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WACO, Texas — Baylor baseball will host its inaugural Meet the Team dinner Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, in the Galloway Suite at Floyd Casey Stadium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. CST with festivities scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Limited tickets are on sale for $25 through the Baylor baseball office, which can be reached at 254.710.3029.
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Greg DiCenzo enters his second season with Holy Cross (Photo Courtesy of HC Media Relations)
The College Baseball Blog continues our series of interviews with various head coaches around the nation. We recently had a chance to talk with Greg DiCenzo of Holy Cross who is entering his second season. His first season saw the Crusaders go 21-28 while going 11-9 in the Patriot League. They were eliminated in the Patriot League semifinals by the Naval Academy in three games. Read the rest of this entry »
Jim Morris looks to lead Miami (FL) back to Omaha
Rivals.com continues their Top 25 countdown today with the Miami (FL) Hurricanes checking in at the 23rd spot. Last year, Miami (FL) was ranked in the Top 5 in the country throughout the year and held down the number 1 spot for several weeks. The season ended with a trip to the College World Series where they went 1-2 with a victory over ACC and instate rival Florida State. The Hurricanes have heavy losses in the lineup with Yonder Alonso, Jemile Weeks, Blake Tekotte, Adan Severino, Mark Sobolewski and Dennis Raben all leaving the program. The Hurricanes pitching staff looked on paper to be the strongest part of the squad but Eric Erickson ended up coming down with an arm injury which required surgery and will miss the 2009 season. Sophomore pitcher Chris Hernandez and Junior pitcher Kyle Bellamy will have to pick up the slack. Read the rest of this entry »
Rivals.com continues their Top 25 countdown today with Oregon State checking in at number 24. They are led by Pat Casey who won the 2006 and 2007 national championships but failed to lead the Beavers to the NCAA Tourney in 2008. The team slipped to a 28-24 record and failed to recieve an at-large berth with an RPI of 60. Read the rest of this entry »
Every Sunday until the start of the season, we will be featuring the Top 5 articles from the past week. We start this week with a great interview that I did with Rich Hill of San Diego. He gave us candid answers about his 2009 squad and issues in College Baseball. The second article of the week is an article that was posted on All Things Valley League about the Top 15 hitters from the summer league. The third article of the week is from Baseball America writer Aaron Fitt who looks at a new prospal from West Virginia head coach Steven Van Zant. The fourth story of the week is Florida State freshman left handed pitcher Kyle Long withdrawing from school with academic issues. The final story of the week is our Q & A with our loyal readers asking me questions. Read the rest of this entry »
Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com checks in today with two articles. The first article is about Cal State-Bakersfield’s new program. Bill Kernan has been put in charge of the program which is his first job in 13 years. He previously served as Cal-State Northridge’s head coach from 1989-1995 where he went 240-154-3 record. After the 1995 season, he resigned to take up play writing at Columbia University. He has since had seven plays produced. Kendall also starts up his Top 25 countdown with Number 25 Oklahoma Sooners. They are coming off a 36-26 record but a disappointing 9-17 record in the Big 12. They were a controversial pick for the NCAA Tourney but ended up making the Regional final before losing to Arizona State. Read the rest of this entry »
We all know about Kyle Long withdrawing from Florida State due to academic issues but news comes to light today. NBC 29 of Charlottesville Virginia is reporting that Long was driving the wrong way on a street where he was pulled over. He failed two sobriety checks and was taken into custody. When he arrived at the police station, he took a breathalayzer test where he had a BAC of 0.10. Read the rest of this entry »
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
Charlotte picked to win A-10 in 2009
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Coming off consecutive 40-win seasons and conference titles, Charlotte has been picked to win the 2009 Atlantic 10 Baseball Championship in voting conducted by the league’s head coaches as the A-10’s preseason poll was released today. Read the rest of this entry »
PGCrosschecker.com writer Patrick Ebert has put together his 2009 All-American Team. The players that are included on the list took part in previous Perfect Game events. He has Missouri catcher Trevor Coleman behind the plate with Rich Poythress of Georgia at first base. Kyle Seager of North Carolina and Grant Green of Southern Cal are the second base and shortstop selections respectively. Chris Dominguez is the selection at third base as he is having a great career with Louisville. Read the rest of this entry »
The Victoria Generals will be the new team in 2009 for the Texas Collegiate League. The Texas Collegiate League is made of 5 summer collegiate teams across the State of Texas. The Coppell Copperheads are located in between Dallas and Fort Worth, the McKinney Marshals are located NE of Dallas, the East Texas PumpJacks are located in Kilgore which is in the Piney Woods of East Texas, Brazos Valley Bombers are in the Bryan-College Station area, and the Victoria Generals will be located in Victoria, Texas which is located in between Houston and Corpus Christi.
Today, the Victoria Generals have released their New Uniforms for the 2009 season.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Samford baseball program released its 2009 schedule Thursday afternoon. The 2009 season will be Samford’s first as a member of the Southern Conference, the eighth-rated Division I baseball conference in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com continues his previews of the 2009 season today as he looks at the best junior players in the country. He names UNC’s Dustin Ackley and San Diego State’s Stephen Strasburg as the top juniors. Ackley is coming off a solid sophomore season for the Tar Heels which saw him hit .417 with seven homers and 51 RBI. He had off season surgery but should be back at 100 percent once the season starts. Strasburg was the best pitcher in the country this summer lighting up radar guns with his 90+ MPH fastball and pitching in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD All-American Teams Announced
Top 100 Countdown: 1. Mark Appel (Stanford)
Top 100 Countdown: 2. Mike Zunino (Florida)
Top 100 Countdown: 3. Deven Marrero (Arizona State)
Top 100 Countdown: 4. Michael Roth (South Carolina)
