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Record: 17-28 Home: 7-7 Away: 6-11 Neutral: 4-10 MCC: 11-12
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Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:36 PM - [Baseball]
Cameron Olinger homered in first game
Cameron Olinger homered in first game
The Vikings traveled to Kansas City over the weekend to take on Avila University where they dropped a doubleheader 15-5 and 7-3.

The Vikings clung on to a 3-2 lead going in to the bottom of the third, but the Eagles scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 7-3 lead. The Vikings responded in the top of the fifth with A.J. Krist (West Des Moines, Iowa) and Chris Cutler singles (Des Moines, Iowa). Jeff Brooks (Forest Lake, Minn.) doubled to bring in Krist, and Kyler Morgan (Carlisle, Iowa) singled to bring in Cutler to cut the Eagles lead 7-5. The Eagles exploded for seven runs in the fifth to take a commanding 13-5 lead. The Vikings could not push anymore runs across in the top of the sixth inning and the Eagles tacked on two more runs to end the game.

Cameron Olinger (Puyallup, Wash.) hit his first home run of the season and drove in two runs. Jeff Brooks ended up with two hits in the first game to highlight the Vikings.
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Mon, Feb 22, 2010 - [Baseball]
Nick Billinger homered in GV's final win of weekend
Nick Billinger homered in GV's final win of weekend
The Vikings split a four-game series with Oklahoma Wesleyan over the weekend in Minneapolis, Minn. The Vikings won the first game 5-4, dropped the next two contests 4-3 and 5-4, before winning the final game of the series 4-1.

In the first game on Friday, the Vikings started slow, but erupted for a three-run sixth inning. The inning started with Devlin Hogans (Des Moines, Iowa) was hit by a pitch start the inning followed by a double from Cory Burnes (Tama, Iowa) to drive Hogans in. Chris Cutler (Des Moines, Iowa) and Marc Mericle (West Des Moines, Iowa) both reached base and were driven in on an A.J. Krist (West Des Moines, IA) double to trim the lead to one.
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Mon, Feb 8, 2010 - [Baseball]
Kyler Morgan went 4-for-4
Kyler Morgan went 4-for-4
The Viking baseball team opened the 2010 season with two victories over Morningside in the Metrodome in Minneapolis o Saturday. The Vikings won the first game 5-4 in eight innings and second game 10-3.

Grand View got on the board early in the first inning when Brady Wathen (Ankeny, Iowa) hit a triple and was brought in by Curtis Quijano (Des Moines, Iowa) on a groundout to the shortstop.

With the score tied 1-1 in the fourth inning Matt Dunn (Clive, Iowa) hit a single to get on base, pinch runner Kyle Strauss (West Des Moines, Iowa) stole second and was moved to third on a ground ball by Marc Mericle (West Des Moines, IA). Nick Billinger (Windsor, Co.) reached on a fielders choice and drove in Strauss to give a Vikings a 2-1 lead. Billinger would later score in the inning to give the Vikings a 3-1 lead after the fourth inning.
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Thu, Feb 4, 2010 - [Baseball]
Partnership Attracts Hundreds of Employers for Current and Former Collegiate Athletes
Partnership Attracts Hundreds of Employers for Current and Former Collegiate Athletes

The University Athletic Department and Career Athletes have recently agreed to a partnership providing Grand View University student-athletes a truly unique resource for career development.

Over the past 10 years, Career Athletes has conducted over 800 training and development seminars at universities throughout the country providing much needed career education for over 250,000 student-athletes. In addition to their proprietary training and development seminars, Career Athletes builds and maintains customized career networking web sites for individual university athletic departments providing additional career education, mentors, access to career opportunities and potential employers upon graduation, and a platform to connect with athletic alumni who are encouraged to join the network as mentors and/or job seekers.

"It's obvious that the administration at Grand View University cares about its student-athletes beyond their playing days and graduation, and we are excited to be partnered with such an outstanding institution," said Chris Smith CEO and President of Career Athletes. "Due to the demanding nature of collegiate athletics, these athletes face a unique set of challenges regarding career development not typically experienced by the general student-body. The current economic environment will provide even greater challenges for today's student-athletes to overcome, making career development more important than ever."

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Thu, Dec 3, 2009 - [Baseball]

The Grand View University baseball and softball teams came together for a Champions of Character event to donate gifts to senior citizens this holiday season. The head coaches from both teams (Lou Yacinich Sr. & Lou Yacinich Jr.) met with Anne Peters, owner of Home Instead Senior Care, and were given ornaments with names of the senior citizens and a gift they were hoping to get this season. The head coaches passed the ornaments out to players from both teams and on December 2nd participated in a gift-giving assembly in between the men and women's basketball games. This program was called Santas for Seniors and the Grand View baseball and softball teams donated over 100 gifts altogether. The gifts go directly to seniors in the Central Iowa area.

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