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May 17, 2012

Three finalists named for PSU head baseball coach position

From staff reports

Three finalists have been chosen to become the next head baseball coach at Pittsburg State University, the school announced Thursday.

Daniel Esposito, the PSU assistant last season; Matt Murray, assistant and recruiting coordinator at Central Missouri, and Alan Ready, assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Indianapolis, were selected as finalists from a pool of 116 applicants.

Each candidate will meet with PSU faculty and staff, community members and media in public interviews next week in the Overman Student Center Balkans Room. All three interviews will start at 10:15 a.m. — Murray on Monday, Ready on Tuesday and Esposito on Wednesday.

Steve Bever retired this season after coaching the Gorillas for the past 22 seasons.

Murray, a graduate of Northeastern (Okla.) State, served as a volunteer assistant at Kansas State in 2007 after being head coach for six years at Claremore (Okla.) High School, directing the Zebras to Class 5A state titles in 2003 and 2005. He has been an assistant at Central Missouri under PSU graduate and former assistant Tom Myers, helping the Mules reach the Division II World Series in three of the last four years.

Ready, an All-American at Indianapolis in 2001, was head coach at Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon, Ill., from 2004-07. He inherited a program that had not won a conference championship and directed them to two league titles in a three-year span. Moving on to Indianapolis, he helped the Greyhounds win at least 35 games in four of the last five seasons.

Esposito returned to Pittsburg State last year after a four-year tenure as head coach at Southwestern Oregon Community College. He was also an assistant at PSU from 2001-03 and Johnson County CC from 2004-07. He became Pittsburg State’s first baseball All-American in 1997 when he won the MIAA triple crown with 13 home runs, 71 runs batted in and a .460 batting average.

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