Tate Matheny (Missouri State Athletics)

A Weekend At The Plate With Tate Matheny

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Tate Matheny gives off the distinctive quality of being the hero in a children’s sports movie from the 1990s. Part Lou Collins, part Charlie Conway,  Matheny is the star of an ascendant Missouri State Bears squad that’s climbing from mid-major passability to national relevance, one opposite-field line drive at a time.

In Dallas Baptist, Matheny found his Team Iceland. You can infer what the school is from its name — a small, Christian liberal arts college that is still fairly new to the Missouri Valley Conference landscape. But Dallas Baptist’s baseball team comes straight out of central casting. The[…]