Baseball standings after 3rd series. SUU is in 3rd place

Team	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Streak	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Neutral	Streak
North Dakota State	6-2	.750	4-0	2-2	W4	29-9	.763	7-1	16-8	6-0	W5
Oral Roberts	8-3	.727	6-2	2-1	W4	21-18	.538	15-7	6-9	0-2	W4
Southern Utah	7-4	.636	4-3	3-1	W3	13-25	.342	8-9	5-16	0-0	W3
Oakland	5-3	.625	3-1	2-2	W3	14-25	.351	9-1	4-23	1-1	W4
IPFW	4-8	.333	2-2	2-6	L3	12-27	.308	5-3	7-23	0-1	L3
Western Illinois	3-9	.250	3-5	0-4	L4	12-24-1	.338	7-9-1	4-13	1-2	L4
South Dakota State	2-6	.250	0-0	2-6	L6	12-24-1	.338	3-1	9-22-1	0-1	L4

SUU will play at North Dakota for their next Conference Game starting May 4th - 6th

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SUU will play University of Utah today

Southern Utah will travel to Salt Lake City this week for its final meeting with the University of Utah. The Thunderbirds are coming off a 3-1 series win over IPFW in conference play while the Utes were swept in a three-game series at California over the weekend. The two teams have met 170 times in a historic rivalry that dates back to 1963.

SUU wins the series against IPFW

SUU faced IPFW on Thursday and suffered a loss 5-7. SUU came back winning the next three though. On Fridays double header SUU won the first game 20-14 and the second game 7-3. The last game of the series was on Saturday where SUU won 8-2. The next game will be on Tuesday April 24th against University of Utah in Salt Lake.

SUU player wins another baseball award for two straight weeks

Justin Neubauer, Southern Utah
Jr., LHP (Las Vegas, Nev./Rancho) Neubauer records his second career award and first this season after pitching a complete game shutout over Oral Roberts. In the seven-inning game, the junior southpaw allowed just one hit while striking out two in a 76-pitch effort. Neubauer took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before surrendering a single for the only ORU hit.

After the second week of conference, SUU is ranked third

Team	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Streak	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Neutral	Streak
Oakland	5-3	.625	3-1	2-2	W3	10-24	.294	5-1	4-22	1-1	W3
Oral Roberts	4-3	.571	2-2	2-1	W1	17-17	.500	11-6	6-9	0-2	W1
Southern Utah	4-3	.571	1-2	3-1	W1	10-24	.294	5-8	5-16	0-0	W1
North Dakota State	2-2	.500	0-0	2-2	W1	24-9	.727	3-1	15-8	6-0	W1
South Dakota State	2-2	.500	0-0	2-2	L2	11-19-1	.372	2-0	9-18-1	0-1	L2
Western Illinois	3-5	.375	3-5	0-0	L1	12-20-1	.379	7-9-1	4-9	1-2	L1
IPFW	3-5	.375	2-2	1-3	L3	11-24	.314	5-3	6-20	0-1	L3

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The next game for SUU will be against Indiana-Purdue

SUU will be back in action on Thursday, April 19th when they host Indiana-Purdue. The game will start at 3pm. On Friday there will be a double header starting at 12pm. The final game of the series will be on Saturday at 1pm. Indiana-Purdue are are 3-2 in conference and 11-21 overall for the season.

SUU loses the series against Oral Roberts 2-1 but snow cancels the final game!

The first game played against Oral Roberts was on Friday and ORU starter Kurt Giller took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before tossing a complete game shutout to help the visiting Golden Eagles take a 6-0 win over SUU at Thunderbird Park on Thursday. The SUU defense turned in a solid performance behind a strong outing by starting pitcher Chase Rezac, but the Thunderbirds were unable to get on the scoreboard after recording just three hits and leaving seven runners on base.
On Saturdays, both teams were in action again playing a double header. After dropping an 8-4 decision in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader with Oral Roberts, Southern Utah bounced back for a 6-0 win over the Golden Eagles in their second meeting of the day behind a complete game shutout from Justin Neubauer. The junior lefty took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before giving up his lone hit of the contest to help the Thunderbirds improve to 10-24 on the year.
Todays game was suppose to be scheduled at 1 put due to snow the game was snowed out. Cedar City sucks 

Oral Roberts throws a two hitter to get the win

ORU starter Kurt Giller took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before tossing a complete game shutout to help the visiting Golden Eagles take a 6-0 win over SUU at Thunderbird Park on Thursday. The SUU defense turned in a solid performance behind a strong outing by starting pitcher Chase Rezac, but the Thunderbirds were unable to get on the scoreboard after recording just three hits and leaving seven runners on base.

