The Patriot League saw only three teams in action with none of the teams picking up a win.

Virginia 12 Bucknell 0

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Three Virginia pitchers combined on a shutout of Bucknell and limited the Bison to just four hits as the Bucknell baseball team dropped its season opener to the Cavaliers, 12-0, Friday evening at a chilly and blustery Davenport Field. The contest was the first of a four-game series scheduled for this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

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Army's Clint Moore

Center Valley, Pa. – Army has been selected as the favorite to claim the 2009 Patriot League Baseball title in a preseason poll of the League’s head coaches and sports information directors.

The Black Knights claim the top spot with 48 points and eight first-place votes after finishing first in the regular season last year with a 13-7 mark in League games. Navy followed in second place with 37 points and two first-place votes. Holy Cross claimed a first-place vote and came in third position with 30 points. Defending champion Bucknell and Lafayette shared fourth place in the poll with 24 points, with the Leopards also claiming a first-place vote. Lehigh rounds out the poll with 17 points. Head coaches and sports information directors were not allowed to vote for their own teams. Read the rest of this entry »

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Greg Angelo

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh relied heavily on its freshman class in 2008, with five of the regular starters coming from the new class. Those players now have a full season of experience under their belts and look to be the foundation of the team as sophomores. Read the rest of this entry »

We continue our countdown to the 2009 season by looking at the Patriot League. The Bucknell Bison won the Patriot League Tournament last season by upsetting Army and Navy to make it to the NCAA Tournament. The Bison made an impact on the NCAA Tournament by knocking off number 4 national seed Florida State 7-0 in the opening round of the Tallahassee Regional behind a tremendous pitching performance from Matthew Wilson. The Bison went on to lose the next two games in the Regional but the impact that the team made last year will be memorable. Read the rest of this entry »

Geoff Campbell

Leary announces 2009 baseball schedule

Lehigh baseball coach Sean Leary announced the 2009 schedule on Thursday, which includes trips up and down the east coast and appearances in the Palm Beach Challenge and the Liberty Bell Classic.

Leary’s squad will spend the first month of the season on the road, traveling to the warmer-weather South throughout the latter parts of February and early March. The Mountain Hawks open up with a trip to Hattiesburg, Miss., where they will play a three-game set with Southern Miss from Feb. 20-22. The opening weekend will be a challenge for The Mountain Hawks, as the Goldan Eagles won 41 games last season, including 25 in Hattiesburg.

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Center Valley, Pa. – After earning the top seed in this weekend’s Patriot League Tournament, Army reaped the benefits of its stellar season by leading all teams with eight selections on the 2008 Patriot League Baseball All-League Team. The team was voted on by the League’s six head coaches, who could not vote for their own student-athletes.

The Black Knights placed three players on the first team, while five garnered second-team honors. Bucknell followed Army with seven selections, while Navy had six picks overall and a League-high five student-athletes that received first-team honors. Holy Cross and Lehigh each had three All-League selections, while Lafayette had one representative. Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Holy Cross 11 Navy 5
Game 2: Navy 2 Holy Cross 1

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Senior Brendan Akashian (Lowell, Mass.) went 4-for-8 with a double and two RBIs while freshman Eric Oxford (Danavers, Mass.) went 3-for-8 with three RBIs and a double as the Holy Cross baseball team split with Navy in a Patriot League doubleheader, winning the first game 11-5 and dropping game two, 2-1. The Crusaders are now 20-25 (11-9 Patriot League) while the Midshipmen are 28-21 on the season (11-9 Patriot League). Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Navy 6 Holy Cross 5
Game 2: Navy 9 Holy Cross 3

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Navy’s top-two hitters in the lineup, Renaldo Hollins (Sr./Virginia Beach, Va.) and Mike Guadagnini (Fr./Virginia Beach, Va.), combined to go 13-for-19 with seven runs scored on Saturday to lead the Midshipmen to a baseball doubleheader sweep of Holy Cross at Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium. Navy rallied in the opener and won in nine innings, 6-5, before taking the nightcap, 9-3. Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Army 5 Lehigh 0
Game 2: Army 6 Lehigh 0

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Cole White scattered six hits in the opener, and Matt Fouch and Kirk Porter combined on a three-hitter in the nightcap as Army regained a share of first place in the Patriot League standings by posting a pair of shutout victories against Lehigh, Sunday afternoon at Doubleday Field.

The Black Knights won the first game 5-0 behind the stellar pitching of White, then rode the dominant performances of Fouch and Porter to a 6-0 victory in the second game. Over the course of 16 innings of game action on Sunday, White, Fouch and Porter did not allow a single Lehigh base runner to reach third base. Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Holy Cross 2 Lafayette 1
Game 2: Holy Cross 6 Lafayette 1

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross baseball team turned to it’s bullpen for success this afternoon as the Crusaders swept Lafayette in a Patriot League doubleheader at Fitton Field by scores of 2-1 and 6-1. Holy Cross improves to 17-20 on the season (9-5 Patriot League) while Lafayette falls to 18-16 (6-8 Patriot League). Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Bucknell 3 Holy Cross 0
Game 2: Bucknell 7 Holy Cross 6

LEWISBURG, Pa. – The Bucknell baseball squad rode clutch performances by senior Mathew Wilson (Toronto, Ontario/Northern S.S.) and sophomore Ben Yoder (Belleville, Pa./Indian Valley) to a doubleheader sweep of Holy Cross on Sunday afternoon on Depew Field. Wilson fanned 11 batters in a complete game shutout effort as the Bison defeated the Crusaders, 3-0, in game one, while Yoder registered a walk off single in the bottom of the ninth in game two, leading the Orange and Blue to a 7-6 victory in that contest. Bucknell, which is now 7-1 at home this season, moves to 17-16-2 overall, 7-5 in league play, while the Crusaders fall to 14-19 and 7-5 in the Patriot League. Read the rest of this entry »

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Game 1: Lehigh 5 Lafayette 1
Game 2: Lafayette 5 Lehigh 0

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The Lafayette baseball team rebounded from a 5-1 loss in the first game of a four-game series with archrival Lehigh to shutout the Mountain Hawks 5-0 in the second. Daniel Bierce and Tom Ambrosole each hit home runs in the 5-0 win while starting pitcher Jeremy Atkins threw a complete game shutout in Bethlehem. Read the rest of this entry »