Larry Scully - Baseball Coach - Murray State University Athletics

Larry Scully

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
lscully@murraystate.edu
Phone:
(270) 809-4192

Larry Scully enters his first season as the pitching coach at Murray State.

Scully joins the Breds after serving the previous two seasons as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Lamar Community College.

He helped the Runnin’ Lopes reach unprecedented heights during the 2013 season as LCC climbed to No. 1 in the NJCAA rankings after an impressive 21-5 start.

LCC would go on to finish 41-21 on the season, falling just three wins shy of going to the Junior College World Series.
Under Scully’s guidance, the Runnin’ Lopes posted a 3.20 team ERA, with 463 strikeouts and only 161 walks in 455 innings.

The staff was led by left hander Sam Wilson who went 11-2 with a 1.33 ERA. He fanned 109 over 87.2 innings. Wilson tied the national lead in wins, tieing for fifth in strikeouts and ninth in ERA. Wilson would go on to be drafted in the eighth round of the Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft by the Chicago Cubs. He was originally a 20th-round selection of the Texas Rangers out of high school.

Wilson was not the only Runnin’ Lopes pitcher to have a strong season as right hander Austin Moore posted a 9-2 record and a 1.81 ERA.

In his first season at LCC, Scully helped the Runnin’ Lopes to a 48-12 record and the Empire Conference and Region IX championships.

Scully got his start in coaching as the pitching coach at Indian Hills Community College in 1992. In his four seasons, the Falcons made three appearances in the Junior College World Series.

In the summer of 1995, Scully served as the head coach of the Dubuque Mud Puppies, a collegiate summer team in the Northwoods League.

After spending two seasons as an assistant at the high school level, Scully spent one season as an assistant at Morningside College.

In his lone season as the team’s hitting coach, the Mustangs set single-season records for batting average, hits, doubles, runs scored and RBIs. The team went on to win the conference championship, just one season after finishing in last place.

Scully used the success to land his first head coaching job at Truman State. In six seasons, he led the Bulldogs to a pair of 10-win seasons in the MIAA, something that had only been accomplished one time in school’s history.

The Bulldogs had 12 players receive all-conference honors under Scully, including two players in each of his final two seasons. In 2006, Sean Zaborowski earned first-team all-MIAA honors, becoming the first player to earn first-team honors since 1999.

Off the field, Scully’s players were named to the Commissioner’s academic honor 51 times, the most of any conference school during that span. At least one player was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team each season, with Randy Bielsmith earning Second-Team Academic All-America honors from CoSIDA in 2006.

Following the 2006 season, Scully left to become an assistant coach at St. Louis University. In one season with the Billikens, Scully helped develop a pitching staff that posted the third lowest ERA in school history.

Throughout his coaching tenure, Scully has had 12 pitchers taken in the Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft, including four that went on to reach the major leagues. Five of the 12 pitchers were selected in the first 18 rounds.

Scully was a standout baseball player at Indian Hills Community College before going on to finish his career at Western Kentucky.

Scully also participated in the Canadian Olympic team program as a pitcher.

Scully graduated from WKU in 1992 with a degree in english literature. He earned his master’s degree in sports management from the United States Sports Academy in 1994.