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Pac-10 Weekend Recap (March 12-14)

Ryan Rosenblatt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:39:56 +0000

It was a weekend of almosts in the middle of the Pac-10. A couple of the middle Pac-10 teams hoping to make a statement that they are really top-notch teams came close and showed well, but they came up just a bit short of their goals. Even so, the conference proved yet again that they’re [...]

Pac-10 Weekend Review (March 5-7)

Ryan Rosenblatt — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:35:37 +0000

The Pac-10 entered the season’s third weekend with three undefeated teams and by the end of it, that number was whittled down to two. It still proved to be a successful weekend for the league as eight of the 10 teams came away series winners and three of those came away with series sweeps. Through [...]

Pac-10 Weekend Recap (Feb. 26-28)

Ryan Rosenblatt — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:18:00 +0000

The Pac-10 was never going to replicate their play of a week ago. An .862 winning percentage is just not something an entire conference keeps up week after week and the Pac-10 didn’t. The conference flashed a little of the opening week’s flash, but was also roughed up in a weekend’s showing that truly [...]

Pac-10 Weekend Recap (Feb. 19-21)

Ryan Rosenblatt — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:01:28 +0000

It was one heck of a weekend for the Pac-10. Coming off of a disastrous 2009 campaign in which only three teams qualified for a Regional and only one made it past the first weekend, the conference came out in a complete 180 in the 2010 season’s opening weekend. As a whole, the Pac-10 [...]

Murphy and Pickler added to Padres Organization

Brian Foley — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:35:36 +0000

Former Arizona State head coach Pat Murphy and former Arizona assistant coach Scott Pickler were hired on Tuesday by the San Diego Padres. Murphy comes over to the Padres after being the head coach of the Sun Devils since 1995. He was fired in the fall by athletic director Lisa Love. He will serve [...]

2010 Preseason PAC-10 Coaches Poll

Brian Foley — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:02:50 +0000

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Arizona State has been chosen as the favorite to win this year’s Pac-10 baseball title, according to a vote by the league’s coaches.

For the second-straight season, the Sun Devils were picked to win the Pac-10 crown receiving seven of nine first-place votes, earning 78 points overall. Oregon [...]

KR talks about Rising and Falling Programs

Brian Foley — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Rivals.com College Baseball editor Kendall Rogers has put out an article detailing five programs that are rising in prestige and five that are starting to fall off the map. The programs that he sees coming on are: TCU, Virginia, East Carolina, Kansas and Ohio State. The five programs that are starting to fall are: [...]

KR: Checks in on Pac-10

Brian Foley — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com continues his series of articles on conferences across the country heading into Fall Practice. Today, he checks in on the Pac-10 conference which he states is looking to rebuild after Arizona State made the College World Series last season. After the Sun Devils, there was a significant drop-off in the [...]

Butler signs with BoSox

Brian Foley — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Nicole Auerbach of The Cape Cod Times has an excellent article on former Arizona catcher Daniel Butler who signed a pro contract with the Boston Red Sox on Monday evening. Butler finished the 2009 college season with a .263 batting average in 27 games while hitting only 3 homers. After the season, Butler made [...]

Pac-10 Players of the Week

Brian Foley — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:20:56 +0000

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — ARIZONA junior first baseman Dillon Baird has been named the Pac-10 Baseball Player of the Week and ARIZONA STATE junior right-handed pitcher Mike Leake has been named Pitcher of the Week for May 18 – 24, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today.

Baird led Arizona to a series sweep at [...]