Southern Polytechnic State University Men's Baseball

Lovrich guided the Hornets to a 46-19 overall record, including a 20-9 for third place in the rugged Southern States Athletic Conference. Under Lovrich, SPSU earned an automatic berth to the NAIA national event after winning the SSAC Tournament championship. By claiming the title at the NAIA National Championship Opening Round site in Daytona Beach, Fla., Southern Poly moved on to the World Series for the third time in school history after also making appearances in 1986 and 2009. In his first year as a collegiate head coach in 2013, Lovrich led his club to a 39-18 overall mark, including 17-13 in SSAC play. He was named the NAIA College Baseball Coach of the Year by the Georgia Dugout Club as the Hornets just missed out on a seventh straight bid to the NAIA national tournament. Under longtime head coach Q.V. Lowe, Lovrich began his career at Auburn Montgomery as a catcher during the 1989 season after transferring from then-NCAA Division II power Jacksonville State University. He hit .342 in 1989 and helped AUM to its first winning season in the programs history. The following year, Lovrich joined the coaching staff as a graduate assistant coach, before being hired as an assistant coach in 1993. His last title was as the associate head coach. During his tenure in Montgomery, the Warhawks won five conference championships, made 20 NAIA regional tournament showings and took three trips to the NAIA World Series. In 1990, Auburn Montgomery finished as the NAIA national runner-up. Lovrich was selected as the Assistant Coach of the Year by the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association in 2008. While at AUM, he coached 34 All-Americans, 76 all-conference honorees, 40 all-region selections and 25 players that went on to the professional ranks. With Lovrich on its coaching staff, the Warhawks won nearly 63 percent of its games. Lovrich earned his bachelor's degree from Auburn Montgomery in 1990 and went on to get a Master of Business Administration at AUM. Scott Mularz joined the Southern Polytechnic State University Department of Athletics as an assistant baseball coach during the summer of 2013. As head coach Marty Lovrichs top aide, Mularz assists in all aspects of the Southern Polytechnic baseball program and serves as the teams pitching coach. In his first year at Southern Poly, the Hornets advanced all the way to the 2014 NAIA World Series and finished with a 46-19 overall record. SPSU won the Southern States Athletic Conference Tournament title, earning an automatic bid to the NAIA national event. By capturing the crown at the NAIA National Championship Opening Round site in Daytona Beach, Fla., Southern Poly was awarded a spot in the World Series for just the third time in school history, joining the 1986 and 2009 squads.  From 2009-13, Mularz was as an assistant coach in charge of the pitchers at NCAA Division III Huntingdon College in his hometown of Montgomery, Ala. During his time there, the program posted a 139-69 overall record, including 62-23 over the 2012 and 2013 campaigns. In 2013, Huntingdon finished 32-11 overall after being the top seed at the NCAA South Regional tournament. The year before, the Hawks won both the Great South Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament championships after also claiming the tournament title in 2009. While at Huntingdon, Mularz helped produce some of the top pitchers in the GSAC and several all-region players. Mularz began his coaching career in 2008 when assisting the baseball program at Montgomerys Brewbaker Technology Magnet High School. In 2006 and 2007, Mularz pitched at SSAC rival Auburn University at Montgomery, where Lovrich was on the coaching staff. In his two seasons at Auburn Montgomery, Mularz made 29 appearances with 24 starts, going 15-4 with one save and a 3.11 ERA. In 2006, AUM captured the SSAC regular-season championship, the Region XIII title and made a trip to the NAIA World Series. During Mularzs final year, Auburn Montgomery ended 51-13 overall with an SSAC regular-season crown. Mularz began his collegiate playing career on the pitching staff at NCAA Division I University of South Alabama in Mobile. As a freshman in 2002, Mularz appeared in 14 games with four starts, compiling a 4-0 record, one save, a 3.48 ERA and 34 strikeouts in 31 innings. The following year, he pitched in five contests with one starting assignment, recording a save, a 2.45 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 7 1/3 innings before having his season end with an injury and Tommy John surgery. In each of the 2002 and 2003 campaigns, Southern Alabama was 42-19 overall, earned the Sun Belt Conference regular-season championship and qualified for an NCAA Regional. Mularzs older brother, Shep, is currently on the coaching staff at SSAC member Faulkner University, which won the 2013 NAIA national title. A graduate of Jeff Davis High