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The Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi, United States. The team is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Magnolia Field in Itta Bena, Mississippi. CJ Bilbrey is the team's head coach starting in the 2024 season.




History


Fourteen-year head coach Doug Shanks retired on November 12, 2014. After serving as an assistant to Shanks for all 14 seasons, Aaron Stevens was promoted to head coach on December 2, 2014. On the heels of back-to-back win-less seasons in 2020 and 2021, Stevens was not retained for the 2022 season. On July 27, 2021, Stanley Stubbs was named the head coach of the Delta Devils. With the Delta Devils improving by 10 wins over the previous season, Stubbs had done a good job helping turn around the Delta Devils fortunes, but on June 15, 2022, head coach he resigned due to health concerns. On August 11, 2022, Milton Barney Jr. was named the head coach of the Delta Devils.




Head coaches






Major League Baseball


Mississippi Valley State has had 15 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965.




Notable players


Zach Penprase (born 1985), Israeli-American baseball player for the Israel National Baseball Team
Dion Williams Born 1964 Greenville, Mississippi
Signed free agent contract with Boston Red Sox 1987. Son of Former MLB All-Star George “Boomer” Scott. MVP Empire State League 1987




See also


List of NCAA Division I baseball programs




References






External links


Official website

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