With the victory, Neitzel is the third AU baseball coach to surpass 200 wins and is third all-time in wins behind former Spartan coaches Jim Schmidt (245 wins) and current AU athletic director Mark Walsh (320).
In his eighth season as the Head Coach of the Spartan baseball program, Neitzel holds a 200-112-2 (.640) record. His Spartans won back-to-back titles in the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference in 2005 and 2006. Neitzel is a two time recipient of the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference Baseball Coach-of-the-Year award (2005 and 2006) and a two time recipient of the ABCA Central Region Coach-of-the-Year.