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Rick McCarty Joins Redhawks Baseball Coaching Staff

Southeast Missouri State head baseball coach Mark Hogan announced today that Rick McCarty will join the Redhawks coaching staff as the new pitching coach in the 2008-09 season. McCarty has five years of previous coaching experience, all coming at NCAA Division II Delta State University. FULL STORY
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Tags: Air Force, America East, Big 12, Mountain West, Ohio Valley Conference, Oklahoma State, Southeast Missouri State, Southland Conference, UT-Arlington, Vermont

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – Championship Series’ Most Valuable Player Ryan Nokelby (Texas Lutheran) plated Jeff Abrams (Binghamton) with a 10th-inning sacrifice fly as the Brockport Riverbats edged the Glens Falls Golden Eagles, 3-2, in 10 innings to win the 2008 New York Collegiate Baseball League championship. The Riverbats won the best-of-three series, two games to one. The title is the first in the five-year history of the franchise. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: America East, Atlantic 10, Big East, Binghamton, Division 2, MAAC, Merrimack, NYCBL, SEC, Siena, South Florida, St. Bonaventure, University of San Diego, Vanderbilt, West Coast Conference

(Tempe, AZ) – Who Is Mike Jones? The Arizona State version of Mike Jones is now the answer to a trivia question. A three run home run over the right field wall in the sixth inning complimented a couple of great catches in center field on Saturday night. But the question is, name several Arizona State athletes who have hit both a home run and caught a touchdown pass for the Sun Devils? [Thanks for the question TerryLee]

Aaron Baker looked great for Oklahoma with two home runs on the night. However the entire rest of the Sooners roster were only half as effective as Baker, with just the one other run between them all.

Unfortunately Carl Spackler has no “Cinderella story” left here in Tempe. After an inspirational performance on Friday night the Stony Brook Seawolves were eliminated during the day game. Head coach Matt Senk was quoted stating “Arizona State and Vanderbilt are tremendous teams and it was an honor to compete against them.” Well coach Senk, it was an honor to watch your team play. Your players and fans represented the America East conference well. Not Masters champions this year, but maybe you can pull off the miracle next year. [Caddyshack 1980]

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Tags: 2008 Tempe Regional, America East, Arizona State, Big 12, Oklahoma, Pac 10, SEC, Stony Brook, Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt 9 – Stony Brook 4

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(Tempe, AZ) - Mike Minor pitched eight solid innings and Vanderbilt pounded out 16 hits in a 9-4 win over Stony Brook in the elimination game of the NCAA Tempe Regional Saturday afternoon at Packard Stadium.

The Commodores (41-21) will face the loser of tonight’s Oklahoma-Arizona State contest tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. CT/1 p.m. MT. The Seawolves season ended with a 34-26 record.

Minor gave up four runs on seven hits in eight innings with seven strikeouts and one walk to improve to 7-3 on the year.

“The game was predicated on the start of Mike Minor,” said Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin. “To go deep into a ball game, especially after we lost the first game and have to play five games to win it. We needed a starting pitcher to go deep and he did.  It was a hot day obviously and he threw a lot of strikes.  [He had] one tough inning, but it wasn’t all his fault.  He overcame it and pitched a very solid eighth.  I think it stops and ends with him.”

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Tags: 2008 NCAA Tourney, 2008 Tempe Regional, America East, SEC, Stony Brook, Vanderbilt

(Tempe, AZ) - Brett Wallace was huge for Arizona State, but Stony Brook would not give up in a thrilling game that bounced back and forth all night Friday.

3,425 baseball fans enjoyed a great game on a marvelous night that featured five lead changes before a thrilling end to a Stony Brook rally wrapped up the game for Arizona State in the ninth.

Freshman Matt Newman started the game and looked good for ASU, but after putting down the first five Stony Brook batters in order, the Seawolves put together a two out rally in the second to tie the game.   In the third Stony Brook kept at it took the lead and made ASU go to the bullpen first. 

However 12 walks by Stony Brook pitchers gave ASU too many opportunities.  Combine that with 11 hits including a blast off the bat of Brett Wallace that cleared not only the fence in right field but also likely the median on Rural Road on its trajectory out of the park.  ASU looked good offensively but Stony Brook hung all night and never looked out of the game.

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Tags: 2008 Tempe Regional, 2008 Top Players, America East, Arizona State, Pac 10, Stony Brook, Stopper of the Year

ASU 9 - Stony Brook 7

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(Tempe, AZ) - With four hits from two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year Brett Wallace leading the way, No. 3 Arizona State defeated Stony Brook 9-7 in its opening game of the NCAA Tournament Friday night in front of a crowd of 3,425 at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark. The win improves the Sun Devils to 46-11 and means they will face fellow first-day winner Oklahoma tomorrow night.

Wallace was 4-for-5 with three RBI and three runs scored, and he hit his team-leading 21st home run in the victory.

Tommy Rafferty earned the win to improve to 12-0 on the year, as he pitched the final five innings out of the bullpen, allowing four hits and two runs while striking out four. The win ties Rafferty for the school record for pitching victories out of the bullpen, equaling Dave Alexander, who went 12-2 in 1989.

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Tags: 2008 Tempe Regional, America East, Arizona State, Pac 10, Stony Brook

#1 Arizona State (45-11)

#2 Vanderbilt (40-20)

#3 Oklahoma (34-24-1)

#4 Stony Brook (34-24)

Arizona State is the host for the Tempe Regional for the second year in a row and third time in four years. Winkles Field – Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark will be the site of all the action. The Sun Devils are also the #3 National Seed.

