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3/10/2017 10:24:00 AM | Baseball
The South Dakota State University baseball team is scheduled to play its final three games before the start of Summit League play, traveling this weekend for a series at returning College World Series qualifier Oklahoma State.
The Jackrabbits enter the series 5-5 overall, while Oklahoma State is 7-5 following wins over Arkansas (8-3) and Missouri State (7-3) earlier this week.
Friday's series opener is set for a 4 p.m. first pitch at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Games Saturday and Sunday are slated for 2 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.
All games will be available for free viewing at okstate.com/live.
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THE SERIES: South Dakota State and Oklahoma State will play for the first time since the 1987 season, marking the first time the two programs have met since the Jackrabbits moved to the Division I ranks at the start of the 2005 season. The Cowboys have won all 12 previous meetings since the two squads first played in 1987, recording four-game sweeps in 1982, 1985 and 1987. Oklahoma State went on to play in the College World Series each of those years under National College Baseball Hall of Fame coach Gary Ward and featured National College Baseball Hall of Fame players Pete Incaviglia and Robin Ventura.
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PRESEASON POLL: The South Dakota State University baseball team has been picked to finish second in the 2017 Summit League race, according to a poll conducted among league coaches and announced by league officials on Feb. 9.
The Jackrabbits return six position starters from a squad that finished the 2016 season with a 22-35 overall record and fourth-place finish in the league standings with a 13-17 mark.
Defending Summit League champion Oral Roberts received five first-place votes en route to earning the top spot in the poll with 25 points. SDSU received the other first-place vote and 18 points, and was followed by North Dakota State (17), Omaha (13), Western Illinois (9) and Fort Wayne (8).
 The 30-game Summit League schedule kicks off March 17, when the Jackrabbits open a three-game series at Omaha. Oral Roberts will host the four-team Summit League Baseball Championship May 24-27 at J.L. Johnson Stadium in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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EARLIER?THIS WEEK: The Jackrabbits moved indoors, winning three of four games played at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. SDSU swept a late-night/early morning doubleheader against Waldorf, followed by a loss to Minnesota on Tuesday. The Jackrabbits closed the slate of games with a win over Minnesota-Crookston on Wednesday.
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POWER SURGE: South Dakota State hit a total of four home runs in its four-game set at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
Anthony Schneider posted the first two-home-run game by a Jackrabbit this season with a pair of blasts against Minnesota on March 7, while Newt Johnson and Matt Johnson each connected for home runs March 8 against Minnesota-Crookston.
Prior to Schneider, Matt Johnson was last Jackrabbit with a two-home-run game, connecting twice against North Dakota State on April 16, 2016, at Erv Huether Field.
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SMITH HEATING UP: Sophomore utility player Nick Smith took over the team lead in batting average after hitting .714 (10-for-14) in the four games played earlier this week at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Smith hit safely in all four games, including a three-hit contest against Waldorf to open the slate and a four-hit game versus Minnesota-Crookston. Two of Smith's hits were doubles and he also stole a pair of bases.
A native of Chanhassen, Minnesota, Smith enters the weekend series at Oklahoma State with a .450 batting average for the season and has tallied six multi-hit games.
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JOHNSON OFF TO HOT START: Senior first baseman Matt Johnson has been one of the the Jackrabbits' top hitters through the first three weeks of the season. The Ankeny, Iowa, native is the lone SDSU player to record a hit in each of the first 10 games this season en route to a .400 batting average and team-best nine runs batted in.
Seven of Johnson's 14 hits have gone for extra bases — five doubles and two home runs — as he has compiled a .714 slugging percentage.
Johnson leads active Jackrabbit players with 16 career home runs after connecting on his second round-tripper of the season March 8 against Minnesota-Crookston.
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RINGHOFER'S STREAK ENDS: Jackrabbit catcher Luke Ringhofer had his school-record streak of reaching base safely in 52 consecutive games come to an end in the Jackrabbits' loss to Maine on Feb. 25, when he went 0-for-4 at the plate.
Ringhofer's streak began March 4, 2016, when he recorded a hit in the series opener at Sacramento State. A junior from Cotttage Grove, Minnesota, Ringhofer had a hit in 43 games during the streak, and drew at least one base on balls in 30 contests during that same span.
Since his streak was broken, Ringhofer has reached base safely in six consecutive games.
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SUMMIT LEAGUE HONORS FROOM: South Dakota State right-hander Ryan Froom was honored Feb. 20 as the first Summit League Pitcher of the Week for the 2017 season.
A senior from Crystal, Minnnesota, Froom hurled seven shutout innings in a 3-1 Jackrabbit victory over Chicago State Feb. 18 in Glendale, Arizona. He limited Chicago State to three hits, did not walk a batter and struck out five, including fanning the side in the top of the first inning.
In three starts this season, Froom is 2-0 with a 2.84 earned run average. He has struck out 13 batters in 19 innings and walked only four.
