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RAYMOND HILLEGAS • Hays Daily News Fort Hays sophomore Justin Groff fields a ball hit to left field during the first inning of Game 2 against Nebraska-Omaha on Wednesday at Larks Park.
Fort Hays ready for Emporia and MIAA baseball tourney
5/8/2008
By CONOR NICHOLL
cnicholl@dailynews.net
Sophomore Greg Bieker and his Fort Hays State University teammates will face one of the country's best baseball teams and could play against three clubs with better records than the Tigers at the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association postseason tournament this weekend.
However, Fort Hays expects to win.
"You figure you have to go down there and if you have to go down there, then why not win it?," Bieker said after the Tigers' final regular season game Sunday. "That is kind of what everybody thinks, you are going down there to win it. Expecting nothing less than that."
The Tigers (27-28 overall, 21-15 MIAA) are the No. 4 seed in the four-team bracket. In the first round, they will face fourth-ranked Emporia State University, the regular season champions and a team that beat Fort Hays six times this spring and features the nation's second-best offense.
First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at the Community America Ballpark in ...Read Full Story
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| Baseball Scores | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Opponent | Location | Score |
| 5/04 | Pittsburg State | Hays, KS | W 17-5 |
| 5/04 | Pittsburg State | Hays, KS | L 4-3 |
| 5/03 | Pittsburg State | Hays, KS | L 15-7 |
| 5/03 | Pittsburg State | Hays, KS | L 5-4 |
| 4/30 | Kansas Wesleyan | Hays, KS | W 14-1 |
| 4/30 | Kansas Wesleyan | Hays, KS | W 12-2 |
| 4/20 | Central Missouri | Warrensburg, MO | L 12-6 |
| 4/20 | Central Missouri | Warrensburg, MO | W 8-5 |
| 4/19 | Central Missouri | Warrensburg, MO | W 5-3 |
| 4/19 | Central Missouri | Warrensburg, MO | W 12-5 |