'Like riding a bike,' former BHS star Ethan Biehn resumes baseball career at Bemidji State
Mar. 21—With one out in the bottom of the fifth inning on Feb. 9, Ethan Biehn made the slow trot from the bullpen to the mound at Ronken Field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
It was his first in-game appearance away from Minnesota amateur baseball in three years. The 2023 Bemidji High School graduate was an accomplished three-sport athlete before enrolling at Bemidji State. Biehn had a plethora of options to compete in college in multiple sports, ultimately choosing football on the shore of Lake Bemidji.
Football has kept Biehn busy, but not busy enough to quit baseball entirely. He's played each of the last two summer seasons with the Bemidji Bucks, a Class A amateur baseball team filled predominantly with mid-level college players. But Division II baseball is a little different, with ramped-up intensity and competitive implications.
Biehn felt that as he stepped on the college mound for the first time in February. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous," he admitted. "It was time to show them what I could do.
Just be where your feet are. " Biehn's first pitch to Auguatana's Ragan Pinnow was a strike. He got Pinnow to ground out to second base on his next pitch.
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