Archive for April, 2010

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Big West Players of the Week

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

The weekly baseball awards haul went to Cal State Fullerton’s Nick Ramirez and UC Irvine’s Christian Bergman for their roles in leading the Titans and Anteaters to conference series sweeps.  Bergman’s performance also was worthy of the "Louisville Slugger" National Player of the Week honor by Collegiate Baseball.

Ramirez Hits .643 To Pace Titan Offense

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Cal State Fullerton's pitcher Nick Ramirez pumps his fist after betaing UCI on Sunday afternoon. CSF won 6-1.

 Photo by Matt A. Brown / For the Register Cal State Fullerton sophomore Nick Ramirez (Anaheim, Calif./Katella HS) garnered Big West Baseball Field Player of the Week honors after hitting .643 to help his team to a 4-0 record.

The first baseman hit safely in all four games and now owns a hitting streak of 16 straight.  He scored six runs and had five RBI as the Titans defeated Pepperdine in a midweek non-conference game and swept Cal Poly in a Big West series.

Ramirez belted four doubles among his nine hits for the week, including a pair of RBI doubles in CSF’s 12-5 win over the Waves Tuesday.  He went 4-for-5 with three RBI in that game.

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SEC Players of the Week

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Auburn Baseball PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Hunter Morris • Auburn
Junior • IF • Huntsville, Ala.

• Had the game-winning (walk-off) and series-clinching hit on Sunday vs. Kentucky, a seventh-inning RBI single…Went 8-for-17 with two doubles, two triples, two home runs, seven runs scored and nine RBI for a .615 batting average and a 1.538 slugging percentage.
• He now leads the SEC in slugging percentage (.779) and total bases (134), is second in hits (71), RBI (53) and home runs (13) and is third in doubles (14) and triples (5) while his .413 batting average is fourth…His season home run, runs scored (43), triples and RBI totals are already a career high.

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WAC Players of the Week

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DENVER, CO – Fresno State’s Jordan Ribera and Hawai‘i’s Josh Slaats have been named the Verizon Western Athletic Conference Baseball Hitter and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for April 19-25.

Ribera, a junior first baseman from Fresno, Calif. (Clovis West HS), hit .625 (10-for-16), helping the Bulldogs to a pair of wins at Nevada last week. Ribera scored seven runs with two doubles, five home runs, nine RBI and a 1.688 slugging percentage over four games last week. With his five home runs last week, Ribera now leads both the WAC and the nation with 20 home runs this season. Ribera has now hit a home run in five-straight games, tying the Fresno State record for consecutive games with a home run.
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Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Weekly Honors

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Cameron Rupp and Cole Green from Texas have been named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week for games of April 19-25, in voting by a panel of media covering the conference. It is Green’s third weekly pitching accolade overall and second in a row, while Rupp is honored for the first time.
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ACC Baseball Players of the Week

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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Boston College outfielder Robbie Anston has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Player of the Week, while North Carolina’s Matt Harvey received ACC Pitcher of the Week honors.

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NCBWA Apr. 26 Division I Poll

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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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Southland Baseball Players of the Week

Kulbeth hit .353 with eight RBI and Franklin pitched a complete-game four-hitter in his first collegiate startFROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

FRISCO, Texas – Nicholls outfielder Keith Kulbeth has been named the
Southland Conference Hitter of the Week while Southeastern Louisiana
right-hander Chris Franklin has been named the Southland Pitcher of the
Week, the league office announced Monday.
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Big East Players of the Week

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MikeOltUConn PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Connecticut third baseman Mike Olt and USF righthanded pitcher Randy Fontanez are the winners of the BIG EAST’s weekly baseball honors for the week-ending April 25.

Olt was named BIG EAST Player of the Week after he led Connecticut to a 6-0 week, including a three-game sweep of Rutgers, to lift the Huskies into sole possession of first place in the BIG EAST standings and extend Connecticut’s winning streak to 21 games — the longest active streak in the nation. Olt hit .655 and slugged 1.138, going 19-for-29 with five doubles, three home runs, 11 RBI and nine runs scored. He had at least two hits in all six games and had at least one extra-base hit in five of the six. Olt hit .786 in the three games against Rutgers, capping the week by going 5-for-6 with a double and a home run in Game 3.

Fontanez was tabbed as BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week after he threw a complete-game shutout to key USF’s 5-0 win against Villanova Friday, helping the Bulls take two of three from the Wildcats. Fontanez faced just three batters over the minimum as he scattered four hits and walked one while striking out five to pick up his third win of the season. He registered his third complete game of the season and his second complete-game shutout of the year.

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Big Ten Conference Players of the Week

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BoFeltMichiganState BIG TEN BASEBALL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

CO-PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Bo Felt, Michigan State

Sr., OF, Sturgis, Mich./Sturgis

Felt earns his first career Player of the Week honor after leading the Spartans to a series win against Illinois over the weekend. The senior hit .545 and slugged 1.455 in the series, combining for an OPS of 2.000. He also scored five runs and drove in eight over three games, including a three-hit, four-RBI performance on Saturday in which he doubled and homered. Felt went deep in all three conference games last week, marking his first long balls of the season. He raised his batting average by 20 points and helped Michigan State climb back into a tie for first in the Big Ten standings.

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TCBB hires a New Staff Member

TCBBLogo2 The College Baseball Blog is pleased to announce the addition of Kat Hasenauer Cornetta. She will be doing features on players, coaches, and administrators around the country while also chipping in on game coverage. She currently works for the Examiner as their National Lacrosse writer, Inside Lacrosse as a contributor, and also runs her own website On Being a Sports Girl since 2003.

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SEC Recap for April 25th

Here is your SEC Recap for April 25th.

Vandy-TennPhoto Game 1: Kentucky 8 Auburn 7 (Resumption of 4/24 Game)
Game 2: Auburn 6 Kentucky 5 (7 innings)

AUBURN, Ala. – In a thriller that lasted four hours, saw the lead change hands or the game tied 10 times and a total of 32 runners left on base, the Kentucky baseball team outlasted No. 29 Auburn, 8-7, in an instant classic on Saturday, in front of 1,785 fans at Plainsman Park.

The back-and-forth affair saw the lead tied or change hands a total of 10 times in the four-hour game. UK found itself down two runs entering the top of the eighth inning and mounted a furious comeback to plate three runs and go ahead 8-7. The game began on Saturday morning at Plainsman Park before rains suspended play until it was resumed Sunday morning.

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ACC Recap for April 25th

Here is your ACC Recap for April 25th.

BalisteriVT Game 1: #28 Virginia Tech 10 #3 Georgia Tech 3 (Resumption of 4/24 Game)
Game 2: #3 Georgia Tech 14 #28 Virginia Tech 12

ATLANTA, Ga. The 20th-ranked Virginia Tech baseball team won the front end of an unconventional double-header on Sunday at Russ Chandler Stadium to clinch a series win over third-ranked Georgia Tech.

After Saturday’s affair was halted by rain in the middle of the fourth inning with the Hokies up 6-0, the game was suspended until Sunday at noon, where the Hokies completed what they started with a 10-3 win. Georgia Tech then won a slugfest in the third contest by a score of 14-12.

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