This week’s Lots O’ Stuff contains all college news about area graduates.
Baseball
Jackson County Central graduate Gavin Jacobsen and the Bethany Lutheran College baseball team will host the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference tournament at ISG Field in Mankato. The Vikings are the number one for the conference tournament although were the predetermined host for the conference tourney.
Bethany won the UMAC regular-season title with a 17-3 record and is 21-9 overall.
Jacobsen has pitched in nine games for BLC, starting eight. He has a 1-2 record with a 3.76 earned run average. In 40.2 innings he’s allowed 26 runs (17 earned) on 32 hits, walking 19 and striking out 68. The 68 strikeouts is sixth on Bethany’s all-time single-season list.
Bethany Lutheran will play fourth-seeded Minnesota-Morris is the second first-round gam Thursday, scheduled for 7 p.m. The other first-round gamer at 4 p.m. has No. 2 seed Wisconsin-Superior playing No. 3 seed Crown College at 4 p.m.
The tournament continues through Saturday.
Truman native Derek Shoen, a senior with the University of Mary baseball team, is the first player in school history to be named to the all-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference team. He is a second-team choice this year after being named a first-team selection the previous two seasons.
Shoen hit .365 with a .453 on base percentage and a .624 slugging percentage. He broke the school record for hits in a season with 72. His totals of 52 runs, 13 doubles, 12 home runs and 52 runs batted in all ranked second on the team.
He finishes his Marauders three-year career with a line of .349/.450/.643 with 181 hits (second all-time), 134 runs scored (second), 35 doubles (fifth), 37 home runs (second) and 135 RBI (third). His .349 batting average ranks sixth.
Track and field
Two area grads competed in the 1500 meters for Iowa Central Community College in NJCAA Region 11 Championships in Council Bluffs.
JCC graduate Andrew Boyum placed eighth in the 13-runner field with a time of 4:11.6 and Martin County West grad Jake Lewis was 10th in 4:29.44.
Golf
Fairmont graduate Bergen Senf, a junior with the St. Olaf College women’s golf team, has been named to the all-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference team for the third time in her career with the Oles.
She is only the fourth St. Olaf women’s golfer to be a three-time all-MIAC honoree.
Senf averaged a team-best 78.9 strokes per round, which ranks fourth-best by an Ole since 2009-10, and had a low round of 73. She placed in the top 20 in seven of her eight tournaments, including three top-five finishes, and was 13th at the MIAC Championships.
Ann-Margret joins the Bay City Rollers to perform their classic song on one of her NBC specials recorded in London.
There are some interesting shots of an interesting audience.
I would have liked to have seen the finished product of what that one lady was knitting.