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 Bret Hoch, a sophomore outfielder from South Sioux City, Neb., was named to the honorable mention list of the 2008 NAIA All-America Baseball Team.
Hoch, the 2008 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) and NAIA Region III Player of the Year, was one of the most improved hitters in the nation this season after he hit .232 last year as a freshman. This season he collected 54 hits in 133 at-bats for a .406 batting average with 11 doubles, three triples, 10 home runs, 45 RBIs, 50 runs scored, and 11 stolen bases.
Hoch led the Mustangs with his .406 batting average, 10 home runs, 45 RBIs, and a .759 slugging percentage. His 10 home runs was the third highest single-season total in Morningside history.
Morningside posted a 32-17 record during the 2008 season and won the GPAC’s post-season tournament to qualify for the NAIA Region III Tournament as the No. 1 seed.
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 Eric Delich, a senior relief pitcher from Lansing, Kan., broke the Morningside College single-season save record and the Mustangs tied a team record for doubles in a season in the Mustangs’ recently completed 2008 baseball campaign.
Delich had 10 saves this season to break the former Morningside standard of nine saves first set by Mike McCune in 1990 and matched by Josh Wheeler in 2001. Delich posted a 3-2 record with a 3.39 earned run average in 22 appearances out of the Mustangs’ bullpen.
As a team the Mustangs slugged 105 doubles this season to tie a team single-season record previously accomplished in 2005.
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 Bret Hoch, a sophomore outfielder from South Sioux City, Neb., has been named the 2008 NAIA Region III Baseball Player of the Year.
Hoch was the Mustangs’ leading hitter this season with 54 hits in 133 at-bats for a .406 batting average with 11 doubles, three triples, 10 home runs, 45 RBIs, 50 runs scored, and 11 stolen bases. Aside from leading the Mustangs in batting average, Hoch also topped the Mustangs with his 10 home runs and 45 RBIs and with a .759 slugging percentage.
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 Bret Hoch, a sophomore outfielder from South Sioux City, Neb., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Player of the Year to headline the Mustangs’ selections on the 2008 All-GPAC Baseball Team as selected by the leagues’ head coaches.
Hoch is joined on the All-GPAC first-team by Wade Morrison, a sophomore pitcher from Arroyo Grande, Calif.
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 Morningside staged a last inning rally to defeat Dakota Wesleyan University 6-4 and win the GPAC Baseball Tournament championship on Saturday at Hastings, Neb.
The Mustangs scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to battle back from a 4-3 deficit. Lino Esparza started the rally with a leadoff single. Bret Hoch was hit by a pitch and one out later David Manceaux drove in both runners with a triple to put the Mustangs in front 5-4. The Mustangs made it 6-4 when Nate Gomez drove in Manceaux with a sacrifice fly.
Dakota Wesleyan had defeated Morningside 7-2 earlier in the afternoon to force a second championship game in the double-elimination tournament. Morningside, the only remaining undefeated team going into Saturday’s action, had opened the day with a 5-3 victory against the University of Sioux Falls.
The GPAC Tournament title earned the Mustangs, 32-15, an automatic berth in next week’s NAIA Region III Tournament in Mayville, N.D.
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 Wade Morrison, a sophomore pitcher from Arroyo Grande, Calif., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Pitcher of the Week for April 21-27.
Morrison pitched a three-hit shutout in the Mustangs’ 6-0 victory against Briar Cliff University on April 26. Morrison walked four and struck out three while hurling his first complete game of the season.
Morrison, who has not allowed an earned run in each of his last three starts, is the Mustangs’ ace with a 5-2 record and a 1.56 earned run average. He has allowed two earned runs or less in seven of his nine starts this season and has allowed more than three earned runs only once.
Morningside has won 15 of its last 18 games and will take a 27-14 record into this week’s GPAC Tournament in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Bret Hoch, a sophomore outfielder from South Sioux City, Neb., received the Don Protexter Most Valuable Player Award; and Wade Morrison, a sophomore pitcher from Arroyo Grande, Calif., received the Eric Johnson Most Valuable Pitcher Award at Morningside College’s baseball awards banquet on Sunday.
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