Blue Jays earn 1000th win
| Scott Prichard had four 30 win season in his first
five years as a head coach. Westminister sports information |
Westminster (Mo.) won the 1000th game in the 116-year history of
the baseball program and Coach Scott Pritchard recorded his 300th
win as a head coach with a 9-8 victory over Grinnell Sunday in
Fulton, Missouri. The Blue Jays now stand 1,000-935-9 all-time.
Pritchard joined the Westminster athletic department staff as the
head baseball coach in 1999 after serving as head coach at
Wisconsin-Stevens Point for three years. Pritchard guided the Blue
Jays to back-to-back SLIAC titles and NCAA Division III national
tournament appearances in his first two seasons, earning SLIAC
Coach of the Year twice. He is now 209-199 over the past 11 seasons
at Westminster and he stands 300-232 in his 14-year head coaching
career. This season will be the last for Pritchard as he announced
earlier that this will be his last season in a Westminister
uniform.
Westminister started playing baseball in 1872. The Blue Jays won
eight Missouri College Athletic Union titles (1912, 1918, 1925,
1926, 1927, 1928, 1960, 1961) and two SLIAC titles (2000,
2001).
