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So this is going to be a new column I’ll put out every Friday about what I’m most looking forward to in the upcoming weekend, or just general notes and things of interest in college baseball.
Here is your ACC Weekend Preview for February 26th-28th. I will have much more in-depth previews once we enter the conference portion of the schedule. The ACC teams have a fairly easy slate this week with Boston College and NC State facing the most difficult opponents. The Eagles head down to Auburn to play the host Tigers, Missouri and Florida Atlantic while NC State takes part in the “Baseball at the Beach” tourney which features James Madison and nationally ranked squads in Coastal Carolina and UC-Irvine. Besides those two ACC teams, the rest of the conference has fairly easy matchups with Florida State hosting Hofstra, Rhode Island heading to Virginia, Xavier going to Georgia Tech, Manhattan taking on the Hurricanes, Maine and North Carolina facing off, Wright State at Clemson, Delaware at Maryland, Fordham at Duke, Kent State at Wake Forest, and Virginia Tech heading to Charleston Southern.
Stacy Kaneshiro of the Honolulu Advertiser has a preview into the Hawaii and Oregon matchup this weekend. The Ducks enter the weekend with a 3-1 record with victories over Cal-State Fullerton, Loyola-Marymount, and Long Beach State. They are led by former Cal-State Fullerton head coach George Horton who is in his second season in charge of the Oregon program.
The season is now one week old and while its still very early to be jumping to any rash conclusions, there was a lot of moving and shaking in the brackets. Instead of boring you all with long sentences strung together to form paragraphs, I thought it might be fun to introduce my new way of unveiling the brackets called “7 things we learned”.
LSU number 1 starter Anthony Ranaudo will miss his start this Friday night after feeling discomfort in his right elbow. Coach Paul Mainieri doesn’t seemed too worried about it as he stated "We don’t think it’s a serious problem, but we don’t want to put Anthony on the mound until he feels 100 percent. He is one of the top pitchers in the country, and I’m certainly not going to do anything to jeopardize his career."
#8 Texas 7 Dallas Baptist 2
Here is your ACC Recap for Feb. 24th
#3 Virginia 5 George Washington 2
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The top-ranked Virginia baseball team opened its 2010 home schedule with a 5-2 victory over George Washington Wednesday afternoon at Davenport Field. UVa, in its first game ever as the nation’s No. 1-ranked team, built a 5-0 lead through four innings, then cruised to the victory from there.
Will Roberts (So., Richmond, Va.) made a strong opening start for the Cavaliers (3-1), going 5.2 innings and allowing two earned runs, five hits and two walks while striking out one as he earned his first victory of 2010. He shut out the Colonials for five innings before giving up a pair of runs in the sixth. Kevin Arico (Jr., Flemington, N.J.) pitched the final 1.1 innings to nab his second save. It also was his 13th career save, as he moved into a fourth-place tie on the all-time UVa saves ledger with Todd Ruyak (1989-92).
Texas has spent the past few days in a very unfamiliar territory. After dropping their season opening series to New Mexico, the Longhorns owned a losing record for the first time since the start of the 2007 season.
Dallas Baptist kicked off the scoring when SS Travis Meiners drew a leadoff walk and came around to score on a bases loaded groundout by C Logan Moro, giving the Patriots a 1-0 lead in the second frame.
The Pat Murphy Saga isn’t anything new in Tempe. According to a batch of documents form 2008, Murphy was blamed by AD Lisa Love for failure to monitor his program amid a Pac-10 investigation. Once the Pac-10 stepped away from the investigation, the NCAA came in with their own probe to find out about impermissible phone calls, managers performing coaching duties, athletes receiving benefits, and athletes being paid for work they didn’t perform.
Former Vermont player Matt Duffy had to find a new school after the Catamounts disbanded the baseball program. He has shown up at the University of Tennessee where he started all three games this past weekend going 4-15 with five RBI. Josh Pate of UTSports.com has an excellent article about how Duffy and his former head coach Bill Currier who is currently an assistant at Tennessee are adjusting.
The Florida Gulf Coast Eagles will head to Coral Gables tonight to take on the Miami (FL) Hurricanes in the marquee matchup of the day. FGCU held back ace pitcher Chris Sale to face Miami tonight and make a statement to the College Baseball world that they are for real. Sale started on Friday against Temple where he pitched two innings striking out four of the six batters he faced. Sale was rated by Baseball America as the best prospect in the Cape Cod Baseball League and was the fourth best player in my Top 100 countdown before the season.
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)
