Baseball Opens Home Schedule with Minnesota
3/5/2015 9:51:00 PM | Baseball
OMAHA, Neb. - The Creighton Baseball team opens its 2015 home schedule on Saturday, March 7 against Minnesota at 3:30 pm. The two teams will wrap up a three-game series with a doubleheader on Sunday, March 8 at 12:30 pm.
Minnesota at Creighton
March 7 @ 3:30 pm
March 8 @ 12:30 pm (DH)
Live Stats: http://creighton.statbroadcast.com
Radio: 1180 KZOT
Saturday's Call: Dave Gustafson & Kevin McNabb
Sunday: John Bishop & Dave Gustafson
Webstream: http://www.nmnathletics.com/liveEvents/liveEvents.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1000&DB_OEM_ID=1000
Minnesota vs. Creighton Series
Minnesota holds a 23-21 series edge on the Bluejays. Creighton took two of three from the Golden Gophers last season. Playing a neutral site series in Fort Myers last season, Creighton took the final two games 11-4 & 8-0.
About Minnesota
- Located in Minneapolis, Minn.
- Minnesota has an enrollment of 50,833.
- Known as the Golden Gophers.
- Minnesota finished 2014 with a 27-24 record and an 13-11 mark in Big Ten.
- The Golden Gophers returns five position starters from its 2014 season.
- Minnesota was not picked to finish in the top six of the Big Ten's preseason coaches poll.
Minnesota Head Coach John Anderson
- Has an overall record of 1,154-772-3, all at Minnesota.
- Anderson has guided the Gophers to nine regular season Big Ten titles and a conference-best nine Big Ten Tournament titles.
- He has led the Golden Gophers to 17 NCAA Tournament Appearances
- Anderson has seen 18 former players make it to the MLB, including 2014 All-Stars Glen Perkins and Jack Hannahan.
- A 1977 graduate of Minnesota, Anderson was a graduate assistant in 1978, an assistant coach from 1979-81 and has been the head coach since 1981.
Scouting the Golden Gophers (2015: 3-7)
It has already been an exciting week for the Golden Gophers as Minnesota traveled to Fort Myers, Florida to play the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday.
Following the 3-1 loss, the Golden Gophers returned home and will now play three games in the home of the College World Series over the weekend.
Minnesota opened the 2015 season with back-to-back weekends in Texas as the Golden Gophers were swept by No. 3 Houston and again by No. 10 Texas to start the year 0-7.
Last weekend Minnesota did some cleaning of its own by sweeping the series from Florida Gulf Coast.
Through 10 games the Golden Gophers have struggled at the dish, hitting a combined .208 as a team. Just three players, Matt Fielder (.324), Toby Hanson (.320) and Jordan Smith (.278), are hitting over .225.
On the mound Minnesota has a team ERA of 6.05, issuing 44 walks in 83.1 innings.
The stats, however, are a bit misleading as the Golden Gophers have played seven games against teams ranked No. 10 (four at Texas) and No. 3 (three at Houston).