School, Mularz twice garnered all-state recognition and was a three-time all-metro selection. As a senior, he set the Alabama Class 6A record for wins in a season with 16 and capped off his high school career with a 28-4 mark on the mound. Mularz and his wife, the former Elizabeth Barnes, presently reside in Marietta, Ga., with their son, Easton, who was born on Feb. 7, 2013. Cameron Dullnig is the newest member of the Southern Polytechnic State University baseball program after joining the Department of Athletics as an assistant coach prior to the 2014 season. Dullnig serves as Southern Polytechnics first-base coach and works primarily with the teams outfielders and hitters. In his one year at Southern Poly, the Hornets went 46-19 overall with an appearance at the NAIA World Series. After claiming an automatic bid to the NAIA national event by virtue of winning the Southern States Athletic Conference Tournament title, SPSU went on to qualify for the World Series by coming out on top at the NAIA National Championship Opening Round site in Daytona Beach, Fla. Dullnig also served as an instructor for 6-4-3 DP Athletics in Marietta, Ga. At 6-4-3, he was an assistant coach with one of the baseball academys 17-and-under teams. Last summer, Dullnig played United League Baseball for the Alexandria (La.) Aces and then the Edinburg (Texas) Roadrunners, who captured the league championship. United League Baseball is an independent professional organization that operates in Texas. Used mainly as a pitcher in 2013, Dullnig made 15 relief appearances, recording four saves and a 1.23 ERA. Between Edinburg and Alexandria, he also saw action in 35 contests as a utility player. In 2012 after completing his collegiate playing eligibility, Dullnig pitched in four games for the Fort Worth Cats of the now defunct North American Baseball League, another independent association of pro baseball.   As a senior at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in 2012, Dullnig helped lead his team to the NCAA Division II national tournament after earning All-America recognition from several sources. He was chosen as the South Central Region Player of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and as the Lone Star Conference co-Player of the Year. A First Team All-LSC pick, Dullnig hit a team-high .369 during his senior season and on the mound, he did not allow an earned run over 20 1/3 innings, going 1-1 with 10 saves and 23 strikeouts as opponents batted just .145 against him. Prior to transferring to Texas A&M-Kingsville, Dullnig spent two campaigns at NCAA Division I Western Carolina University. As a junior in 2011, he played in 53 contests with 51 starts, hitting .293. He also pitched in four games (11 2/3 innings) that year. In 2010, Dullnig saw action in 58 contests, starting 51 times, putting together a .282 batting average with three pitching appearances. Dullnig played his freshman season at Navarro College, where he earned All-Texas Eastern Athletic Conference and National Junior College Athletic Association All-Region XIV honors in his only year there. He batted .372 and helped lead his squad to the 2009 region playoffs. At Tom C. Clark High School in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, Dullnig tallied four varsity letters in baseball and three in football. As a baseball player, he hit .414 his senior year and .387 as a junior. In the pitching department, Dullnig went 12-2 over his final two campaigns. He was once named all-state and twice earned all-district and all-area accolades. Dullnig earned his bachelors degree in sport management at Western Carolina in 2011 and went on to acquire a masters of business administration from Kingsville two years later. Josh Martin took over as head athletic trainer in March 2012 after joining the Southern Polytechnic State University Sports Medicine staff in the summer of 2011. He received the Southern States Athletic Conference Athletic Trainer-of-the-Year Award for his accomplishments in his first year after taking over full responsibility of the program during the second semester of the 2011-12 academic year. Martin earned his undergraduate degree in athletic training from the State University of New York College at Cortland in 2008. While at SUNY Cortland, he worked with the men's lacrosse and wrestling teams in 2006-07, and with women's soccer in the fall of 2008. Also while at Cortland, Martin worked a season with the Cornell University men's lacrosse team during the spring of 2008. After graduating from Cortland in 2008, Martin went on to Gardner-Webb University as a graduate assistant where he received his master's degree in sports science and pedagogy. While at Gardner-Webb, he worked with the softball and cheerleading teams from 2009-11. He also assisted in covering preseason football camp, and helped at home and away football contests at GWU. A native of Sackets Harbor, N.Y., Martin now resides in Atlanta, Ga.