Baseball Opens Season

wiu712 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:13 pm

Western baseball lost both games (16-14 and 5-4) in its season-opening doubleheader at Middle Tennessee State on Sunday.

Attendance at Middle Tennessee State was 222. It was 37 degrees and cloudy on Sunday.

The third and final game of the series is today (Monday) at 3PM.

wiu712 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:20 pm

Western Baseball got pounded today 19-2 by Middle Tennessee State. Western's only two runs came in the 1st inning.

Western is now 0-3 to start the season.

Attendance at Murfreesboro, TN was 137.

Weather: 30 degrees and sunny.

Western's next games will be a three game weekend series at Oklahoma State starting on Feb 27.

sealhall74 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:54 pm

Those 137 love their baseball.

wiu712 · Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:55 am

Baseball lost a tough game to #10 Oklahoma State 4-3 on Friday night. This game was moved to Auburn, Alabama due to wintry weather in Stillwater.

Attendance was 44.

wiu712 · Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:10 am

Western Baseball lost Saturday night's game vs Jacksonville State 11-3. This game was played at Auburn University.
Attendance was 335.
Weather: 48 degrees.

Western will play Oklahoma State in a Sunday morning game (10 AM). This game will also be at Auburn.

meganeck · Sat Mar 07, 2015 6:10 pm

The baseball team won their first game today

wiu712 · Sat Mar 07, 2015 6:59 pm

meganeck wrote:The baseball team won their first game today

Baseball actually won their first game on Friday. That was a 4-3 win over Evansville in 13 innings.

Today's 3-0 win over Evansville now makes the Western record 2-8.

The four-game series with Evansville was played in Emerson, Georgia where the weather was 40 degrees. It was warmer in Macomb! Attendance was 172.

The home season starts on Friday (March 13) with a three-game series with IPFW.

Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:54 pm

wiu712 wrote:The four-game series with Evansville was played in Emerson, Georgia where the weather was 40 degrees. It was warmer in Macomb! Attendance was 172.

Oh yea, it was warmer here, but the baseball field is a swamp. Think the athletics department would spring for canoes for the outfielders

wiu712 · Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:43 am

ST_Lawson wrote:The baseball field is a swamp.

The home-opening series with IPFW may have to be moved to Lenz Field in Jacksonville, IL due to the soggy field at Western.

http://www.lenzfield.com/

leatherface · Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:32 pm

This "swamp" in the baseball field has been a problem for years. Isn't there any one at WIU who can figure out this issue. Isn't it embarrassing to move a D1 game to a community field in another city in order to play a game? I doubt if Jacksonville had any less snow or moisture than Macomb.