FROM NCBWA RELEASE
DALLAS, Texas – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continued its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 11th year with its 2010 weekly surveys. This season’s polls have been circulated from Feb. 23-June 29/30 following the NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb. This is the final poll of the year and ’10 after South Carolina of the Southeastern Conference won its first NCAA baseball championship on June 29 by downing UCLA 2-1 in 11 innings.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The coaching team of Greg Beals and Mike Stafford will continue. It’s not as if this comes as too great of a surprise for those in the collegiate baseball circles, and particularly to those who have watched the two succeed along the recruiting trails or between the base paths the past seven seasons instructing, mentoring and coaxing the most out of their student-athletes at Ball State University. But today it became official when Beals, the Springfield, Ohio-native and first-year coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, named Stafford, the former Buckeye reliever, as his pitching coach.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
Player and Pitcher of the Week for week 4 in the Texas Collegiate League. Mark Hudson of the Victoria Generals and Lee Orr of the East Texas Pump Jacks were named Co-Players of the Week. Zach Oates of the Texas Tomcats was named Pitcher of the Week.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — University of Michigan head baseball coach Rich Maloney has announced the addition of Matt White to his coaching staff. White, who will handle the pitching coach duties, comes to Michigan after three years as a volunteer coach at Georgia Tech. White replaces Bob Keller as Michigan’s pitching coach.
"I think we have one of the best up and coming coaches in college baseball," Maloney said. "He comes highly recommended and has a wealth of experience in all levels of the game. He has experienced baseball at the highest level in the pros, was a volunteer coach at Georgia Tech plus he coached the U16 and U18 national teams for USA baseball and he is very passionate about teaching pitching."
Here are your Top Performers from the Cape Cod Baseball League for June 29th.
Top Players
Stewart Ijames, Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox (Louisville) 2-4, RBI
Andy Burns, Brewster Whitecaps (Kentucky) 2-5, SB
Steve Selsky, Orleans Firebirds (Arizona) 2-4, RBI
Mark Ginther, Chatham Anglers (Oklahoma State) 2-4, double, RBI
Levi Hyams, Cotuit Kettleers (Georgia) 2-4 Read the rest of this entry »
The South Carolina Gamecocks got an 11th inning RBI single from Whit Merrifield to drive home Scott Wingo from third base to give South Carolina their first national championship in school history.
UPDATED STORY AVAILABLE HERE ON JULY 6th.
According to multiple sources, Mik Aoki will be named the next head coach at Notre Dame after spending the last four seasons as the head coach of the Boston College Eagles. He led the Eagles to the NCAA Tourney in 2009 but that was the only NCAA appearance. He finished the 2010 season with a 30-28 record while going 14-16 in ACC play. His career record with the Eagles was 114-104-1 while having a career head coaching record of 201-248-1 after spending five seasons in charge of the Columbia program before becoming the pitching coach at Boston College under former BC and current VT head coach Peter Hughes.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
With summer league baseball a few weeks in, the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League is awarding this weeks’ top players. The GLSCL recognizes John McCambridge from the Licking County Settlers as player of the week, and Eric Vaughan from the Lake Erie Monarchs as pitcher of the week.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
DALLAS – The Dick Howser Trophy Committee, consisting of executive members of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Chamber of Commerce and the College Baseball Foundation, is pleased to announce a sponsorship with Easton Foundations beginning in 2011, the 25th anniversary of the award.
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, which works in conjunction with the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Chamber of Commerce and the College Baseball Foundation in selecting the Dick Howser Trophy, is pleased to announce a sponsorship with Easton Foundations beginning in 2011, the 25th anniversary of the award.
We always hear of the excellent players from the service academies from Army’s Nick Hill to the more recent Clint Moore who is spending his summer in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Moore sacrificed his summer last year by doubling up his training thus allowing him the chance to play in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League. Moore is currently second in the league with a .344 average in 11 games while driving in five runs.
Air Force junior LHP Andrew Loyd recently took part in a Operations Air Force assignment at Luke AFB, Arizona where he had his first experience in a F-16. He details the experience below.
South Carolina senior right hander Blake Cooper had an impressive performance on Monday night against the UCLA Bruins as the Gamecocks picked up a 7-1 victory. Entering the game, Cooper was less regarded starting pitcher as he was facing off against UCLA sophomore right-hander Gerrit Cole who was selected in the first round of the 2009 MLB Draft by the New York Yankees but turned down the opportunity to pitch for Bruins. After the game was over, Copper had pitched eight strong innings letting up three hits and only one run while striking out 10 batters. Cole, on the other hand struggled all night letting up a season high 11 hits and six runs while laboring through seven innings.
As many teams across the country besides South Carolina and UCLA, they are all playing the waiting game on which current college players will sign MLB contracts and the incoming freshman who were drafted that could sign and skip college. One school who this affects is Florida State which saw Tyler Holt selected in the 10th round by the Cleveland Indians and Mike McGee who was picked in the 41st round by the Arizona Diamondbacks after outstanding seasons from both of them. This doesn’t just mean the players on the Noles right now as they had five signees drafted including Kaleb Cowart who was selected in the first round by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
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)
