Novak & Cowling Named to Academic All-OAC Baseball Team »
Senior pitcher Justin Novak and senior right fielder Ted Cowling have been named to the 2010 Academic All–Ohio Athletic Conference baseball team. Novak, who put together a 4–4 record with six complete games while carrying a 4.0 grade point average in B-W’s MBA program, is a first-team selection for the second straight season. Cowling posted a 3.55 GPA in exercise science and pre-physical therapy and received an honorable mention. He hit .300 with 24 runs batted in and didn’t commit an error all season.
Nealon Brothers Named to All-OAC Baseball Team »
Seniors Chris and Scott Nealon have been named to the 2010 All–Ohio Athletic Conference baseball team. Chris is the honor squad’s second-team first baseman. He led the Yellow Jackets with a .390 batting average and committed only two errors in 280 fielding chances. Scott hit .361 as the Jackets’ designated hitter and received an honorable mention.
Photograph provided by the B-W Athletic Archives
Head coach Bob Fisher’s first B-W baseball team at the ball field in the spring of 1968. Standing with Coach Fisher in the back row are, from left to right, Jerry Sheets, Jim Margo, Tom Lewis, Bill Shearer, Bill Weinberg, Bernie Simmons and Jack Mental. Seated in the middle row are Jim Jones, Mike Blake, Bob Love, Mike Kovach, Gus Corfman and Bill McKinley. And kneeling in front are Dick Tressel, Bill Murton, Ron Reifschneider, Melvin Grills and Larry Sklenka.
The Yellow Jackets finished 8–10 in Coach Fisher’s rookie season, but they bounced back and won the Ohio Athletic Conference Northern Division championship a year later. Three members of the ’68 club, pitcher and third baseman Jack Mental and pitchers Mike Blake and Bob Love, have been inducted into B-W’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
Head coach Bob Fisher hits fungoes during pregame warm-up at the B-W baseball field in the spring of 1970, just a few years after he was hired for the job by legendary B-W football coach and athletic director Lee Tressel.
Watching from the row of benches that served as our “dugout” back then are, from left to right, pitcher Mike Blake, third baseman Melvin Grills, pitchers Ron Reifschneider and Lynn Thompson, infielder Ken Richardson, catcher Pete Sedello and pitcher Curt Karpinski.
Justin Novak Named to Academic All-District Baseball Team »
Senior pitcher Justin Novak, who’s put together a 4–3 record with five complete games this season while carrying a 4.0 grade point average in B-W’s MBA program, has been named to the first team of the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All–District IV baseball team.
Photograph by Ron Linek provided by the B-W Sports Information Office
Winning pitcher Scott Luthman presents the game ball to head coach Bob Fisher after the Yellow Jackets beat Muskingum College 7–0 at Heritage Field on Tuesday to give Coach Fisher his 700th career victory. Luthman threw a four-hit shutout at the Muskies, while the Jackets’ scrappy offense scored five of its seven runs with two outs and manufactured an insurance run with a suicide squeeze. Muskingum got a pair of leadoff runners on in its last at bat, but Luthman stamped the game into the history book by striking out the next three batters.
Yellow Jackets Give Coach Fisher His 700th Career Victory »
Head coach Bob Fisher got his 700th career victory Tuesday when the Yellow Jackets beat Muskingum College 7–0 in the opening game of an Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader at Heritage Field. His record is now 700–639–14 (.523), and he has won more games than any other coach in B-W sports history. He’s also 11th among active NCAA Division III baseball coaches in career victories.
Pat Havens Named OAC Pitcher of the Week »
Freshman right-hander Pat Havens has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week for notching his first collegiate victory with a nine-inning complete game against Oberlin College last Thursday at Heritage Field. In the first start of his career, he allowed just a single earned run and struck out six without a walk as the Yellow Jackets beat the Yeomen 9–1.