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Tags: 2008 NCAA Tourney, 2008 Tempe Regional, America East, Arizona State, Big 12, Oklahoma, Pac 10, SEC, Stony Brook, Vanderbilt

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES

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 »

Tags: America East, Big South, Charleston Southern, Lafayette, Liberty, Patriot League, Stony Brook

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Bethune-Cookman 10 South Florida 3

TAMPA, Fla. - The University of South Florida baseball team lost, 10-3, to Bethune-Cookman Wednesday night at Red McEwen Field.

The Bulls drop to 25-21 overall while the Wildcats improve to 30-17.

Junior Chris Rey was 3-for-4 in the game with one RBI and a run scored, while junior Addison Maruszak added a two-hit outing to the Bulls’ offense.

Freshman Zach Pietrzyk made his longest start, and appearance, of his rookie campaign against the Wildcats, striking out two in his 4.1-inning outing. He allowed five runs from seven hits to take his second loss of the year. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: America East, Atlantic 10, Bethune Cookman, Big East, Big South, Coastal Carolina, Missouri Valley, Murray State, South Florida, Southern Conference, Southern Illinois, SWAC, The Citadel, UMass, Vermont

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FSU 4 Florida 2

Tallahassee, Fla. - Second-ranked Florida State (32-3) captured its first regular season series victory over intra-state rival and No. 24 Florida (24-13) since 2005 with a 4-2 win Tuesday night. A new Dick Howser Stadium crowd of 6,737 were on hand to see senior Ryan Strauss pick up his second straight win over the Gators this year while throwing his first career complete game.

“Florida State, Florida is enough said,” added head coach Mike Martin on taking the season series from the Gators. “Florida has a great ball club and we were very fortunate to win. We executed very well offensively and you have to give Florida credit. They kept the ball game close throughout by making some very good pitching decisions.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, America East, Big South, Coastal Carolina, Conference USA, Davidson, Duke, East Carolina, Florida, FSU, Maryland, NC State, North Carolina Central, SEC, Southern Conference, UMBC, UNC, UNC-Greensboro, UVA, Wake Forest

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James Madison 6 Hofstra 2

Hempstead, NY- Justin Wood pitched a complete game, allowing only four hits and striking out six to lead James Madison past Hofstra in game two of a Colonial Athletic Association series Saturday afternoon. Trevor Knight had two RBI for the Dukes while Matt Prokopowicz contributed a single and a run scored for the Pride. Hofstra falls to 8-18 (0-11 CAA) while James Madison improves to (18-7, 11-3 CAA). Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Albany, America East, CAA, CAA Recap, Delaware, George Mason, Georgia State, Hofstra, James Madison, Northeastern, Old Dominion, Towson, UNC-Wilmington, VCU, William and Mary

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Miami (FL) 7 Bethune-Cookman 6

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Freshman catcher Yasmani Grandal drove in the game-winning run after junior Dave DiNatale hit a two-run game-tying single in the bottom of the eighth as No. 2 Miami rallied to defeat Bethune-Cookman, 7-6, Wednesday night at Mark Light Field. Junior right-hander Carlos Gutierrez tossed the final inning to record his fifth save for the Hurricanes, who improved to 19-2 on the season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Alabama State, America East, Atlantic 10, Atlantic Sun, Bethune Cookman, Boston College, Charlotte, Clemson, Conference USA, Duke, Elon, FSU, Gardner-Webb, George Washington, Holy Cross, Marshall, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, North Carolina Central, Patriot League, Stetson, SWAC, UMBC, UNC, UVA, Wake Forest

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College of Charleston 8 Davidson 6

Michael Kohn broke a ninth inning tie with an RBI double and Brandon Sizemore homered and collected four hits lifting the College of Charleston to an 8-6 win at Davidson and a sweep of its three-game Southern Conference baseball series at Wilson Field on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Albany, America East, Atlantic 10, CAA, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Davidson, Furman, George Mason, James Madison, Northeastern, Old Dominion, Rhode Island, Southern Conference, Temple, The Citadel, UNC-Wilmington, William and Mary

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Temple 9 Rhode Island 6

KINGSTON, RI (3/22/08) – Temple scored seven runs in the fourth inning and won for the fourth straight game with a 9-6 victory over Rhode Island on Saturday at Bill Beck Field. Junior Kyle Obal (Derwood, MD / Sherwood) had four hits and two RBI, while freshman Byron McKoy (Charlotte, NC / Independence) was a triple away from the cycle and had three hits. Junior Matt Mongiardini (Toms River, NJ / Toms River East) improved to 4-0 with six innings on the mound and senior Arshwin Asjes (Willemstad, Curacao / Cheverus-ME) pitched a scoreless ninth for his third save. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Albany, America East, Atlantic 10, Big East, Big South, Brown, Coastal Carolina, Columbia, Hartford, Harvard, Ivy League, Liberty, Louisville, Rhode Island, Temple, UConn, University of San Diego, West Coast Conference

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UNC 7 Princeton 0

CARY, N.C. - Freshman right-hander Patrick Johnson and three relievers combined on a two-hit shutout to pitch No. 3 North Carolina past Princeton, 7-0, Wednesday at Cary’s USA Baseball National Training Complex. Shortstop Garrett Gore and outfielder Ben Bunting each drove in two runs for the Tar Heels (15-3). Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, America East, Appalachian State, CAA, Cornell, Duke, Florida, FSU, Hartford, Ivy League, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, Old Dominion, Princeton, SEC, Southern Conference, Stony Brook, Towson, UNC, UVA, Wake Forest