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The Maneater

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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Tigers overpower Blue Jays in fall scrimmage

Tigers overpower Blue Jays in fall scrimmage

Hunter Woodall October 4, 2011

For the MU baseball team, the first exhibition game of the fall was anything but normal. A Canadian high school team sat in the visitor’s dugout, a senior spent an inning as the first base coach and...

Youth movement consumes dominant Missouri softball program

Youth movement consumes dominant Missouri softball program

Seth Boster September 27, 2011

First baseman Kelsea Roth is walking through an empty field with three of her nine freshman teammates. It’s about 9 p.m., but clouds block the moon from illuminating the players' way. The women just...

Four Tigers selected in MLB Draft

Four Tigers selected in MLB Draft

Nate Atkins July 6, 2011

Four Tigers will soon take their talents to the professional level. Missouri baseball players Matt Stites, Phil McCormick, Conner Mach and Zach Hardoin were recently selected in the Major League Baseball...

Four Tigers selected in MLB Draft

Four Tigers selected in MLB Draft

Nate Atkins June 18, 2011

Four Tigers will now take their talents to the professional level, as Missouri baseball players Matt Stites, Phil McCormick, Conner Mach and Zach Hardoin were recently selected in the Major League Baseball...

Roller-coaster season ends in heartbreak for Missouri

Nate Atkins June 1, 2011

All season long, Missouri Tigers baseball coach Tim Jamieson waited patiently for his young team to grow up, bond together and play to its potential. All season long, Jamieson was really waiting for the...

Softball freshman Ruggeberg embraces opportunity

Softball freshman Ruggeberg embraces opportunity

Pat Iversen May 6, 2011

There’s an old saying about how opportunity only knocks once. In Missouri softball freshman Maddison Ruggeberg’s case, she made sure opportunity made plenty of return visits. Given a pinch-hit appearance...

MU softball's Thomas receives national team tryout

MU softball’s Thomas receives national team tryout

Pat Iversen May 6, 2011

As far as Wednesdays go, it’s hard to imagine topping the one Chelsea Thomas had this week. The sophomore pitcher made history against Western Illinois, striking out her 287th batter to break the Missouri...

No love for the no-no

Mike Vorel May 6, 2011

The no-no just isn’t what it once was. On Tuesday, Twins starter Francisco Liriano tossed a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox, dispatching the cellar-dwelling South Siders in a career-high 123...

Missouri suffers déjà-vu in loss to in-state rivals

Nate Atkins May 4, 2011

Exactly one week after in-state rival Missouri State blanked the Missouri baseball team, the Bears dealt the Tigers an eerily similar defeat Tuesday. Missouri lost by a score of 5-0 to bring its record...

Sports share close bond with patriotism

Jake Kreinberg May 3, 2011

The date was Oct. 30, 2001, and the New York Yankees were about to play the Arizona Diamondbacks in the third game of the World Series, the first Fall Classic game played in New York City following 9/11. Former...

Missouri baseball riding offense to improved play

Missouri baseball riding offense to improved play

Nate Atkins May 3, 2011

The worst part of the past weekend for the Missouri baseball team came when Sunday’s game against Texas A&M -- which the Aggies led 3-2 when rain forced the tarps to cover the diamond -- was changed...

Missouri baseball stuns Texas A&M in series opener

Mike Vorel April 30, 2011

The Missouri baseball team hosted the No. 6 Texas A&M Aggies on Friday night in a battle between two teams at opposite ends of the Big 12 spectrum. The Aggies came into the game atop the conference standings...