Brown Not to Return for 2011 Season

BILLINGS, Mont. – Montana State Billings head baseball coach, Chris Brown, will not be returning for the 2010-2011 season.  Making that announcement was MSUB Athletic Director, Dr. Gary Gray.

“We appreciate everything Coach Brown did to get baseball re-launched at MSUB back in 2005-06,” Gray said.  “We wish him well in his future endeavors.”

Brown posted an 88-162 record overall in five seasons at MSUB.  He was hired in 2005 to begin recruiting and reinstate the baseball program after a 30-year hiatus in 2006.  Brown guided the Yellowjackets to two, 24-win seasons in 2007 and 2009.  In 2009, the Yellowjackets finished a school-record 16-16 in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, which was good for second place in the league standings.

Prior to MSUB, Brown served as head coach at Bemidji State University where he compiled a 29-61 record in two seasons as head coach.  He became the first coach to lead the Beavers to back-to-back 10-plus win seasons in conference play for the first time in the program’s 54-year history.

The search for Brown’s successor will begin immediately.