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Coastal Carolina 20 UNC-Asheville 4

DANVILLE, Va. - Coastal Carolina tied a Big South tournament record with 20 runs as the No. 1 seed Chanticleers defeated No. 8 seed UNC Asheville, 20-4, in Game 1 of the 2008 Royal Purple Big South Conference Baseball Championship, May 21 at Dan Daniel Memorial Park in Danville, Va. With the victory, the Chanticleers improve to 44-11 and advance to play the loser of No. 3 VMI-No. 4 Winthrop Thursday at 3:00pm. UNC Asheville falls to 24-34 and moves to the loser’s bracket and will face the loser of No. 2 Liberty-No. 6 Radford Thursday at 11:00am. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big South, Big South Tournament, Coastal Carolina, Liberty, Radford, UNC-Asheville, VMI, Winthrop

By Willie Nicklaus

Thought this would be a good time to do a follow up on some of the freshmen who have been contributing to their respective teams, as the regular portion of the season has concluded and conference tourneys are ready to begin.

I like to use OPS percentage as a gauge as the equation includes power factors as well as on-base frequency. I have also included the HR and Extra-base hits frequencies to show a player propensity for delivering a big hit. With the conferences getting ready to do battle this week, we included the overall batting averages and also batting averages in conference play only. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2010 Top Players, ACC, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Big 12, Big East, Big South, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, CBB Column, Coastal Carolina, Conference USA, Florida, GT, Kent State, LSU, MAC, Middle Tennessee, Rice, SEC, Tennessee, Texas, University of San Diego, West Coast Conference, West Virginia

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - For the second consecutive season and the third time in the last four years, Coastal Carolina is the No. 1 seed in the Royal Purple Big South Baseball Championship, which will be contested May 20-24 at Dan Daniel Memorial Park in Danville, Va. The Chanticleers won the outright 2008 regular-season championship with a 17-3 Conference mark to win their third regular-season Big South baseball crown in four years and fourth in seven seasons. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big South, Charleston Southern, Coastal Carolina, High Point, Liberty, Radford, UNC-Asheville, VMI, Winthrop

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DALLAS - The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) ­ released the Pro-Line Athletic National Player of the Week awards for the period ending May 11, today. Coastal Carolina junior first baseman David Anderson was named National Hitter of the Week, while Long Beach State senior right-hander Andrew Liebel was named National Pitcher of the Week. The NCBWA Board reviews candidates from each Division I Conference each week and names winners each Tuesday throughout the season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big South, Big West, Coastal Carolina, Long Beach State, National Player of the Week, NCBWA

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Coastal Carolina junior David Anderson (Lexington, S.C.) has been selected as the Big South Conference Choice Hotels Baseball Player of the Week, while Radford junior John Lloyd (Oak Hill, Va.) has been named New Balance Pitcher of the Week for games played May 5-11, it was announced today by the League office. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big South, Big South Players of the Week, Coastal Carolina, Radford

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Ga Tech 11 Coastal Carolina 4

ATLANTA - Derek Dietrich collected three hits and drove in five runs to lead Georgia Tech (33-14) to an 11-4 victory over No. 15 Coastal Carolina (38-11) Sunday afternoon at Russ Chandler Stadium. The win helped Tech to its second-straight weekend series victory after defeating Wake Forest in two of three games a week ago.

Dietrich drove in runs in the first, fifth, sixth and eighth innings and hit his 14th home run of the season as the Yellow Jackets pushed their streak to 15-consecutive games with a home run. Dietrich is the only freshman in the Atlantic Coast Conference with more than 10 home runs this season and leads all freshmen while standing second in the league with 56 RBI on the year. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Big South, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, FSU, GT, High Point, Miami (FL), NC State, Presbyterian College, St. Mary's, VT, West Coast Conference

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Game 1: Boston College 5 Maryland 4 (10 innings)

Pinch-hitter Harry Darling was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th inning to plate Eric Campbell with the winning run as the Eagles defeated Maryland, 5-4.

