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Demons sign two to complete ‘09 signing class

Northwestern State baseball head coach J.P. Davis has announced the signing of his final two players for the 2009 season – right handed pitcher Carlos Maese and catcher Daniel Qualls.

Maese, a 6-1, 180-pounder from Ysleta High School in El Paso, Texas, earned most valuable player honors of his district as well as being named to the all-academic team.

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Tags: 2008 Recruits, Butler, Cal State Bakersfield, Colonial Members, Horizon League, Northwestern State, South Alabama, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, UNC-Wilmington

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Stan Phelps and Wes Davis, assistant coaches for The University of Texas at Tyler baseball team, were named the coaches of the year in their respective minor leagues following the completion of the 2008 season.

Phelps, who served as head coach of the East Texas Pump Jacks, earned the honor in the Texas Collegiate League, while Davis picked-up the nod in the Coastal Plain League for his work as head coach with the Florence RedWolves.

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Tags: Division 3, Summer Leagues, UT-Tyler

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Led by Most Valuable Player A.J. Pollock of the Falmouth Commodores and the trio of hard-hitting catcher Tommy Medica, infielder Joseph Sanders and pitcher Chris Manno of the league champion Harwich Mariners, the 2008 All-League Team has been announced by Cape Cod Baseball League Commissioner Paul Galop. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Top Players, ACC, Atlantic Sun, Auburn, Baylor, Big 12, Big East, Big South, Boston College, Cape Cod League, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, Conference USA, Duke, East Carolina, Houston, Jacksonville State, Louisville, MAC, Notre Dame, Ohio, Ole Miss, Pac 10, Santa Clara, SEC, Stanford, Tennessee, UC-Irvine, University of San Diego, USC, Vanderbilt, Virginia, West Coast Conference

The Corvallis (OR) Knights swept a best-of-three series against the Wenatchee (WA) AppleSox to win their first West Coast Collegiate Baseball League championship. The AppleSox won the championship in 2006 and 2007.

The Knights won the first game of the series 6-4 (11 innings) in Wenatchee. The star of that game was Doug Cherry (Washington), who went 4-5, reached base six times, and was spectacular on defense. He drew a walk in the ninth to bring in the tying run and send the game into extra innings. Bryant Kraus (Portland) batted in the winning run in the 11th. Taylor Starr (Oregon State) got the win for the Knights. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Cal-Poly, Gonzaga, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Portland, Washington

The Cape Cod Baseball League has put out press releases for the rest of the awards for the season. The MVP of the league was AJ Pollock of Notre Dame. He ended up finishing second in the league in batting average while leading the league in Slugging Percentage. Jimmy Cesario of Houston ended up winning the Batting title before signing a MLB deal with the Colorado Rockies. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Big East, Cape Cod League, CBUAO, Conference USA, FSU, Houston, Notre Dame, UNC

The Okotoks Dawgs (AB) won their second straight Western Major Baseball League championship on August 16, winning three games out of four against the Swift Current (SK) Indians.

The final game, in Okotoks, drew a crowd of over 2,700; the Dawgs have a new ballpark, and have been drawing good crowds all year. The Dawgs continued to get excellent pitching during the final round. Mark Hardy (British Columbia) pitched a complete-game one-hitter in a 1-0 win. Jake Bottari (College of Idaho) held the Indians to one run in seven innings in another game.

Swift Current’s win was a 1-0 14-inning thriller. Sean Cooley (North Dakota; 8 1/3 innings, 6 hits) and Shawn Lee (Bellevue; 5 2/3 innings, 2 hits, eight strikeouts) combined for the shutout. Jeff Duda (Campbellsville) pitched twelve shutout innings for the Dawgs. Duda was 7-3, 1.88 ERA for the season.

Tags: Bellevue, British Columbia, Campbellsville, College of Idaho, North Dakota

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Mike Ford pitched a complete-game shutout to win his third game of the tournament and Andre Miller drove in both runs as the Santa Barbara (CA) Foresters shut out the Seattle (WA) Studs 2-0 to in the championship of the 74th National Baseball World Series.

The Foresters (7-0) won their second title in the past three years; like in 2006, Santa Barbara went undefeated in winning the title.

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The All-American Team for the 2008 NBC World Series has been announced.

1st Base: Clint McKeever of the Havasu Heat

2nd Base: Steve Cook of the Santa Barbara Foresters

3rd Base: Chris Kersten of the Liberal BeeJays

Short Stop: Derek Jennings of the Seattle Studs

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Tonights games pits the Seattle Studs from the Pacific International League Vs. Santa Barbara Foresters of the California Collegiate League.The start time of the first pitch will be at 6:00pm. TO follow the Live Game Tracker click here. To Listen to the game live the Santa Barbara Foresters have it on their web site

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6:00 PM Game 81 Santa Barbara (CA) Foresters vs. Seattle (WA) Studs

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Semifinal:Seattle Wins Rematch With Beatrice; Earns Another With Santa Barbara In Finals

August 14, 2008
The semifinal game of the 74th National Baseball Congress World Series pitted two teams that met in the fourth round of the tournament: Seattle (WA) and Beatrice (NE).The Studs won the first meeting on Aug. 11 (2-0), and they prevailed in this one 4-1 to reach the championship round. Seattle will visit again with Santa Barbara (CA), a team they lost to 11-5 on Aug. 12.

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HARWICH, Mass. — It’s been a long road to a Cape Cod Baseball League championship for the Harwich Mariners, who have finally broken their 21-year drought with a 2-1 win over the Cotuit Kettleers Thursday night before 6,133 fans at Whitehouse Field. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Top Players, ACC, Cal, Cape Cod League, Pac 10, UNC

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Quarterfinal #1: Bruins race by Bee Jays to reach semifinals

August 13, 2008
The top three batters in the Beatrice (NE) Bruin batting order — Matty Johnson, Evan Porter and Jordan Danks — combined to score five runs as the Bruins defeated the Liberal (KS) Bee Jays 6-3 in the first game of the quarterfinal round at the National Baseball Congress World Series.Danks went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs for Beatrice… Read More »

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The Cape Cod Baseball League Championship series starts up this afternoon when Cotuit hosts Harwich in Game 1 of the best out of three set. The Cotuit Kettleers will send Arizona State’s Seth Blair to the mound while Harwich will send Duke lefty Chris Manno. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Arizona State, Cape Cod League, Duke, Pac 10

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Hays’ eighth inning rally votes out Senators, 6-4

Cameron Monger went 3-for-4 and doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as the Hays (KS) Larks edged the Vienna (VA) Senators 6-4 to remain alive in the National Baseball Congress World Series.Brandon Eckerle, Eric Roof and Billy Read the rest of this entry »

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The Cotuit Kettleers are currently leading the Falmouth Commodores in the 7th inning 3-1.  If you’re not at the game, it is being streamed online here.  Also, Nate Sandals of the Cape Cod Times is updating everyone with a live blog.  The game is moving along fast, so be sure to check out the action.  The winner of this game will face Harwich, the winner of the Eastern League, in a best-of-3 series starting tomorrow.

Tags: 2008 Top Players, 2009 Top Players, Cape Cod League