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Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Day 1 Recap

– May 21, 2013Posted in: Missouri Valley

Here is your Day 1 Recap from the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

Game 1: Indiana State 4 Creighton 3

NORMAL, Ill. – In game one of the 2013 MVC Baseball Championship, No. 6 Indiana State took down No. 3 Creighton, 4-3 from Duffy Bass Field in Normal, Ill. The Sycamores will face the winner of the Wichita State/Southern Illinois contest, while the Bluejays will take on the non-winner of the Shockers/Salukis game.

Junior Sean Manaea was set to start the game for Indiana State, but was lifted from the game after feeling tightness in his left shoulder when throwing warmup pitches in the bottom of the first inning. Junior Josh Negele (3-1) went on the start the game for the Sycamores, tossing a career-high 5.1 innings while allowing seven hits and one run with four strikeouts. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Bradley, Creighton, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference, Southern Illinois, Wichita State

2013 Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Coaches Poll and Teams

Brian Foley

– January 30, 2013Posted in: 2013 Preseason Conference Poll, Missouri Valley

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
ST. LOUIS – Missouri State, which returns a dominating young pitching staff and a wealth of depth from last year’s squad, has been tabbed as the league favorite in the annual coaches’ preseason poll, receiving six of eight first-place votes. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2013 Preseason Conference Poll, Bradley, Creighton, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference, Southern Illinois, Wichita State

Top 100 Countdown: 73. Nick Petree (Missouri State)

Ginger Poulson

– December 30, 2012Posted in: 2013 CBD Top 100 Players, 2013 Top Players, Missouri Valley

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 providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

Number 73 on our Top 100 Countdown is Missouri State’s Nick Petree. The 6’1 right-handed pitcher from Clinton, Missouri has gone from redshirting his freshman season due to Tommy John surgery, to becoming one of the most decorated players currently in college baseball. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2013 CBD Top 100 Players, 2013 Top Players, Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference, Nick Petree

Missouri State releases 2013 Schedule

Brian Foley

– September 26, 2012Posted in: 2013 Schedules, Missouri Valley

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The 2013 Missouri State baseball schedule will feature a total of 55 games, including 27 home dates and match-ups against seven different 2012 NCAA Tournament teams, head coach Keith Guttin announced Tuesday. In all, the Bears will play 26 games against 13 different opponents that rated among the top 100 RPI finishers a year ago, including 13 contests against NCAA Regional qualifiers. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2013 Schedules, Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference

2012 NCAA Regionals Preview: Coral Gables

Michael Drew Weisman

– May 31, 2012Posted in: 2012 NCAA Tourney, ACC, America East, CBD Column, Conference USA, Missouri Valley

Coral Gables as a host site comes as a surprise to most, if not all of college baseball. The final host spot came down to a few SEC teams and an ACC team in Miami, and the selection committee opted to have a 3^rd regional in the state of Florida, with Miami joining Florida State and Florida as host sites. The Coral Gables regional features two teams from Florida, one from New York, and one from Missouri. Joining the University of Miami (FL), are the Knights of Central Florida from Orlando, the Bears of Missouri State, and the American East Champion Seawolves of Stony Brook. It’s been deemed one of the toughest regionals of all 16 host sites, and action of the double-elimination tournament gets under at 2 PM ET on Friday when the #2 seeded UCF Knights face off vs. #3 seed Missouri state. First seeded Miami will then battle the four seed Stony Brook at 7 PM. The winner of the Coral Gables Regional will match up with the winner of the Baton Rouge (LSU) regional. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2012 Coral Gables Regional, 2012 NCAA Tournament, ACC, America East, CBD Column, Conference USA, Miami (FL), Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference, Stony Brook, UCF

College Baseball Hall of Fame Releases Latest Pitcher of the Year Watch List

Sam Wasson

– May 18, 2012Posted in: 2012 Top Players, ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big West, Conference USA, Missouri Valley, Pac 12, Patriot League, SEC, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, West Coast Conference

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE

National Pitcher of the Year

LUBBOCK, Texas —The College Baseball Hall of Fame announced Friday the 25 pitchers on the newest edition of the Pitcher of the Year Award Watch List.

The winner of the Pitcher of the Year Award, sponsored by Diamond Sports, will be announced on June 30 in Lubbock, Texas, as part of the annual College Baseball Night of Champions. The event features the presentation of numerous awards and the induction ceremony for this year’s Hall of Fame class.

