ATHENS-Georgia will play 30 games against NCAA Tournament teams from last season including home contests against Georgia Tech, LSU, Arkansas, Florida and Vanderbilt and a road series at Arizona as its 2009 baseball schedule was released Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Schedules, Georgia, SEC

The College Baseball Newspaper released their rankings for the Top Recruiting classes for the 2009 season. It is led by Arizona State University for the third time in the 26th year existence of the rankings. They will welcome a 20 recruit class to Tempe in the spring with 15 incoming freshmen and 5 junior college transfers. Out of the 20 recruits, 13 of them were selected in the 2008 MLB Draft. Oregon comes in second place in the rankings with their 30 recruits joining George Horton in Eugene for the return of UO baseball. Vanderbilt, Arkansas, and Georgia round out the Top 5. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Top Players, 2009 Recruits, Arizona State, Arkansas, College Baseball News, Georgia, Oregon, Pac 10, SEC, Vanderbilt

By Willie Nicklaus

This is a first in a series of reports I will file leading into the 2009 college baseball season. I decided to start with some of the top power producers who had great 2008 seasons that didn’t get much press except from their local media and schools.

My selections for this report, and upcoming reports, include players who are far from one dimensional. These particular bombers all were in the top 20 of their respective conferences in batting average. So let’s get started with Home Run Frequency. For measure, here are a few HR frequencies from 2008 of players everyone who is a fan of college baseball heard of: Read the rest of this entry »

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The Signing deadline was last night at midnight. There was some news out of the SEC last night with Pedro Alvarez signing at 11:59pm and five recruits have decided to go to Athens. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Georgia, MLB Draft, Ole Miss, SEC, South Carolina, Vanderbilt

Gordon Beckham still had more than 48 hours to make a decision, but he knew exactly what he wanted.

The All-American shortstop and the White Sox agreed to terms on a Minor League contract Wednesday, inking Beckham to a $2.6 million signing bonus.

Beckham was the club’s first-round pick in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, having been selected eighth overall. The deadline for teams to sign players is Friday at midnight.

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Tags: Georgia, MLB Draft, SEC

Recruiting coordinator Eric Bakich of Vanderbilt has kicked off recruiting season with a bang.  Today, it was reported that stellar defensive shortstop Anthony Gomez of top ranked Don Bosco high school of New Jersey committed to the Commodores.  Gomez, a sure handed, line-drive hitting shortstop standing 6′ 180, is the third ‘09-’10 recruit known to have committed to Vanderbilt and Tim Corbin.  He received a Perfect 10 rating from Perfect Game. 

Last week, TCBB scribe Don Boyles tipped off that Connor Harrell, a physical specimen and top outfielder had committed to the Commodores.  PG rates Harrell the #65 prospect in the class and awarded him a Perfect 10 rating as well.  The Kinkaid School product is a strapping 6′3″ 190lb speed demon, clocking a 6.66 time in the 60 yard run at PG’s National Showcase.  Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2010 Recruits, Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, SEC, South Carolina, Vanderbilt

The College Baseball Blog made the long trek down to Chatham to take in the Cape Cod All-Star game. The East Division in front of 8,629 fans used a seven run bottom of the eighth inning to erase a 6-1 deficit and pick up a 8-6 victory in the Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star game. The game was dominated by the team’s respective pitching staffs with each squad having a pitcher blow up in an inning. The Western squad scored the first run of the game in the 3rd inning with an A.J. Pollock (Notre Dame) opposite field homer while Rob Poythress (Georgia) returned the favor in the fifth inning by hitting a ball back in the same general area in right field. Both homers were just pop flys to right field but the strong wind heading out to right field brought the ball out of the ball park. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Top Players, ACC, Arizona State, Big East, Cape Cod League, CBB Visit, Georgia, Loyola-Marymount, Notre Dame, Pac 10, SEC, UNC, USC, West Coast Conference

Fresno State completed the most improbable run in recent college sports history as they became the lowest seed ever to win a national championship defeating the Georgia Bulldogs 6-1 on Wednesday night at Rosenblatt Stadium. The night belonged to Steve Detwiler who had a career night in the championship game going 4-4, driving in all six Fresno State runs and setting College World Series records for the most home runs in a championship game with two, most home runs in a championship series with three, most RBIs in a championship game with six, most RBIs in a championship series with nine, most extra base hits in a championship game, most bases in a championship game with 11 and in a fitting end to the game he caught the final out for Fresno State.

Fresno State scored two runs in the top of the second inning off of a two run blast by Steve Detwiler. Detwiler drove in the third run of the game in the top of the fourth with a double that scored Steve Susdorf and the Detwiler continued his one man onslaught with a three run blast in the top of the sixth and then capped off his night with a single in the top of the eighth.

