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The Lone Star Showdown this weekend between Texas and Texas A&M will heavily impact the Big 12 conference race.  Texas currently leads Kansas State and rival Texas A&M by one game in the conference standings.  The two teams will be playing a split series, with the Friday game in College Station and the two remaining games in Austin.  Oklahoma and Oklahoma State face off in the Bedlam Series, with Friday’s game to be played at Driller’s Stadium in Tulsa and the other two games at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City.  Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Baylor, Big 12, Big 12 Weekend Preview, Cal State Bakersfield, CBB Column, Independents, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas AM, Texas Tech

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Here is your ACC Preview for May 8th-11th. This week we only see four ACC series while Boston College, Miami, and Clemson play out of conference series. Virginia Tech is off this weekend. The marquee series of the weekend sees number 9 ranked Florida State heading to number 10 ranked Georgia Tech. North Carolina heads down the road to take on NC State while Duke heads to Virginia and Wake Forest heads to Maryland. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Weekend Preview, Bethune Cookman, Boston College, CAA, CBB Column, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Independents, Lemoyne, Maryland, MEAC, Miami (FL), NC State, UNC, UNC-Wilmington, Virginia, Wake Forest

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#10 Texas 19 #24 Baylor 11

AUSTIN, Texas — The No. 8 Texas Longhorns put on their hitting shoes and posted a 19-11 win over the No. 17 Baylor Bears in Big 12 Conference baseball action Saturday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark.

The game featured season-highs for hits (16), runs (19), total bases (27) and home runs (3) as the Longhorns moved to 32-11-1 on the season and 14-8-1 in Big 12 Conference play. The win put the Horns back in first place in the league standings.
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Tags: Baylor, Big 12, Dallas Baptist University, Independents, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas AM, Texas Tech

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#10 Texas 12 #24 Baylor 4

AUSTIN, Texas — The No. 8 Texas Longhorns took advantage of a season-high seven errors by the No. 17 Baylor Bears to post a 12-4 win in Big 12 Conference baseball action Friday evening at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

Texas (31-11-1, 13-8-1 Big 12) equaled a season-high with 12 runs, including six unearned, and logged 13 hits on the evening.
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Tags: Baylor, Big 12, Dallas Baptist University, Independents, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas AM, Texas Tech

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#10 Texas 12 Texas State 2

AUSTIN, Texas – The No. 8 Texas Longhorns demonstrated their offensive firepower with a season-high runs total to defeat the Texas State Bobcats, 12-2, in non-conference baseball action Tuesday night at UFCU Disch-Falk field.

The Longhorns were led offensively by freshman Kevin Lusson who went 4-for-4 and with a walk on the night and scored five runs. Lusson had two doubles and two RBI. All of these numbers were career-highs for the Austin native.
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Tags: Arkansas, Big 12, Chicago State, Eastern Illinois, Independents, Kansas, Missouri, Mountain West, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio Valley Conference, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, SEC, Southland Conference, TCU, Texas, Texas AM, Texas State, UT-Arlington

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – On Saturday at Gary Hogan Field, the HBU baseball team lost the first game of a double-header with the University of Arkansas-Little Rock by a score of 5-4 before bouncing back to win game two, 5-2.

Game one remained scoreless until the bottom half of the fourth. The Trojans got a leadoff double, followed by a groundout, a walk and a RBI groundout. With two outs and one man on, UALR got two more hits, drew three walks and HBU pitchers threw three wild pitches that allowed the Trojans to plate four more runs and take a 5-0 lead.
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Tags: Arkansas Little Rock, Houston Baptist, Independents, Sun Belt

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Here is your ACC Recap for April 21st.

#1 UNC 7 UNC-Wilmington 5

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Dustin Ackley and Mark Fleury connected on three-run home runs in the fifth inning for just about all the offense No. 1 North Carolina would need in a 7-5 win over UNC Wilmington Tuesday at Boshamer Stadium. Down 4-0 before the pair of homers, the Tar Heels (32-10) rallied for their largest come-from-behind victory of the season and their ninth straight over the Seahawks (21-15). Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Atlantic 10, Big South, Boston College, Bryant, CAA, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, Florida State, Georgia Tech, High Point, Independents, LaSalle, Maryland, NC State, Southern Conference, UNC, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Wilmington, VCU, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Western Carolina, William and Mary

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Here are some of the best College Baseball links from around the nation.

The first article comes from Nate Owen of The Huntington News about Northeastern taking the final two games of their series with Dallas Baptist over the weekend. The next two articles come from The Daily Cal from Katie Dowd who wrote a recap of the Cal-Stanford game and Matt Kawahara who did a feature on the struggles of the Cal baseball program. The next article comes from The Cavalier Daily (UVA) writer Eric Strow who wrote an article about how difficult it was to follow Cavalier baseball last weekend in their big series against Georgia Tech. The final article comes on a sad note from Dothan Eagle which reports former Auburn baseball coach Paul Nix passed away at age 76. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Auburn, CAA, Cal, Dallas Baptist University, Independents, Northeastern, Pac 10, SEC, Stanford, Virginia

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North Dakota head coach Jeff Dodson was hired on June 20, 2008 to transition the University of North Dakota to Division I baseball after the school had spent the previous fifty years competing at the Division II level. Coach Dodson spent the previous five seasons as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri State, where he was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator.  The College Baseball Blog had the opportunity to talk with Coach Dodson and ask him about the specific challenges he faces as a first time head coach and with the transition process, the 2009 baseball team and staff, and the future of Fighting Sioux baseball. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: CBB Column, CBB Interview, Independents, North Dakota

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

SAN MARCOS – The Texas State baseball team shut out their second opponent this season when Garret Carruth and company combined for a 4-0 victory over Houston Baptist Monday night at Bobcat Field.
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Tags: Houston Baptist, Independents, Southland Conference, Texas State

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SAN ANTONIO – It was a day for records at Roadrunner Field on Monday, as senior All-American Michael Rockett went 3-for-4 to become the Southland Conference’s all-time hit king, junior closer Zach Calhoon saved the 24th game of his career — also a new league standard — and UTSA held on for a 4-3 victory against Dallas Baptist.
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Tags: Dallas Baptist University, Independents, Southland Conference, UT- San Anotnio

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

HOUSTON, Texas – Robbie Buller’s bases loaded, one out double in the bottom of the ninth pushed two runs across to give the HBU baseball team a 12-11 victory for a four-game sweep of Northern Colorado on Saturday afternoon at Husky Field.

The scoring started early, with Northern Colorado pushing a single run across with a leadoff single, a stolen base and a double. HBU quickly answered in the bottom half of the inning as Nick Homan led things off with a single. Two outs later, Andrew Taccolini drove his fifth home run of the season over the left field wall to put the Huskies ahead, 2-1.
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Tags: Houston Baptist, Independents, Northern Colorado