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Marshall Thundering Herd Founded: 1896 
University Marshall University Conference C-USA Location Huntington, WV Head Coach Jeff Waggoner (5th year) Home Stadium Appalachian Power Park
(Capacity: 6,200)Nickname Thundering Herd Colors Kelly Green and White NCAA Tournament Appearances 1973, 1978 Conference Champions WVAC: 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931
Buckeye: 1933, 1934, 1935
SoCon: 1978, 1981The Marshall Thundering Herd baseball team represents the Marshall University in NCAA Division I college baseball and competes in Conference USA. The current head coach of the Herd is Jeff Waggoner. Marshall currently plays their conference home games off-campus in Charleston, West Virginia at Appalachian Power Park.
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Home venues
- Kennedy Center Field (Non-conference games)
- Appalachian Power Park (Conference USA games)
History
Marshall baseball, who won the Southern Conference in 1978 and 1981 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 1973 and 1978, finished as runner-up in the 2008 C-USA Baseball Tournament, falling in the finals to Houston, 3–2, but winning a MU record 30 games without a home field to use in Huntington for the entire season (Marshall has played C-USA games at Charleston's Appalachian Power Park since joining the league in 2006). For the first time since 1994, MU had players drafted in the June 5–6 Major League Baseball Draft with a school-record three being selected, plus one recruit in 2008. Steve Blevins, who tied the single-season wins mark with a 9–3 mark, signed with the Minnesota Twins on June 11, while Nate Lape was drafted by the Colorado Rockies and Tommy Johnson by the Seattle Mariners. Lape and second baseman Adam Yeager are playing this summer in the Cape Cod League, the premier wooden bat summer college baseball league, for the Brewster Whitecaps.
Houston vs. Marshall in the 2010 Conference USA Baseball Tournament
Marshall has an all time record of 1,232-1,346-12 (prior to the 2011 season).[1]
Rivalries
Tulane University and the Herd baseball team now seem to be bitter rivals as MU was 3–1–1 against the Green Wave in 2008, winning its first game ever back in April in New Orleans. Marshall returned to the "Big Easy" in May and knocked Tulane out of the C-USA Tournament on the Green Wave home field, Turchin Stadium, in the C-USA Tournament, 10–5 and 8–7. Yeager stole a league-record five bases against TU in the opening win, while Jeff Rowley scored the winning run in game two on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth.
Notable players
- Rick Reed
- Jeff Montgomery
- Harry Young, College Football Hall of Fame member
References
- ^ "2011 Marshall Baseball Media Guide ." 2011 Marshall University Baseball Media Guide Retrieved on March 16, 2011.
Conference USA baseball Teams ECU Pirates • Houston Cougars • Marshall Thundering Herd • Memphis Tigers • Rice Owls • Southern Miss Golden Eagles • Tulane Green Wave • UAB Blazers • UCF Knights
Championships Marshall Thundering Herd head baseball coaches Unknown (1896) • No team (1897) • Unknown (1898–1900) • M. M. Scott (1901–1902) • George Ford (1903–1904) • Pennypacker (1905) • No team (1906–1909) • Boyd Chambers (1910–1917) • Carl Ridgley (1918–1919) • Arch Reilly (1920) • Herbert Cramer (1921) • Skeeter Shelton (1922–1923) • Harrison Briggs (1924) • Russell Meredith (1925) • No team (1926) • Johnny Stuart (1927–1932) • Roy M. Hawley (1933–1935) • Francis Farley (1936–1937) • Cam Henderson (1938) • No team (1939–1941) • Kyle Tackett (1942) • Johnny Watson (1943) • No team (1944–1946) • Joe Binns (1947–1949) • Howard Hood (1950–1951) • Joe Binns (1952–1954) • Jack Cook (1955) • Bill Chambers (1956–1960) • Alvis Brown (1961–1965) • Jack Cook (1966–1989) • Howard McCann (1990–1995) • Craig Antush (1996–1998) • David Piepenbrink (1998–2006) • Jeff Waggoner (2007– )
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