Archive for November, 2010

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Barret Loux signs with the Texas Rangers

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Brian Foley
– November 22, 2010Posted in: 2010 Top Players, Big 12, MLB Draft

On Friday, Barret Loux formerly of Texas A&M signed a free agent contract with the Texas Rangers. He was selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2010 MLB Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Loux ended up coming to an agreement with the D-Backs for over 2 million dollars but ended up failing his physical due to shoulder issues that were discovered during the examination. The D-Backs refused to negotiate with Loux anymore after this discovery. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 5 Articles of the Week

By
Brian Foley
– November 21, 2010Posted in: Articles of the Week

Here are the Top 5 Articles of the Past Week on College Baseball Daily.

1. Brian Goodwin suspended for 2011 Season
2. Lou Spry named Wilbur Snypp Award Winner
3. North Shore Navigators to host NECBL All-Star Game
4. SIU Baseball Coach Dan Callahan Passes Away
5. Franklin Pierce to head to Dominican Republic

We are in the middle of our Top 100 countdown as we just check in with number 59 Matt Skole (Georgia Tech). (Link). You can check out the rest of the players on the list by clicking here.

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CBD Season Preview Coming Soon

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Brian Foley
– November 20, 2010Posted in: Site News

College Baseball Daily’s staff is currently putting together our 2011 season preview magazine which will be released in early January. We haven’t decided yet if we are going to make it a free publication or charge for access. I know most of our readers do not like to be paying for access to college baseball information but there is a ton of information that will be included from conference previews for every conference to our preseason All-American teams. Read the rest of this entry »

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Friday Update with Indiana’s Tracy Smith

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Brian Foley
– November 20, 2010Posted in: Big Ten, Interviews with Coaches

Indiana’s Tracy Smith continues his weekly youtube video this week with a special guest. They discuss an important community involvement activity by the Hoosiers and how the baseball flag-football team is preparing for the championship game. Read the rest of this entry »

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Centenary Baseball Visits Shriners Hospital

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Brian Foley
– November 20, 2010Posted in: Community Service, Summit League

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
SHREVEPORT-Young children dream of meeting college athletes and it was evident when the Centenary baseball team took time off late last week to visit Shriners Hospital for Children right up the road from where they represent Centenary on the field. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hofstra Baseball Participates in Community Raking Day

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Brian Foley
– November 20, 2010Posted in: CAA, Community Service

On Saturday, November 13, members of the Hofstra Baseball and Wrestling teams participated in the Shake and Rake program, sponsored by the Office of Off-Campus Living and Commuting Student Services.

Over 40 student-athletes and coaches visited 13 homes in the Hempstead and Uniondale communities to provide yard work assistance to local residents. In total, approximately 60 students volunteered for the event, including members of Alpha Kappa Psi and Phi Delta Theta. Read the rest of this entry »

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UC-Riverside releases 2011 Schedule

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Brian Foley
– November 20, 2010Posted in: 2011 Schedules, Big West

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
The UC Riverside 2011 baseball schedule, released today by Head Coach Doug Smith, continues the Highlanders tradition of playing one of the most difficult schedules in the nation.

It features 10 games against 2010 NCAA Tournament participants including two vs. College World Series paricipants from a year ago in UCLA (Tuesday, April 5 at the Riverside Sports Complex) and Arizona State. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 100 Countdown: 59. Matt Skole (Georgia Tech)

By
Brian Foley
– November 20, 2010Posted in: 2011 CBD Top 100 Players, 2011 Top Players, ACC, Cape Cod League

College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to the start of the 2011 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the countdown today at number 59 with Georgia Tech junior third baseman Matt Skole. He is a 6’4 218 power hitting left handed hitter. Skole is a Woodstock, Georgia native and attended Blessed Trinity Catholic High School where he picked up three letters. He picked up several awards including being named the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s 2008 Hitter of the Year, Fulton County Player of the Year in 2008, member of the All-Fulton County baseball team in 2007 and 2008, and All-state selection by the Atlanta Dugout Club in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

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Franklin Pierce heading to Dominican Republic

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Brian Foley
– November 19, 2010Posted in: Division 2

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
RINDGE, N.H. (November 19, 2010) – The East Regional champion and national semifinalist Franklin Pierce University baseball team will get a taste of baseball outside the United States next week, as it makes a five-day trip to the Dominican Republic over the Thanksgiving break. Read the rest of this entry »

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Western Illinois releases 2011 Schedule

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Brian Foley
– November 19, 2010Posted in: 2011 Schedules, Summit League

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
MACOMB, Ill. – Western Illinois head baseball coach Mike Villano announced the 2011 baseball schedule, Thursday, Nov. 18.

The Fighting Leathernecks will face four opponents who participated in the 2010 NCAA Baseball Tournament. They include Kansas State, which finished third in the Big XII a season ago, Atlantic 10 champion Saint Louis University, Summit League opponent Oral Roberts and Illinois State University. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 100 Countdown: 60. Matty Ott (LSU)

By
Brian Foley
– November 19, 2010Posted in: 2009 CWS, 2011 CBD Top 100 Players, 2011 Top Players, Cape Cod League, SEC

College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to the start of the 2011 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the countdown today at number 60 with LSU junior RHP Matty Ott. The Chamette, Louisiana native played his interscholastic days at Holy Cross High School where he has a great senior year which saw him go 9-2 with a 1.97 ERA, 16 walks and 87 strikeouts in 67.2 innings. He picked up several awards in 2008 including: LSWA All State First Team Class 4A, New Orleans Times Picayune All Metro Team, MVP of District 9-4A and was selected to play in 2008 LHSCA All-Star Game. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hawaii to join Big West Conference?

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Brian Foley
– November 19, 2010Posted in: Big West, Mountain West, WAC

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser is reporting that the Hawaii Warriors will likely join the Big West Conference in all sports except football where they will join the Mountain West Conference. This move is extremely interesting as the Warriors have been one of the stronger programs in the WAC conference in the last five years making multiple runs into the NCAA Tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

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