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Baseball's Beauford Sanders Reaches New Milestone of 800 Wins

Campbellsville, Kentucky

The coaching career for Campbellsville University's Beauford Sanders has certainly been legendary.  After inheriting the program in July of 1990, Sanders has revamped Tiger Baseball into one of the nation's best programs.  After reaching the 700th win of his career in 2006, Coach Sanders reached #800 on Friday afternoon against visiting Indiana Tech.  The Tigers jumped out to an early 7-1 lead, only to see it slip away late.  Trailing 8-7 in the last inning, the Tigers rallied and dropped Indiana Tech on a Colin Bryan (San Jose, California) sacrifice fly.  Bryan Chase (San Jose, CA) led the charge offensively going 2 for 4, while cranking his second homer of the year.


An emotional Sanders after the game was showered in ice water by the Campbellsville players.  Of his success, Sanders humbly remarked that a lot has gone into reaching 800 wins.  "You recruit good players that are good people, you hire good Assistant Coaches, and you work hard," said Sanders.  "If you can do all of those things and your guys are willing to buy into what you are trying to teach, the winning will take care of itself."

Sanders began his Head Coaching career at North Greenville Community College in South Carolina before coming over to Kentucky and taking the helm of the Tiger program.  His combined record between the two schools now sits at 800-639.

The 5-2 Tigers will travel to Frankfort tomorrow to take on Kentucky State University in a double header, and host Spalding University on Wednesday which will kick off a 5 game home stand.  Ian Pick (Santa Clara, California) and Marc Wilson (Alberta, Canada) will take the mound for the Tigers as they look to extend their winning streak.

A year by year look at Beauford Sanders Coaching Career:


 

A YEAR BY YEAR LOOK AT SANDERS' LEGACY

 

N.G.C.C.:               268-247                .518
 

1991:                     8-30                       .210                     Started 0-18, Finished 8-12

 

1992:                     26-20                    .565                      Western Division Champions

 

1993:                     20-21-1                 .488

 

1994:                     30-19                    .612                       KIAC Runner-Up

 

1995:                     41-14                    .745                       KIAC Champions

 

1996:                     37-19-1                 .661                       KIAC Champions

 

1997:                     28-25                    .539                       Mid-South Regional Appearance

 

1998:                     18-31                    .367

 

1999:                     30-22                    .577

 

2000:                     31-29                    .517                       MSC Champions

 

2001:                     31-18                    .633                       MSC Champions

 

2002:                     14-36                    .280

 

2003:                     29-17                    .630                       MSC Champions

 

2004:                     33-23                    .589                       Region XI Qualifier

 

2005:                     43-14                    .754                       MSC Champions

 

2006:                     38-14                    .731                       MSC Champions

 

2007:                     43-18                    .705                       MSC Champions

 

2008:                     27-20                    .575                       MSC Champions


2009:                     5-2                        .714

 

Totals:                   800-639                .556
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Players Mentioned

Colin Bryan

#17 Colin Bryan

2B
Junior
Ian Pick

#31 Ian Pick

RHP
Junior
Marc Wilson

#28 Marc Wilson

LHP
Senior

Players Mentioned

Colin Bryan

#17 Colin Bryan

Junior
2B
Ian Pick

#31 Ian Pick

Junior
RHP
Marc Wilson

#28 Marc Wilson

Senior
LHP