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June 2, 2012

Matt Murray hired as baseball coach at Pittsburg State

From staff reports

Matt Murray, an assistant at Central Missouri the last five years, is Pittsburg State’s new head baseball coach, school officials announced Friday night.

“Matt has enjoyed tremendous success as a coach in each of his previous assignments, and he was very articulate in laying out his vision and blue print for the future of Pitt State baseball,” PSU athletics director Jim Johnson said in a release. “We are looking forward to Matt coming on board and helping us move forward with the Gorilla baseball program.”

Murray succeeds Steve Bever, who resigned after 22 years as head coach.

Murray was part of a Central Missouri staff that directed the Mules to three MIAA regular-season titles, four league postseason tournament crowns and three NCAA Tournament appearances during the last five years.

He was an assistant one year at Kansas State before coming to Central Missouri.

Murray averaged 25 victories during a six-year stint as head coach at Claremore (Okla.) High School from 2002-06. The Zebras won 151 games and captured Class 5A state championships in 2003 and 2005 and finished second in 2004. The 2005 team was ranked No. 11 in the final USA Today prep poll.

Murray also played on a 4A state championship team at Claremore in 1993 and was an assistant there from 1998-2001.

Murray graduated from Northeastern State in Tahlequah, Okla., and earned his master’s from Central Missouri. He and his wife Jennifer have a 2-year-old son Reed and an infant son Grant.

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