“I give credit to Rezac for getting ground balls, and Ricker made a nice play spinning to his left for that bang-bang throw,” said interim coach Clayton Carson of the three double-plays turned by the T-Birds. “I also felt like we had some good contact considering that their pitcher was up in the nineties and throwing a hard slide piece.”

Oral Roberts notched its first run of the game in the top of the second when third baseman Jose Trevino hit a lead-off single, advanced to second on a walk and then came around to score on an RBI double off the bat of Bennett Pickar. The score remained 1-0 in favor of the visitors until the Nate Goro put a two-run RBI single into centerfield in the sixth inning to extend the advantage to three.

The Thunderbirds had a chance to start a rally in the following frame as Mitchell Kauweloa and Chaisson Low started the seventh with back-to-back singles to give SUU two runners on with nobody out. ORU was able to record three-straight outs on a fielder’s choice, ground out and fly out to get out of the inning unscathed.

The Golden Eagles would then add three insurance runs in the top of the eighth to double their advantage to 6-0. Brandon Healy began the scoring with an RBI single to right and Goro laid down a sacrifice bunt to bring Brandon King in from third for the second run of the inning. In the next at bat Logan Domenico hit an infield single to second base and it appeared that the Thunderbirds had Brandon Healy caught between third and home for the final out of the inning, but a throw from bounced off the ORU designated hitter allowing him to cross the plate for the sixth and final run of the game.

Junior right-hander Kurt Giller allowed just three hits and recorded six strikeouts while throwing a complete game to earn his second win of the season for the Golden Eagles and now holds a record of 2-4. SUU starter Chase Rezac spread three runs and 10 hits over six innings to fall to 2-4 with the loss.

Oral Roberts shortstop Nate Goro drove in three runs for the Golden Eagles who also got an RBI from Pickar and Healy. Senior first baseman Mitchell Kauweloa led Southern Utah with two hits on the day.

The Thunderbirds and Golden Eagles will continue their series with a doubleheader set to begin tomorrow at 12 p.m.

Is the winning due to new coach or new facial hair

SUU before Conference with Coach Eldredge the team was 6-21 and without any facial hair or long hair. Now the team is 3-1 and is now in first place. Is it due to the new coaching strategies from Coach Clayton or is due to the new bad A facial hair that the whole entire team is starting grow out. You decide

Summit League after the first series. SUU player named player of the week.

After the first week of games in the Summit League, SUU is in first place.  Player of the Week Honors goes to David Headley a Jr. outfielder from Phoenix, Arizona/East Arizona  JC. Headley captures his first career Player of the Week honor after helping Southern Utah to a league series road win at Western Illinois. The junior went 4-for-4 with three RBI and three runs scored in game three's victory. He also added a double and home run in the game and went 2-for-2 in the opening game of the series with a home run and three RBI. In five games last week, Headley batted .438 (7-for-16) with seven RBI, six runs scored, two homers, a double and a triple. He added one walk and had a slugging percentage of 1.000 and on-base percentage of .471.  Pitcher of the week went to Jeff Gorecki from Oakland but nominated from Southern Utah was Kelsey Outram.

Here are the current standings from the Summit League after week one

Team	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Streak	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Neutral	Streak
Southern Utah	3-1	.750	0-0	3-1	L1	9-22	.290	4-6	5-16	0-0	L1
Oral Roberts	2-2	.500	2-2	0-0	L1	15-16	.484	11-6	4-8	0-2	L1
IPFW	2-2	.500	2-2	0-0	W2	10-20	.333	5-3	5-16	0-1	W2
South Dakota State	2-2	.500	0-0	2-2	L2	8-17-1	.327	0-0	8-17-1	0-0	L2
Oakland	2-2	.500	0-0	2-2	L1	6-23	.207	1-0	4-22	1-1	L1
Western Illinois	1-3	.250	1-3	0-0	W1	10-17-1	.375	5-7-1	4-8	1-2	W1
North Dakota State	0-0	.000	0-0	0-0	-	22-6	.786	3-0	13-6	6-0	L1

