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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Erwin steps up despite freshman nerves

Matthew Flores March 2, 2012

It was a warm, humid Saturday night in Palm Springs, Calif., and the bases were loaded. Freshman pitcher Bailey Erwin was in the circle for the Missouri Tigers, watching as the four-spot batter for University...

Missouri drops home baseball opener to Ball State

Brandon Grammer March 2, 2012

The Missouri baseball team's 5-2 loss to Ball State was not quite the ideal home opener it had in mind. Squaring off against the Ball State Cardinals, the Tigers were looking to take their minds off a...

With new faces, Tigers aim for familiar places

With new faces, Tigers aim for familiar places

Ian Frazer February 17, 2012

To say the Missouri softball team’s 2011 season ended in heartbreak would be a massive understatement. Thirteen scoreless innings and 19 Chelsea Thomas strikeouts, as well as the Tigers’ season, ended...

Missouri baseball channels lasting memories for one more swing

Missouri baseball channels lasting memories for one more swing

Nate Atkins February 17, 2012

It was almost as if it were still the 10th inning against Texas A&M, when both the literal and figurative heat of the May day’s 9-9 deadlock held a Big 12 Conference championship at ransom. Missouri...

Black and Gold scrimmage provides first look at Missouri softball

Black and Gold scrimmage provides first look at Missouri softball

Ian Frazer February 11, 2012

To a casual observer, everything must have seemed backward during the No. 5 Missouri softball team’s Black and Gold Intersquad game, which the Black team won 8-0 on Saturday at Dan Devin Pavillion. Redshirt...

Missouri basketball sees week of hope, disappointment

Missouri basketball sees week of hope, disappointment

Pat Iversen October 7, 2011

As far as mixed emotions go, this past week for Missouri basketball was quite the roller coaster. Missouri senior guard Marcus Denmon was named to the preseason all-Big 12 team, as voted on by the league...

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...