Tony Sanchez led the offense with a 3-for-4 day at the plate and also knocked in a run. Michael Belfiore contributed a hit, run scored and RBI, while Perdios and Darling each collected a RB Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Big South, Boston College, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, FSU, GT, High Point, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, St. Mary's, West Coast Conference

ATLANTA, Ga. — Despite having the week off for final exams, the Yellow Jackets (32-13) were able to continue their hot hitting in a 10-6 victory over Coastal Carolina (36-10). Thomas Nichols, Charlie Blackmon, Jeff Rowland, and Jason Haniger each hit a home run off Coastal Carolina starter Bobby Gagg. Haniger, who led the team with 3 RBI, later hit a clutch 8th inning 2-run single to seal the victory for Georgia Tech.

Both first baseman David Anderson and right fielder Tommy Baldridge hit a double and a home run for the Chanticleers. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Big South, Coastal Carolina, GT

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Miami (FL) 10 St. Mary’s 6

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Junior second baseman Jemile Weeks set a new school record with his 18th career triple and freshman lefty Chris Hernandez won for the eighth time as No. 1 Miami won its 11th straight Friday night game with a 10-2 win over St. Mary’s (Calif.) in the first of a three game nonconference series at Mark Light Field. Weeks, Yonder Alonso, Dennis Raben and Adan Severino combined to go 9-for-14 with six RBI and eight runs scored as Miami (37-5) scored at least 10 runs for the 19th time season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Big South, Boston College, Campbell, Coastal Carolina, GT, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, Southern Conference, St. Mary's, West Coast Conference

Florida State at Clemson

The Florida State Seminoles head to Clemson SC for a Saturday-Monday series against the Clemson Tigers. The Seminoles enter with a 37-7 overall record while being 19-5 in the ACC. The Seminoles have been one of the better hitting teams in the country with a team batting average of .346. All-American catcher candidate Buster Posey is the top hitter on the team with a .470 average and a team leading 13 homers on the year. Matt Fairel has been the ace of the staff with an 8-1 record with a 2.81 ERA. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Weekend Preview, Big South, Boston College, Campbell, CBB Column, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, FSU, GT, High Point, Independents, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, Presbyterian College, Saint Mary's, Southern Conference, VT, West Coast Conference

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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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FIU 6 Miami (FL) 3

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (www.fiusports.com) – It had been four years since FIU had beaten Miami at Mark Light Field and an eternity since it beat the nation’s No. 1 team. That all changed Wednesday night with a 6-3 win for the Golden Panthers (14-29) against top-ranked Miami (33-5) in front of 2,483 on the Hurricanes’ home field.

FIU led throughout the game and held Miami hitless for five-straight innings after starter Eric Horstmann gave up a pair of singles in the first. The Golden Panthers built a 4-0 lead before Miami bounced back for three runs in the seventh. UM carried the momentum into the eighth, loading the bases with two outs against reliever James Lajiness. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Big South, CAA, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, Davidson, Duke, FIU, High Point, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, Presbyterian College, Southern Conference, Sun Belt, Towson, UNC, UNC-Greensboro, UVA, Wake Forest, William and Mary

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Louisville 6 Kentucky 5

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Third baseman Chris Dominguez drilled a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to give the University of Louisville baseball team a 6-5 walk-off win over rival No. 17 Kentucky snapping a 22-game non-conference winning streak, in front of a regular season record crowd of 3,652 fans that packed Jim Patterson Stadium Tuesday night. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Atlantic 10, Big East, Big South, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, FAU, Kentucky, Louisville, SEC, South Florida, Southern Conference, Sun Belt, Temple, Villanova

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Kentucky 3 Florida 2 (10 innings)

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Brian Spear’s bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 10th inning scored Keenan Wiley with the game-winning run, giving the 17th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats a thrilling 3-2 win over No. 24 Florida, securing the series victory over the Gators, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon at Cliff Hagan Stadium. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alabama, Big South, Coastal Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State, SEC, UNC-Asheville

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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