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CBB’s NAIA pre-season Top 10

Bob Broughton — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:00:15 +0000

The 54th NAIA baseball season starts on Saturday, with Wayland Baptist at Texas-Brownsville, and the Sun Conference All-Star Game in Daytona Beach, FL. Next, Ave Maria (a brand-new school located in Naples, FL, not just a new program) hosts Warner on Jan. 26. On the 27th, Cal Baptist hosts Simpson, and last year’s runners-up Point [...]

2009 Preseason NCBWA/D3baseball.com Top 25

Donald J. Boyles — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:51:26 +0000

Cortland's 10th-year head coach Joe Brown leads all active NCAA Division III baseball coaches with a .789 career winning percentage

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE The SUNY Cortland baseball team is ranked first nationally in Division III for the 2009 season in two preseason polls – one conducted by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and the other by the [...]

CBB’s NAIA Pre-season Top 10

Bob Broughton — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:00:44 +0000

The 53rd NAIA baseball season starts on Friday, with Belhaven at Spring Hill (Mobile, AL), La Sierra at Concordia-Irvine, LSU-Shreveport at U. of Mobile, Bethany (CA) at San Diego Christian, Wayland Baptist at Texas-Brownsville, and Patten at The Master’s (Santa Clarita, CA). The LSU-Shreveport-U. Of Mobile matchup should be a good one; they were #9 [...]

All CAA Preseason Baseball Team

Donald J. Boyles — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:22:01 +0000

George Mason's Scott Krieger celebrates one of his four home runs in last year's CAA Tournament.

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

RICHMOND, Va. (January 15, 2009) – George Mason senior outfielder Scott Krieger was selected as the 2009 CAA baseball preseason Player of the Year in voting by the league’s head coaches.

Krieger batted .381 with 16 doubles, [...]

Rivals Top 25 Countdown: Number 24 Oregon State

Brian Foley — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:54:38 +0000

Rivals.com continues their Top 25 countdown today with Oregon State checking in at number 24. They are led by Pat Casey who won the 2006 and 2007 national championships but failed to lead the Beavers to the NCAA Tourney in 2008. The team slipped to a 28-24 record and failed to recieve an at-large berth [...]

All-Gotham Team

Brian Foley — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:52:06 +0000

We recently came across this great article from The Gotham Baseball Magazine where they mae up an All-Gotham team based on the student-athletes in the greater New York City area. The team is led by St. John’s pitcher Scott Barnes and two pitchers from Monmouth in Brad Brach and Ryan Buch. A couple of other [...]

Arizona State ranked Number 1

Brian Foley — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:59:36 +0000

The Arizona State Sun Devils have been named the top team in the country by Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com. The Sun Devils return a veteran squad which made an appearance in the CWS before being knocked out by UC-Irvine. The Sun Devils will need a better pitching staff if they really expect to compete for [...]

Rivals puts Miami (FL) at Number 2

Brian Foley — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:30:30 +0000

Rivals writer Kendall Rogers continues his Top 25 countdown with Miami (FL) coming in at Number 2. Miami made the NCAA Tourney getting knocked out in the Columbia Missouri regional by Louisville on their way to the CWS. Miami returns a solid hitting team led by Yonder Alonso, Mark Sobolewski, and Blake Tekotte. They will [...]

USD Ranked 5th in Rivals Preseason Poll

Brian Foley — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:57:31 +0000

FROM PRESS RELEASE SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The University of San Diego baseball team has been ranked No. 5 in the Rivals.com preseason top-25 poll it was announced Monday morning. This marks the highest preseason ranking in the history of the program.

San Diego is coming off the heals of the best season in program history [...]

USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll

Brian Foley — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:10:05 +0000

We love how every organization puts out a Top 25 poll. The latest is the USA Today/ESPN Preseason Coaches poll with Arizona State taking the top spot. North Carolina, South Carolina, Rice, and Arizona round out the Top 5. The USA Today poll makes more sense as FSU is ranked 12th and Baseball America has [...]