The College Baseball Blog continues our tradition of naming a Player and Pitcher of the Week. This week we honor South Alabama third baseman Jake Overstreet and South Florida’s Randy Fontanez.
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Pacific’s John Haberman and Cal State Fullerton’s Noe Ramirez were named the Big West Baseball Field Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. Haberman drove in 10 runs for the Tigers in a 4-0 week while Ramirez struck out a career-high 14 batters in a complete game shutout.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Backed behind the first no-hitter in BIG EAST baseball in nearly three years, USF swept the latest installment of BIG EAST Weekly Baseball awards. Junior Randy Fontanez earned BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week recognition, while classmate Jonathan Koscso was named BIG EAST Player of the Week.
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DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 13th year with its 2010 weekly surveys. Weekly polls will be circulated from Feb. 22-June 29 following the 64th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., and final CWS competition at historic Rosenblatt Stadium.
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Robby Price (Kansas) has been tabbed the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Player of the Week, while Brett Bochy (Kansas) and Tom Lemke (Nebraska) have been named Pitchers of the Week for games of March 22-28, in voting by a panel of media covering the conference. All three student-athletes are being honored for the first time.
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FRISCO, Texas – Sam Houston State outfielder Mark Hudson has been named the Southland Conference Hitter of the Week and UT Arlington right-handed pitcher Jason Mitchell has been named the Southland Pitcher of the Week, the league office announced Monday.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Georgia Tech’s Derek Dietrich and Florida State’s Tyler Holt have been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Players of the Week, while Virginia Tech’s Justin Wright has received the Pitcher of the Week honor.
Dietrich and Holt led their teams to three-game sweeps in conference play, while Wright pitched a complete-game shutout in his weekend start.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – High Point’s Matt Gantner has been named the Big South Conference Choice Hotels baseball Player of the Week, while Tyler Thornburg from Charleston Southern was tabbed The CRONS Brand Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for games played March 22-28, it was announced today by the League office.
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CO-PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Willie Argo, Illinois
So., CF, Davenport, Iowa/Assumption
Argo collects his second career weekly honor after leading Illinois to a 3-0 record last week with wins over Southeastern and Dartmouth. The sophomore went 4-for-4 against Southeastern on Tuesday, recording a double and a home run. The center fielder also scored two runs and drove in four while going 2-for-2 on the base paths. The following day in a doubleheader vs. Dartmouth, Argo went 1-for-3 with a run, an RBI and a stolen base in Game 1 before going 2-for-4 with a triple, a run scored and an RBI in the nightcap. For the week, Argo batted .636, while slugging 1.182 and reaching base at a .667 clip to combine for an OPS of 1.849. The weekly honor is the second for an Illini hitter this season.
I apologize for not giving you some thoughts from Saturday night but I had some other commitments come up around here.
Tyler Holt from Florida State hit for the cycle on Sunday in a 9-5 victory over the Maryland Terps. Holt picked up a single in the first, double in the second, triple in the third, and hit a homer in the fifth. Holt said the following about the cycle "It felt good, I got some good swings in. The first two hits – the single and the double – went my way and then I finally got some good swings and got the last two." Coach Mike Martin was fired up about the cycle as he stated: “There are two things that really fire me up when I am watching a game – a no-no and the cycle. That fired me up. I will be honest with you, I don’t go to rock concerts but I guess they light the lighters – I would have lit a lighter on that one."
I made the trip to Chestnut Hill again on Sunday to catch the rubber game between Boston College and Duke. Boston College won Game 1 on Saturday by a score of 5-3 before dropping the nightcap 5-4. Duke sent junior RHP Dennis O’Grady to the mound while Boston College countered with junior LHP Pat Dean.
Here is your SEC Recap for March 28th.
#5 Florida 13 #19 Ole Miss 1
Behind 5.1 strong innings from freshman left-hander Brian Johnson (Cocoa Beach, Fla.) and three RBI apiece from freshman Austin Maddox (Jacksonville, Fla.) and sophomore Daniel Pigott (Ormond Beach, Fla.), No. 2 Florida (18-5/4-2 SEC) salvaged the finale of its weekend series at No. 17 Ole Miss (19-6/4-2 SEC) with a 13-1 win on Sunday afternoon in front of 6,116 fans at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field. In picking up his first league victory, Johnson (2-1) did not allow any earned runs and was supported by a Gator offense that registered 15 hits and tallied multiple runs in the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and ninth innings to avoid the sweep.
Maddox (2-for-4, three RBI, two runs) opened the scoring with his team-leading seventh homer into the visiting bullpen in right field to start the second inning. It came on a 2-0 offering from junior Trent Rothlin (3-2) and boosted the rookie’s hitting streak to seven games.
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)
