Here is your ACC Recap for May 8th.
NC State 3 UNC 0
RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State left-hander Jimmy Gillheeney shut out No. 1 North Carolina over seven innings to lead the Wolfpack to a 3-0 win Friday in the series-opener at Doak Field. The Tar Heels (37-12, 16-8 ACC) held State (23-27, 9-16 ACC) to just five hits but matched a season high with 12 runners left on base to snap a five-game winning streak and a run of six straight victories in ACC play. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is your Big East Recap for May 8th.
Louisville 10 St. John’s 8
QUEENS, N.Y. – With the game tied and two outs in the seventh inning, freshman Ryan Wright hammered a two-run home run over the wall in left field to lift the Louisville baseball team to a 10-8 series-opening road win over St. John’s on Friday night at Jack Kaiser Stadium. Read the rest of this entry »
Head Coach Chris Clemmons
(Victoria, Texas) The Victoria Generals of the Texas Collegiate League are continuing the process of building their expansion franchise. Head Coach Chris Clemons and Brad Haynes, VP of Baseball Operations have been diligent in identifying the young men that will wear Generals uniforms this summer. “Character, love of the game, and understanding the team concept is a vital part in putting together our roster,” said Haynes.
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Results of the final NAIA Coaches’ Poll for the 2009 season, and Boyd Nation’s Iterative Strength Rating. Comments below:
| RANK | LAST WEEK |
ISR | SCHOOL | WON | LOST | TOTAL POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | Lubbock Christian | 44 | 6 | 653 |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | Oklahoma City | 48 | 7 | 631 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Point Loma Nazarene | 37 | 11 | 605 |
| 4 | 4 | 10 | Berry | 42 | 14 | 586 |
| 5 | 6 | 4 | Southern Polytechnic | 48 | 8 | 551 |
| 6 | 7 | 12 | Embry-Riddle | 41 | 12 | 549 |
| 7 | 5 | 6 | Lewis-Clark State | 36 | 13 | 499 |
| 8 | T8 | 5 | Campbellsville | 35 | 9 | 481 |
| 9 | 10 | 15 | Tennessee Wesleyan | 43 | 13 | 471 |
| 10 | T8 | 9 | Lee | 47 | 12 | 451 |
| 11 | T11 | 22 | Bellevue | 39 | 10 | 450 |
| 12 | 13 | 8 | British Columbia | 37 | 11 | 428 |
| 13 | T11 | 7 | Fresno Pacific | 33 | 18 | 400 |
| 14 | 14 | 18 | Union (KY) | 43 | 10 | 376 |
| 15 | 20 | 24 | Lindenwood | 43 | 10 | 354 |
| 16 | 16 | 37 | Madonna | 38 | 10 | 308 |
| 17 | 19 | 20 | Malone | 44 | 12 | 293 |
| 18 | 23 | 16 | Wayland Baptist | 40 | 13 | 280 |
| 19 | 22 | 21 | LSU-Shreveport | 41 | 14 | 256 |
| 20 | RV | 11 | Biola | 34 | 22 | 181 |
| 21 | 18 | 35 | William Carey | 33 | 20 | 174 |
| T22 | 17 | 19 | Southern Nazarene | 37 | 13 | 158 |
| T22 | RV | 65 | Savannah College of Art and Design | 38 | 21 | 158 |
| 24 | 25 | 42 | Saint Xavier | 39 | 13 | 142 |
| 25 | RV | 46 | Kansas Wesleyan | 38 | 15 | 138 |
First-place votes: Lubbock Christian 22, Point Loma Nazarene 1 Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some of the best links from around the nation for today.