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FANNING THE SIDE: Three different South Dakota State pitchers struck out the side in order in an inning during the opening weekend of play.
Opening Day starter Austin Kost fanned all three batters he faced in the third inning of the Jackrabbits' Feb. 17 game against Northern Illinois.
Against Chicago State on Feb. 18, both Ryan Froom and Chris Halbur accomplished the feat. Froom struck out the side in the top of the first, while Halbur earned the save with three consecutive strikeouts in the ninth.
Halbur again struck out the side in order in earning the save in the second game of a doubleheader against Waldorf on March 7.
In six appearances covering seven innings, Halbur has not allowed a run, surrendered only two hits (.091 opponent average) and struck out nine batters.
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COACH BISHOP: Rob Bishop, who has guided college baseball teams to more than 500 victories, was named head baseball coach at South Dakota State University on Aug. 1, 2016. Bishop is the ninth head coach in program history and the fourth in the Division I era of Jackrabbit baseball.
Overall, Bishop holds a 554-327-1 record (.629 winning percentage) as a collegiate head coach, including a 5-5 mark at SDSU. He spent the previous six years at NCAA Division II member Montana State University-Billings, where he led the Yellowjackets to back-to-back Great Northwest Athletic Conference regular season titles in 2015 and 2016, attaining the program's first-ever 30-win season with a 30-20 record in 2016.
His squads also were honored as the top academic team in the GNAC each of his last three seasons.
Previously, Bishop spent 10 years at Miles City Community College in Montana, where his teams won MonDak conference championships every year. His squads also claimed five consecutive junior college region titles and a Northwest District championship in 2007 to advance to the NJCAA Division II College World Series. He also served as athletic director the last five years of his tenure at Miles City.
Bishop served as a graduate assistant at SDSU under head coach Mark Ekeland during the 1998 and 1999 seasons. In his first season as a head coach, Bishop led Huron University to the South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference title in 2000.
A 1994 graduate of Jamestown College, Bishop earned NAIA All-America honors during the 1992 and 1994 seasons as an infielder.
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THE ROSTER: The 2017 SDSU baseball roster features 36 players from five different states. Of the 36 players, 15 are from South Dakota, 10 are from Minnesota and nine hail from Iowa. California and Indiana are represented by one player each.
By class, eight are seniors, 11 are juniors, six are sophomores, two are redshirt freshmen and nine are true freshmen.
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A LOOK AHEAD: The Jackrabbits are scheduled to open Summit League play with a three-game series March 17-19 at Omaha. The series opener is set for 4 p.m. next Friday at Isaacson Field in Omaha, Nebraska.
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The Jackrabbits enter the series 5-5 overall, while Oklahoma State is 7-5 following wins over Arkansas (8-3) and Missouri State (7-3) earlier this week.
Friday's series opener is set for a 4 p.m. first pitch at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Games Saturday and Sunday are slated for 2 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.
All games will be available for free viewing at okstate.com/live.
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THE SERIES: South Dakota State and Oklahoma State will play for the first time since the 1987 season, marking the first time the two programs have met since the Jackrabbits moved to the Division I ranks at the start of the 2005 season. The Cowboys have won all 12 previous meetings since the two squads first played in 1987, recording four-game sweeps in 1982, 1985 and 1987. Oklahoma State went on to play in the College World Series each of those years under National College Baseball Hall of Fame coach Gary Ward and featured National College Baseball Hall of Fame players Pete Incaviglia and Robin Ventura.
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PRESEASON POLL: The South Dakota State University baseball team has been picked to finish second in the 2017 Summit League race, according to a poll conducted among league coaches and announced by league officials on Feb. 9.
The Jackrabbits return six position starters from a squad that finished the 2016 season with a 22-35 overall record and fourth-place finish in the league standings with a 13-17 mark.
Defending Summit League champion Oral Roberts received five first-place votes en route to earning the top spot in the poll with 25 points. SDSU received the other first-place vote and 18 points, and was followed by North Dakota State (17), Omaha (13), Western Illinois (9) and Fort Wayne (8).
 The 30-game Summit League schedule kicks off March 17, when the Jackrabbits open a three-game series at Omaha. Oral Roberts will host the four-team Summit League Baseball Championship May 24-27 at J.L. Johnson Stadium in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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EARLIER?THIS WEEK: The Jackrabbits moved indoors, winning three of four games played at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. SDSU swept a late-night/early morning doubleheader against Waldorf, followed by a loss to Minnesota on Tuesday. The Jackrabbits closed the slate of games with a win over Minnesota-Crookston on Wednesday.
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POWER SURGE: South Dakota State hit a total of four home runs in its four-game set at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
Anthony Schneider posted the first two-home-run game by a Jackrabbit this season with a pair of blasts against Minnesota on March 7, while Newt Johnson and Matt Johnson each connected for home runs March 8 against Minnesota-Crookston.
Prior to Schneider, Matt Johnson was last Jackrabbit with a two-home-run game, connecting twice against North Dakota State on April 16, 2016, at Erv Huether Field.
