Blake Evans Mike Tettamble Ricky Meinhold Justin Skinner 2008 Drury University Panther Baseball Roster No. Name Pos. B/T Ht. Wt. Cl. Hometown/High School 1 Blake Wixson P R/R 6-5 207 So. Springfield, Mo./Hillcrest 2 John Tollenaar OF/C R/R 6-1 210 So. Thayer, Mo./Thayer 3 Evan Jones IF R/R 5-11 154 Fr. Mansfield, Mo./Mansfield 4 Corey Peterson P L/L 6-1 165 Fr. Republic, Mo./Republic 5 Sam Pirtle P R/R 6-1 170 So. Greenfield, Mo./Greenfield 6 Bret Gallion IF R/R 5-9 149 So. Springfield, Mo./Parkview 7 Harrison Waters OF/P L/L 6-1 200 So. Republic, Mo./Republic 8 Daniel Mullis 1B/C R/R 6-1 219 Jr. Jonesboro, Ark./Nettleton 9 Ben York OF R.R 6-3 203 So. Ozark, Mo./Ozark 10 Dane Hughes OF R/R 6-0 167 So. Jefferson City, Mo./Helias 11 Justin Skinner 2B/P R/R 5-11 185 Sr. Springfield, Mo./Hillcrest 12 Tino Robbins OF R/R 5-11 184 Jr. Springfield, Mo./Glendale 14 Joe Rohlfing SS R/R 5-10 200 So. Lee’s Summit, Mo./Lee’s Summit 15 Blair Ellington P R/R 5-11 200 Jr. Oklahoma City, Okla./Bishop McGuinness 16 Tyler Goss 3B R/R 6-1 185 So. Springfield, Mo./Glendale 17 R.J. Knese C/OF R/R 5-9 155 Fr. High Ridge, Mo./St. Mary’s 18 Aaron Burcham OF R/R 6-0 185 Fr. Crane, Mo./Crane 19 Joel Potts 3B R/R 6-3 180 Fr. St. Peters, Mo./Fort Zumwalt South 20 Mike Tettamble 1B R/R 5-10 190 Sr. Springfield, Mo./Catholic 21 Stephen Bloss P L/R 6-3 186 So. Blue Springs, Mo./South 22 Blake Evans P R/R 6-0 227 Sr. Springfield, Mo./Glendale 23 Blake Setzer OF/P L/L 6-2 195 So. Marionville, Mo./Marionville 24 Tyler Wright C L/R 5-11 174 So. Springfield, Mo./Hillcrest 25 Ricky Meinhold P R/L 6-2 195 Sr. San Jose, Calif./Westmont 26 Chris Marston P R/R 6-4 169 So. St. Louis, Mo./Principia 28 Beau Beattie P R/R 6-2 192 So. Ozark, Mo./Ozark 29 Luke Noah 1B L/L 6-2 191 Fr. Springfield, Mo./Meadowlark Christian 30 Carl Teghtmyer P R/R 5-10 175 So. Rogersville, Mo./Logan-Rogersville 31 Ryan Anderson P L/L 6-0 183 Fr. Venice, Fla./Venice 32 Jason Hall OF L/R 5-9 176 So. Springfield, Mo./Kickapoo 34 Justin Wright P R/R 6-3 193 Fr. Springfield, Mo./Kickapoo 35 Josh Hall P R/R 6-7 176 Fr. Springfield, Mo./Kickapoo 36 Jared Tuck C R/R 6-0 180 Fr. Republic, Mo./Republic 37 Pete Sumners OF R/R 5-11 174 Fr. Aurora, Mo./Aurora 38 Dan Baner P R/R 6-2 205 Fr. St. Peters, Mo./Fort Zumwalt South Head Coach #40 Mark Stratton Assistant Coach #13 Byron Hagler Graduate Assistant Coach #33 Scott Nasby Volunteer Assistant Coaches #27 Curt Plotner and Chuck Essary Drury Panther Baseball 2008 DRURY PANTHER BASEBALL QUICK FACTS DRURY UNIVERSITY ON THE COVER College founded …………. 1873 Drury’s baseball Panthers made one of the most success- Enrollment ………………. 1605 ful program debuts in college sports history last spring, as President …………………. Todd Parnell (Drury, 1968) the first-year squad compiled a 33-24 record, won a Great Faculty …………………… 93% have obtained the Lakes Valley Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA-II Tournament, where they went 2-2 in the North highest degree possible in their field Central regional. Four key seniors return this season as Drury Student/Faculty ratio ……… 12 to 1 attempts an encore performance – pitchers Ricky Meinhold Average class size ………… 19 and Blake Evans, pitcher/second baseman Justin Skinner and first baseman Mike Tettamble. DRURY ATHLETICS BASEBALL STAFF INFO VP for Athletic Affairs .............Dr. Edsel Matthews Head Coach ...........................Mark Stratton E-mail address [email protected] Record at Drury .....................33-24 (second season) Phone...............................................(417) 873-6896 Alma mater, year ...................Southwest Missouri State (1977) Director of Athletics ................................Pat Atwell E-mail address [email protected] E-mail address [email protected] Office phone ..........................(417) 873-6399 Phone...............................................(417) 873-7294 Assistant Coach .....................Byron Hagler Administrative assistant .........................J.J. Carney E-mail address [email protected] E-mail address [email protected] Office phone ..........................(417) 873-7847 Phone...............................................(417) 873-7265 Graduate Assistant Coach .....Scott Nasby Athletic Department FAX ...............(417) 873-7510 E-mail address [email protected] Asst. AD/SWA............................. Barbara Cowherd Office phone ..........................(417) 873-6363 E-mail address [email protected] Volunteer Assistant ................Curt Plotner Phone...............................................(417) 873-7363 Volunteer Assistant ................Charlie Essary Asst. AD/ Compliance Coord ...............Dan Cashel Coach Mark Stratton E-mail address [email protected] Phone...............................................