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Reeser Earns Win with 4 Strong Innings; Johnson Drives in Pair

The Orange squad topped the Blue, 3-2, in five innings, in the opener of the annual Orange and Blue World Series, thanks to four strong innings of work by starter Ben Reeser and a scoreless inning by Mike Sterk, who earned the save. Catcher Aaron Johnson drove in two runs and all three tallies came from the Nos. 1-3 hitters, Josh Parr, Joe Bonadonna and Dominic Altobelli.
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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Big Ten, Illinois

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The Iowa baseball team won an exhibition game against Iowa Central in the tenth at Duane Banks field, 9-6. In the win, Chett Zeise hit a game winning double in the tenth.

The Tritons came back in the scheduled tenth inning scoring three unearned runs and take a 6-5 lead. However, Iowa came back in the bottom of the inning. Kurtis Muller was hit by a pitch to start things off for Iowa, stole second base and moved to third on the catcher’s throwing error. One out later, Tyson Blaser hit a towering RBI double to right to tie up the game. T.J. Cataldo and Ryan Durant walked to load the bases. Zeise hit a double to deep center field to clear the bases and win the game, 9-6.
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Tags: Big Ten, Fall Ball, Iowa, Iowa Central

Golden Eagles Begin Fall Practice

The Oral Roberts University baseball team has begun fall practice in preparation for the 2009 season, where the Golden Eagles look to claim their 12th consecutive conference championship.

ORU’s fall practice runs through mid-October, with intrasquad scrimmages at J.L. Johnson Stadium held every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The scrimmages are free and open to the public.
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Tags: America East, Atlantic 10, Big Ten, Duquesne, FAU, Illinois, Maine, Mountain West, Oral Roberts, San Diego State, SEC, Summit League, Sun Belt, Tennessee

Georgetown Baseball Announces Incoming Recruiting Class

- Head Coach Pete Wilk announced that Georgetown Baseball will be welcoming eight new players to the fold this upcoming season. Billy Cosmopulous, Nick Geary, Will Harris, Alex Johnson, Kevin Johnson, Bobby Kirby, Andy Lentz and Rand Ravnaas comprise the incoming class that will try and help the Hoyas move up in the BIG EAST pecking order.
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Tags: Arkansas Little Rock, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Fordham, Georgetown, Iowa, South Florida, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, Texas, UT-Arlington

Longhorns announce fall Baseball schedule

Texas hosts games against Rice (10/19) and Texas State (11/02) and travels to Baylor (10/12) and Rice (10/26).

he Texas Longhorns will play four fall baseball games this season, including a pair at The Dell Diamond in nearby Round Rock, the team announced on Thursday.

The Longhorns host Rice on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 1:30 p.m. and Texas State on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 12 p.m.
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Tags: America East, Big 12, Big Ten, Conference USA, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Pac 10, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Stanford, Sun Belt, Texas, WAC

The CBB has come across 7 more College Baseball Schedules- Michigan, Columbia, Gardner Webb, St. Louis, Kansas, Southeastern Louisiana, and Virginia Tech.

Gardner Webb will play 36 home games out of a 56 2009 College Baseball Schedule. First up on the slate will be 4 game series against Canisius staring on the 20th of February.

Gardner Webb will get the Atlantic Sun Conference started with a series against Presbyterian. They will wrap the season on May 14th against Winthrop and then the Conference Tournament will start the following weekend.

2009 College Baseball Schedule- Gardner Webb
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Tags: 2009 Schedules, ACC, Atlantic Sun, Big 12, Big Ten, Columbia, Gardner-Webb, Ivy League, Kansas, Michigan, Saint Louis, Southeastern Louisiana, Southland Conference

The CBB would like to thank all of our loyal readers who have made The CBB their number 1 choice for College Baseball information. We want to take this opportunity to thank all of you, without you and your passion for college baseball, that is what drives all of us here at The CBB to produce the most informative content on the internet covering College Baseball.

If you are looking for any of the schedules we have a page set up. (Click here to check out the page.) We have also added quite a few Div II schools and we will be adding Div III schools in the coming days. If you know of a schedule we are missing feel free to email us. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Schedules, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big South, Big Ten, Eastern Michigan, Indiana, Liberty, Mid-American, Temple, Texas Tech

South Carolina Baseball Fall Practice Begins at New Stadium

The South Carolina baseball team began fall practice Friday at its new stadium. Coach Ray Tanner, Athletics Director Eric Hyman and several players answered questions from the media beforehand. Check out the links below to see photos and a video report from the day.

