Warrior Athletics Hall of Fame
1987 Baseball
Inducted: April 25, 2015
Bio:
Sixteen Warrior baseball teams have won a national championship, but it is hard to argue any team did it in a more dominant fashion than Ed Cheff's 1987 crew. The Warriors went 6-0 during the NAIA World Series, defeating their opponents by an average score of 18-6 to claim the program's third title overall and first of six straight championships.
The 1987 roster set a number of tournament team records, including game highs for runs scored (25 vs. Grand Canyon), hits (24 vs. Southern Arkansas), and RBIs (22 vs. Southern Arkansas). That Warrior team also set tournament marks for most runs (105), hits (102), doubles (26), RBIs (91), total bases (172), walks (58), and highest batting average (.418).
Among the individual records set by members of the 1987 team are single game records for hits (six, Pat Mackey) and at-bats (eight, Duane Church), and tournaments records for runs (21, Rusty Harris), hits (20, Pat Mackey), and highest batting average (.741, Pat Mackey).
On the year, the team went 55-10 and set single season program records in home runs (143) and slugging percentage (.669). The team hit .391 (second highest ever), with six players holding batting averages of .390 or more and eight players with nine or more home runs.
