindsey WilsonLocation: Columbia, Ky.Nickname: Blue RaidersCoach: Jonathan Burton (fi fth year)Season record: 42-23Rank in fi nal NAIA poll: UnrankedHow qualifi ed: Won Lawrenceville

BracketNumber of previous appearances; best

fi nish: one; did not place in 2015

> Juice (of fi ve stars)STARTERS: ½

Lindsey Wilson is solid behind 10-game winner Sebald, who owns an impressive 2.88 ERA and just three

losses. Russell is 7-2 and conceded only seven walks despite a 5.14 ERA.RELIEVERS:

Lindsey Wilson won’t go to the bull-pen if it doesn’t need to, though closer Doubet (seven saves) is a reliable late-game option.FIELDING: ½

The Blue Raiders commit 1.5 errors per game and rank fourth nationally in putouts (1,561) and putouts per game (24.02), mean-ing the Raiders don’t fl ub many of the chances they get.HITTING: ½

Three players with at least 170

plate appearances are hitting .320 or better. Ashton bats at a .329 clip and fi nished the year with 60 RBI.SPEED: ½

Lindsey Wilson swiped only 106 bags this season,

but the Blue Raiders did so at an 80 per-cent success rate.

INTANGIBLES: During the Opening

Round, the Blue Raiders showed they could play with their backs against the wall, winning fi ve consecutive loser-out games to punch their ticket to the World Series.

ment, while also drawing on the experience of last year’s two-and-out showing.

“This year, when you return 15 seniors that were on that team last year, you feel comfortable with going back out there and playing good teams,” Burton said.

One of those upperclassmen is pitcher Scott Se-bald, a four-year Blue Raider who’s compiled a 10-3 record and 2.88 ERA. Sebald’s 112� innings pitched rank him fifth nationally.

Austin Atwell, Aaron Ashton and Edgar Lebrun all hit better than .320 and have combined to record 135 RBI for Lindsey Wilson.

“There’s no doubt those three guys are the spark-plugs for our team,” Burton said.

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By CAITLIN BEESLEYOF THE TRIBUNE

A slew of injuries had kept The Master’s College of Santa Clarita, Calif., inconsistent at the start of the 2016 season.

Their shortstop missed 20 games, and the Mustang bullpen was in a con-stant state of flux.

“We weren’t at full capacity, we were just trying to grind through the injuries,” Mustangs coach Monte Brooks said. “There were some strug-gles.”

That period was a far cry from the team that opens the Avista NAIA World Series with seven straight wins, the last three complete-game victories in the Santa Barbara Bracket during the Opening Round stage.

“Pitching got stronger and stron-ger, and as a team we became more and more productive,” Brooks said. “I just started to see the confidence, the trust in one another and each other’s abilities.”

Now, the ninth-seeded Mustangs will have a full deck when they face eighth-seed Lindsey Wilson of Ken-tucky at noon today, aiming to contin-ue the success they picked up some-where along their season.

They last lost May 10 to Biola of

California in the Golden State Athletic Conference tournament. Brought in to protect a 2-1 lead in the top of the ninth, Master’s reliever Aaron Alex-ander gave up a two-run homer and that’s how it ended.

The Mustangs rebounded to beat Menlo the next day, and then had to defeat Biola twice to earn a ticket to the Opening Round. Alexander re-deemed himself by pitching seven scoreless innings against the Eagles in the first game, which the Mustangs won 12-6. They won the title game 10-7, and have been on a tear since.

“We lost a nail-biter (against Bio-la),” Brooks said. “(Playing them for the title) just heightened the inten-sity of each inning. It was either go home or win. But our pitchers came through.”

The Mustang starters took charge during the Opening Round.

Conner Menez went the distance against Madonna of Michigan, allow-ing one run on five hits in a 7-1 win. Brad Lohse struck out 10 for a com-plete-game 1-0 shutout of Westmont of California, scattering five hits.

