Baseball
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Butler baseball looks to improve after last season’s disappointment
ERIC ROBINSON | STAFF REPORTER The Butler baseball team plays its first game against Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee Feb. 13. The Bulldogs are looking to improve during their second year in the Big East. Last season, the team finished with a 20-30 record, just one game short of qualifying for the four-team Big East…
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Eric Stout drafted by Kansas City Royals
Senior Eric Stout was chosen in the 13th round of this year’s Major League Baseball draft by the Kansas City Royals. Stout has posted a 14-17 record over three seasons at Butler, including 159 strikeouts in 207 innings pitched. He led the team in strikeouts (64) and innings pitched (67.2) during his junior season while making…
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Bulldogs Prepare for Indiana State
JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter The Butler baseball team has a game today at Victory Field in downtown Indianapolis against Indiana State. The game starts at 3 p.m., and tickets will sell for $5. The Bulldogs (16-22, 4-5) are going into the game coming off a series win against Xavier. They .will face a Sycamore…
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Bulldogs Look to Conference Play
JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter Butler baseball will open Big East play at home against Seton Hall this weekend. The Bulldogs enter conference play with a record of 11-16. The team played five games last week, going 2-3. The Bulldogs beat Wabash last Wednesday, lost to Xavier and Louisville in a doubleheader on Saturday, beat…
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Baseball continues to struggle
JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter Butler’s baseball team is coming off another rough weekend in which it dropped all three of its games. They now look ahead to the home opener. The schedule for last weekend’s games was changed last minute. Instead of facing Samford for a three-game series, Butler played Samford on Friday and…
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Pitching in for a cause
JOE HASENSTAB | Staff Reporter The Butler baseball team has taken time out of its busy schedule to get involved with a charity known as “More Than Me”. More Than Me is a charity that works with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Tyler Beede, a pitcher at Vanderbilt University, founded the movement along with the help of…
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PHOTO GALLERY: Old Spice Classic
[cincopa A4KA4UbCer30] Photos by Marko Tomich
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Former Bulldog dons Yankee pinstripes
BY KYLE BEERY | ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Radley Haddad is trying to join the likes of Pat Neshek and Dan Johnson as former Butler University baseball players to play in Major League Baseball. Haddad, a 2013 Butler graduate and Carmel native, is beginning offseason workouts after finishing his first season as a catcher with the New…