Three combined errors changed the pace of Sunday afternoon’s game at Sanders Stadium, but two mistakes by Sam Houston State handed the Texas State Bobcats eight runs and a 13-6 victory over the Bearkats. Texas State takes the series 2-1 and improves to 6-3 in Southland Conference action. Zach Tritz spent seven innings on the mound and earned his fifth win of the season, retaining his perfect mark on the field. Read the rest of this entry »

Texas Tech 15 Missouri 11

Doug Thennis’ walk-off grand slam capped a six-run bottom of the ninth that gave the Texas Tech Red Raiders a dramatic series-clinching win over the second-ranked Missouri Tigers in front of a crowd of 2,643 at Dan Law Field on Sunday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »

FROM PRESS RELEASE

AUSTIN, Texas — Riley Boening and Cole Green combined to allow just six hits and the No. 13 Texas Longhorns’ offense logged 14 hits in a 12-3 win over the No. 19 Nebraska Cornhuskers in Big 12 Conference baseball action Sunday afternoon at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

With the win, Texas (18-8, 5-4 Big 12) avoided being swept at home for the first time since 1996 when Cal State Fullerton took three from the Longhorns.

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES

Game 1: Brown 2 Penn 1
Game 2: Penn 6 Brown 4

Philadelphia, PA - Senior pitcher Alex Silverman (Wilmington, NC) out-pitched Penn ace Todd Roth, with a little help from his closer, to help the Brown baseball team (7-11, 1-3 Ivy League) pick up its first Ivy League win in a split with Penn (7-9-1, 1-2-1 Ivy League) on Sunday at Meiklejohn Stadium. Silverman went 6.1 innings before giving way to senior closer Rob Hallberg (River Edge, NJ) for the final two outs in the Bears’ 2-1 game one win, before Penn’s five-run rally in the fifth inning of game two led to a 6-4 Quaker win for the split. Read the rest of this entry »

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Florida State 3 Wake Forest 2

Winston-Salem, N.C. - What would a Florida State, Wake Forest series be without extra innings? For the third time in the last eight meetings, the Seminoles (23-3, 11-1) and Demon Deacons (12-13, 5-6) played bonus baseball and for the third time FSU came out on top. In Sunday’s series finale, Florida State defeated Wake 3-2 in 11 innings taking its 14th ACC series in the last 15 opportunities. Read the rest of this entry »

(Tempe, AZ) – After receiving a Reyes Dorado pitch in the top of the eighth inning, Arizona State team captain Petey Paramore fell forward, grabbing the back of his left knee. After a short huddle around the plate, Sun Devil athletic trainers assisted Paramore to the dugout.

In post game comments ASU head coach Pat Murphy stated that he wasn’t sure of the extent of the damage, but that it appeared the injury was to a left leg bone. Team doctors were planning on taking x-rays. Murphy stated he hoped to have Paramore for next weekends road series at Stanford.

Junior Paramore has earned First Team All Pac-10 honors for two straight years, and is once again on the official watch list for the 2008 Johnny Bench Award, given annually to the top division one collegiate catcher.

Game 1: Bucknell 8 Army 5
Game 2: Bucknell 6 Army 3

WEST POINT, N.Y. - The Bucknell baseball team finished off its series with Army on Sunday with a sweep of the second doubleheader of the weekend. The Bison took game one, 8-5, and rode a solid pitching performance by freshman Dylan Seeley (Shavertown, Pa./Wyoming Seminary) to a 3-1 victory in game two. With the pair of wins, the Bison are now 13-10-2 on the season, 3-1 in the Patriot League, while the Black Knights fall to 6-16 and 1-3.

In game one, Army’s Andy Ernesto scored the first run of the contest in the bottom of the first, coming home on an error after reaching with a single up the middle. Mike Greco then made it 2-0 with an RBI single that plated Cole White. Read the rest of this entry »

The College Baseball Blog made the trip down to Storrs Connecticut on Sunday to see the rubber game between the Villanova Wildcats and UConn Huskies. The Huskies won Game 1 on Friday by a score of 12-1 before losing Game 2 7-2. Read the rest of this entry »

FROM PRESS RELEASE

Huntsville, TX - A six-run lead by the Texas State Bobcats was erased in half its building time by Sam Houston State, but Adam Witek’s lone hit in the ninth inning was enough saving grace to plate Thomas Field and give the `Cats an 8-7 victory over SHSU Saturday afternoon at Sanders Stadium. With the series tied at one game each, tomorrow’s tilt will decide which team will take the higher standing in Southland Conference play.

