Table of Contents STAFFCoaching Staff ...........................2-4 Athletic Training Staff ...................5 2009 SEASON Player Bios ...............................6-14 2009 Roster ................................ 15 Season Preview ........................... 16 Schedule .................................. 17 2009 Opponents ................ 18-19 ST. SCHOLASTICA St. Scholastica ............................ 20 Athletics Directory ...................... 21 CSS Quick Facts ........................ 21 Excellence in Athletics .............. 22 Saints Athletics Club ................ 23 UMAC UMAC History ........................... 24 Quick Facts ................................. 24 Institution Info............................ 25 2008 All-UMAC Team ............... 26 2008 Final Standings ................. 26 2008 REVIEW Season Review ................... 27-28 Game Results .............................. 29 Individual Stats ........................... 30 Season Stat Leaders ................... 31 Game Highs ................................ 32 Record When .............................. 32 HISTORY Saints in the Pros ..................... 33 A Winning Tradition................... 34 Team Records ............................. 35 Individual Game Records .......... 35 Career Leaders ..................... 36-38 Honors and Awards ............. 38-39 Annual Team Awards ................. 40 CSS in the Nat’l Rankings .. 40-43 CSS in the Nat’l Tournament .. 41-43 CSS Baseball Hall of Fame .. 44-47 Table of Contents COVERING THE BASES Saints Fall League ...................... 48 Off the Field ................................ 48 Wade Stadium............................. 48 • 2009 Baseball Media Guide • 1 Coaching Staff John BAGGS, Head Coach Coach Baggs is credited with turning the CSS baseball team into a nationally-ranked program; the Saints won just Entering his 18th season as 34 games in the five years prior to his arrival in Duluth – head coach at The College of they have won 186 in the last five years. He directed the St. Scholastica, John Baggs Saints to a Top 20 NAIA national ranking in 1997, 1999, has established a program that 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, and NCAA Top 20 continues to draw attention at national rankings in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006 and 2007. In both the national and regional 2006, Baggs’ Saints reached #4 in the final regular season level. poll and again made the NCAA National Tournament Under Baggs, St. Scholastica in 2007. Most recently, Baggs’ 2008 Saints made the baseball has become program’s deepest run in the NCAA National Tournament, synonymous with success while producing some of the reaching the regional championship game most exciting moments in CSS Athletics history. Earning high honors after leading the Saints to a 41-11 Baggs was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up playing record and the NAIA Regional Championship in 2000, baseball in Hanover Park. He graduated from Iowa State Baggs was named ABCA Regional Coach of the Year and University in 1989 with a B.A. in Journalism and English. was a finalist for the NAIA National Coach of the Year Hired at St. Scholastica in 1991 when he was only 24 award. He was voted the ABCA Regional Coach of the years old, he was the youngest head coach in the country Year again in 2003. at the time. He has coached 21 All-Americans and 12 of his players Following a 33-10 season in 1996, Baggs was selected have gone on to sign professional contracts to coach Team USA II, an NCAA all-star team that won Baggs, an accomplished guest speaker, has given coaching the International Series ’96 in Apeldoorn, Holland. The clinics in dozens of communities. next summer he was chosen to coach Team America, and led that team to a first-place trophy in Solingen, A former third baseman, he was also an effective pitcher in Germany. He has a 27-3 record coaching USA teams a closer’s role. He coaches both pitchers and hitters in the internationally. CSS system. In 1998, Baggs became the winningest coach ever at St. Coach Baggs is described by his players as a “demanding Scholastica in any sport. player’s coach.” Baggs has been a member of the Pro Baseball-College “Excelling in the classroom and on the baseball field can be Baseball Relations Committee and served on the National demanding,” Baggs said. “So we want our student-athletes Rules Committee. to enjoy what they are working toward in both areas. I want them to really enjoy the college experience, but at the Baggs won Louisville Slugger Coach of the Year awards same time to be highly successful academically and on the in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, baseball field.” 