Thunderbirds set to face Oral Roberts

SUU will face their toughest team in the Summit League Conference when they will host Oral Roberts next week. Game Times are
Thursday, Apr 12  3pm
Friday, Apr 13 ( DH- Game 1) 12pm
Friday, Apr 13 ( DH- Game 2) TBA
Sat, Apr 14 1pm
Here are the standings after yesterdays games

Team	Summit W-L	Overall W-L
Southern Utah	3-0	9-21
South Dakota State	2-1	8-16
Oral Roberts	1-1	14-15
Oakland	1-1	5-22
IPFW	1-2	9-20
North Dakota State	0-0	22-5

SUU wins the series against Western Illinois

Southern Utah opened its Summit League season with a 9-5 win at Western Illinois on Friday. The Thunderbirds trailed throughout most of the game before scoring all nine of their runs during the final two innings to claim the come-from-behind victory. David Headley was called in for a pinch hitter when he dropped a 3 run homerun. The next day SUU played a double header against Western Illinois and came away with two more wins. After proving to be the hero with a three-run ninth inning home run in the series opener, David Headley continued to swing the bat well. David hit another homerun and then added another ground-rule RBI two innings later. He finished the day 4-9 and also Bo Cuthbertson was 4-7 at the plate with two RBI and a run. The final game of the series SUU lost 2-4. It was a tough loss but on the positive note SUU's Justin Neuhart when 2-4.

UNLV beats SUU for the 4th times this year

The UNLV Rebels claimed their fourth victory of the season over Southern Utah on Tuesday by a score of 21-6 to improve to 14-15 on the year. The loss drops the Thunderbirds overall mark to 6-21. SUU was playing its first game since the release of head coach David Eldredge earlier in the week.

“I felt like our guys came out strong in the way they were able to get that run in the first inning,” said SUU interim coach Clayton Carson. “I give credit to UNLV and the way they played, they did a good job swinging the bat and hit the ball well.”

Conference starts for SUU starting Friday April 6th against Western Illinois. Good luck SUU and win conference!

Coaches get released from the baseball program

Southern Utah University officials, in a move supported by the University's Board of Trustees, released baseball coaches David Eldredge and Chase Hudson from their coaching responsibilities today. Its a sad day for all of SUU baseball fans because they are losing two great guys. Coach Eldredge was a great coach and they should of let him coach the remainder of the final season at SUU. Some speculations why both coaches got fired were because of going over budget and they way they used school money.  I wish the best for both of these wonderful guys!  

SUU gets killed this weekend by UVU

This past weekend starting on Thursday March 29th SUU traveled to Orem to play a three game series against UVU wolverines. On Thursday it was homerun city with a combine total of 9 homeruns. Six different Wolverine batters each left the yard to help UVU take a 17-7 victory. On Friday SUU dropped the second game in the series losing 9-1. SUU dropped to 6-19 on the year. The third and final game SUU stunk it up losing 2-15. But SUU will turn it around this weekend when conference begins. Before conference SUU will host UNLV in its finally game against them.

SUU sweeps Chicago State

SUU had a three game series against Chicago State Friday and Saturday in Cedar City Utah. The frist game SUU won 7-6 with a strong outing from Justin Neubauer. Justin improves to 3-1 this season. SUU took the second game 8-7 and the third game with a score of 9-2. Bo Cuthbertson went 3-7 on the day with two RBI. The second game Chase Rezac pitched 8 innings only giving up one run while striking out 9.

SUU falls short against Kansas

March 21, Southern Utah ended up playing only a single game in its trip to Kansas this week after rain first postponed a game scheduled for Tuesday and then lead to the cancellation of the make-up game. The Thunderbirds fell behind early in the lone contest played on Wednesday morning but came back to claim a 10-7 advantage behind a pair of two-run homeruns from shortstop Bo Cuthbertson. Bo was 4 for 4 on the day with a total of 5 RBIS.  A two-run RBI single from the Jayhawks Ka’iana Eldredge sent the game into extra innings and after an hour long rain delay the second baseman then tallied the walk-off RBI single in the eleventh to seal the 11-10 victory for the home team.The Thunderbirds will return home this weekend for a pair of games with Chicago State. SUU and the Cougars will get things underway on Friday at 3 p.m. and then meet in a second contest on Saturday at noon.

