The Whitman Baseball team has come further and amassed more wins in the last two seasons than any Whitman Baseball team in the last 40 years. Recording 16 total wins last season was the winningest season for Whitman Baseball since 1975 and this season they have already surpassed that tally with three games to go.
While most of James "Jimmy" Madden’s baseball teammates go through the motions of off-season weight training and honing of fundamentals, Madden circumvents the monotony with a rather unconventional addition to preparation for the spring season. Months before the left-hander will return to belting base hits for the Missionaries, he is strapping on a dance belt and taking a more light-hearted and light-of-foot approach to getting ready for returning to the field after off-season knee surgery.
If early season results are any indication of what the rest of the season has in store, then the Whitman women’s basketball team should have high expectations.
In this week's Sports Blog wrap-up, Whitman baseball closes out its home schedule while the tennis and golf teams wrap up successful spring seasons as they gear up for a weekend of conference championship tournament.
In this week's wrap-up: women's tennis maintains second place, baseball drops its weekend series to first-place Pacific and men's tennis sweeps a pair of matches to come within one victory of its sixth consecutive NWC regular season title.