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was voted UMAC Coach of the Year in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, Baggs and his wife Colleen live in Duluth with their son 2004, 2006, 2007 and again in 2008. Maddux (8) and daughter Josie (3). Coach Baggs’ Milestone Victories Baggs’ 1st Victory Saints 3 Dubuque 1 March 5th, 1992 Metrodome Program’s 100th Victory Saints 7 Minnesota-Duluth 1 May 3rd, 1995 Wade Stadium Baggs’ 100th Victory Saints 3 North Dakota 1 April 28th, 1996 Grand Forks, N.D. Program’s 200th Victory Saints 14 Concordia-St. Paul 3 May 5th, 1998 St. Paul, Minn. Baggs’ 200th Victory Saints 4 UW-Stevens Point 3 May 21st, 1999 Oshkosh, Wis. Program’s 300th Victory Saints 8 Briar Cliff 3 May 10th, 2001 Sioux City, Iowa Baggs’ 300th Victory Saints 5 Martin Luther 0 April 26th, 2002 Wade Stadium Program’s 400th Victory Saints 4 St. Olaf 1 April 14th, 2004 Northfield, Minn. Baggs’ 400th Victory Saints 20 Northwestern 5 April 1st, 2005 St. Paul, Minn. Program’s 500th Victory Saints 10 Kenyon 5 March 16th, 2007 Fort Pierce, Fla. Coaching Staff Baggs’ 500th Victory Saints 18 Eastern 2 March 4th, 2008 Fort Pierce, Fla. 2 • The College of St. Scholastica • Tim ANDERSON Assistant Coach Anderson, a Two Harbors, Minnesota native enters his 17th year as an assistant under Coach Baggs in 2009. “TA” graduated from St. Scholastica Summa cum Laude in 1992, earning academic All-America honors his senior season. He scored the winning run in the bottom of the 9th inning of St. Scholastica’s 9-8 victory over Winona State in the 1992 NAIA playoffs. He was an honorable mention All-Region pitcher for the Corey KEMP Saints in 1992 and also started at second base. He earned Assistant Coach four varsity letters at CSS after collecting four baseball Kemp begins his eighth year as an letters at Two Harbors High School. After completing assistant coach at St. Scholastica. his playing career under Coach Baggs in 1992, Anderson “CK” began his outstanding pitching joined his coaching staff as a graduate assistant coach the career at Cherry High School where following season. He became Baggs’ top assistant in 1994 he led his team to the Class A State and quickly became one of the region’s most respected Championship in 1997. He completed baseball coaches. His great contributions to Saints his high school pitching career with Baseball as a player and coach earned “TA” induction into a 21-4 record over three seasons of varsity baseball, the St. Scholastica Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. including a 10-0 mark his senior year. Anderson’s coaching duties include hitting instruction, This winning tradition continued with the Saints, as Kemp video tape analysis, outfield play, offensive approach and became one of the greatest and most dedicated players in recruiting. TA has coached well over 100 all-conference CSS baseball history. and all-region hitters during his coaching career at CSS. In the UMAC Tournament his junior season, CK Baggs on Anderson: “TA has been with me since my first surpassed Ben Sickler (20 wins) to become the Saints day on campus, first as a player and then as an assistant all-time winningest pitcher and finished his career with 29 wins, still tops in Saints history. Kemp is also the coach. He knew what I wanted to accomplish here from career leader in virtually every pitching category, including the beginning, and there is no way we could have been this innings pitched (233), strikeouts (258) and appearances successful without him. He is the best assistant coach I’ve (51). His 2.28 career ERA was also the program’s best ever worked with, we have a successful system and a great upon CK’s graduation in 2001. friendship.” Kemp’s abilities didn’t go unnoticed, as he was named Coach Anderson is described by his players as a “highly UMAC Pitcher of the Year in 2000 and an All-American knowledgeable hands-on coach.” following his senior season. Corey was also inducted into “While helping this program grow to such a successful the St. Scholastica Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002. level has been satisfying for me, our program is much In his seven seasons as an assistant coach CK has helped more than just winning,” Anderson said. “Teaching our develop one of the top pitching staffs in all of Division players how to be successful and responsible on and off III baseball, as the Saints led the country in ERA in both the field and watching them grow into quality individuals 2005 and 2006, and garnered another top-15 ERA finish we can be proud of is the best part. I consider all of in 2008. the players and alumni to be friends, and I’m proud to be affiliated with them and the baseball program at Scholastica.” Coaching Staff • 2009 Baseball B b ll Media Guide • 3 Justin HARRIMAN Joe WICKLUND Tom BERRISFORD Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Harriman, an Wicklund, in his Berrisford is in International Falls, third season as an his third season as Minnesota native assistant with the an assistant coach is in his fourth Saints, is a former for the Saints. A year as an assistant team captain who 1998 Duluth East at St. Scholastica. led St. Scholastica graduate, “TB” Justin, a former power-hitting to the NAIA Regional Championship led the Greyhounds to the state catcher for the Saints, was the first in 2000.