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PLAYER OF THE WEEK
TYLER METCALF, WESTERN ILLINOIS
SR., WAMEGO, KAN./BARTON COUNTY CC
Metcalf collects Player of the Week honors after belting three home runs in two games against Kansas last week. The senior also had a 1.273 slugging percentage, four runs and four RBI, along with extending his hitting streak to nine games. His .455 average on the week raised his average on the season to .328. Read the rest of this entry »
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(Courtesy of WAC)
DENVER – Fresno State third baseman Tom Mendonca and right-handed pitcher Derek Benny have been named the Western Athletic Conference Baseball Hitter and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for Mar. 23-29.
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East Division Player of the Week
Tommy Nurre, Miami, First Base
Senior, Cincinnati, Ohio (St. Xavier)
Nurre led Miami to a 4-1 week, including the RedHawks’ first series sweep since April 27-29, 2007. Miami outscored its opponents 55-24 over the five-game week. Nurre was 11-for-20 for the week (.550) and recorded 10 runs and six RBIs while drilling six extra-base hits (four doubles and two home runs). He recorded an impressive 1.050 slugging percentage. Read the rest of this entry »
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Northwestern junior Jake Goebbert
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Jake Goebbert, Northwestern
Jr., LF, Hampshire, Ill./Hampshire
Goebbert led Northwestern to a series split with Purdue over the weekend, hitting .625 and slugging 1.000 while reaching base at a .700 clip to combine for an OPS of 1.700. In the Wildcats’ Big Ten opener on Friday, the junior went 1-for-4 with a walk and a run-scoring double in a narrow 4-3 loss. Goebbert led the NU offense on Saturday, going 4-for-4 with three runs and three RBI on two doubles and a walk as the Wildcats exploded for a 13-4 victory. Northwestern scored in each of the five innings that Goebbert came to the plate in Saturday’s game, and his weekend performance raised his batting average 40 points. Read the rest of this entry »
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Elon's Mike Melillo (Courtesy of Southern Conference)
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – College of Charleston sophomore third baseman Cole Rakar and Elon junior catcher Mike Melillo have been named the Southern Conference’s Baseball Co-Players of the Week for all games from March 23-29. The Citadel’s Drew Mahaffey has been named the league’s Pitcher of the Week. Read the rest of this entry »
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Luke Stewart
East Carolina’s Brad Mincey is the Conference USA Pitcher of the Week after he picked up two victories for the first place Pirates during last week’s action. The Hitter of the Week honor is being shared by Southern Miss SS Brian Dozier and UAB 1B Luke Stewart after both players registered big weekends at the plate in leading their teams to series sweeps. Read the rest of this entry »
James Ewing
Southern Miss was the only team to post a series sweep in Conference USA play this weekend as the Golden Eagles took three in a row at UCF. After posting a 6-2 win in the opener on Friday, the Golden Eagles broke out the bats in a big way during a Saturday doubleheader, scoring 45 total runs. The 26 runs scored in game one established a new USM school record. Senior SS Brian Dozier led the way in the twin-bill, combining to go six-for-nine with two home runs, seven runs, nine RBI, 12 total bases, two walks and a sacrifice fly. Read the rest of this entry »
Our two good friends in Katie Dowd of The Daily Cal and Nate Owen of The Huntington News have put out their recaps from the weekend. Katie Dowd has her recaps of the Cal-Washington State series while doing a podcast with her beat partner Matt Kawahara. Nate Owen checks in on the Northeastern-Hofstra series which the Huskies took two out of three games. Read the rest of this entry »
The Citadel’s Fred Jordan picked up his 600th victory on Sunday in a 4-1 victory over the Air Force Falcons. Jordan is currently in his 18th season in charge of the Bulldog program and is the fastest coach in Southern Conference history to reach the 600 win plateau. You can check out the full release from The Citadel’s media relations department below. Read the rest of this entry »
Khris Davis (Cal-State Fullerton)
We will be providing you with the Top 30 scores everyday throughout the season thanks to D1Baseball.com who has teamed up with us. Here are the scores for March 29th. We will put up a new post every night so you can check out all the scores from around the country at one place. Read the rest of this entry »
The College Baseball Blog ran a Live Chat on March 29th discussing the college baseball world. This week we spoke mostly about the Big 12 conference as we were joined by Jon Johnston of Big 12 Hardball who shared his opinions. You can check out the transcript of the chat below. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is your ACC Recap for March 29th
Miami (FL) 6 Georgia Tech 2
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -Starter Iden Nazario struck out a career-high 10 in seven innings of work and Scott Lawson hit a three-run homer in to break a 2-2 tie in the fourth as No. 2 Miami beat No. 3 Georgia Tech, 6-2, Sunday afternoon at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field. 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)