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SMITH HEATING UP: Sophomore utility player Nick Smith took over the team lead in batting average after hitting .714 (10-for-14) in the four games played earlier this week at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Smith hit safely in all four games, including a three-hit contest against Waldorf to open the slate and a four-hit game versus Minnesota-Crookston. Two of Smith's hits were doubles and he also stole a pair of bases.
A native of Chanhassen, Minnesota, Smith enters the weekend series at Oklahoma State with a .450 batting average for the season and has tallied six multi-hit games.
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JOHNSON OFF TO HOT START: Senior first baseman Matt Johnson has been one of the the Jackrabbits' top hitters through the first three weeks of the season. The Ankeny, Iowa, native is the lone SDSU player to record a hit in each of the first 10 games this season en route to a .400 batting average and team-best nine runs batted in.
Seven of Johnson's 14 hits have gone for extra bases — five doubles and two home runs — as he has compiled a .714 slugging percentage.
Johnson leads active Jackrabbit players with 16 career home runs after connecting on his second round-tripper of the season March 8 against Minnesota-Crookston.
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RINGHOFER'S STREAK ENDS: Jackrabbit catcher Luke Ringhofer had his school-record streak of reaching base safely in 52 consecutive games come to an end in the Jackrabbits' loss to Maine on Feb. 25, when he went 0-for-4 at the plate.
Ringhofer's streak began March 4, 2016, when he recorded a hit in the series opener at Sacramento State. A junior from Cotttage Grove, Minnesota, Ringhofer had a hit in 43 games during the streak, and drew at least one base on balls in 30 contests during that same span.
Since his streak was broken, Ringhofer has reached base safely in six consecutive games.
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SUMMIT LEAGUE HONORS FROOM: South Dakota State right-hander Ryan Froom was honored Feb. 20 as the first Summit League Pitcher of the Week for the 2017 season.
A senior from Crystal, Minnnesota, Froom hurled seven shutout innings in a 3-1 Jackrabbit victory over Chicago State Feb. 18 in Glendale, Arizona. He limited Chicago State to three hits, did not walk a batter and struck out five, including fanning the side in the top of the first inning.
In three starts this season, Froom is 2-0 with a 2.84 earned run average. He has struck out 13 batters in 19 innings and walked only four.
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FANNING THE SIDE: Three different South Dakota State pitchers struck out the side in order in an inning during the opening weekend of play.
Opening Day starter Austin Kost fanned all three batters he faced in the third inning of the Jackrabbits' Feb. 17 game against Northern Illinois.
Against Chicago State on Feb. 18, both Ryan Froom and Chris Halbur accomplished the feat. Froom struck out the side in the top of the first, while Halbur earned the save with three consecutive strikeouts in the ninth.
Halbur again struck out the side in order in earning the save in the second game of a doubleheader against Waldorf on March 7.
In six appearances covering seven innings, Halbur has not allowed a run, surrendered only two hits (.091 opponent average) and struck out nine batters.
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COACH BISHOP: Rob Bishop, who has guided college baseball teams to more than 500 victories, was named head baseball coach at South Dakota State University on Aug. 1, 2016. Bishop is the ninth head coach in program history and the fourth in the Division I era of Jackrabbit baseball.
Overall, Bishop holds a 554-327-1 record (.629 winning percentage) as a collegiate head coach, including a 5-5 mark at SDSU. He spent the previous six years at NCAA Division II member Montana State University-Billings, where he led the Yellowjackets to back-to-back Great Northwest Athletic Conference regular season titles in 2015 and 2016, attaining the program's first-ever 30-win season with a 30-20 record in 2016.
His squads also were honored as the top academic team in the GNAC each of his last three seasons.
Previously, Bishop spent 10 years at Miles City Community College in Montana, where his teams won MonDak conference championships every year. His squads also claimed five consecutive junior college region titles and a Northwest District championship in 2007 to advance to the NJCAA Division II College World Series. He also served as athletic director the last five years of his tenure at Miles City.
Bishop served as a graduate assistant at SDSU under head coach Mark Ekeland during the 1998 and 1999 seasons. In his first season as a head coach, Bishop led Huron University to the South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference title in 2000.
A 1994 graduate of Jamestown College, Bishop earned NAIA All-America honors during the 1992 and 1994 seasons as an infielder.
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THE ROSTER: The 2017 SDSU baseball roster features 36 players from five different states. Of the 36 players, 15 are from South Dakota, 10 are from Minnesota and nine hail from Iowa. California and Indiana are represented by one player each.
By class, eight are seniors, 11 are juniors, six are sophomores, two are redshirt freshmen and nine are true freshmen.
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A LOOK AHEAD: The Jackrabbits are scheduled to open Summit League play with a three-game series March 17-19 at Omaha. The series opener is set for 4 p.m. next Friday at Isaacson Field in Omaha, Nebraska.
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