After a season-ending sweep of Northern Kentucky last weekend, Lipscomb’s baseball team is primed for taking on the 2015 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Championship.
The Bisons are in Fort Myers, Florida, where they will take on No. 5 seeded Florida Gulf Coast.
This sweep of the Norse last weekend at Northern Kentucky’s Bill Aker Complex boosted team spirits heading into the A-Sun, according to Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand.
“After a tough weekend against Stetson last week and then another one on Tuesday, it is good to see us get back on track with these three wins,” Forehand said.
Lipscomb grabbed the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament after Stetson lost to tournament hosts FGCU in the final weekend of the regular season.
The Bisons have won a record-breaking 35 games in the regular season. Going back to the NAIA days, no Lipscomb team has matched that victory total.
Forehand said he has hopes for the Bisons to slug it out for their second A-Sun tournament championship. He also said that in so doing, the team could make the NCAA tournament for only the second time in school history (the last being in 2008).
The coach said the Bisons’ bats and pitching arms were kept plenty busy — and looked plenty good — in completing that sweep last Saturday.
“It is fun to watch us when we are attacking with all facets of our offense and the pitching staff is throwing as well as they are,” Forehand said after the 7-1 victory.
The Bisons will now open the tournament at 6 p.m. Wednesday night at Swanson Stadium.
It’s a tough task to win the tournament on an enemy diamond, but looking back to Saturday’s success, Forehand is at least optimistic.
“Anytime you go into the tournament, you want to be playing as well as you can.”
Additional reporting and photo courtesy of Lipscomb Athletics