Fresno State Archive

Pac-12 Weekend Preview (March 1st-3rd)

– March 1, 2013Posted in: 2013 Weekend Preview, CBD Column, Pac 12

Coach’s Corner

In preparing for the weekend, I caught up with Oregon State head coach Pat Casey to talk about his thoughts on how the season has gone so far for the Beavers. Oregon State is 8-0 and off to their best start since 1962. “Obviously when you start 8-0, you feel like you did a lot of things well,” Casey said. We played fairly well on the defensive side of the game. I think we could have swung the bats better.” The Beavers enter the weekend with a .297 team batting average, but will look to improve upon that number against a team in Bryant who has only played three games this season. Read the rest of this entry »

CBD Around The Horn (February 23)

Ginger Poulson

– February 24, 2013Posted in: 2013 Season Coverage, CBD Column, General CBB News

Here are some of the top performances and highlights on the day. We will be providing daily articles as often as possible this season. If you know of an outstanding performance we might miss, feel free to send us an email by clicking here. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Around the Horn, Atlantic 10, Atlantic Sun, Baylor, Big 12, Big West, BYU, Cal State Fullerton, Florida, Florida Gulf Coast, Fresno State, Kent State, LSU, MAC, Mountain West, Ole Miss, Oregon State, Pac 12, Rhode Island, San Diego, SDSU, SEC, Stanford, TCU, UCLA, WCC

Top 100 Countdown: 30. Aaron Judge (Fresno State)

Ginger Poulson

– February 22, 2013Posted in: 2013 CBD Top 100 Players, 2013 Season Coverage, 2013 Top Players, WAC

College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to the start of the 2013 college baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be adding players day-by-day until we get to number one!

Number 30 on our Top 100 Countdown is Fresno State’s Aaron Judge. The 6’7 outfielder from Linden, California was selected in the 30th round by the Oakland A’s in the 2010 MLB Draft. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2013 Top Players, Aaron Judge, CBD 2013 Top 100 Players, Fresno State, WAC

CBD Column: Pac-12 Weekend Preview

Ryan Broadhead

– February 22, 2013Posted in: 2013 Weekend Preview, Big 12, Big West, CBD Column, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Southland Conference, WAC, West Coast Conference

UCLA at Baylor

The No. 6 ranked Bruins will travel to Waco, Texas to take on the Baylor Bears this weekend. It will be UCLA’s first visit to Baylor in program history. UCLA (2-1) is coming off a series victory against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. The Bruins dropped the opener 6-2 in 10 innings Friday night, but rallied on Saturday by defeating the Gophers 14-0. On Sunday, sophomore starter Grant Watson kept the Gophers quiet by throwing six scoreless innings and tallying a career high eight strikeouts. Baylor (1-3) is coming off a win at home Tuesday against Texas State. The Bears were swept on the road at UC Irvine last weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

2013 Mountain West Preseason Coaches Poll

Brian Foley

– February 8, 2013Posted in: Mountain West, Preseason Conference Poll

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Defending Mountain West champion New Mexico has been predicted to win its second consecutive regular season MW baseball title in 2013, according to a vote of the six MW head coaches. The Lobos received five first-place votes and 35 points overall. San Diego State received the remaining first-place vote and 26 points to edge out MW newcomers Nevada (23 points) and Fresno State (22 points) for second place. UNLV was picked fifth (13 points), followed by Air Force in sixth (7 points). Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2013 Preseason Conference Poll, Air Force, Fresno State, Mountain West, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV

Fresno State releases 2013 Schedule

Brian Foley

– December 18, 2012Posted in: 2013 Schedules, Mountain West

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
FRESNO, Calif. — With the Fresno State baseball team entering its first season in the Mountain West, head coach Mike Batesole announced the Bulldogs’ 2013 schedule, which includes 27 regular season home games and the 2013 MW Tournament in May at Beiden Field. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2013 Schedules, Fresno State, Mountain West

Shaun Larkin named Assistant Coach at Fresno State

Brian Foley

– August 12, 2012Posted in: New Coach, WAC

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
FRESNO, Calif. — Fresno State head baseball coach Mike Batesole announced today that he has tabbed Shaun Larkin as one of the Bulldogs’ assistant coaches.

