FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE COCA COLA PITCHER OF THE WEEK Bourne right-hander Bryce Stowell (Cal-Irvine) came within two outs of pitching a complete-game shutout Friday night against Wareham and the performance earned him Coca-Cola Pitcher of the Week honors for the seven-day period ending July 12. The 6-2, 205-pound native of La Habra, Calif., now boasts the Cape Cod Baseball League’s lowest ERA – 0.36 – after working 26 innings in which he struck out 31 batters, walked only five and scattered 10 hits. In his 2-0 victory over Wareham, he struck out eight, did not walk a batter and doled out seven hits. Stowell was 8-3 with a 3.26 ERA at Cal-Irvine this spring as a sophomore. Read the rest of this entry »
Scott Copeland made potentially his last start of the Pump Jacks’ inaugural season Saturday night and he made it count, pitching seven shutout innings in a 5-0 whitewash of the Coppell Copperheads.
Copeland, a sophomore who starred for at Panola College the last two seasons, will be heading to Southern Miss beginning next fall. The Golden Eagles would like to minimize the number of innings for Copeland, who was the top starter for Panola this past spring. As a result, the White Oak native is not expected to make another start for the Pump Jacks this summer.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE Durham, N.C. - USA Baseball announced today the naming of Tulane’s Rick Jones as head coach of the 2009 USA Baseball National Team (Collegiate).
Jones is the head coach at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., and he is coming off a 2008 campaign that was his 15th at the helm of the Green Wave baseball program. Over his career at Tulane, Jones has tallied a 639-306-2 record (.674), including a 257-127-2 mark in Conference USA play, which is more wins than any other league school. Inheriting a team that had been to the NCAA Regionals seven times in its previous 101 years of existence, Jones took the Green Wave to the postseason in his first season, again in 1996 and every year from 1998-2007. Read the rest of this entry »
Aaron Fitt of Baseball America has put out his predictions for the 2009 College World Series. He expects two teams from the ACC in Miami (FL) and North Carolina to make it back to Omaha after strong 2008 campaigns. He has three teams from the West Coast to make it to the College World Series in Cal-State Fullerton, Oregon State, and the University of San Diego. Aaron expects Big 12 rivals Texas and Texas A&M to make it back to the big stage after subpar 2008 campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE HOLLYWOOD, FL - July 1, 2008, Robert Lara, a 6′2 205 lbs pitcher out of University of Central Florida has signed with Dynasty Athlete Representation, LLC. Lara was selected in the 19th round by the San Diego Padres in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft and is currently playing for the Arizona League affiliate. Through five games with the club, Lara is batting .500 with a home-run and six RBIs. In his very first at bat with the Padres, he smacked a home-run. Read the rest of this entry »
Biloxi’s B.A. Vollmuth figures to play a key role in Southern Miss’ bid to make a seventh consecutive appearance in an NCAA baseball regional next season.
The Golden Eagles finished 42-22 in 2008. They lost plenty of firepower in first baseman Trey Sutton, outfielder Drew Carson and third baseman Chris Matesich. Relief pitcher Tyler Conn, the nation’s leader in saves, also has moved on. Read the rest of this entry »
The LSU late-inning magic continues as the Tigers, who were on the verge of elimination in the Super Regionals before rallying to earn a trip to Omaha, staved off elimination from the College World Series by scoring four runs in the bottom of the ninth to claim a 6-5 decision and send Rice home.
Rice did itself no favors, as pitcher Cole St. Clair hit Sean Ochinko on an 0-2 count, and an error by shortstop Rick Hague allowed the Tigers to load the bases. Blake Dean then knocked a 1-0 pitch to the left field wall, clearing the bases and giving LSU its first lead of the game, along with the victory. Read the rest of this entry »
OMAHA, Neb. — Hours after being introduced as the new head baseball coach at the University of Central Florida, LSU pitching coach and recruiting coordinator Terry Rooney arrived Thursday night at the site of the College World Series.
His long-range plans for UCF now take a backseat to his immediate goal: to finish the job the right way with LSU.
Stetson coach Pete Dunn, for whom Rooney worked as pitching coach in 2002 and 2003, said LSU fans shouldn’t worry about Rooney’s focus being in the wrong place during the CWS, which begins this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
It was Rice’s opening game of the College World Series on Sunday, but it was so much more to Tracy Kuhlman.