In the title game against Wil-liam Carey, Master’s pitcher Jason Karkenny scattered five hits in a 5-4

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Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOPearson Good .354 82 11 29 7 0 2 16 4 21Collin Nyenhuis .344 212 53 73 20 2 15 56 28 34Max Maitland .342 199 34 68 7 0 1 18 16 23Nick Covello .328 201 49 66 11 0 17 50 41 32Jonah Jarrard .327 156 23 51 0 10 5 30 15 28Michael Sexton .317 205 46 65 18 4 16 48 29 34David Sheaffer .307 199 23 61 14 2 2 39 10 28Aaron Shackelford .295 166 36 49 8 5 6 35 26 31Brandon Van Horn .285 144 34 41 8 2 10 29 17 28Matt Janes .278 90 14 25 3 0 0 20 6 16Brad Lohse .208 48 6 10 7 0 0 2 9 14Tyler Krahn .190 105 17 20 4 0 3 13 12 28Totals .304 1,924 407 585 125 15 79 377 237 355Opponents .241 1,828 230 440 75 9 38 212 149 381


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SOConner Menez 2.34 11-2 96 70 27 25 34 97Scott Savage 2.45 3-0 40.1 25 11 11 18 22Brad Lohse 2.78 9-3 107 98 39 33 18 70Jason Karkenny 3.39 11-5 114 94 48 43 30 97Aaron Alexander 3.50 4-1 36 29 15 14 11 21Danny Lutz 4.23 2-5 38.1 41 29 18 10 27Grant Collins 5.14 0-0 14 18 9 8 5 8Robert Winslow 6.10 0-1 10.1 12 7 7 3 16John Brazil 8.10 1-0 16.2 22 18 15 8 7Nick Brooks 9.00 0-0 8 9 10 8 7 6Jason Bock 11.57 0-0 4.2 10 6 6 1 4Totals 3.62 41-17 492.2 441 230 198 149 381Opponents 6.58 17-41 478.2 583 407 350 237 355

Saves (9) — Danny Lutz 5, Aaron Alexander 2, Robert Winslow, Conner Menez.

victory, punching the Mustangs’ first ticket to the Series since 2013.

For the season, Karkenny (11-5) has thrown 114 innings, third most in the country. Both he and Menez (11-2) have struck out 97 batters.

“They’ve been strike throwers,” Brooks said. “They don’t walk people, they’re very efficient with their pitches. Any time you get around the 100 (strikeout) mark that’s a pretty good year.”

This is the third time since 2000 that Brooks, a na-tive of Meridian, Idaho, has coached The Master’s to the Series.

“It’s just a privilege to represent the conference down here. … By God’s grace we get to come back this year. (He) opened up the opportunity for more games. These guys love to play … they express that through their effort.”

Dan Watson/Santa Clara SignalThe Master’s College’s Jason Karkenny (left) and Conner Menez have both won 11 games for the Mustangs this season.

MUSTANGSContinued from PAGE 20>

> The Master’sLocation: Santa Clarita, Calif.Nickname: MustangsCoach: Monte Brooks (20th year)Season record: 41-17Rank in fi nal NAIA poll: No. 24How qualifi ed: Won Santa Barbara BracketNumber of previous appearance; best fi nish:

two; sixth in 2013

> Juice (of fi ve stars)STARTERS: ½

While injuries plagued the Mus-tangs early on, successes can be illustrated with three consecutive complete games — wins that made an appearance in the Series possible.

RELIEVERS: ½

As exemplifi ed by Alexander’s turn-around performance in two games against Biola, relief pitching runs hot-and-cold for the Mustangs, who have saved only

nine games this season. Danny Lutz leads the team with fi ve saves.

FIELDING: ½The Master’s is ranked

third in the NAIA for fi elding, just behind LCSC, averaging less than an error per game.

HITTING: The bats are led by Nyenhuis, Sexton,

Covello and Van Horn, who combined for a

majority of the team’s .304 batting average and 79 home runs, sixth most in the NAIA.

