The Marshall baseball team enters 2017 coming off one of their best season’s in program history with 34 wins, including 21 wins in Conference USA play. The Herd finished in the top five of 17 different offensive categories, including first in hits (315), RBIs (189), home runs (36), doubles (69), total bases (504) and stolen bases (50).
Marshall returns 14 players from last year’s roster, headed by Tommy Lane, last season’s C-USA Newcomer of the Year award winner.
Lane, a transfer from Mt. Hood Community College, had a breakout junior season. He was selected to all conference first team with a .