Baseball sweeps NSAA weekly honors

BISMARCK, N.D. -- Bellevue University baseball student-athletes Blake Crippen and Anthony Lind took home the North Star Athletic Association's Pitcher and Player of the Week Awards, respectively, as announced by the league office.

Bellevue won all five games they played last week including a pair of top 10 victories over No. 8 St. Thomas University and last year's NAIA National Champion No. 1 Southeastern University.

Crippen, a junior left-hander from Hillsboro, Ore., picked up wins over both St. Thomas and Southeastern posting a 2.92 ERA over 12.1 innings of work. He worked 6-plus innings in each start and, against Southeastern, allowed just one earned run to an offense that had been averaging 16 per game over its previous nine games and 11.4 on the year.

Lind, a freshman outfielder from Omaha, Neb., led a Bruin offense that put up 12.6 runs per game on the week to close out their spring trip. He hit .526 on the week with a 1.398 OPS and a team-leading 13 RBI. He tallied three-hit games against both St. Thomas and Northwestern, driving in four against the latter. He also chased in three runners against St. Thomas and Warner, respectively.

Riding a five-game win streak, Bellevue is now 12-4 on the season and scheduled to open conference play this weekend against Viterbo.

Tomorrow's scheduled game against Park University has been postponed while the rest of Bellevue's schedule for the week is still being discussed due to less-than-desirable weather conditions ranging across the Midwest.