Southern Arkansas University
Contact: Houston Taylor MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Opening day for the 2012 Southern Arkansas baseball season will have to wait one more day as rain and inclement weather in San Antonio, Texas, has postponed this weekend’s regularly scheduled games there against Incarnate Word. The No. 22 Muleriders and No. 26 Cardinal were set to open the [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Trailblazer…pioneer…educator…coach…are some of the many words used to describe Southern Arkansas University’s Dr. Margaret R. Downing, who will be inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame Friday at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. Downing’s long journey at SAU began in 1965 when she was named women’s basketball [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Southern Arkansas was an almost unanimous selection as the preseason favorite to win the inaugural Great American Conference baseball championship, receiving seven first-place votes in the coaches’ poll released this week. The Muleriders also received one vote to finish second. SAU totaled 63 points to gain the top spot [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas Mulerider baseball team has scheduled its 10th annual “batter up” fish fry fund-raiser for Tuesday, January 24, at the Ole Feed House from 4:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased from any SAU baseball player or by calling the baseball office [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor, SID MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Southern Arkansas enters the 2012 baseball season ranked 22nd in the official Collegiate Baseball Newspaper (CBN) NCAA Division II coaches’ pre-season poll, and is tabbed at 12th in the College Baseball Lineup rankings. The Muleriders, 36-16 a year ago, finished last season ranked 30th in the coaches’ CBN [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor ST. LOUIS – Former Southern Arkansas standout catcher Jamie Pogue (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) was recently named the new bullpen catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. A known quantity in the Cardinal’s organization, Pogue, 34, was a catcher in their farm system from 2000 through the end of the 2003 spring training camp [...]
Contact: Houston Taylor LAGOS DE MORENO, Mexico – Former Southern Arkansas baseball standout Skyler Stromsmoe (Etzikom, Alberta) and his teammates led Canada to its first Pan Am Games baseball gold medal with a 2-1 win over the U.S. this past Tuesday. The Canadian team defeated host Mexico, 5-3, in the semi-finals on Monday. The gold [...]