SPEED: ½Neither fast nor particularly fearless,

the Mustangs have the smallest number of stolen bases of any team at the Series, but also the fewest attempts.

INTANGIBLES: ½The Mustangs’ rebound in the GSAC tour-

nament is evidence nobody should count them out.

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By Troy Warzochaof the tribune

As far as the Point Univer-sity Skyhawks are concerned, seeding is nothing more than a number.

Ranked No. 10 in a 10-team tournament, the Skyhawks should be relatively familiar with the anonymity after be-coming the first No. 5 seed to advance past the Opening Round and clinch a spot in the Avista NAIA World Series.

“Our guys are very excit-ed,” second-year Skyhawks coach Jeremy Christian said. “They understand the oppor-tunity at hand. They’re very happy to be at this point. It’s the goal of every team, every player and every coach to make it to the World Series and give ourselves a chance to win a championship.”

The Skyhawks will play No. 7 seed Sterling of Kansas in the tournament’s opening game today at 9 a.m. at Harris Field.

Despite being newcomers to the Series, the Skyhawks, who hail from West Point, Ga., are battle-tested and earned their place among the 10 best in the country by impressively upending both the No. 2 seed South Carolina Beaufort and No. 1 seed Campbellsville in the Savannah Bracket.

“I just tried to settle them down,” Christian said of his chat with players between the first and second games. “They understood the seriousness of the moment, how big that mo-ment was and we had talked about that.

“We had played well up un-til that point. We’ve had a lot of big moments and prepared ourselves for this moment.”

Leading the way in the

clincher were hurlers Payne Kosobucki and Dylan Griffin, with each returning to the hill on only two days’ rest. Two of the Skyhawks’ top three pitch-ers throughout the season, the pair combined to give up only one first-inning run and five total hits while the offense did just enough to squeeze across

two to seal Point’s improbable charge.

On the year, Kosobucki went 7-1 and boasted a team-leading 2.39 ERA in 79 in-nings. Griffin was no slouch himself as he compiled a 9-2 mark and 115 strikeouts in 94� innings.

“Kosobucki began the year

in the bullpen,” Christian said. “Shows how great of a coach I am, I started the guy in the bullpen and then he goes on to be a second-team all-confer-ence guy late in the year.”

Christian didn’t move Ko-sobucki into the rotation until halfway through the season where he thrived as one of

Point’s three horses at the top of the rotation.

Although he didn’t feature in the Skyhawks’ final game of the Opening Round, Josh Nestlehutt, who was 8-6 with a 3.14 ERA and a team-high seven complete games this

Point UniversityLEFT: Point starter Payne Kosobucki enters the Series with 7-1 record and a team-leading 2.39 ERA in 79 innings. MIDDLE: Dylan Griffin compiled a 9-2 mark and struck out 115 batters in 94²⁄³ innings of work. RIGHT: Riliani Familia led the team in hits (69), home runs (10), RBI (44), total bases (115) and slugging percentage (.537) this season.

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Minimum 30 at-bats AVE. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SOOmar Smith .341 179 45 61 8 4 1 26 30 41Juan Reyes .336 137 13 46 8 0 7 25 20 26Bryce Jay .327 208 49 68 7 3 0 27 28 25Riliani Familia .322 214 45 69 14 1 10 44 14 46Nathan Greene .316 193 35 61 7 0 1 26 10 18Jeffrey Ginn .302 179 34 54 4 1 1 22 31 30Anthony Padron .293 191 31 56 17 0 5 38 22 39Christian Cabral .280 211 21 59 10 0 3 34 18 19Brandon Butts .253 91 21 23 6 0 0 19 10 12Taylor Harper .207 111 11 23 4 1 0 17 12 30Kaine Gibson .190 50 2 10 2 0 0 4 12 30Totals .293 1,879 342 550 91 11 28 289 216 327Opponents .263 1,859 312 489 85 9 27 266 248 484


