Mitch Harris of the Naval Academy will not be allowed to get out of his commitment to service thus ending his career based on an AP article recently. He will have to fulfill his five year commitment before being able to enter the minor leagues for the St. Louis Cardinals. Read the rest of this entry »

FSU 24 Bucknell 9

Tallahassee, Fla. - Second-ranked Florida State (50-11) stayed alive in the NCAA Tournament with a 24-9 victory over Bucknell (30-24-2) Sunday afternoon at Dick Howser Stadium. The Seminoles advanced to the regional finals against Tulane and must now defeat the Green Wave twice with game one being held later this evening at 7 pm. The Seminoles became the first team in the nation to reach the 50-win plateau.

With the win, the Seminoles braved off elimination for the second straight game moving to 42-23 in possible elimination games in regional action of the NCAA Tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

FSU 17 Florida 11

Tallahassee, Fla. - Second-ranked Florida State (49-11) thwarted elimination on Saturday afternoon downing intra-state rival Florida (34-24) 17-11 in game three of the Tallahassee Regional. The Seminoles registered a season-high 25 hits as every batter in the starting line-up recorded a hit, while eight of the nine batters collected multiple hits. It was the fifth time this season that FSU has posted 20 or more hits in a game. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bucknell 7 FSU 0

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In the biggest win in Bucknell baseball history, senior Mathew Wilson pitched a complete-game, six-hit shutout against hard-hitting Florida State, and the Bison pulled off a 7-0 upset on opening night of the NCAA Tournament on Friday at Dick Howser Stadium.

Dane Grandizio went 4-for-5 to lead the offense, and the Bison scored three times in the second inning, another in the third and three more in the fourth. Wilson took it from there, eclipsing the school record with his fifth career shutout. Read the rest of this entry »

The Florida State Seminoles will host a Regional this year with rival Florida, Tulane, and Bucknell. The Seminoles have a 48-10 record while going 24-6 in the ACC which was good enough to win the Atlantic Division. The Gators of Florida will take their 34-22 record and a SEC record of 17-13 up the road to Tallahassee. The Green Wave of Tulane will come over from New Orleans to get back in the NCAA Tournament after a one year absence. They have a 37-20 record while going 13-9 in Conference USA. The last team in the Regional is Bucknell out of the Patriot League where they have a 29-22 overall mark and a conference record of 10-10. Read the rest of this entry »

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Senior Ed Rubbo (Stafford, Va./Colonial Forge) dropped the game-winning single just inside the right field line with two out in the bottom of the ninth, helping the Bucknell baseball team claim the 2008 Patriot League title with an 8-7 come-from-behind victory over Navy in game two of the best-of-three Patriot League Championship series. Bucknell will now earn an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament, which will begin on May 30. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bucknell 1 Army 0 (Final)

WEST POINT, N.Y. - Freshman Drew Constable (West Chester, Pa./Henderson) knocked in the winning run and Bison hurlers freshman Eric Jarrett (Jersey Shore, Pa./Jersey Shore) and senior Jason Buursma (Seattle, Wash./Lakeside School) combined for a two-hit shutout as the Bucknell baseball team defeated Army, 1-0, to advance to the Patriot League championship against Navy next week. The Bison are now 24-22-2 and will play in the championship series for the second time in the past three seasons, while the Black Knights fall to 24-25. Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Holy Cross 6 Navy 0
Game 2: Navy 12 Holy Cross 1

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - After dropping the first game of Saturday’s baseball doubleheader, Navy starting pitcher Oliver Drake (So./Gardner, Mass.) tossed 7.2 quality innings to force a third and deciding game in the best-of-three Patriot League semifinal series against Holy Cross at Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium. The Midshipmen bounced back with a 12-1 win in the nightcap after the Crusaders won game one, 6-0. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are links to the Patriot League Semifinals Live Scoring. The Naval Academy has effective and simple Gametracker while Army runs a great live blog about the game.

Navy Game 1 Gametracker

Navy Game 2 Gametracker

Army Live Blog

The Patriot League Conference Tournament starts up this weekend with Holy Cross heading to Navy and Army hosting Bucknell in best two out of three series to decide which team will advance to the conference championship series next weekend. Navy ended up taking three out of four games this season against Holy Cross while Army lost three out of four games against Bucknell. We previewed the Patriot League in our preseason season previews which can be read here. Read the rest of this entry »

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Center Valley, Pa. - Holy Cross claimed two of the four major Patriot League Baseball Major Awards on Thursday, while Bucknell and Army picked up the other honors. Patriot League Player of the Year honors went to Bucknell senior Jason Buursma, while Holy Cross sophomore Matt Shapiro earned Pitcher of the Year recognition, Army freshman Clint Moore garnered Rookie of the Year status and Holy Cross’ Greg DiCenzo was named Patriot League Coach of the Year. The awards were voted on by the League’s six head coaches, who could not vote for their own team. Read the rest of this entry »

FROM PATRIOT LEAGUE

Center Valley, Pa. - After earning the top seed in this weekend’s Patriot League Tournament, Army reaped the benefits of its stellar season by leading all teams with eight selections on the 2008 Patriot League Baseball All-League Team. The team was voted on by the League’s six head coaches, who could not vote for their own student-athletes.

The Black Knights placed three players on the first team, while five garnered second-team honors. Bucknell followed Army with seven selections, while Navy had six picks overall and a League-high five student-athletes that received first-team honors. Holy Cross and Lehigh each had three All-League selections, while Lafayette had one representative. Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Lafayette 5 Stony Brook 1
Game 2: Lafayette 7 Stony Brook 6

EASTON, Pa.-The Lafayette baseball team swept Sunday’s doubleheader against Stony Brook to take three of four in this weekend’s home-and-home series. Senior Kevin Reese earned his 15th career victory with a 5-1 win in Sunday’s opening game and the Leopards came out on top of a back-and-forth battle to take the second game 7-6. Read the rest of this entry »

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NYIT 7 Hofstra 2

Old Westbury, NY * Junior Mark Stuckless drove in a run for the second consecutive game, but NYIT took advantage of five Hofstra errors and a strong pitching performance from Mike LaLuna to win Wednesday afternoon’s non-conference contest, 7-2. With the victory, NYIT improves to 13-23-1 while the Pride fall to 17-31. Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Holy Cross 11 Navy 5
Game 2: Navy 2 Holy Cross 1

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Senior Brendan Akashian (Lowell, Mass.) went 4-for-8 with a double and two RBIs while freshman Eric Oxford (Danavers, Mass.) went 3-for-8 with three RBIs and a double as the Holy Cross baseball team split with Navy in a Patriot League doubleheader, winning the first game 11-5 and dropping game two, 2-1. The Crusaders are now 20-25 (11-9 Patriot League) while the Midshipmen are 28-21 on the season (11-9 Patriot League). Read the rest of this entry »