FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU baseball associate head coach David Grewe has resigned to pursue other career opportunities, head coach Paul Mainieri announced Tuesday.
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Archive for May, 2011
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UConn’s Justin Blood set to take over Hartford Baseball
– May 31, 2011Posted in: America East, Big East, New Coach
College Baseball Daily has learned that current UConn Assistant Coach Justin Blood is set to take over the Hartford University baseball program. Blood has been a key member of the UConn baseball program recent upswing including being involved in recruiting both George Springer and Matt Barnes.
We will add more to this story as more information becomes available.
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USA Baseball Announces 30 Semifinalists for 2011 Golden Spikes Award
– May 31, 2011Posted in: 2011 Top Players, ACC, Atlantic Sun, Big 12, Big East, CAA, Conference USA, Independents, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Southern Conference, WAC
FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
DURHAM, N.C. — USA Baseball announced Tuesday the names of the 30 semifinalists for the 2011 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award (GSA). This marks the 34th consecutive year that the award has been presented to the nation’s top amateur baseball player. Read the rest of this entry »
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CBD Journal with Drew Fann (May 31st)
– May 31, 2011Posted in: 2011 CBD Journals, SEC
We gathered to watch the NCAA Selection Show at the Commodore Grille, a restaurant near campus, with about 200 of our fans. Even after four years, it is still very exciting to see “Vanderbilt” pop up on ESPN as a regional participant. We are fortunate to be considered a national seed (#6) this year, meaning we will host the first two rounds of the tournament as long as we continue to win and advance. Read the rest of this entry »
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UCSB Announces Change in Leadership
– May 31, 2011Posted in: Big West
UC Santa Barbara Director of Athletics Mark W. Massari announced Sunday that a change in leadership has been made in the Gauchos’ baseball program and that Bob Brontsema, the head coach since 1994, would move into an administrative position within the Athletics Department. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tournament Decisions “More An Art Than A Science,” Claims Weiser
– May 30, 2011Posted in: 2011 Conference Tourney, 2011 NCAA Tourney, CBD Column
This year’s NCAA Baseball Tournament Committee had some difficult decisions to make when it came to picking the 64 teams that would continue their seasons. Given some close and controversial choices, committee chair and Big 12 deputy commissioner Tim Weiser had some explaining to do on the post-bracket announcement media conference call on Monday afternoon.
“If it were just a factor of RPI, my committee wouldn’t need to spend our holiday weekend in Indianapolis,” said Weiser in response to many media questions about the inclusion of St. Johns and the exclusion of LSU, who finished #9 in the strong SEC. Read the rest of this entry »
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2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament Selections
– May 30, 2011Posted in: 2011 NCAA Tourney
Here are the official selections for the 2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament.
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2011 NCAA Baseball Regional Projections (FINAL)
– May 30, 2011Posted in: 2011 CWS, 2011 NCAA Tourney, CBD Column
College Baseball Daily is putting out our predictions for what the NCAA Tournament will look like when the brackets are announced later today by the NCAA Baseball Committee. The NCAA put out the 16 Regional Hosts on Sunday which can be checked out by clicking here. The rest of the projected bracket is below.
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Florida wins 2011 SEC Championship
– May 29, 2011Posted in: 2011 Conference Tourney, SEC
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Florida 5 Vanderbilt 0
Third-seeded Florida (45-16) captured its first SEC Tournament Championship since 1991 with a 5-0 shutout of fourth-seeded Vanderbilt (47-10) on Sunday afternoon in front of 7,845 fans at Regions Park. It was the sixth SEC Tourney crown for the Gators, which previously brought home the hardware in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988 and 1991. Read the rest of this entry »
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Virginia wins 2011 ACC Championship
– May 29, 2011Posted in: ACC
By Greg Waters
ACC Title Game – Virginia 7 vs. FSU 2
The top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers (49-8) swept their four games at the ACC baseball Tournament and claimed their third league title and second in the last three seasons with a 7 to 2 win over two-seeded Florida State. All three Virginia championships have been won at the Durham Bulls Park where the Hoos remained undefeated in the ACC Tournament play in three tournaments. Read the rest of this entry »
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2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament Regional Sites Announced
– May 29, 2011Posted in: 2011 NCAA Tourney
FROM NCAA RELEASE
INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announced the 16 regional sites for the 65th annual NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records (through May 28) are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
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CBD Editorial: NCAA Needs To Rethink Timing Of Regional Hosts
– May 29, 2011Posted in: CBD Column
Selection Monday is one of the biggest days on the college baseball calendar, but the biggest prize that the NCAA selection committee hands out actually is awarded the day before. A day before the NCAA reveals the Regionals, Super Regional match-ups and map to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, they announce the 16 teams that will host Regionals. That huge advantage is handed out to the teams that prove themselves worthy over the course of a long, grueling regular season. Well, not quite all of it because the Regional hosts are inexplicably announced at 3:30 pm ET, before all of the day’s games are finished. Read the rest of this entry »