ERA W-L IP H R ER BB SOPayne Kosobucki 2.39 7-1 79 66 26 21 17 70Josh Nestlehutt 3.14 8-6 94.2 92 50 33 31 89Ti Inslow 3.77 3-4 45.1 37 19 19 27 45Dylan Griffi n 4.09 9-2 94.2 77 52 43 53 115Will Ziebol 4.30 1-2 37.2 50 24 18 17 28Luis Florentino 5.94 3-7 53 53 45 35 34 55Ty Plumley 6.61 1-0 16.1 20 13 12 7 22Sahir Fersobe 6.85 2-2 23.2 31 21 18 18 23Drew Elliston 7.47 0-3 15.2 20 21 13 13 9Dalton Reed 11.74 0-0 7.2 9 10 10 13 6Jesse Ford 13.50 0-1 4.2 8 11 7 6 8Totals 4.47 34-29 485.2 487 312 241 249 483Opponents 4.82 29-34 478 548 342 256 214 329

Saves (10) — Ti Inslow 6, Luis Florentino 2, Payne Kosobucki, Will Ziebol.

> PointLocation: West Point, Ga.Nickname: SkyhawksCoach: Jeremy Christian (second year)Season record: 34-29Rank in fi nal NAIA poll: unrankedHow qualifi ed: Won Savannah BracketNumber of previous appearance; best fi nish:

none

> Juice (of fi ve stars)STARTERS:

Led by the trio of Kosobucki, Griffi n and

Nestlehutt, the Skyhawks have a consistent group that has the ability to keep a game close heading into the late innings.

RELIEVERS: Closer Inlow is Point’s go-to

guy in the late frames, but the bridge between the Sky-hawks’ starters and Inlow can be a dicey one.

FIELDING: ½Point started the season rough,

made some changes and then reaped the benefi ts — eventually posting a .990

fi elding percentage in the conference tournament. Which defense shows up to

Lewiston is anyone’s guess.

HITTING: Not the most potent bats in

the tournament, the Skyhawks rely on situational hitting and sprinkle in a little pop to keep opposing defenses and pitch-

ers honest. Senior center fi elder Familia (10 home runs, 44 RBI) is

Point’s biggest threat at the dish.SPEED:

Not afraid to take chances on the base-paths, the Skyhawks converted on 99 of their 130 stolen base attempts this season. Opponents can expect to see a fair amount of movement in their peripherals when pitching from the stretch.

INTANGIBLES: ½Underdogs in both their conference

tournament and the Opening Round, the Skyhawks are no strangers to being seen as outsiders. That has only helped as they’ve knocked off several past Series participants en route to their fi rst Series berth.

season, rounds out Point’s trio of starters.

Not necessarily a pitching-first powerhouse nor an offensive jug-gernaut, the Skyhawks sit some-where in the middle and tend to rely on timely offense, a bend-but-don’t-break defense and a lit-tle speed on the basepaths to get behind a staff than can go three deep.

A large chunk of the Point of-fense revolves around senior cen-ter fielder and No. 3 hitter Riliani Familia, who batted in one of the Skyhawks’ two runs in the Open-ing Round clincher and led the

team in hits (69), home runs (10), RBI (44), total bases (115) and slugging percentage (.537) this season.

Familia, who hails from the Dominican Republic, was also named to the Appalachian Athletic Conference’s all-conference first team prior to Point’s run through the conference tournament.

“We’re not a very big physical team,” Christian said. “We’re not going to go out and hit 100 home runs like some of those other teams. We play in a big ballpark and it re-ally shows in our numbers.

“We’re not going to go out there and score 15 to 20 runs in a game. We’re not going to hit five or six home runs. We’re going to have to handle the bat and really use our speed to take advantage of some mistakes and keep it close for our pitching staff.”

SKYHAWKSContinued from PAGE 22>

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