She made the trip from Houston as a tribute to her grandfather, who died just a few weeks before his beloved Owls competed in Omaha. It was a trip the two planned to make together before George “Poppie” Thomen — Rice, class of 1941 — passed away May 28 at age 89.
“It’s such an honor to be sitting here today,” Tracy said. “My grandfather would have gotten such a kick out of this.”
George wasn’t at the game, but his spirit certainly was. His Rice baseball cap was in the team dugout in hopes of bringing the team good luck.
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE OMAHA - An offensive explosion of 11 runs by the fourth inning, 13 hits and four homeruns vaulted the Fresno State Bulldogs to a 17-5 win over No.6 National seed Rice in the opening round of the College World Series.
Rice (47-14) is ranked No. 5 ranked in the nation and the Bulldogs have now six wins over teams ranked in the top 11 nationally in their last eight games. Fresno State improved to 6-2 at the NCAA tournament. Read the rest of this entry »
Fresno State is up 11-0 in the top of the fourth inning against Rice in the opening game in Bracket Two. Fresno State got on the board with four unearned runs in the top of the second and have tacked on seven more runs in the top of the fourth behind a three run homer by Danny Muno and a three run homer by Alan Ahmady.
The game is currently airing on ESPN.
UPDATE: Fresno State continues the onslaught, now up 16-2 heading into the 7th inning.
UPDATE #2: Fresno State holds on for a 17-5 victory.
Reckling Park offers proof of the strides the Rice baseball program has made under Wayne Graham, but there are other indications of how expectations have been altered.
In 1995, several Owls gathered at a friend’s apartment to watch the NCAA Tournament selection show, eager to learn where the Owls would land in their first regional appearance. After the Owls were placed in the NCAA South Regional at Baton Rouge, La., an impromptu celebration erupted between the television and the coffee table. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam Zornes drilled a two-out, two-run homer in the top of the eighth to give the Rice Owls a 6-5 win over Texas A&M and earn their third consecutive berth in the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. more
It was a day for the seniors as Jordan Dodson drove in four runs and Cole St. Clair came on in the fifth to quiet the Texas A&M offense as the Owls took a 9-7 win in Game One of the Houston (Rice) Super Regional at Reckling Park on Saturday. more
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Bourne right-hander Bryce Stowell (Cal-Irvine) came within two outs of pitching a complete-game shutout Friday night against Wareham and the performance earned him Coca-Cola Pitcher of the Week honors for the seven-day period ending July 12. The 6-2, 205-pound native of La Habra, Calif., now boasts the Cape Cod Baseball League’s lowest ERA – 0.36 – after working 26 innings in which he struck out 31 batters, walked only five and scattered 10 hits. In his 2-0 victory over Wareham, he struck out eight, did not walk a batter and doled out seven hits. Stowell was 8-3 with a 3.26 ERA at Cal-Irvine this spring as a sophomore. Read the rest of this entry »
FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES
Durham, N.C. - USA Baseball announced today the naming of Tulane’s Rick Jones as head coach of the 2009 USA Baseball National Team (Collegiate).
HOLLYWOOD, FL - July 1, 2008, Robert Lara, a 6′2 205 lbs pitcher out of University of Central Florida has signed with Dynasty Athlete Representation, LLC. Lara was selected in the 19th round by the San Diego Padres in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft and is currently playing for the Arizona League affiliate. Through five games with the club, Lara is batting .500 with a home-run and six RBIs. In his very first at bat with the Padres, he smacked a home-run. 
Biloxi’s B.A. Vollmuth figures to play a key role in Southern Miss’ bid to make a seventh consecutive appearance in an NCAA baseball regional next season.
The LSU late-inning magic continues as the Tigers, who were on the verge of elimination in the Super Regionals before rallying to earn a trip to Omaha, staved off elimination from the College World Series by scoring four runs in the bottom of the ninth to claim a 6-5 decision and send Rice home.
OMAHA, Neb. — Hours after being introduced as the new head baseball coach at the University of Central Florida, LSU pitching coach and recruiting coordinator Terry Rooney arrived Thursday night at the site of the College World Series.
It was Rice’s opening game of the College World Series on Sunday, but it was so much more to Tracy Kuhlman.
OMAHA - An offensive explosion of 11 runs by the fourth inning, 13 hits and four homeruns vaulted the Fresno State Bulldogs to a 17-5 win over No.6 National seed Rice in the opening round of the College World Series.
Reckling Park offers proof of the strides the Rice baseball program has made under Wayne Graham, but there are other indications of how expectations have been altered.
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