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Mike Batesole Sport(s) College baseball Current position Title Head Coach Team Fresno State Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1996-2002
2003-PresentCal State Northridge
Fresno StateHead coaching record Overall 428-292-1 (through 2007) Accomplishments and honors Championships 1996 WAC Championship
2002 Big West Championship
2006 WAC Championship
2007 WAC Championship
2008 WAC Championship
2008 College World Series2009 WAC Tournament Championship
Awards 1998 Collegiate Baseball National Coach of the Year
2002 Big West Coach of the Year2008 Collegiate Baseball National Coach of the Year
Mike Batesole is the head baseball coach at Fresno State. In 5 seasons as head coach, he has compiled a 172-134 record. He previously coached for 7 seasons at Cal State Northridge. His overall record stands at 428-292-1. In 2006 and 2007, his teams won back-to-back WAC championships in baseball. He led Fresno State to tournament appearances in 2006 and 2007, due to winning the conference tournament.
He also went to the NCAA tournament in 1996 and 2002 with Cal State Northridge. He has coached 55 professional baseball players. He went 256-158-1 at CS Northridge and has posted the second most wins in school history. In 2008, he coached Fresno State to their first College World Series appearance in seventeen years by defeating #3 Arizona State, and then defeating #6 Rice University, #2 University of North Carolina to advance to the championship, and then defeating #8 University of Georgia in the final two games in a best two-out-of-three championship series winning 19-10 in the second game, and 6-1 in the third game to win Fresno State their first NCAA Men's Championship.
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Cal State Northridge Matadors head baseball coaches Phil Munroe (1959–1961) • Stan Charnofsky (1962–1966) • Bob Hiegert (1967–1984) • Terry Craven (1985–1988) • Bill Kernen (1989–1995) • Mike Batesole (1996–2002) • Steve Rousey (2003– )
Fresno State Bulldogs head baseball coaches Arthur W. Jones (1922–1926) • Stanley Borleske (1930–1931) • No team (1932–1935) • Stanley Borleske (1936–1941) • Alvin Pierson (1942–1943) • Earl Wright (1944–1946) • Ken Gleason (1947) • Pete Beiden (1948–1966) • Bob Bennett (1967) • Pete Beiden (1968–1969) • Bob Bennett (1970–2002) • Mike Batesole (2003– )
Current head baseball coaches of the Western Athletic Conference Mike Batesole (Fresno State) • Mike Trapasso (Hawaii) • Wade Simoneaux (Louisiana Tech) • Gary Powers (Nevada) • Rocky Ward (New Mexico State) • Reggie Christiansen (Sacramento State) • Sam Piraro (San Jose State)
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