 The last couple weeks of the season, the BSU baseball team has played like it's the postseason. The Beavers currently sit on the outside looking in needing to finish in the top eight of the NSIC standings in order to qualify for the conference tourney. They took a big step in the right direction this past weekend registering four straight wins over southwest Minnesota State. That puts their conference win total now to 14 with four games to go. With their backs up against the wall on the beavers and win or go home territory, the only thing this group is worried about is being loose and having some fun. We pray a little too tight so this weekend we are all just make sure you just go out, have fun, play the game the right way and just kind of see what happens if it doesn't pass when we try too hard, try to do too much, kind of play out of our style, out of our game. We're a relaxed group of guys and when we play tight we tend to not do so well. So our goal into the weekend was just have fun, make sure all guys are just loose, just flying around, just playing the game we love like we did when we were kids. And for these 12 seniors the past four years comes down to a series with St. Cloud State who's receiving some votes and a little help from the teams around them but they don't pay attention to analytics they're just out there enjoying the last few games of their BSU careers. I'm just trying to enjoy these last last two weekends with the guys and I mean if we come up big this weekend we do if we don't we don't at least we did it having fun with each other and just knowing we gave it our all. It'd be really nice to be able to get them to where they want to be and that's the NSIC tournament and I think that would be really important to them. Take a look at the NSIC baseball standings up to date. Mankato, Augustine and St. Cloud State they're in the top three spots from six though to 13 it's a battle for that eight seed Duluth Concordia Minnesota Crookston 16 and 15 wins northern state Sioux Falls we're known as state with 15 wins and there's Bemidji state there with 12 wins at 14 and 20. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.