“Shaun brings both youth and experience to our program,” Batesole said of Larkin. “He is advanced beyond his years as a coach, just as he was as a player.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Fresno State, New Coach, WAC

2012 NCAA Regional Preview: Palo Alto, CA

Shotgun Spratling

– May 31, 2012Posted in: 2012 NCAA Tourney, Big Ten, CBD Column, Pac 12, WAC, West Coast Conference

1. Stanford (38-16)
2. Pepperdine (34-21)
3. Michigan State (37-21)
4. Fresno State (30-26) Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2012 NCAA Tournament, 2012 Palo Alto Regional, Big Ten, Fresno State, Michigan State, Pac 12, Pepperdine, Stanford, WAC, West Coast Conference

2012 WAC Tournament Day Four Recap/Day Five Preview

Sam Wasson

– May 27, 2012Posted in: 2012 Conference Tournament, WAC

Fresno State battled its way through two elimination games, trailing in both games, to force the “if necessary” championship Sunday winner-take-all game with Sacramento State. Fresno State defeated Louisiana Tech 6-4 after trailing 4-1 after three and a half innings. Fresno State scored the game’s final five runs.

In Saturday night’s championship contest Sacramento State led Fresno State 5-3 after six innings but a four-run explosion in the top of the seventh gave Fresno State a 9-5 lead and they would hold on for a 9-6 win forcing Sunday’s “if necessary game”.
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Tags: Fresno State, Louisiana Tech, Sacramento State

2012 WAC Tournament Day Three Recap/Day Four Preview

Sam Wasson

– May 26, 2012Posted in: 2012 Conference Tournament, WAC

Two more teams were eliminated on day three both at the hands of Louisiana Tech. The Bulldogs knocked off two of the three regular season tri-champions and did so in rather convincing fashion. Louisiana Tech defeated top seed New Mexico State 15-12, surviving a late comeback by the Aggies who after trailing 15-6 scored six in the top of the ninth and brought the tying run to the plate with two outs. The Bulldogs then trounced 3-seed Nevada 18-5 in a seven inning run-rule shortened game to advance to Saturday’s final losers bracket elimination game. They’ll face Fresno State who was defeated in the WAC tournament for just the fourth time since 2006. The Bulldogs lost 8-3 to 2-seed Sacramento State who continued their impressive play. The win puts the Hornets, picked to finish last in the league, in the tournament’s championship game on Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. (PDT) and they’ll have two shots at winning the league’s automatic bid.
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Tags: Fresno State, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico State, Sacramento State

2012 WAC Tournament Day Two Recap/Day Three Preview

Sam Wasson

– May 25, 2012Posted in: 2012 Conference Tournament, WAC

Day Two of the WAC Tournament in Mesa, Ariz. saw one team eliminated (Hawai’i), one team run-ruled (Nevada) and one team give up a 10-run inning (New Mexico State). The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs bounced back from a crushing 4-3 walk-off loss at the hands of Nevada to eliminated Hawai’i 9-6 sending the 4-seeded Rainbow Warriors packing their bags for Honolulu. The second game of the day saw 2-seed Sacramento State crush 3-seed Nevada 15-5 after the Wolf Pack had jumped out on top 3-2. The third game of the day also saw the winning team post 15 runs as perennial tournament bully Fresno State overpowered New Mexico State behind the strength of a 10-run second inning en route to a 15-8 victory.
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Tags: Fresno State, Hawaii, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico State, Sacramento State

2012 WAC Tournament Day One Recap/Day Two Preview

Sam Wasson

– May 24, 2012Posted in: 2012 Conference Tournament, WAC

Day one of the WAC tournament is in the books and day two has begun.

5-seed Fresno State continued their historically strong play in the tournament (23-3 since 2006) defeating 4-seed Hawai’i 8-2 behind a 6-run sixth inning. The Bulldogs will face top seed New Mexico State tonight at 7:00 p.m. (PDT).

3-seed Nevada won in dramatic walk-off fashion getting a home run from Carlos Escobar in the bottom of the ninth to stun 6-seed Louisiana Tech. The Ruston-based Bulldogs have been snakebitten all season losing several games either in the final inning or in walk-off fashion.

Nevada will take on 2-seed Sacramento State today at 3:00 p.m. (PDT) while Louisiana Tech is relegated to the losers bracket with 4-seed Hawai’i and the two will face each other today at 11:00 a.m. (PDT) in an elimination game.
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Tags: Fresno State, Hawaii, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico State, Sacramento State