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Morningside’s baseball team finished its Spring Break trip with a 6-5 record after the Mustangs dropped both ends of a Saturday doubleheader against College of the Ozarks by scores of 6-4 and 10-5 on Saturday in Point Lookout, Mo.
The Mustangs, 7-10 overall, took a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the fifth inning of the opener before Ozarks plated four runs to go ahead to stay. Nate Booker tied the score at 4-4 with a RBI single and the Bobcats added a pair of insurance runs on passed balls.
Morningside had scored two runs in the top of the fifth inning to break a 2-2 tie when Bret Hoch and Jared Noteboom both walked two set up a two-run double by Kelly Kotlik.
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 Morningside has been tabbed for a fourth place finish in the GPAC Baseball Coaches’ Pre-Season Poll.
The Mustangs, who received three of the 13 first place votes, are coming off a 2009 season where they posted a 31-25 record and finished sixth in the GPAC with a 13-11 league mark.
Morningside returns four first-team All-GPAC players from last year, including GPAC Pitcher of the Year Wade Morrison and 2008 GPAC Player of the Year Bret Hoch.
Click here for the 2010 GPAC Baseball Coaches’ Pre-Season Poll.
 Jared Noteboom, a senior second baseman from South Sioux City, Neb., has been named to the 17-player 2010 NAIA Pre-Season All-America baseball team.
Noteboom earned honorable mention NAIA All-America honors last season when he hit .366 with 22 doubles, one triple, 12 home runs, and 60 RBIs. His 22 doubles was a Morningside single-season record.
The Mustangs posted a 31-25 record in the 2009 season.
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