Bison Illustrated August 2014 | Page 21

SPRING REVIEW Baseball (10-12) 25-26 RECORD Summit League Summit League Champions (Lost in NCAA Corvallis Regional) Photo By Jim Trewin S eniors on the Bison baseball team came into the 2014 campaign with a bad taste in their mouths. After two historic seasons in a row, the baseball team had to deal with back-to-back gut wrenching losses in the conference championship game. It wasn’t just the fact they lost a game, but the circumstances surrounding the loss cut deep. Old arms on the pitching staff graduated and the window to capture their first Summit League Championship seemed to have slammed shut. “It took us awhile to get into a rhythm this year because we didn’t pitch very well and we weren’t swinging the bats,” head coach Tod Brown said. With six seniors in the lineup and the conference schedule around the corner, the Bison knew they needed to get back on track if they wanted to even sniff another conference championship game. The bats got hot, and the pitching staff fou