SUUs baseball game today is canceled

SUU was suppose to play Kansas Tuesday and Wednesday but todays game was canceled because of rain. Tomorrow SUU will play Kansas in a double header with the game time starting at 1

Stats for the SUU baseball team

Record: 3-15   Home: 1-5   Away: 2-10   Conference: 0-0  



Player                 AVG  GP-GS    AB   R   H  2B  3B  HR RBI   TB  SLG%  BB HBP  SO GDP   OB%  SF  SH  SB-ATT   PO   A   E  FLD%

7 ROMERO, Marcus...  .343  17-17    67   8  23   5   0   2  14   34  .507   5   1   3   3  .392   1   0   6-6     41   3   1  .978
23 KENOLIO, Bryson..  .306  15-12    49   6  15   2   0   1   6   20  .408   3   0   3   3  .340   1   0   2-2    122  11   3  .978
1 CUTHBERTSON, Bo..  .274  18-17    62   8  17   2   2   0  10   23  .371  14   0  15   0  .403   1   0   5-6     38  56   3  .969
21 NEUHART, Justin..  .262  16-13    42   5  11   1   0   1   4   15  .357   4   6  18   0  .389   2   0   1-2     12  25   3  .925
24 STATON, Tariq....  .243  14-9     37   8   9   0   0   0   4    9  .243   3   1  14   0  .317   0   1   5-5     23   0   0 1.000
28 LUNCEFORD, Taggar  .229  18-15    48   8  11   1   0   0   5   12  .250   6   0  10   0  .315   0   1   0-1     70  16   1  .989
34 KLINE, Kevin.....  .211  15-8     38   6   8   4   0   0   2   12  .316   0   2   7   0  .244   1   0   0-0      4  12   3  .842
8 BURTON, Ronnie...  .196  16-13    51   6  10   1   0   0   3   11  .216   3   2   7   0  .268   0   0   5-5     27   0   0 1.000
44 KAUWELOA, Mitchel  .175  17-17    63   8  11   1   0   0   5   12  .190   5   3  11   1  .268   0   0   0-0     61   4   1  .985
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5 HUNT, Austin.....  .500   4-0      4   0   2   1   0   0   0    3  .750   0   0   0   0  .500   0   0   0-0      0   0   0  .000
29 REZAC, Chase.....  .389   7-5     18   4   7   0   0   2   4   13  .722   3   0   3   0  .476   0   0   3-3      0   8   2  .800
14 ROYER, Brad......  .350   9-3     20   5   7   1   0   0   3    8  .400   0   0   2   0  .350   0   0   1-2     12   2   0 1.000
6 LOW, Chaisson....  .318  12-4     22   4   7   2   0   0   4    9  .409   1   0   3   2  .348   0   0   0-0     10   8   3  .857
36 ZYMOLA, Jordan...  .300   6-2     10   1   3   0   0   0   1    3  .300   0   0   1   0  .300   0   0   0-0      7   3   1  .909
15 SHAW, Taylor.....  .226  11-8     31   1   7   2   0   0   1    9  .290   5   0   7   2  .333   0   0   1-2      0   0   0  .000
13 KEENO, Micah.....  .200   7-2     10   3   2   0   0   0   0    2  .200   2   0   0   0  .333   0   0   2-2      4   0   1  .800
3 WEBER, Tyson.....  .200   4-3     10   1   2   0   0   1   1    5  .500   0   0   1   0  .200   0   0   0-1      4   0   0 1.000
9 RICKER, David....  .167  15-10    30   1   5   0   0   0   3    5  .167   4   1   5   0  .286   0   0   0-1     20  37   2  .966
2 HEADLEY, David...  .118  10-4     17   1   2   0   0   0   3    2  .118   2   0   7   0  .211   0   0   1-1      6   7   0 1.000

Totals..............  .253  18-18   629  84 159  23   2   7  73  207  .329  60  16 117  11  .331   6   2  32-39   469 223  30  .958
Opponents...........  .339  18-18   634 140 215  31   8   6 128  280  .442  87  26  82  12  .431  14  15  14-25   492 230  28  .963

LOB - Team (137), Opp (169). DPs turned - Team (17), Opp (16). CI - Team (2), Lunceford, T 1, Zymola, J 1. Picked off -
Rezac, C 2, Romero, M 1, Ricker, D 1, Burton, R 1.