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Tags: 2008 College World Series, 2008 NCAA Tourney, Fresno State, Georgia, National Championship, SEC, WAC

One night after blowing a three run eighth inning lead Fresno State found themselves down 5-0 after just two and a half innings and in desperate need of something special if they were to stay alive in the championship series. Something special is what they got. The Bulldogs rallied for six runs in the bottom of the third inning followed by five runs in the bottom of the fourth and four more in the bottom of the fifth a total of 14 runs in the span of three innings.

The Bulldogs who batted around in both the third and fourth innings suddenly found themselves up by nine runs. Georgia tried to mount a comeback as they scored four runs in the top of the seventh inning to pull to within five at 15-10 but Fresno State answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning and one more in the bottom of the eighth to stretch the lead back out to nine runs.

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Tags: 2008 College World Series, 2008 NCAA Tourney, Fresno State, Georgia, SEC, WAC

The Georgia Bulldogs tagged Fresno State closer Brandon Burke for four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to stun the west coast Bulldogs in game one of the best of three series. Fresno State had just plated three runs in the top of the inning to take a 6-3 lead.

With their starting pitching used up the Fresno State Bulldogs turned to Sean Bonesteele for the start. Bonesteele pitched three innings and gave up just one run before turning the ball over to the rest of the Fresno State bullpen. Jake Floethe, Kris Tomlinson and Jason Breckley combined to pitch the next six innings giving up just two more runs as Fresno State turned to their closer Bradon Burke with a three run lead heading into the bottom of the eighth.

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Tags: 2008 College World Series, 2008 NCAA Tourney, Fresno State, Georgia, SEC, WAC

The Georgia Bulldogs defeated Stanford 10-8 on Saturday afternoon to advance to the College World Series championship series which starts on Monday. The Bulldogs finished 3-0 in bracket one defeating Miami 7-4, Stanford 4-3 and then defeating Stanford again today 10-8. The Bulldogs will face the winner of the North Carolina/Fresno State bracket. UNC must defeat Fresno State twice to advance to the championship series while Fresno State can secure their spot in an all Bulldog championship series with a single victory.

Georgia Recap
Stanford Recap

Tags: 2008 College World Series, 2008 NCAA Tourney, Georgia, Pac 10, SEC, Stanford

Here is your recap of Day 3 in the College World Series. We saw in the losers bracket where the Miami (FL) Hurricanes beating FSU 7-5 eliminating the Noles from the tournament. In the winner’s bracket matchup, Georgia knocked off Stanford 4-3 behind a two run seventh inning to give the Bulldogs the lead for good. Stanford and Miami will face off on Wednesday at 7 pm EDT.

Miami FL 7 FSU 5 Recap
Georgia 4 Stanford 3 Recap

Tags: 2008 College World Series, 2008 NCAA Tourney, ACC, FSU, Georgia, Miami (FL), Pac 10, SEC, Stanford

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
OMAHA, Neb. - The sixth-ranked Georgia baseball team advanced in the winner’s bracket of the 2008 College World Series with a 4-3 win over seventh-ranked Stanford at Rosenblatt Stadium Monday in front of a crowd of 20,087. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 College World Series, 2008 NCAA Tourney, Georgia, Pac 10, SEC, Stanford

Georgia used a four run ninth inning to rally past the top overall seed in the College World Series 7-4 on Saturday. Miami headed into the top of the ninth with a 4-3 lead over 8-seed Georgia but two errors by Miami closer Carlos Gutierrez allowed the Bulldogs to score the upset over the Hurricanes.

Miami got on the board first in the bottomof the first inning on a solo home run by Jemile Weeks. Georgia tied the game in the top of the third inning on a single by Ryan Peisel but Miami came right back and retook the lead on a two run homer by Ryan Tekotte.

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Tags: 2008 College World Series, 2008 NCAA Tourney, ACC, Georgia, Miami (FL), SEC

The Georgia Bulldogs will be heading to their sixth College World Series appearance and head coach Dave Perno’s third with the Bulldogs. They have an overall record of 41-23-1 after winning the SEC Regular Season title with a 20-9-1 record. The Bulldogs lost the first game of the Athens Regional to Lipscomb by a score of 10-7 before running off four victories with a 9-8 victory over Louisville, 14-3 victory over Lipscomb, and winning two straight games over Georgia Tech by scores of 8-0 and 18-6. Last weekend, Georgia hosted NC State for the best of three Super Regional. The Bulldogs won the first game by a score of 11-4 before dropping Game 2 10-6 and winning the winner take all game to get back to Omaha with a 17-8 shellacking of the Wolfpack. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 College World Series, 2008 NCAA Tourney, CBB Column, Georgia, SEC