1998 Baseball

Induction Year: 2011

Not only was the ’98 baseball team the first American Southwest Conference championship team in the program’s history, the Lee Driggers-led Indians were the first McM squad to post more than 30 wins. McMurry finished 32-15 on the season and have the first NCAA Tournament win in school history.

The 1998 squad rank among the top for several single-season school records, including a team batting average of .356, the record for runs per game at 10.4 and home runs with 76.

The team also set the single-game record for runs scored when the team beat Grinnell College 40-1 on March 20, 1998.

The squad featured Joe Fichera, who was a first-team all-American while pitchers Jim Wollscheid and Tom Pike were each later drafted in the MLB amateur draft in 1999.

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