FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
AUBURN, Ala. - Grant Dayton threw five shutout innings to earn the win and help the Blue team to a game two victory, 9-3, and a split of the first two games of the Fall World Series. The deciding game will be played at noon on Sunday at Plainsman Park.
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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Auburn, SEC

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

Kentrail Davis and Cody Hawn combined for eight RBI to lead the White team to a 9-2 victory over the Orange team on Saturday afternoon at Robert M. Lindsay Field at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The White team evened up the seven-game series at 2-2 with its win in the fourth game of the Tennessee baseball Orange & White World Series.

Tennessee head coach Todd Raleigh thinks the close series will increase the intensity in the last three games.
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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, SEC, Tennessee

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

The South Carolina baseball team continued its final weekend of fall practice with game two of the Garnet & Black World Series on Saturday afternoon at Sarge Frye Field. Trailing by one run, the Black squad scored single runs in both the fifth and sixth inning to rally to a 6-5 victory to even the series with the Garnet team. The rubber game is scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 1:30 pm at the new baseball facility.
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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, SEC, South Carolina

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
STARKVILLE, Miss. - Fans can get a preview of Mississippi State’s 2009 baseball team next week at Dudy Noble Field when the Bulldogs put the finishing touches on their annual fall baseball practice with the Maroon/White World Series.

The four-game intrasquad series is open to the public and opens Wednesday (Oct. 29) with a 4 p.m. contest. The series continues Friday and concludes Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Mississippi State, SEC

Auburn Fall World Series Game 1 Recap

AUBURN, Ala. - The Orange Team was able to ride the arm of Jon Luke Jacobs to a Game 1 win in the Fall World Series on Friday night at Plainsman Park, winning 5-2. Jacobs allowed just one hit over four innings of scoreless baseball to give Volunteer Assistant Coach Jeff Duncan’s squad the early edge in the best-of-three series. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Auburn, SEC, Vanderbilt

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees at the University of South Carolina has approved a one-year contract extension for head baseball coach Ray Tanner. The contract extension keeps Tanner under contract through the end of the 2013 season. Coach Tanner is in his 13th year as head coach for the Gamecock baseball program. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: New Contract, SEC, South Carolina

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com checks in with a good article on the Alabama baseball program. It focuses on how the decision of Jim Wells to return to the Crimson Tide program after a brief fliration with retirement. Rogers believes that the program is back on solid footing with a youth infusion that could lead the Crimson Tide back into the NCAA Tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alabama, Rivals, SEC

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
NASHVILLE, Tenn. –The Black squad rallied from a 3-0 first inning deficit and took advantage of three Gold squad errors in a 4-3 win in the first game of the Black and Gold series Thursday night at Hawkins Field.

Both teams combined for five errors (Gold had three, Black two) that led to five unearned runs.

“The errors were the name of the game today really,” said Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin. “I told the guys that the game was similiar to a Southeastern Conference game in that it is often a one or two run game that is dictated by the team that wins the freebie war. And the team that won the freebie war tonight won the game.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Fall Games, SEC, Vanderbilt

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

The South Carolina baseball team is closing out fall practice this weekend with its annual Garnet & Black World Series. The Garnet squad pushed across four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to defeat the Black team 7-3 in game one of a three-game set. Game one was played at the site of the new baseball stadium on Thursday afternoon.
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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, SEC, South Carolina

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

Over 84 former players, coaches and support staff from the University of South Carolina baseball program will return to Columbia, S.C. this week for Alumni Weekend. Among the festivities include a golf outing on Friday, Oc. 24 at “The Woodlands,” as well as the Alumni Game on Saturday, Oct. 25. First pitch at Sarge Frye Field is set for 1 pm with admission free of charge. There will be a brief introduction of former players and support staff before the game as well.
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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, SEC, South Carolina

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
The South Carolina baseball team has announced its schedule for the 2009 season featuring 24 games against 2008 NCAA Tournament teams as well as 34 home games in its new baseball facility. South Carolina will unveil the ballpark in the season opener on Friday, Feb. 20 vs. Duquesne. The match-up with the Dukes will be the first of a three-game series that weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Schedules, SEC, South Carolina

Most of my readers know that I am a diehard Red Sox fan but we have to congratulate to the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays after they both advance to the 2008 World Series. The Rays ended up making the series on the arm of David Price who was the number 1 pick in the 2007 MLB draft after a standout career with the Vanderbilt Commodores. He ended up getting the final four outs in Game 7 of the ALCS protecting a two run lead. They also featured 2006 number 3 overall pick, 2005 Cape Cod League MVP, and 2006 Big West Player of the Year Evan Longoria from Long Beach State. He has played in all eleven games of the playoffs with a .262 average, six homers, and eleven RBI. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Big East, Big West, Long Beach State, Miami (FL), MLB, MLB Draft, MLB Players, Notre Dame, SEC, Vanderbilt

Jimmy’s Jets Earn 11-4 Win Over Xan’s Zephyrs in Game One of 2008 Pizza Bowl

Sophomore outfielder Josh Richmond had three RBI and was one of four players with at least two hits to lead Jimmy’s Jets to an 11-4 win over Xan’s Zephyrs in game one of the 2008 Pizza Bowl on Friday at Jim Patterson Stadium.

With the win, the Jets, coached by student assistant coach and former Cardinal James Belanger, take a 1-0 advantage over the Zephyrs, coached by assistant coach Xan Barksdale, in the best-of-three intra-squad series, which closes fall workouts for the Louisville baseball team.
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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Arkansas, Big 12, Big East, Louisville, Oklahoma, SEC, Tennessee

USA BASEBALL FACES FIRST OUTSIDE COMPETITION WITH PAIR OF WEEKEND GAMES

After four weeks of intrasquad scrimmages, South Alabama baseball takes on its first outside competition of the season with a pair of exhibition games this weekend. The Jags host Meridian Community College Saturday at noon and Northwest Florida State College Sunday at 1 p.m. Both games are at Stanky Field.

Saturday’s game against Meridian is scheduled for seven innings, but the teams are allowed to play for up to four hours, so they will play a second game with the remaining time. After the seven-inning game ends, there will be a brief break for field maintenance before the new game begins. The second game will last as long as possible within the initial four-hour timeframe.

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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Big 12, Big East, Conference USA, Houston, Louisville, Mississippi State, SEC, South Alabama, South Florida, Southland Conference, Stephen F. Austin, Summit League, Sun Belt, Tennessee, Texas, Western Illinois

Baseball: Scarlet Home Runs Spark World Series Win

Gwen Stefani, former lead singer of the rock group No Doubt, was not in Bill Davis Stadium Wednesday night, but there were two no-doubt home runs for Team Scarlet that sparked its series-clinching, 7-4, victory over Team Gray in the deciding game of the annual Scarlet and Gray World Series.

Matt Streng, a junior infielder from Upper Arlington hit a two-out blast deep into right field in the bottom of the fifth inning to pull Scarlet back into the lead at 6-4 after the Gray had taken a 4-2 lead in the fifth inning. Then in the sixth inning Ryan Dew, a junior outfielder from Croton, Ohio, sent a laser of a shot into right field to extend the lead to 7-4.
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Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Arkansas, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Missouri Valley, Ohio State, Oklahoma, SEC, UConn, Wichita State