{"id":808590,"date":"2026-09-19T00:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/808590\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T00:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:39:16","slug":"former-st-cloud-state-baseball-coach-denny-lorsung-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/808590\/","title":{"rendered":"Former St. Cloud State baseball coach Denny Lorsung dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALEXANDRIA \u2014 Former St. John’s University and St. Cloud State University head baseball coach Denny Lorsung died on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the age of 78.<\/p>\n

Lorsung’s wife, Anne Abicht, confirmed the news of Lorsung’s passing in a text message to St. Cloud LIVE on Friday, Sept. 18. Abicht was the longtime sports information director at St. Cloud State from 1985 through 2015.<\/p>\n

Lorsung, an Alexandria native, was the head baseball coach for <\/p>\n

the Johnnies<\/a><\/p>\n

from 1976-77 and had a record of 25-16.<\/p>\n

He left to become the assistant coach for Jim Stanek at SCSU in 1978. After Stanek left, Lorsung was the Huskies’ head coach from 1979-2006 and had a career record of 546-563-4.<\/p>\n

Lorsung won his 500th career game on April 10, 2001, an 11-0 win over Minnesota-Morris. He was named the North Central Conference Coach of the Year that season. Lorsung’s teams appeared in North Central Conference postseason play 13 times, winning the NCC Championship in 1991.<\/p>\n

The Huskies were conference runner-up in the 1986, 1989, and 1999 seasons. Lorsung also led <\/p>\n

the Huskies<\/a><\/p>\n

to the 1980 Northern Intercollegiate Conference (NIC) title.<\/p>\n

In addition, his 1977 St. John’s team won a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) championship.<\/p>\n

In his three decades as a collegiate coach, Lorsung has won conference championships and coach of the year honors in three conferences.<\/p>\n

\"Denny<\/p>\n

Former St. Cloud State head baseball coach Denny Lorsung coaches from third base during a North Central Conference game in May 1992 at Dick Putz Field in St. Cloud. <\/p>\n

Contributed \/ St. Cloud State University Archives <\/p>\n

A 1971 graduate of St. Cloud State with a bachelor’s degree in social studies, Lorsung transferred to SCSU from Austin Community College where he played baseball and later was inducted into the Community College Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Lorsung was a catcher for the Husky baseball team under Stanek during the 1969 and 1970 seasons.<\/p>\n

In 1969, he was a member of the Husky team that finished third in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Tournament.<\/p>\n

He went on to captain the 1970 squad and earn the team’s Most Valuable Player honors. Lorsung also won the Northern Intercollegiate Conference batting title that season with a .435 average.<\/p>\n

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\"Andy<\/p>\n

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Andy Rennecke is sports editor for St. Cloud LIVE. He focuses on writing in-depth high school and college features for the St. Cloud metro area (including Sartell, Sauk Rapids and St. Joseph) and for the ROCORI, Albany, Foley and Holdingford School Districts. Send him story ideas or feedback at andy@stcloudlive.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALEXANDRIA \u2014 Former St. John’s University and St. Cloud State University head baseball coach Denny Lorsung died on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,86242,86243,1694,2341,98586,98587,98588,98589],"class_list":["post-808590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-huskies-baseball","tag-johnnies-baseball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-st-cloud-state-university","tag-st-cloud-state-university-baseball","tag-st-johns-university","tag-st-johns-university-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117294921706415678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}