Baseball wraps up 2025 season in A-R-C Tournament

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The Simpson College baseball team saw its 2025 season come to a close on the opening day of the American Rivers Conference Tournament.

Fifth-seeded Simpson (17-23) kicked off postseason play with an 8-2 loss to No. 4 seed Wartburg (21-18). The Knights jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning and doubled it with two more runs in the fifth. The Storm showed signs of life with a pair of runs in the seventh, but Wartburg shut the door with four more runs across the next two innings.

Simpson then shifted sites to take on No. 6 seed Nebraska Wesleyan (22-20) in an elimination game. After falling behind 2-0 early, the Storm responded with two runs in the third to tie things up. The Prairie Wolves pulled away with a six-run outburst a few innings later, and Simpson fell 10-2.

OFFENSIVE LEADERS

• Drew Carlson: 4 hits, 1 RBI, 1 run
• Jacob Roberts: 3 hits, 1 run
• Ian Baldwin: 2 hits, 1 double, 1 walk

NOTABLE
Senior pitcher Trey Castile capped off a remarkable career by recording five strikeouts in his final outing, tying the Simpson single-season record with 89 strikeouts, a mark originally set by Joel Johnson in 1991. Castile ends his Storm career as the program's all-time strikeouts leader with 352, finishing 112 ahead of the next closest pitcher in school history.