MCC Pioneers Baseball!!!

[Cringer]

I've seen some good baseball threads on here before, and since the team is made up nearly entirely of Montana boys, I thought some of you would like to know the MCC Pioneers just qualified for the National Junior College Division II World Series!!!

MCC Pioneers 1 Iowa Central 0, That's baseball folks...

First time in school history!!!!

If you don't think Junior College baseball is good baseball, talk to Curt Schilling, Albert Pujols, Paul LoDuca, Eric Gagne, Travis Hafner, Mike Piazza, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Oh heck, just click on this link

http://www.njcaa.org/Teams/baseball/MLBNJCAA.pdf


This is HUGE for Montana baseball!!!!!!!!

 

[grizfan_#2]

or some local kids like jesse ayala, tyler hoffman, brian fowler, brad rutherford, cameron reimers, or conor dwyer. if you live in the bitteroot ask jeremiah hannah, aka herk. he would know too.

 

['68griz]

I sort of wonder why MCC can have a baseball team and neither UM nor MSU can.

 

[Swillbury]

or some local kids like jesse ayala, tyler hoffman, brian fowler, brad rutherford, cameron reimers, or conor dwyer. if you live in the bitteroot ask jeremiah hannah, aka herk. he would know too.

Who? :shocked:

 

[Cringer]

I sort of wonder why MCC can have a baseball team and neither UM nor MSU can.

We would have to develop indoor practice facilities and pray for 30 days of baseball weather in "spring".

I would love to see baseball at MSU and UM, with that said, I would love to see wrestling (more realistic) programs at both schools. Baseball is just a tough sport for the northwest period. MCC and DCC play in some pretty crazy weather, but so does most of there conference foe's.

NCAA baseball programs are tough to build. I wouldn't say never, but highly unlikely in the near future.

 

[SuperHornet]

Bakersfield is starting one as part of their transition to D-I. If it's really all that hard, I wouldn't think that they'd be doing it. Of course, part of it is probably a big push to wangle an invite from the Big West, where baseball is one of the big three sports. Most of us at the Big West Boards don't think it's going to happen, but they're still trying.

As far as the Sky goes, it would help UM/MSU in this regard if the Sky decided to sponsor baseball. I'd have to check the sites, but I think that Sac may be the only Sky school to sponsor baseball, and they are in the WAC for that. While fielding baseball as part of the WAC would probably fuel the fire for those who want to move Montana up, it could be safely done WITHOUT that if Fullerton could be convinced to field Sky baseball. Then Sac could come back home. In fact, I think that Sac could be COMPLETELY within the Sky (except for crew, maybe) if the Sky would sponsor baseball, softball, and gymnastics, all of which feature Sac either in the WAC or the Pacific Coast Softball Conference. That would be nice indeed.

 

[GRZFTBL]

Eastern Montana College...er...MSU-Billings started their program up again 2 yrs ago.

They played in the Heartland Conference (TX, OK, MO). Their season starts in February. Yep, you guessed it, their first 25-30 games ON THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!

I think they came back last year at 2-25 or something silly like that. I think they were 14-16 on the same road trip this year. (don't quote me on the records, but I think I'm close)

Moral of the story, practice is in a gym and the 1st 1/2 of your season is on the road, being from Montana.