Bethany College
Spring Sports
Lindsborg News- Record:  Thursday, April 30, 1998-
Volume 120 Number 39, Page B4
Bethany Baseball '98
Baseball
    The Bethany baseball Swedes are at the top of the Kansas Conference as they are nearing the end of the season and the KCAC conference championship race.  There is no KCAC post-season tournament for baseball, and the regular champion will advance to the NAIA Great Plains Regionals.
    Undefeated in four games last week, Bethany won road doubleheaders over Tabor College on Wednesday (7-3, 7-6) and at Kansas Wesleyan University on Saturday (14-7, 9-1).
    At Salina in the opener Bethany's six-run fourth inning not only erased a 6-0 deficit but also effectively shut down the KWU Coyotes' running game the rest of the day.  "KWU has been our nemesis in the conference during my years as head coach, not only because it's such a great rivalry.  We went to Salina and were down 6-0 after three innings with our ace Clay Witt on the mound, and it would have been easy for us just to look ahead to the second game.  The comeback shows the strides we've made toward being a championship team.  Our two freshmen (relief pitchers Daniel Regan and Clint Strassburg)  came in and did a great job, and then our bats woke up," coach Mike Waldie said.
    In the nightcap Bethany's Jeremy Cantrell tossed a complete game six-hitter while Jason Schmeiser and Nate Sungy belted solo home runs.
    The KCAC took coach Waldies' nomination of Nate Sungy and named him the KCAC position- player of the week in the conference.
    The Swedes began this week at 10-4 in the KCAC and 20-16 overall, because of rain delays, the Swede were to host Ottawa U. Braves in a doubleheader on Wednesday, April 29 at 4 p.m.  If the rain continues these games will be played Thursday, April 30 beginning at 1 p.m.  Bethany will host Sterling on Saturday at 1 p.m., and then next week on May 6 will travel to Friends University in Wichita to close out the year.  The NAIA Great Plains Regionals will be played this year in South Dakota.

[Compiler's Note: the sections about Softball, Track & Field, and Golf were omitted from the full News-Record article that would normally be seen in the printed paper.]

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