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Head
Coach Jim Scholten
Phone: 712-274-5248
E-Mail: scholten@morningside.edu
 Jim Scholten will enter his 25th season as the Mustangs' head
baseball coach when the Mustangs open the 2008 campaign.
Scholten has a 509-524-4
career record at Morningside. He guided the Mustangs to a
42-18-1 record during the 2005 campaign to set a school record
for victories in a season. The Mustangs had a .697 winning percentage that season for the school's
best victory rate since a 15-6 finish (.714) in 1960.
Scholten was named
the 2000 North Central Conference Coach of the Year after
he guided the Mustangs to the championship game of the conference
tournament.
Scholten was an assistant coach for the Sioux City Explorers of the Northern
Independent League during the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
He was elected to
the Iowa Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1997.
He compiled a 252-94 career record for a .728 winning percentage
in 12 years as a head coach at Mason City Newman and Nevada
High Schools. Scholten led Mason City Newman to the 1977 Iowa
Class 1A state tournament. Scholten directed Nevada to Heart
of Iowa Conference championships in five of his seven seasons
there.
Scholten is a 1970
graduate of Loras College.
Scholten holds the South Dakota amateur baseball record for three pitching victories during a four-day state tournament. He accomplished the feat in 1970.
Assistant
Coach Alex Llanos
 Alex Llanos is in his first season with the Mustangs and will serve as the team's hitting and infield coach.
Llanos has 12 years of professional baseball playing experience. He was drafted by the Anaheim Angels and played three years in their organization before joining the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' system for two years. He has played in independent leagues for the past seven years, including the last two with the Sioux City Explorers.
Llanos led the Explorers in hitting each of the past two seasons with batting averages of .341 in 2006 and .329 in 2007. He was voted to the American Association's 2006 All-Star Team and at the end of the season was selected as the second baseman for Baseball America's All-Independent Team.
Assistant
Coach Matt Stevenson
 Matt Stevenson, in his first season with the Mustangs, will coach the team's outfielders and be the team's third base coach.
Stevenson is a grades K-8 physical education teacher at Mater Dei School in Sioux City and is the head baseball coach at Sioux City West High School. He is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and Spencer High School. Stevenson was a starter on Spencer's 1997 Iowa Class 3A state championship team and helped lead the team to a runner-up finish at the 1999 state tourney.
Assistant Coach Clint Little
 Clint Little is in his first year on the Morningside coaching staff. He will serve as the Mustangs' first base coach and junior varsity coach.
Little was a two-year letterwinner for the Mustangs as an outfielder. He is also an assistant baseball coach at Sioux City East High School, where he helped lead the Black Raiders to a 26-14 record and a second place finish in the Missouri River Activities Conference during the 2007 campaign.
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