What’s In This Issue?
• Nuking Of A Baseball Season: Coronavirus pandemic will cause financial issues, havoc in fall. This in-depth special report covers all angles of this situation in regard to college baseball.
• Will Universities Receive Reprieve On Number Of Scholarships For 2021?: Questions galore must be answered in the coming days for everyone in game.
• Baseball’s Unique, Wild Pranks:
Ingenious practical jokes include shaving cream in shoes, setting shoe laces on fire, plus much more.
• Former Bradley Pitcher Dies In Plane Crash: Mitch Jansen forced to land plane on freeway. But aircraft hits pavement too hard and is engulfed in flames.
• Lou Pavlovich Column: Great potato caper one for books.
• Junior College Notes: Tanner Halvorson strikes out 16 batters during no-hitter for Bay College, Santa Rosa rolls to 17-2 record in California, plus much more.
• NCAA Div. 3 Notes: Muhlenberg RHP Matthew D’Ambrosia strikes out 21 Lesley batters, Michael Leri of Lebanon Valley hits 5 home runs during one week, plus much more.
• Ruleball With Rich Marazzi: Western Michigan home run turns into triple with 2 balls in play!
• NAIA Notes: Andrew Tri of St. Thomas strikes out 11 Wisconsin-La Crosse batters, Southeastern (FL) posts 25-game winning streak to rank No. 1 in nation, plus much more.
• Collegiate Baseball’s NCAA Division I Top 30 Presented By Big League Chew: Florida on top with 16-1 record as long winning streak finally ends.
• National Players Of The Week Powered By Diamond: Aaron Funk of Little Rock strikes out a program high 17 batters against North Alabama, plus much more.
• NCAA Division I Notes: Penn State tosses no-hitter but loses to Navy, 2-1, Oregon State 1-hits U.C. Santa Barbara, but the Gauchos still win, 6-0, LSU Head Coach Paul Mainieri celebrates his 600th win with the Tigers, plus much more.
• Collegiate Baseball’s National H.S. Top 30 Presented By Diamond Pro: Jesuit High School (Tampa, Fla.) remains No. 1 with perfect 9-0 record, plus extensive notes on all 30 teams.
• High School Notes: High school tournaments cancelled across USA due to coronavirus pandemic.
• Innovative Winning Tactics: Lewis-Clark State’s Ed Cheff utilized every trick in the book to help players thrive in his system.
• NCAA Division 2 Notes: Ashland University’s Josh Stover strikes out 17 St. Cloud St. batters, Cole Taylor of Central Missouri homers in four straight games, plus much more.
• Special Instructional Clinic By Ed Cheff: Former skipper at Lewis-Clark State who led the Warriors to 16 NAIA national championships, explains how to achieve team chemistry in a variety of ways, including camping trip, firewood project, boxing smoker, community involvement and more.
• Gary Ward On SMARTER Goals Program: Knowing precisely what you should do is essential for every coach.
