ON TAPMacalester is scheduled for its home opener, Saturday, by facing Bethel in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at 1 p.m.
A video stream of the game and live stats can be found by going to
http://portal.stretchinternet.com/.
WHEN LAST WE METThe Scots and Royals opened their MIAC schedules against each other last season with a doubleheader which was moved to Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and Bethel came away with a 4-3, 11-6 sweep of the twin bill.
In game one, the Scots overcame a 3-0 deficit by scoring single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings but Nik Anderson's bases-loaded single in the bottom of the seventh ended the game after Macalester had outhit the Royals, 11-6, getting two hits apiece from Jonathan Mels,
Tom Forster and Aiden Hennen.
Game two saw the Scots answer Bethel's three-run second with a five-run third but the Royals would come back to tie the game, only to see Macalester regain the lead on Forster's sixth-inning RBI single before Bethel plated six runs in the seventh inning to finish the doubleheader sweep.
NATIONAL RANKINGSA total of 375 teams play NCAA Division III baseball and, through their first 10 games, the Scots are ranked highly in several categories.
INDIVIDUALS| Category | Player | Rank | Actual | National Leader | Actual |
| Sacrifice Flies | Quentin Stuart | 12 | 3 | John Wiehe, Chapman | 6 |
| Home Runs | Nick McMullen | 15 | 4 | Devon DeRaad, Occidental | 11 |
| Doubles Per Game | Sam Berk | 21 | 0.67 | Alex Weinstein, NJCity | 1.17 |
| Batting Average | Sam Berk | 48 | .516 | Beau Horan, Williams | .750 |
TEAM| Category | Rank | Actual | National Leader | Actual |
| Slugging Percentage | 3 | .565 | Purchase | .705 |
| Scoring | 4 | 10.9 | Purchase | 14.7 |
| Home Runs Per Game | 6 | 1.10 | Purchase | 1.33 |
| Batting Average | 10 | .362 | Purchase | .390 |
| Triples Per Game | 10 | 0.90 | Purchase | 1.67 |
| Home Runs | 11 | 11 | Pomona-Pitzer | 21 |
| Triples | 18 | 9 | Cal Lutheran, La Verne | 17 |
| On Base Percentage | 25 | .438 | Purchase | .496 |
PROBABLE LINEUP HE'S THE BOSSThe longest-tenured head coach at Macalester,
Matt Parrington is in his 16th season as the school's head baseball coach. His career record of 247-324-2 makes him the winningest coach in school history.
Parrington was the 2011 MIAC coach of the year after leading Macalester to the regular-season crown its first MIAC championship in 61 years. He has led the Scots to playoff appearances in 2000 and 2011.
Parrington is a 1991 graduate of Minnesota State University – Mankato, where he earned an undergraduate degree in mass communication and a master's degree in sports administration in 1993. He enjoyed a career as both an outfielder and pitcher and was a member of three North Central Conference championship teams while playing under American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame head coach Dean Bowyer. Following his playing career, he served as a graduate assistant coach with duties as the team's pitching coach.
Parrington came to Macalester from the Milwaukee Brewers front office in the fall of 1996, where he served as a sales manager in the season ticket and group sales office. During his first three years on staff at Macalester he was the associate head coach under his predecessor, Steve Hauser, and served as recruiting coordinator.
During the summer of 2012, Parrington was inducted into the Class A Minnesota State Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame for his on field play with the Minnetonka Millers.
UP NEXTMacalester has a pair MIAC doubleheaders scheduled for next week, beginning Wednesday with a 2:30 p.m. home twin bill versus fourth-ranked St. Thomas. The Scots will follow that up by facing Carleton in a pair of games, Saturday, in Northfield, Minn., beginning at 1 p.m.
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