Getting my first look at the NDSU baseball team that has put itself in position to stick together one of its finest seasons ever. The Bison are 16-5 after beating UND the first two games of the series and a team can’t attain that kind of a won-lost mark without a major factor in baseball: pitching.
It’s tough to do in a northern climate. Most of the hot young high school arms go south somewhere thanks to recruiting resources that span the country. The Bison won 10 straight and here are the runs they gave up in those games: 1-3-8-0-1-3-0-5-0-1. Credit that to the starting rotation of John Straka (Chaska, Minn.), Bryant Larson (Fargo North), Luke Anderson (Savage, Minn.) and Zach Wentz (Bismarck Century). Larson and Straka, by the way, have both come back from Tommy John surgery.
That’s how head coach Tod Brown has done it: find guys in the Upper Midwest who are generally multi-sport athletes that had yet to concentrate on baseball. Get them in one sport all year-around, develop them and that’s how NDSU is 17-5. On Saturday, a school single-game record 1,267 fans showed up at Newman Outdoor Field.
Well, its 70 out duh.
The record crowd was nice but this program has the potential to average 3,000 fans per game. We have a tremendous stadium and good marketable games against Minnesota. And its cheap. $5 adults and $3 kids. Heck i got in for free with my teammakers crowd. There’s not much going on. Football and basketball are done. College Hockey is done. Tailgating weather is perfect. Advertise and build some tradition
NDSU plays in one of the nicest college baseball stadiums for mid majors, heck all of college baseball… Its a shame weather isn’t very nice like this spring. Keep scheduling with UND and Minnesota at home. Those are the only teams people will come to see.
South Dakota State will be a big draw too. Most conference games have some potential. Too bad Oral Roberts is leaving. Maybe we should try to get some games with the Missouri Valley. The Summit is sort of weak without ORU and SUU. Not enough teams
Keep winning and people will come…
Only to a point. If it’s 47 degrees and windy, attendance isn’t going to be like today against anyone.
But in a few weeks, warmer temps are somewhat normal. Whats the average temperature in mid April?
Average temp for Fargo on April 15th is 56 degrees
56 is plenty warm. Besides the Twins seem to ne alright in April
Put a roof on the place! I am just kidding.
Minn april 25 2000+ mark it down.
Oru & sdsu over 1200+ as well.
This team is that good!
Heres the top 50 attendance leaders. I think we have the ability to crack the top 50. http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2011/01/06/2010-ncaa-baseball-attendance-leaders/
Excellent attendance. We need to be doing this with UND every year in all sports. The interest is there.
Nothing in forum or herald on todays sweep and its 7pm.
Not shocking, when will Fargos paper be actually ndsu’s.
The lead story with two photos was on the NDSU-UND baseball game.
I was talking about inforum.com about sunday since I posted at 7 didnt you see that?
Thanks
And todays is from tom miller. We down in fargo would like our “own” paper, its really disheartening.
I will concur with the judge.
back to baseball, I dont see a loss for ndsu upcoming, ipfw, sdsu, wiu are not “great” baseball teams. Oral Roberts is even down this year.
are we are talking 35-10 record for NDSU by the end of the season?