“The pitchers on this list continue to demonstrate excellence on the mound,” said award co-chair Landon Holly. “As we’ve progressed through the season, we’ve been able to narrow down the list, but we’ve also added some players who’ve excelled in the second half of the regular season.”
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Big 12 Notes 2/17

William Knox

– February 17, 2012Posted in: Big 12

BAYLOR 3, ORAL ROBERTS 2

Baylor scored a pair in the 8th off a Josh Ludy RBI single and Michael Howard RBI walk.
Baylor’s 1-4 hitters were 6-12, with four walks, three runs, and two RBI. The remaining hitters were 0-16 with a pair of walks and an RBI.
1B Max Muncy was 2-2 with two walks and a run.
RHP Josh Turley only last 4.2 innings, but he only gave up five hits and allowed a pair of unearned runs. Trent Blank was excellent in relief, picking up the victory with 3.1 innings of work, allowing one hit and a pair of walks. Dillon Newman picked up the save with a perfect ninth. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Auburn, Baylor, Big 12, Cal-Poly, Duke, Illinois-Chicago, Kansas, Missouri, Missouri State, MTSU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oral Roberts, Pepperdine, Texas, Texas AM, Texas Tech

Big 12 Weekend Preview 2/17-2/19

William Knox

– February 17, 2012Posted in: Big 12, CBD Column

Opening weekend is upon us once again. Here is a preview of the Big 12, including pitching probables and a few players to look out for on each team. Read the rest of this entry »

2012 CBD Season Preview: Missouri Valley Conference

John Lockwood

– February 8, 2012Posted in: 2012 Season Preview, CBD Column, Missouri Valley

In June of 2011, perennial baseball power Dallas Baptist University was granted a provisional season with the Missouri Valley Conference. In essence a year-long test run, the MVC was then planning to vote on DBU’s membership after the duration of the season in May of 2012. While the movement to bring DBU—who made it all the way to the Super-Regionals last season before falling to Cal—was seen as an effort to boost the MVC’s power ranking, it was also met by skepticism from some MVC teams citing travel time and costs as concerns. As a result, the Patriots were offered the provisional membership rather than acceptance in to the conference. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Bradley, CBD Column, Creighton, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference, Southern Illinois, Wichita State

2012 Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Coaches Poll

Brian Foley

– February 2, 2012Posted in: 2012 Preseason Conference Poll, Missouri Valley

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
ST. LOUIS – Missouri State, which returns a dominating young pitching staff and a wealth of depth from last year’s squad, has been tabbed as the league favorite in the annual coaches’ preseason poll, receiving five of eight first-place votes. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2012 Preseason Conference Poll, Bradley, Creighton, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference, Southern Illinois, Wichita State

Breaking down the CCBL All-Star Game by Conference/Teams

Brian Foley

– July 24, 2011Posted in: 2012 Top Players, ACC, America East, Big 12, Big East, Big South, Big Ten, Big West, CAA, CBD Column, Conference USA, Division 2, MAC, Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley Conference, Pac 12, SEC, Southern Conference, Sun Belt

Since the Cape Cod Baseball League announced their 2011 All-Star Game rosters on Friday, lets take a look at what conferences and college programs have had the most success this summer. The leading conference this year is the Pac-10 conference which features eight players from seven different school. Coming in second place is the SEC which has six players from four different schools. Interesting enough, the ACC and Big East conference both have four players in the game this year which speaks to how strong the the Big East over the last couple of seasons. Read the rest of this entry »

2011 CBD Missouri Valley Conference Awards

Brian Foley

– June 1, 2011Posted in: Missouri Valley

By: John Lockwood
2011 College Baseball Daily MVC Player of the Year – Chris O’Brien, Wichita State

Chris O’Brien of Wichita State is 2011 CBD Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year. The junior catcher from Tulsa, OK, absolutely knocked the cover off the ball in his first full season of duty, hitting .410, tallying 100 hits and 25 doubles, while managing a .495 on-base-percentage—all league bests. His 100 hits were also good for second-most in the nation. O’Brien placed in to the top 3 in the Valley in homeruns (10), RBI (70), and runs scored (56). O’Brien, who hit above .500 for the majority of conference-play, also led the conference with 31 multi-hit games and finishes the season on a career-best 29-game hitting streak. He is a finalist for both the Johnny Bench (best collegiate catcher) and Dick Howser (top collegiate player as voted on by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association) awards. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Creighton, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference, Southern Illinois, Wichita State