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April 29, 2002 VIKING BASEBALL 2002AUGUSTANA (22-20, 9-7 NCC) heads to Marshall, Minn., Wednesday, May 1, to play Southwest State University (22-25) in a non-conference doubleheader beginning at 1:30 p.m. THE VIKINGS were in Greeley, Colo., last weekend where they lost three of four North Central Conference games to the University of Northern Colorado Bears (18-24, 9-7). Augie won the first game of the series on Saturday, 6-4, behind senior pitcher Dan Allard (4-5). The right-hander from Bloomington, Minn., went the distance. He gave up seven hits, struck out four, and walked three. The Vikings scored five runs in the seventh inning on just one hit, Phil Lang's RBI single. UNC pitchers walked four Augie batters and hit two others. The Bears also had two fielding errors. Lang and Brad Bornhorst each went 2-for-4. UNC won the second game, 4-2. It was the first loss of the season for Augie pitcher Owen Hoegh (5-1). Hoegh gave up seven hits, walked two, and struck out three while going the distance. Sam Everson was 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles. Ryan Dunlavey also doubled. UNC won the opener on Sunday, 9-6, scoring five runs in the last inning. Augustana stranded 13 runners. Andy Salmela, Everson, Kevin Wiessner, and Lang all smashed doubles for the Vikings. Allard was 2-for-3 with two RBI. Lang was 3-for-4, and Everson 2-for-3. The Bears won the night cap, 15-14, as each team pounded out 17 hits. Salmela was was 4-for-6 with a pair of doubles and two RBI. Dunlavey was 2-for-6 with two doubles and four RBI. Scott Harden was 4-for-4 with a home run, double and two RBI. Augustana 000 001 5 - 6 9 3 Northern Colorado 021 001 0 - 4 7 4 Dan Allard and Phil Lang; Borland, Symons (7), Costanzo (7) and Rankin. Augustana 000 002 0 - 2 8 2 Northern Colorado 101 020 X - 4 7 1 Owen Hoegh and Scott Harden; Michael and Wiley. Augustana 002 002 2 - 6 11 3 Northern Colorado 010 111 5 - 9 10 4 Ben Iverson, Eric Kerkvliet (6) and Phil Lang; Telitz, Self (7) and Garcia. Augustana 002 052 5 - 14 17 2 Northern Colorado 144 030 3 - 15 17 2 Doug Groebner, Jeff Heinrich (3), Jeremy Schultz (5), Owen Hoegh (7) and Scott Harden; Beck, Costanzo (5), Self (5), Borland (6), Michael (6), Sands (7) and Wiley, Garcia (4). THE VIKINGS' Owen Hoegh has set a school record for strikeouts in a season with 55. Doug Groebner has set the Augustana career record for runs scored with 152. Andy Salmela has tied the Augustana career record for doubles with 39. He owns the career record for RBIs with 140. He has 177 hits, four shy of the career record set by Jason Lloyd in 1990-93. The Vikings have tied the school record for most NCC wins in a season with nine. COMPLETE statistics for Augustana baseball can be found at www.augie.edu/athletics/ JEFF HOLM is in his first year as Augustanaís head coach. He succeeds Brett McCabe, who resigned in August, 2001, to accept an assistant coaching position at the University of Kanas. Holm, a native of Brookings, S.D., was the head baseball coach and a member of the Admission Office recruiting staff at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., for three years. He led Millikin to back-to-back 20-win seasons in 2000 and 2001, and was named Coach of the Year in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin. He played baseball at Minnesota State University, Mankato and later taught and coached in Watertown, S.D. He completed his masterís degree at South Dakota State University in 1997, and served as an assistant coach at SDSU in 1997 and 1998. VIKING assistant coaches for the 2002 season are Matt Schuldt, Brian Hunt, and Jason Mathys. VIKINGS ROSTER
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