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MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT

2008 MIAA SOFTBALL CHAMPIONS - TRI-STATE UNIVERSITY

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5. Hope College 4, Alma College 0 Box Score
6. Tri-State 5, Hope 3 Box Score

Results

Tournament Leaders

Day One Leaders

MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: Tri-State Wins MIAA Championship and Earns AQ to NCAA Regionals
Tri-State finished their undefeated roll through the MIAA Tournament with a 5-3 win over Hope College to earn the outright MIAA Championship and a place at the NCAA Regionals.

MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: Scots Eliminated by Hope, 4-0
Alma couldn't recover from the heart breaking loss the night before as they fell today to the Flying Dutch by the score of 4-0.

MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: Tri-State Downs Alma with Last Out Heroics
The Thunder needed every out they had in the game to beat the Scots as they got a two run double with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to beat Alma 2-1.

MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: Hope Eliminates Saint Mary's, 7-1
Hope College knocked out the #2 seed Saint Mary's Belles by the score of 7-1 to stay alive in the tournament.

MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: Scots Beat Hope 4-0
The Alma College Scots took down Hope College by the score of 4-0 in game two of the MIAA Tournament.

MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: Tri-State Wins Game 1, Defeats Saint Mary's 6-3
In the first game of the MIAA Softball Championshp Tournament, the Tri-State Thunder defeated the Saint Mary's College Belles 6-3.

MIAA SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: Pairings Announced
The seeding and pairings for the MIAA Tournament have been announced and the schedule has started to take shape.

 

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Coach Profile

Terry Smith

Terry Smith

Smith graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Physical Education in 1984. After graduating, Smith got his start in coaching when he was the boy’s basketball coach at Fulton High School while working as a teacher at Ithaca High School. From there he moved to Cedar Springs High School were he coached and taught and won his first district championship in 1987.

The following year, Coach Smith got his first taste of coaching in the college ranks when he was an assistant men’s basketball coach at Ferris State University and was part of the team that won a GLIAC Championship and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA DII Tournament.

After a year at FSU, Coach Smith left for Lake Superior State University where he served for three years as an assistant coach before being promoted to the head coach position in 1991. In five years time, Coach Smith had turned around the LSSU program. In 1996 his team won the first League Championship for LSSU since joining the GLIAC in 1978. During this time, Coach Smith also earned his M.A. in Physical Education from Central Michigan University.