The following is an excerpt from a release by the "EMU Sports News," written by former EMU Sports Information Director, John Fountain, dated June 15, 1970.
One week ago, the Eastern Michigan University baseball team was rated the top college division team in the nation by Collegiate Baseball Magazine and the Hurons' head coach Ron Oestrike was voted "Coach of the Year," by the 400 voting members of the NAIA Baseball Coaches Association.
Today, both the team and the coach are basking in the glory that comes from living up to expectations made by the pollsters and the coaches.
A half-century later, the 1970 team is still considered one of the very best to ever play, any sport, at Eastern Michigan. To celebrate the team's success and once again help its members to "bask in the glory," The Eastern Michigan University Athletics Media Relations Office, along with the EMU baseball Head Coach Eric Roof, are excited to announce a month-long series of content and social media-based material that will pay tribute to the 1970 squad and its members.
In addition to various social media campaigns, each game of the six-game national championship tournament will be summarized in this running article. Check back each Tuesday and Thursday for up-to-date information.
GAME ONE: EMU 2, EMPORIA STATE 1
After a thrilling win over Lewis in the regional tournament catapulted the 1970 EMU Hurons baseball team into the NAIA National Tournament, the team faced an impressive Emporia State club in the first matchup of the double-elimination event.
A defensive affair at its start, the two teams traded goose eggs for the first three frames of the game. It was EMU's Tom Olms who got the start on the bump for the Green and White. He came into the game with an impressive 5-1 record, including a win in the team's winner-take-all regional game against Lewis. Olms went on to pitch seven frames, relinquishing just one run (unearned) on eight hits.
Although Emporia State plated a run in the top half of the fourth inning, the Hurons were undeterred, as they quickly evened the score in the bottom half of the frame when Terry Trott crossed the plate. Following Olms' departure in the seventh, Woody Mills came on the finish the job. He blanked the opposition in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively.
An EMU run in the bottom of the eighth inning, again scored by Trott, gave EMU the 2-1 lead for good, and earned the team an impressive win to start its six-game national title run.
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