The Creighton University baseball program is looking at the option of playing their entire or part of their 2011 schedule at Rosenblatt Stadium. The stadium is set to be replaced during the 2011 college baseball season by a new T.D Ameritrade Stadium which will be the home of the College World Series starting in 2011. The move to Rosenblatt could see Creighton putting in a bid for the 2011 Missouri Valley Conference tourney and increase attendance for the Blue Jays. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Creighton, Missouri Valley, New Facility

#23 Texas A&M 7 #3 Rice 3

HOUSTON – Brooks Raley went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and Barret Loux struck out nine batters to lead No. 23 Texas A&M to a 7-3 win at No. 1 Rice Tuesday night before 4,541 fans at Reckling Park.
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Tags: Arkansas Pine Bluff, Baylor, Big Ten, Conference USA, Creighton, Indiana State, Iowa, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Rice, SWAC, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Texas AM, UT-Arlington, Wichita State

The Big 12 had six teams in action on Wednesday.  The conference had a pretty good showing on the day, going 4-2 overall with some blowout wins.  Here is Wednesday’s Big 12 recap.

#11 Baylor 14, Prairie View A&M 1

WACO, Texas — Seventh-ranked Baylor sent 15 batters to the plate in an 11-run first inning and coasted to a 14-1, seven-inning victory over Prairie View A&M in midweek action Wednesday night at Baylor Ballpark. Baylor (18-7) improved to 5-0 all-time against Prairie View A&M (15-14) with the win.

Baylor’s 11-run first inning was one run shy of the school record for first-inning runs. The Bears enjoyed a 12-run first inning in the second game of a doubleheader March 17, 1986, against Dallas Baptist. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Atlantic 10, Baylor, Big 12, Big 12 Recap, Creighton, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, New Mexico, Northern Colorado, Oklahoma State, Prairie View AM, Saint Louis, SWAC, Tabor, Texas Tech

Texas State 3 Arkansas State 2

The Texas State Bobcat baseball team scored a run in the bottom of the sixth, seventh and eighth inning to overcome a 2-0 Arkansas State lead and took a 3-2 victory from the Red Wolves Sunday afternoon at the UT Arlington/Hilton Invitational.
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Tags: Arkansas State, Austin Peay, Chicago State, Creighton, Eastern Illinois, Houston Baptist, Independents, Lamar, McNeese State, Missouri Valley, Nicholls State, Northwestern State, Ohio Valley, Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana, Southland Conference, Stephen F. Austin, Sun Belt, Texas State

Late Rally Gets Delta Devils Past Stephen F Austin In Season Opener

The Lumberjack baseball team kept the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils at bay for the majority of the afternoon, but MVSU was able to scrape across a run in the bottom of the ninth to pick up a season-opening 4-3 win over SFA at the rain-soaked ULM Warhawk Classic.
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Tags: Austin Peay, Chicago State, Creighton, Eastern Illinois, Houston Baptist, Independents, Lamar, McNeese State, Mississippi Valley State, Mountain West, New Mexico, Nicholls State, Northwestern State, Ohio Valley, Ohio Valley Conference, Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana, Stephen F. Austin, SWAC, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Texas State, UT-Arlington

McNeese opens season with victory over Houston Baptist

On Friday evening at Cowboy Diamond on the campus of McNeese State University, the HBU baseball team out-hit McNeese State but fell by a score of 9-6 in the season-opener for both teams.

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Tags: Arkansas State, Chicago State, Creighton, Houston Baptist, Independents, Louisiana-Monroe, McNeese State, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, New Mexico, Nicholls State, Northwestern State, Sam Houston State, San Francisco, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Texas State, UT- San Anotnio, West Coast Conference

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
ST. LOUIS – Missouri State, which returns a dominating veteran pitching staff and solid depth from last year’s Missouri Valley Conference runner-up squad, has been tabbed as the league favorite in the annual coaches’ preseason poll, receiving eight of nine first place votes.

The Bears tallied 80 points and were a sound favorite over second-place pick Creighton (66 points). 2008 champion Wichita State, who secured the remaining first-place vote and 63 points overall, was picked to finish in the third position. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Preseason Conference Poll, Bradley, Creighton, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, Missouri Valley, Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois, Wichita State

Boyd’s World has done an excellent study on pitch counts for the 2008 season. He looked at every start from around the nation and figured out which schools treat their pitchers the best in terms of pitch counts while other schools abuse their pitchers with insane pitch counts. He ranks the pitchers individually for a start, a season and also as a team. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Big East, Bowling Green, CAA, Creighton, Delaware State, Duke, Florida A&M, Independents, MAC, MEAC, Missouri Valley, North Dakota State, Old Dominion, Savannah State, Southern Conference, Summit League, UConn, UNC-Greensboro, Utah Valley State

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – FieldTurf and Cal Ripken Jr. announced the winners of the 2008 FieldTurf Awards on Tuesday at the MLB Winter Meetings in Las Vegas. Creighton head baseball coach Ed Servais was named the NCAA Division I-AA Coach of the Year for his work last season.
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Tags: Creighton, Missouri Valley, National Awards

Six commit to Virginia Tech baseball in early signing period

The Virginia Tech baseball coaching staff announced on Wednesday the official signing of five players to National Letters of Intent for the 2009-10 school year, as well as the addition of one transfer from an SEC school.

The new signees scheduled to join the Hokies for the 2010 season include outfielder/first baseman Tyler Horan of Boston College High School in Middleboro, Mass., pitcher Joe Mantiply of Tunstall High School in Danville, Va., catcher Chad Morgan of Paul VI Catholic High School in Springfield, Va., pitcher/first baseman Patrick Scoggin of Douglas S. Freeman High School in Richmond, Va., and shortstop/pitcher Brent Zimmerman of Nova High School in Cooper City, Fla. Also joining Tech in 2010 will be shortstop Tim Smalling, a Raleigh, N.C., native who spent the past two seasons starting for the University of Arkansas.
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Tags: 2010 Recruits, ACC, Austin Peay, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, Creighton, Fresno State, Indiana State, Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley Conference, Virginia Tech, WAC

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

OMAHA, Neb. – The Creighton baseball program released its 2009 schedule Tuesday. The schedule features 11 games at Rosenblatt Stadium, and 17 of the 55 regular season games will come against 2008 NCAA Tournament qualifiers.
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Tags: 2009 Schedules, Creighton, Missouri Valley

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES

Ga Southern 6 The Citadel 5

STATESBORO, Ga. – With the bases loaded and one out in the ninth Jeremiah Parker (Carrollton/Carrollton) hit a grounder down the third base line. Ty Wright (Montrose/West Laurens) slid and beat Matt Arnold’s throw home as Georgia Southern pulled out a 6-5 Southern Conference win over The Citadel. The Eagles (28-19 overall, 12-9 SoCon) took 2-of-3 from the Bulldogs over the weekend.

Wright was hit by a Matt Reifsnider (4-4) pitch to start the ninth. Phillip Porter (Marietta/Sprayberry) sacrificed Wright to second then Chris Shehan (Strasburg, PA/Lampeter-Strasburg) was intentionally walked. Matt Crim, the Friday night starter, walked Griffin Benedict (Dunwoody/St. Pius) to load the bases. Parker hit a soft grounder down the third base line. Wright broke for home and on the slide was called safe by home plate umpire Ed Haggray. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Atlantic 10, Big South, CAA, Creighton, Dayton, Georgia Southern, James Madison, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Radford, Southern Conference, Southern Illinois, TCU, The Citadel, UMass, Utah