Mark Liptak

5 days ago | idahostatejournal.com | Mark Liptak

GREELEY, COLO. − Good teams have off nights and off games. But the best teams don’t let it happen twice. Upset with the way it played Thursday night night against Weber State, the Idaho State softball team took it out on Northern Colorado via a 10-3 win Friday to advance to the finals of the Big Sky Conference Tournament. “We came out ready to go today,” said ISU head coach Andrew Rich.

5 days ago | idahostatejournal.com | Mark Liptak

Sometimes the road to your ultimate goal is met with challenges. That was the case Thursday night in Greeley, Colorado, where the ISU softball team was surprisingly shut down by a gritty Weber State club 5-2. It means the top seeded Bengals now have to come out of the losers bracket and play an elimination game Friday against either Northern Colorado or Sacramento State. That game will start at approximately 2:30 p.m. UNC and Sacramento State will play in the first game on Friday.

6 days ago | southsidesox.com | Mark Liptak

Steve Snowden/Getty Images With news of Chet Lemon’s passing on Thursday, our Mark Liptak was in touch quickly from the road, taking time out of his broadcasting work to share his interview with Chet from 2004. It follows here, in edited form. Chet Lemon is another one of those very good White Sox players that few other fans knew about, primarily because for most of his career in Chicago he played on some bad, nondescript clubs.

6 days ago | idahostatejournal.com | Mark Liptak

Sometimes the road to your ultimate goal is met with challenges. That was the case Thursday night in Greeley, Colorado, where the ISU softball team was surprisingly shut down by a gritty Weber State club 5-2. It means the top seeded Bengals now have to come out of the losers bracket and play an elimination game Friday against either Northern Colorado or Sacramento State. That game will start at approximately 2:30 p.m. UNC and Sacramento State will play in the first game on Friday.

6 days ago | idahostatejournal.com | Mark Liptak

The game was supposed to start around 3 p.m., but Mother Nature again decided to have the last laugh at the Big Sky Conference Softball Tournament. Following a five-hour delay and the Idaho State softball team watching Montana/Weber State battle each with rain and lightning interruptions, it finally took the field in Greeley against host Northern Colorado. The Bears opened play Wednesday by knocking off Portland State 7-5 in a game suspended on Tuesday because of the weather.