(All games Sorted by Earned run avg)

Player                 ERA   W-L   APP  GS  CG SHO/CBO SV    IP   H   R  ER  BB  SO  2B  3B  HR   AB B/Avg   WP HBP  BK  SFA SHA

10 OUTRAM, Kelsey...  2.87   0-4     5   5   2   0/0    0  37.2  37  14  12  12  22   5   4   1  130  .285    2   8   0    4   5
19 NEUBAUER, Justin.  4.09   2-1     4   4   0   0/0    0  22.0  26  11  10   4  11   3   1   0   90  .289    0   0   0    0   0
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16 RIMER, Kolby.....  5.54   0-0     5   0   0   0/0    0  13.0  17   9   8   4   7   2   1   0   53  .321    0   3   1    0   0
18 KARLIK, Joe......  5.62   0-2     5   3   0   0/0    0  16.0  21  11  10  12   8   1   0   0   61  .344    1   1   0    2   4
32 HARVEY, Andy.....  6.75   0-0     7   0   0   0/0    0  10.2  21  10   8   6   4   3   0   0   53  .396    4   0   0    0   0
30 NELSON, Matt.....  7.59   0-3     7   1   0   0/0    0  10.2  16  10   9   5   4   3   0   2   47  .340    0   0   0    1   1
31 LARSEN, Taylor...  8.44   0-1     6   2   0   0/0    0  10.2  10  11  10  13   3   1   0   1   38  .263    2   3   0    0   1
33 BIGELOW, Gage....  9.53   0-1     4   0   0   0/0    0   5.2  10  11   6  11   5   1   0   0   25  .400    2   0   2    3   0
29 REZAC, Chase.....  9.68   1-3     6   2   0   0/0    0  17.2  30  24  19  11  10   7   1   0   72  .417    2   4   1    2   4
26 BRISTOW, Jesse...  9.95   0-0     6   0   0   0/0    0   6.1  11   7   7   3   5   4   0   0   29  .379    1   2   0    1   0
4 HARTLE, Jesse.... 22.85   0-0     5   0   0   0/0    0   4.1  11  11  11   2   2   1   1   0   25  .440    0   3   1    1   0
25 SANDSTROM, KC.... 27.00   0-0     1   0   0   0/0    0   1.0   2   3   3   1   1   0   0   1    5  .400    0   1   2    0   0
23 KENOLIO, Bryson.. 99.00   0-0     1   1   0   0/0    0   0.2   3   8   8   3   0   0   0   1    6  .500    1   1   0    0   0

Totals..............  6.97   3-15   18  18   2   0/0    0 156.1 215 140 121  87  82  31   8   6  634  .339   15  26   7   14  15
Opponents...........  3.35  15-3    18  18   2   3/2    1 164.0 159  84  61  60 117  23   2   7  629  .253    9  16   2    6   2

SUU loses series to Northern Colorado

SUU Thunderbirds got its first Division 1 win this weekend but fell short when the Northern Colorado took 2 out of 3 games of the series. SUU is struggling this year with a  3-15 record on the year. The first game was on Thursday against Northern Colorado (NC) and it was a pitching duel. The final score was NC 3-2. The second game it started out as a pitching duel until SUU score 13 runs in the 4th inning with NC answering 9 runs in the 5th and 6th innings. SUU pulls off the victory 20-11. The next and final game of the series NC's bats were to strong putting up 12 runs with a final score of 12-5. SUU will be on the road on Tuesday and Wednesday playing Kansas . Game time will be at 2 both days

SUU once again struggles in their long losing steak

SUU faced UNLV on tuesday and the final score was 21-12. The hitting for the mighty t birds was amazing but the pitching was horrible besides this outing from the new guy recently from tommy john surgery KC Sandstrom. His velocity and off speed stuff made news all around the nation. Everyone was surprised when his strike out wasnt on sports center because he made the batter look foolish. Todays game was against northern colorado in a great pitching duel SUU didnt come on top when they lost 3-2. SUU will play Northern Colorado for two more games on Friday and Saturday