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Meyer impresses

Don Meyer was told he should see the new Mets Stadium, and while he was at it, check out the new Yankees Stadium, too. Meyer, though, told the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series banquet audience Friday night if he could see one place, it would be a game at the JUCO World Series at Sam Suplizio Field. “It’s not even close,” Meyer said at Two Rivers Convention Center. Meyer plans to be in attendance today. Suplizio Field will always be a special place for Meyer. He ...

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Banquet sets stage for JUCO players

As they wandered about Two Rivers Convention Center, dozens of baseball players who will today start playing for a national championship were just a little bit in awe. A group gathered Friday evening in front of the displays from the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series that fill one wall of the convention center. “Wow, Willie Mays was here!” one said as they scanned the list of banquet speakers. They high-fived and fist-bumped youngsters who, shyly at first, asked for ...

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Field supervisor for Lincoln Park Tower project honored as Home Run Alley Hero

The guys at FCI Constructors Inc. might have lost a few man points when they found out one of their own was being honored as a Home Run Alley Hero. “Ed Forsman (president at FCI) walked into my office and said, ‘I just got done talking with Jamie (Hamilton),’” Marc Litzen said. “I said, ‘Aw, great, now what?’ He said everything was great; they’re gonna put Pat in Home Run Alley. “I said, ‘OK, you gotta get out now,’ ” ...

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Getting baseballs ready for JUCO takes the perfect amount of mud

The undercard of the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series began Wednesday as a group of Grand Junction boys played in the New Jersey mud. JUCO does not start until Saturday, but the “Magic Mud,” which originates in New Jersey, already has come out. The Grand Junction High School ball-shaggers who participated in the long-standing “mud rub” felt as though they were, and will be, part of the game. “Just to have a part of the game of the JUCO World Series, ...

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Ten teams, one dream: JUCO World Series field set with veterans, newcomers

They warmed up longer than they played Monday, and that was just fine with Jefferson (Mo.) College baseball coach Sam Carel. “Literally, we got it done in 10 minutes,” Carel said after the Vikings hit back-to-back doubles to score one run in the bottom of the ninth against Eastern Oklahoma and win 3-2 after the teams were postponed Sunday by lightning and rain. “Our pitcher goes out and has a 1-2-3 inning and we come up in the bottom of the 10th and get a leadoff double ...

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Iowa Western headed back to GJ

It took a little longer than Marc Rardin would have liked, but if it came down to playing one more game and getting home past midnight or not qualifying for the JUCO World Series ... No brainer. “I’ll take it. Whatever it takes,” the Iowa Western Community College baseball coach said Sunday after the top-ranked Reivers bounced back from an 11-8 loss to John A. Logan (Ill.) earlier in the day to win 9-0 in the Northern District title game. Andy Roberts threw a ...

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Iowa Western reaches JUCO

Iowa Western, the top-ranked team in the country, needed two games to win the Northern District championship today and qualify for the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series. The Reivers, who won the 2010 national championship, lost the first game to John A. Logan (Ill.) 11-8, then got a complete-game pitching performance from Andy Roberts for a 9-0 win in the deciding game. Iowa Western (57-5) returns to Grand Junction for the sixth straight year and has qualified for JUCO in seven of ...

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Mesa falls to Mankato on walk-off home run

The Colorado Mesa University baseball team got its offense going early, but it wasn’t enough. The Minnesota State-Mankato Mavericks rallied from an early three-run deficit Friday with a 7-5 walk-off victory over Colorado Mesa in the NCAA Central Regional at Franklin Rogers Park in Mankato, Minn. “We played great; we executed the short game and had some timely hits,” CMU coach Chris Hanks said. “If we would’ve played that sharp (Thursday), we might have won. ...

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Pitching helps Shelton State (Ala.) return to JUCO after 3-year hiatus

Bobby Sprowl has been around long enough to know you need to make the most of your chances to reach the national tournament. “I told my assistant coach, ‘If you get to the championship game, you better win it, because you don’t know how many more chances you’re going to get,’ ” Sprowl said Friday after Shelton State (Ala.) College won the Southeastern District championship game 4-1 over Wallace-Hanceville. “We lost in the championship game a couple ...

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Top-seed Mankato eliminates Colorado Mesa

Minnesota State-Mankato scored two runs in its final at-bat in the ninth inning to defeat the Colorado Mesa baseball team 7-5 in the NCAA Central Region tournament in Mankato, Minn. The loss knocked Mesa (39-16) out of the tournament and ended its season. Jeremy Ortiz (1-1) took the loss in relief. Garrett Carpenter allowed five runs on seven hits in six innings.  ...

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