The first article comes from WFAA.com which looks at Texas A&M’s Brodie Greene rise after being hit in the head with a 90 MPH fastball. The next article comes from The Birmingham News discusses some of the seedings for the 2009 SEC Tourney. The Star Telegram did a feature on Howard College NJCAA baseball program which is currently 54-0. The next article comes from The San Diego Union Tribune writer Kirk Kenney who does yet another feature on Stephen Strasburg. Kathy Orton of The Washington Post did an excellent feature on CAA leading George Mason. The final article comes from The Auburn Reporter which features former Green River Community College and current New Mexico State Aggie player Bryan Marquez. Read the rest of this entry »
I previewed the SEC weekend series today (Click here) but forgot to add a link to the SEC Coaches Media Teleconference with each school’s coach talking about the weekend sets. Read the rest of this entry »
Brooks Raley and Texas A&M battle rival Texas with both team's Big 12 title hopes still alive. (Photo courtesy of Wildmen03 at Texags.com)
The Lone Star Showdown this weekend between Texas and Texas A&M will heavily impact the Big 12 conference race. Texas currently leads Kansas State and rival Texas A&M by one game in the conference standings. The two teams will be playing a split series, with the Friday game in College Station and the two remaining games in Austin. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State face off in the Bedlam Series, with Friday’s game to be played at Driller’s Stadium in Tulsa and the other two games at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. Read the rest of this entry »
NM State Pitcher D.J. Simon
Week six in the WAC sees four teams within a half game of each other and all seven WAC teams still with a mathematical shot at the regular season title. Louisiana Tech enters week six as the undisputed hottest team in the league after a stunning sweep over Hawai’i in Honolulu. After starting the league race at 1-7 the Bulldogs have won eight of their last 10 with sweeps over three time defending league champion Fresno State and conference tournament favorite Hawai’i (as the Tournament is being held in Honolulu). Much to the relief of the other six WAC teams, it’s Louisiana Tech’s turn to step out of conference this weekend as the remaining six battle to sort out the mess that is the 2009 WAC race.
SERIES OF THE WEEK
San Jose State (32-16, 8-6) at New Mexico State (38-10, 9-7)
Presley Askew Field, Las Cruces, N.M.
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I am pinch-hitting this week for Colin Weber as he had another commitment. The top series of the weekend sees Florida making their first trip to the new Alex Box Stadium to take on the LSU Tigers. The other marquee series is Arkansas visiting Alabama. The Vanderbilt Commodores have an important series at Georgia as they will give freshman Sonny Gray his first career start on Friday night. We also see Mississippi State visiting Ole Miss in an intrastate rivalry series. The other two series sees Auburn going to Kentucky and South Carolina heading to Tennessee. Read the rest of this entry »
We get a bit of a break this weekend from Pac-10 play as four teams have a bye in the conference schedule that they will fill with non-conference opponents. There are only three Pac-10 series on the slate this weekend, but each includes one of the three teams battling it out for second place in the conference (with an outside shot at first place). Those three teams, UCLA, Washington St. and Oregon St., play teams they should take the series from, but if one can come up with a sweep they could get some breathing room for that coveted second place spot.
Here is your ACC Preview for May 8th-11th. This week we only see four ACC series while Boston College, Miami, and Clemson play out of conference series. Virginia Tech is off this weekend. The marquee series of the weekend sees number 9 ranked Florida State heading to number 10 ranked Georgia Tech. North Carolina heads down the road to take on NC State while Duke heads to Virginia and Wake Forest heads to Maryland. Read the rest of this entry »
Wes Kartch
Golden State Athletic Conference – at San Diego: #3 Point Loma Nazarene won the inaugural tournament, defeating #24 The Master’s 6-1. The Sea Lions were out-hit 7-6 by the Mustangs, but they broke a tight game open with a grand slam home run in the seventh inning by 3B Wes Kartch. Brandon Dixon got the win.
Appalachian Athletic Conference - at Kingsport, TN: #10 Tennessee Wesleyan won the championship, defeating #14 Union (KY) 5-3. This was the completion of a game suspended the previous day. The winning run came on a sacrifice fly by Matt Stanley in the sixth inning. Jon Swartout, who pitched a shutout on Monday, took over after the suspension, and went the last 4 2/3 innings, didn’t allow a run. 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)