(417) 873-7222 DU BASEBALL AT-A-GLANCE Sports Information Dir. ......................Scott Puryear Home Facility ..............................Meador Park TABLE OF CONTENTS E-mail address [email protected] First season of (D-II) Baseball ....2007 Phone...............................................(417) 873-4097 All-time record ............................33-24 Baseball, Athletic Staff Info ......... 1-3 Head athletic trainer ..........................Erin Kineman NCAA-II Tourney appearances...One (2007) Drury Coaching Staff ................... 4-6 E-mail address ....................... [email protected] Conference affiliation ..................Great Lakes Valley Phone...............................................(417) 873-6865 Conference (14 teams) The 2008 Panthers ...................... 7-25 Faculty Athletic Rep. .................. Michael J. Buono GLVC Tournament appearances ....One (2007) 2007 Season Review ................ 26-29 E-mail address [email protected] GLVC Tournament titles .............One (2007) Phone...............................................(417) 873-7288 2007 Overall Record ...................33-24 2008 Season Preview ............... 30-31 Affiliation ...................................NCAA Division II 2007 GLVC Record ....................22-14 (3rd) About the GLVC ...................... 32-33 Conference affiliation ................Great Lakes Valley Varsity sports offered at Drury (15) About Drury University .................34 Men’s basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, MEDIA INFORMATION soccer, swimming/diving and tennis; women’s 2007 Season in Pictures .................35 Radio outlet ..............................JOCK 98.7 FM basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming/ Sports director ..........................Art Hains 2007 Meador Park ..........................36 diving, softball, tennis and volleyball. DU radio announcer .................Tom Ladd Newspaper ................................Springfield News-Leader Sports Editor ............................Pam Clark The 2008 Drury Baseball Media Guide Drury Beat Writer ....................Kary Booher was written and produced by Drury Sports Information Director Scott Puryear and Springfield TV Stations covering Assistant SID Eric Pannell. Special thanks the Panthers to A&J Printing, The Team Advertising KSPR (ABC) ............................Sports Director and Mike Wingo Photography for Whitney Scott their assistance in the project. To reach KYTV (NBC) ...........................Sports Director the Drury SID’s office for questions, Ned Reynolds comments or interview requests of DU KOLR 10 (CBS) ......................Sports Director coaches and/or student-athletes, please call Dan Lucy (417) 873-4097 or e-mail Scott Puryear at For all your up-to-date Drury [email protected]. Baseball news, please visit KSFX (FOX) ............................Sports Director www.drurypanthers.com Rob Evans 1 Drury Panther Baseball 2008 2007-2008 DRURY UNIVERSITY DRURY HEAD COACHES AND ATHLETIC STAFF ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT ALPHABETICAL2 DIRECTORY Campus Phone: ������������������873-7879 Name/Position 873- plus extension Pat Atwell Director of Athletics. 7294 Michael Buono Faculty Athletic Representative . 7596 Dr. Edsel Matthews Vice President for Athletic Affairs. 6896 Dan Cashel Asst. AD/NCAA Compliance ������������������������������������������ 7222 Barbara Cowherd Pat Atwell Alf Bilbao Michael J. Buono Amine Boustani Asst. AD/Senior Women’s Adminstrator . 7363 Director of Men’s/Women’s Faculty Athletic Men’s Tennis Coach Lawrence Anderson Asst. Women’s Volleyball Coach. 7252 Athletics Soccer Coach Representative T. Bryan Beatty Assistant Swimming & Diving Coach. 7422 Alf Bilbao Head Men’s & Women’s Soccer Coach. 7449 Amine Boustani Head Men’s Tennis Coach . 7439 David Burkett Men’s Basketball Assistant Coach. 7297 Betsy Cannella Athletic Department Graduate Assistant ���������������������������7811 J.J. Carney Department Administrative Assistant ������������������������������ 7265 Jill Curry Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach ������������������������������ 6810 JJ Carney Amy Gardner Richard Hackett Steve Harold Tommy Fulmer Administrative Volleyball Coach Men’s/Women’s Women’s Basketball Graduate Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach . 7830 Assistant Diving Coach Coach Amy Gardner Head Women’s Volleyball Coach. 6824 Richard Hackett Head Men’s and Women’s Diving Coach ������������������������ 6877 Byron Hagler Assistant Baseball Coach. 7847 Steve Harold Head Women’s Basketball Coach ������������������������������������