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Following a NCAA Tournament appearance, Jacksonville State baseball coach Steve Bieser has taken the Grand Canyon job.
Bieser spent three years with Jax State, leading the Gamecocks to the NCAA Tournament this season with a 48-15 record. The Gamecocks made the final the Hattiesburg Regional and will now be looking for just the seventh head coach in program history.
The Gamecocks are coming off a historic year where they set a school record for wins and swept the Conference USA regular-season and tournament titles.
Bieser came to Jax State after being fired at Missouri after going 188-155-1 there in seven seasons. A losing conference record and no NCAA tournament bids doomed Bieser's time in Columbia. Before that, he was coach at his alma mater Southeast Missouri State.
He played 13 seasons of professional baseball, spending two years in the major leagues with the Mets and the Pirates.
Bieser was just the third head coach for the Gamecocks since 1970. Rudy Abbott went 1,003-467 with two national titles in his time with the Gamecocks, retiring in 2001. Jim Case took over and won 673 games before retiring in 2023.
Maxwell Donaldson covers high school sports, Jax State athletics, the outdoors in Alabama and more for the Gadsden Times and USA TODAY Network. Find him on Twitter/X @_Max_Donaldson and contact him at [email protected].
This article originally appeared on The Gadsden Times: Jacksonville State baseball coach Steve Bieser heaves after NCAA Tournament run
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Bieser spent three years with Jax State, leading the Gamecocks to the NCAA Tournament this season with a 48-15 record. The Gamecocks made the final the Hattiesburg Regional and will now be looking for just the seventh head coach in program history.
The Gamecocks are coming off a historic year where they set a school record for wins and swept the Conference USA regular-season and tournament titles.
Bieser came to Jax State after being fired at Missouri after going 188-155-1 there in seven seasons. A losing conference record and no NCAA tournament bids doomed Bieser's time in Columbia. Before that, he was coach at his alma mater Southeast Missouri State.
He played 13 seasons of professional baseball, spending two years in the major leagues with the Mets and the Pirates.
Bieser was just the third head coach for the Gamecocks since 1970. Rudy Abbott went 1,003-467 with two national titles in his time with the Gamecocks, retiring in 2001. Jim Case took over and won 673 games before retiring in 2023.
Maxwell Donaldson covers high school sports, Jax State athletics, the outdoors in Alabama and more for the Gadsden Times and USA TODAY Network. Find him on Twitter/X @_Max_Donaldson and contact him at [email protected].
This article originally appeared on The Gadsden Times: Jacksonville State baseball coach Steve Bieser heaves after NCAA Tournament run
Continue reading...
