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ACC Recap for February 19th

Brian Foley — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:06:53 +0000

Here is your ACC Recap for February 19th.

#3 Virginia 6 #16 East Carolina 2

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The No. 2 Virginia baseball team opened the 2010 season strong with a 6-2 victory over No. 11 East Carolina Friday afternoon in front of 5,012 fans at Clark-LeClair Stadium in Greenville, N.C. After falling behind 2-0 [...]

ACC Weekend Preview (Feb. 19th-21st)

Brian Foley — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Here is your ACC Weekend Preview for games played February 19th through the 21st. I am not going to go into depth as you can check out my Atlantic Division preview by clicking here and my Coastal Division preview by clicking here. Starting next week, you will get a full preview of weekend action [...]

2010 Preseason Patriot League Poll

Brian Foley — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:37:50 +0000

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

Center Valley, Pa. – Defending Patriot League Baseball champion Army has been selected by coaches and sports information directors to claim the crown again in 2010, as the Black Knights were picked first in the League’s preseason poll announced on Wednesday.

Army garnered 46 points and eight first-place votes to take [...]

CBB Interview with Joe Sottolano (Army)

Brian Foley — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0000

The College Baseball Blog continues our series of interviews with coaches around the nation today with Army head coach Joe Sottolano. He is entering his 11th season in charge of the Black Knights program bringing them to the Austin TX Regional final last year before losing in the bottom of the ninth. Nearly all [...]

Army releases 2010 Schedule

Brian Foley — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:19:37 +0000

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

WEST POINT, N.Y. - Army head coach Joe Sottolano views the non-league portion of his team’s schedule each year as important training ground for the Patriot League wars that await his team later in the spring.

That’s one of the reasons Sottolano annually builds one of the toughest non-league slate of [...]

NCBWA Names Preseason Stopper of the Year Watch List

Brian Foley — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:29:16 +0000

FROM NCBWA RELEASE

Irvine, Calif. (NCBWA) — Forty players have been named to the initial watch list for the sixth annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, given to the top relief pitcher in NCAA Division I baseball, as announced by the association Thursday.

Last year’s Stopper of the Year winner, [...]

CBB Top 100 Countdown: Number 86 Ben Koenigsfeld (Army)

Brian Foley — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

The CBB continues our countdown for the 2010 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the list today with number 86 in our countdown with Army junior two-way player Ben Koenigsfeld. He is [...]

Army’s Joe Sottolano named Regional Coach of the Year

Brian Foley — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:51:55 +0000

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

West Point, N.Y. – Veteran Army baseball coach Joe Sottolano has been named the ABCA/Diamond Sports Company NCAA Division I Regional Coach of the Year, it was recently announced.

Sottolano will be formally recognized when the American Baseball Coaches Association hosts its annual convention in Dallas January 7-10. The Hall of Fame/Coach [...]

Chris Tracz returns home

Brian Foley — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:17 +0000

The Shore Line Times has an excellent feature on Marist head coach Chris Tracz who will be entering his first season with the Red Foxes. Tracz served as the pitching coach at Army last season where he led them to a second place finish in the Austin (TX) Regional nearly knocking off the National [...]

Wake Forest and East Carolina name new Assistant Coaches

Brian Foley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:36:41 +0000

Wake Forest new head coach Tom Walter has announced that he has hired Bill Cilento as an assistant coach. He comes over from Brown University where he spent the last three seasons. He brought the Brown Bears to the NCAA Tournament in 2007 where they led the Ivy League in every offensive category including winning [...]