As players reflected back on the Missionary baseball team’s four-game series this past weekend in Caldwell, Idaho, battling adversity was the main theme. Following an untimely bye week, in only the second week of a long season, the team travelled to the College of Idaho for two doubleheaders.
Every spring, it seems, The Pioneer writes the same article about the baseball team. Year after year, the baseball preview promises improvement, and year after year the team finishes another season with the same disappointing results.
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.
This week the Whitman Sports Blog recaps how the Whitman baseball team fared in its season finale against Whitworth University, and also takes a look at where the three Nationals-bound teams stand as they begin preparations for the NCAA Championships.
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.
This week the Whitman Sports Blog wraps up the athletic events of the past two weeks: while school was on holiday six teams of Whitties were in action, including a pair of men's swimmers representing Whitman at the NCAA DIII National Championships for the first time in school history.
Whitman College baseball coach Jared Holowaty's baseball program has the potential to turn around a recent slump with this year's 2010 recruiting class. In order to become a competitive college within...