The Bearkats were the first to score in the afternoon’s contest in the bottom of the second with a pair of doubles from Ryan Trevino and Seth Hammock. The latter grabbed an RBI with his shot down the line to mark Sam’s first tally.

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Texas Tech 3 Missouri 2

Taylor Ashby drove an RBI single into left center that scored Jason Seefeld and capped a two-run rally in the bottom of the ninth that gave the Texas Tech Red Raiders a 3-2 come-from-behind win over No. 2 Missouri on Saturday afternoon at Dan Law Field.

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Texas A&M 9 Kansas 6

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Oklahoma State 9 Kansas State 4

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FROM PRESS RELEASE

NORMAN, Okla. – J.T. Wise’s one-out RBI single in the bottom of the 10^th plated pinch runner Doug Buser and gave Oklahoma a 3-2 victory over 20^th-ranked Baylor in Saturday afternoon’s Big 12 Conference game at L. Dale Mitchell Park. Baylor (15-9, 2-6) has lost five consecutive Big 12 games and seven straight league road games, dating back to last season.

Baylor led 2-1 with one out in the ninth when Jamie Johnson laced a line-drive home run just over the wall in left. That pushed the game to extra innings. After Oklahoma (20-7-1, 2-2-1) retired the Bears in order in the top of the 10^th, Mike Gosse led off the bottom of the inning with a double to right-center. Aljay Davis moved the pinch runner Buser to third, and the Bears intentionally walked Aaron Baker to put runners on the corners.

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CSF Media Release

Fullerton, Calif. - Carl Uhl’s 12th-inning RBI-groundout broke a 4-4 tie and lifted UC Riverside (7-13, 1-1) to a 6-4 Big West Conference baseball victory over Cal State Fullerton (14-9, 1-1) Saturday night in the teams’ second consecutive extra-inning affair at Goodwin Field.

Ryan Platt (1-1) hurled six innings of two-hit ball in relief of starter Matt Larkins to pick up his first win of the year. The right-hander struck out six and worked out of jams in the 9th and 11th with the Titans threatening. Read the rest of this entry »

(Tempe, AZ) – In the bottom of the first inning after reaching base following a hit by pitch and advancing all the way to third, Arizona State junior and 2007 Pac-10 Triple Crown winner and Player of the Year Brett Wallace was called out at home to end the inning on an attempted double steal. After rising to his feet Wallace was immediately ejected by home plate umpire Ken Eldridge. “It’s a good lesson” ASU head coach Pat Murphy said “You shouldn’t say anything in reaction to a call.” Read the rest of this entry »

(Berkeley, CA) The #11 Cal Golden Bears (17-5-1) added another W as they gave the #4 Long Beach State Dirtbags (17-6) their first series loss of the season by a final score of 10-6. The Golden Bears took advantage of their home field advantage and abused the Dirtbags’ pitcher Vance Worley (3-1). Worley allowed a solo home run to Dylan Tonneson in the sixth, as Cal continued to bring the heat with another two runs in the seventh. Worley gave up nine runs (six earned) on 12 hits over six plus innings. Read the rest of this entry »

UC Irvine Media Release

(San Luis Obispo, CA). Cal Poly pitcher DJ Mauldin held UC Irvine scoreless through 4.2 innings in relief to lift the

The Mustangs, who had two round-trippers yesterday, received solo shots from Pat Pezet in the first and Luke Yoder in the third to take an early 2-1 lead.

The Anteaters, who got on the board on Jeff Cusick’s RBI single in the third, tied the game with a bases-loaded walk in the fifth. However, Cal Poly responded with two runs in the sixth on a run-scoring double off the bat of Brent Morel and a UCI error. Read the rest of this entry »