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2010 CAA Preview

Nate Owen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:00:40 +0000

A new season of CAA baseball is already underway, with every team except James Madison and Northeastern having played thus far.

The conference had adopted a new playoff format as a way to cut costs, reducing the number of playoff teams from six to four, which is a shame since only two teams went into the [...]

2009 CAA Awards

Nate Owen — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:38:21 +0000

Scott Krieger (left) and Chris Henderson

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

WILMINGTON, N.C. (May 19, 2009) – George Mason junior catcher Chris Henderson (Marlton, N.J.) and Patriots’ senior outfielder Scott Krieger (Towson, Md.) were selected as the 2009 CAA baseball Co-Players of the Year in voting by the league’s head coaches.

Henderson was also honored as the CAA [...]

CAA Tournament Preview

Nate Owen — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:50:47 +0000

The CAA starts tournament play in the final year of the six team format. The conference will cut the number of playoff teams to four next season, which is a shame given the parity this year. Entering the final weekend of play, only two teams had locked up spots, and five teams were battling [...]

CAA Weekend Recap and Players of the Week

Nate Owen — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:51:51 +0000

Mike Rooney

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

CAA BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK:

Mike Rooney, UNC Wilmington

Jr., SS, Cary, N.C./Cary

Rooney batted .556 with six runs scored and five RBI in UNCW’s four games last week. In the Seahawks’ two victories at Old Dominion that clinched a CAA Tournament berth, the junior shortstop went 8-for-10 and scored four times. [...]

D3 Regionals: Trinity holds off Eastern to advance to World Series

Nate Owen — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:19:46 +0000

MANSFIELD Conn. – Bases loaded. Two outs.

Trinity’s Jeremiah Bayer, the New England Pitcher of the Year, stared in at the plate. Looking back was Eastern senior Shawn Gilblair, the New England hitter of the year, up in the top of the ninth with his team trailing by one.

But in a matchup of the best [...]

D3 Regionals: Fahey’s gusty performance not enough to save Engineers

Nate Owen — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:42:07 +0000

MANSFIELD Conn. – Senior Conor Fahey’s decision to miss graduation almost paid off for WPI.

Almost.

Two days after throwing 140 pitches against Suffolk in the opening game of the New England Regional of the NCAA Division III tournament, the righthander hurled 163 gutsy pitches over eight and a third innings in a elimination game against top [...]

D3 Regionals: Warriors slay feisty Eagles

Nate Owen — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:09:20 +0000

MANSFIELD Conn.- The Eastern Connecticut Warrior’s powerful offense flexed its muscles against Husson, proving to be too powerful for even the scrappy Eagles to overcome.

Eastern crushed four home runs among its eighteen hits and knocked Husson out of the Division III New England Regionals with a convincing 18-3 win.

The Warriors grabbed a 1-0 lead in [...]

D3 Regionals: Trinity moves to 3-0 in tourney

Nate Owen — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:58:39 +0000

MANSFIELD Conn. – The defending champs are sitting pretty.

Trinity, who posted a 45-1 mark and brought home the Division III National Championship last season, moved to 3-0 in New England Regional play with a convincing 14-0 win over WPI last night.

The evening win came after the Bantams downed Southern Maine 6-0 in the morning.

“We made [...]

D3 Regional: Gilblair silences Huskies

Nate Owen — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:07:39 +0000

MANSFIELD Conn. – A day after getting it done at the plate, Shawn Gilblair was dealing on the mound.

The senior drove in four runs with his bat in Thursday’s 13-2 win over Suffolk, but it was his arm that guided Eastern Connecticut to 7-2 win over Southern Maine that knocked the Huskies from the [...]

D3: Fiesty Eagles rally to knock out Babson

Nate Owen — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:37:57 +0000

MANSFIELD Conn. – Down 4-0 before they came to bat against Babson, Husson had little reason to be concerned.

The scrappy Eagles once again battled back for the third time in as many games, hustling their way to six runs in the fourth and three in the fifth to come away as 10-6 winners over the [...]