Archive for March, 2010

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CBB Spotlight Series: UConn heads to Louisville for Big East Showdown

GeorgeSpringerUConn The UConn Huskies will open their 2010 Big East Conference schedule by heading to Big East favorite Louisville for a key matchup that could decide the Big East Conference Champion. UConn will enter the weekend with 12–5 record while Louisville has a 18-2 mark.

The UConn offense is sixth best in the Big East with a .289 average. The top hitter for the Huskies has been redshirt freshman Billy Ferriter who enters the weekend with a .467 average in 14 games. Mike Nemeth is second on the squad with a .429 average, two homers, and 15 RBI on the year. Heading into the season, Mike Olt and George Springer were supposed to be the top hitters on the squad heading into the season. Olt has not disappointed with a .329 average, five homers, and 21 RBI while Springer has struggled as he is hitting only .259 with four homers and 20 RBI.

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Texas State and Lamar to face off in Key SLC Series

TexasStateBaseball The big series this weekend in the Southland Conference features the Lamar Cardinals traveling to San Marcos to take on the Texas State Bobcats. Lamar enters the series with a 15-6 overall record while being 2-4 in Southland Conference play as they lost two out of three to Central Arkansas and Nicholls State back to back weekend. They still feature a strong weekend rotation headlined by Matison Smith (3-1, 2.86 ERA) and Eric Harrington (3-0, 4.50 ERA). Texas State will come into the series with an 11-8 record while being 4-2 in the Southland Conference. They won two out of three games against both Texas A&M Corpus Christi and Sam Houston State the last two weekends to get of to a good start.

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Cal-State Fullerton looking to improve

DaveSerrano Cal-State Fullerton head coach Dave Serrano recently sat down with Michael Greenlee of CSF Media Relations to discuss the state of the baseball program after the first 20 games of the season. The Titans enter the weekend with a 10-10 record as they will host Hawaii in a three game set starting tonight.

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Big 12 Weekend Preview (3/26-3/28)

index #9 Texas (16-5, 2-1) at Texas Tech (11-12, 1-2)

Friday 6:30 PM (Fox Sports Central)
Texas: RHP Taylor Jungmann, So. (2-0, 1.98 ERA)
Texas Tech: RHP John Neely, Jr. (0-1, 5.74 ERA)

Saturday 6:30 PM
Texas: RHP Cole Green, Jr. (4-0, 3.00 ERA)
Texas Tech: RHP Bobby Doran (0-1, 4.97 ERA)

Sunday 12:00 PM (Fox Sports Network)
Texas: RHP Brandon Workman, Jr. (3-1, 2.94 ERA)
Texas Tech: TBA

Texas is the hands on favorite in this matchup. Texas Tech has shown some hot bats at various times this season, but also gone cold at the plate against top-level pitchers. Luckily for Texas, they boast an elite pitching staff, but will have to score runs to ensure victory in Lubbock. Texas Tech RHP Chad Bettis has moved back into the closer role, with a nod to start on Sundays if he doesn’t pitch too many innings on Friday or Saturday.

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SEC Weekend Preview (March 26th-28th)

SEC Baseball The SEC enters their second weekend of conference play with some intriguing matchups. The best series is #5 Florida visiting #19 Ole Miss while #20 Alabama visits #16 Arkansas is also a matchup between Top 20 schools. #26 Kentucky heads to #23 Vanderbilt in the only other conference series to feature ranked squads. The other matchups on the weekend sees #4 LSU visiting Tennessee, #21 South Carolina heading to Auburn, and Georgia heading to Mississippi State.

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ACC Weekend Preview (March 26th-28th)

The ACC enters their third weekend of action with a couple of key matchups. The biggest matchup clearly is between Division leaders Clemson and Virginia. Clemson enters the weekend with a perfect 6-0 ACC record while Virginia enters with a 5-1 record in the conference. The other big series is Georgia Tech visiting North Carolina which features the best pitching matchup this weekend with Deck McGuire facing off against Matt Harvey. The other series see Maryland visiting Florida State, Miami (FL) heading to NC State, Duke going to Boston College, and Wake Forest taking on Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Read the rest of this entry »

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ASU’s Jake Borup: From ASU, to Mormon Mission, and Back Again

Jake Borup is 5-0 in 5 starts and is leading the ASU starting pitching staff with a 2.42 ERA with a K/9 just under 8.  The Sun Devil pitching staff has been amazing in the absence of Josh Spence at 20-0 so far, but Borup has been a welcome surprise.