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Tags: Big Ten, Conference USA, East Carolina, New Coach, New Facility, Penn State, SEC, South Carolina

The CBB is committed in bringing the very best content to the site. Today we have two schedules, Big Ten Iowa Hawkeyes and the Longwood Lancers, a Independent participant. We also have the fall schedule for Monmouth.

Iowa Hawkeyes

Iowa finished at the bottom of the Big Ten last year and will be looking to improves on those numbers in ‘09. Head Coach Jack Dahm and the Hawkeyes will kick off the 2009 campaign in the Big East/BIG Ten Challenged the weekend of the 20th of February. Iowa will face BIG Ten foe Illinois on Friday, Saturday they will square off against St John, then they will wrap it up with a contest against Georgetown on Sunday the 22nd of February.

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Tags: 2009 Schedules, Big Ten, Independents, Iowa, Longwood, Monmouth, Northeast Conference

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

In the late 1950s, Drayton McLane Jr. (’59 master’s in food marketing management) would walk from his Michigan State University campus dorm to class and marvel at the beauty and activities at Old College Field. By the spring of 2009, the McLane family will have literally brought “new life” to its baseball facility through a $4 million commitment to enhance one of the most pristine environments in all of intercollegiate athletics. On Sept. 12, 2008, the MSU Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the naming of McLane Baseball Stadium.
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Tags: Big Ten, Michigan State, New Facility

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

Two of the nation’s most prominent collegiate athletic conferences have come to an agreement to participate in a unique and ground-breaking season-opening baseball tournament in Florida. The inaugural BIG EAST/Big Ten Baseball Challenge, hosted by the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Commission, will feature 27 games February 20-22, 2009, at various spring training venues in the St. Petersburg/Clearwater area, API Marketing announced today.

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Tags: Big East, Big Ten, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Norte Dame, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Seton Hall, South Florida, St John, UConn, West Virginia

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Indiana baseball head coach Tracy Smith and his staff have announced the signing of three additional players to National Letters of Intent during the spring/summer signing period. Shortstop Jake Dunning (Orange Park, Fla./Florida Community College), right-handed pitcher Wyatt Hoff (La Jolla, Calif./LaJolla) and left-handed pitcher Matt Igel (Vincennes, Ind./Rivet) will join the Hoosier squad this fall.

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Tags: 2008 Recruits, Big Ten, Indiana

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Fighting Illini Wrap Up Successful Summer

A number of Fighting Illini finished their summer seasons with great success in recent weeks, as Casey McMurray’s Santa Barbara Foresters won the National Baseball Congress World Series, Joe Bonadonna and Brandon Wikoff finished second in the Northwoods League playoffs with the Madison Mallards and Nick Stockwell led the Lombard Orioles to a second-place finish at the Stan Musial World Series. FULL STORY

Fecteau Comes To Upstate As Volunteer Assistant Baseball Coach

USC Upstate head baseball coach Matt Fincher has announced the hiring of Ryan Fecteau, a former pitching coach at Southern Utah and a head coach in the summer collegiate Valley League, as a volunteer assistant coach. FULL STORY

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Tags: 2010 Recruits, Big East, Big Ten, Coaching Changes, Illinois, LSU, Rutgers, SEC, USC-Upstate

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EAST LANSING, Mich. - First-year head baseball coach Jake Boss Jr. has named Mark Van Ameyde and Billy Gernon as assistant coaches. Van Ameyde (VAN-uh-mead) was an assistant on Boss’ staff last year at Eastern Michigan, while Gernon arrives in East Lansing with nine years of head coaching experience at IPFW.

“I’m very excited to add Mark Van Ameyde and Billy Gernon to the Michigan State baseball family,” said Boss. “Both are very dynamic, high energy individuals who are very passionate about winning and doing things the right way. They are both high character and family men who share many of the same values I have.

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Tags: Big Ten, Coaching Changes, Michigan State

I know we don’t cover Minor League baseball in general but the 2008 USA Baseball Team was announced today with a bunch of players with collegiate experience in the last few seasons including one player who will be entering his junior season at San Diego State in the fall. The biggest name that is on the roster is Matt LaPorta and the biggest surprise to me is Stephen Strasburg from San Diego State. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Olympics, Arizona, Big 12, CBB Column, Delaware, Florida, Loyola-Marymount, Michigan, Oregon State, Pratt (Kan) CC, San Diego State, Stanford, TCU, Team USA, Texas, Vanderbilt, Ventura (CA)