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Ted Galbreath Assistant Coach
John Meyer Baseball Fact
The Yellow Jackets possess what is arguably the finest baseball field in the American Mideast Conference. The facility, designed and built by athletic director Pete Reese, was opened in the fall of 1999.
| NCCAA TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
MIDWEST REGIONAL -- NATIONAL TOURNAMENT 17-25 (.405) Overall
5-14 (.263) American Mideast Conference South Division
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NCCAA All-American Jeff Lowe finished the season with a team-high .403 batting average.
| Oren, Lowe pick up top baseball awards
CEDARVILLE, Ohio - Jon Oren was presented the NCCAA Unlimited Potential Player of the Year Award while Jeff Lowe was named an NCCAA All-American for the 2003 campaign. Oren, who batted .362 while starting all 42 games at third base for the Yellow Jackets, was recognized in voting by the NCCAA national tournament coaches. He has taken missions trips to Paraguay and China, and he is a member of the One Crown Servants baseball squad out of Indianapolis, which plays in the Great Lakes Collegiate League. Lowe is CU's first NCCAA All-American after batting a team-high .403 with a school-record 47 RBI's. T.J. Couch earned a spot on the NCCAA National All-Tournament Team and the NAIA Region IX Team. He, along with Lowe, were the Jackets' representatives on the American Mideast Conference South Division Team. Couch, Lowe, Oren, Forrest Greetham, and John Myers were NCCAA Midwest Region selections. Oren, Greetham, Eric Carroll, Jacob Richardson, and Dave Terrill were NCCAA All-America Scholar-Athletes which are juniors and seniors who maintain a minimum 3.40 cumulative grade point average. [SEE NAIA ALL-AMERICANS AND NCCAA AWARDS]
Defending champ ousts CU
CELINA, Ohio (5-15-2003) - Defending national champion Bethel shut down Cedarville, 4-0, to end the Yellow Jackets' season at the National Christian College Athletic Association Tournament. The Pilots broke a scoreless contest when they manufactured a run in the top of the fifth inning. They added another run in the sixth and two more in the seventh. Each had four hits. Jeff Lowe went 2-for-3 with a double for the Jackets. O.J. Skiles and Brody Morris added singles. [BOXSCORE]
CU wins, loses at NCCAA
CELINA, Ohio (5-14-2003) - No. 9 seed Cedarville won their first-ever NCCAA National Tournament game, 3-1, over No. 8 Greenville before dropping a 2-0 pitchers' duel in the second round to No. 1 Spring Arbor. T.J. Couch tossed a one-hitter in the opener allowing an unearned run with 10 strikeouts. The Jackets scored twice in the second inning when Andrew Noble, who went 3-for-3 in the game, opened with a single, moved to third on a double by O.J. Skiles, and scored on Eric Carroll's RBI single. Forrest Greetham pushed Skiles across the plate with a successful suicide squeeze bunt. CU plated their third run in the fourth inning when Noble doubled and Carroll followed with another RBI single. Greenville scored in the sixth inning after two were out due to back-to-back errors committed by the Jackets sandwiched around a stolen base. [GAME 1 BOXSCORE] The second game was a rematch of the Midwest Regional when Cedarville claimed their first region banner after posting back-to-back wins against Spring Arbor. This time, the top-seeded Cougars broke a scoreless tie by scoring two runs after two were out in the sixth inning spoiling an outstanding pitching performance by freshman lefthander Matt Bonin. He allowed four hits and struck out six without walking a batter, but three of those hits came in the decisive sixth frame. The Jackets managed only two hits - a second-inning single by Eric Carroll and a single by Brody Morris in the fourth. The last 10 CU batters were retired in order. [GAME 2 BOXSCORE]
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