Borup enrolled at ASU in the Fall of 2005, but answered a higher calling by performing his Mormon Mission.  The Sun Devils could have used his arm along side Mike Leake the past two seasons, but he is contributing now as a 22 year old redshirt Sophomore. 

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CBB Column: 2010 NCAA Regional Projections (March 25th)

The College Baseball Blog continues our weekly countdown to the release of the 2010 NCAA Regional Brackets. The brackets are done as if the NCAA Tournament was set to start today. I ended up using Boyd’s World RPI which was updated through games on Tuesday as that was the latest available. The RPI changes dramatically every week especially before some of the schools start the conference campaign. You can check out the full bracket below which is our best estimate right now. Read the rest of this entry »

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SEC Recap for March 24th

ArkansasBaseball Here is your SEC Recap for March 24th.

#4 LSU 4 Louisiana-Lafayette 3

BATON ROUGE — A pair of RBI by catcher Micah Gibbs and five shutout innings by the LSU bullpen led the fourth-ranked Tigers to a 4-3 victory over UL-Lafayette Wednesday night in Alex Box Stadium.

The Tigers (17-3) have won seven of their last 10 meetings with the Cajuns (11-10) since 2000 and lead the all-time series 46-22.

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ACC Recap for March 24th

Here is your ACC Recap for March 24th.

#3 Georgia Tech 19 Mercer 4

MarquisUMD ATLANTA - The third-ranked Georgia Tech baseball team (18-2, 5-1 ACC) scored double digit runs for the fourth straight game, and 12 different players registered a hit in a 19-4 win over Mercer (14-9, 2-1 A-Sun) Wednesday night at Russ Chandler Stadium.

"We’ve had contributions from a lot of different guys," head coach Danny Hall said. "I think as a team we’ve swung the bat real well, which is a good sign. We’ve got [Jay] Dantzler down a little bit right now, and Brandon Thomas steps in there and has hit the ball real well for us. So that’s good to see."

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NAIA recap for March 24

Southern Polytechnic retains #1 in Boyd Nation’s Iterative Strength Rating. The Hornets are 29-2, 6-0 in the Southern States Athletic Conference. The Hornets allowed two runs in three games against Southern Wesleyan. Blake Mainor, Hunter Dinsmore, and Ty Williams combined for a 9-0 seven-inning three hit shutout. David Hardin got his seventh win of the season in a 7-1 win; his ERA is 1.65, and he has 45 strikeouts. He remains tied with Taylor Siemens of Cal Baptist and Kelyn Schellenberg of Fresno Pacific for most wins in the NAIA. Upcoming: Shorter March 26-27.

Lewis-Clark State defeated Division III Whitworth 15-2, and #15 College of Idaho 10-7. In the C. of Idaho game, Brian Burke hit his tenth home run of the season. Burke also leads the Warriors with 30 RBI. Upcoming: at College of Idaho March 25, British Columbia March 27-28.

Andrew Firth#2 British Columbia swept four games at Concordia-Portland, and two of the wins were shutouts. Eric Brown, David Otterman, and Miles Verweel combined for the first shutout, and Sheldon McDonald and Taylor King combined for the second one. The Thunderbirds are 20-3, 14-2 in NAIA West play. Verweel is the team’s ERA leader at 1.42. Brown is 5-0, 1.74 ERA with 22 strikeouts. Freshman 1B Andrew Firth leads the team in hitting at .440. Upcoming: at Lewis-Clark State March 27-28, at Washington State March 29. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hardwork pays off for FSU’s Cardullo

CardulloFSU ESPN.com’s Ivan Maisel recently wrote an article on Florida State infielder Stephen Cardullo. He came to Tallahassee as a true walk-on with Mike Martin Sr. not knowing anything about him. Cardullo got a chance to try out for the team and has been able to develop in the Seminoles number 3 hitter as a senior. He is currently hitting .324 with two homers and 22 RBI as he has played in all 19 games.

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