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After winning four more games last week, Southern Miss has moved into the national rankings. The addition of the Golden Eagles gives C-USA three ranked teams. East Carolina and Rice are the other two ranked C-USA squads and both defeated nationally-ranked non-conference foes last week. Southern Miss will be tested this coming weekend as No. 7 Cal State Fullerton makes its first-ever visit to Hattiesburg to highlight the upcoming week’s docket. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: East Carolina, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB, UCF

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It was quite a weekend for the Rice Owls at the Houston College Classic. Faced with the daunting task of facing three consecutive top 10 teams, the Blue & Gray delivered in a big way. On Friday night, the Owls pitching staff combined to set a Houston College Classic record with 17 strikeouts (11 by Mike Ojala) in a thrilling 5-4 victory in 10 innings over No. 9 UCLA. On Saturday night, Ryan Berry turned in as masterful performance as you’ll see in college baseball, throwing a complete-game, two-hit shutout while striking out 12 and walking none. It was C-USA’s first victory over a top-ranked team since Houston defeated LSU on March 6, 2004. Rice closed out the weekend with a solid 8-3 victory over No. 6 Baylor. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Conference USA, East Carolina, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB, UCF

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A pair of Conference USA coaches reached significant milestones during the opening weekend of the 2009 season. Houston head coach Rayner Noble posted his 500th win as the Cougars skipper, moving his all-time record to 500-359 (.582) as he begins his 15th season at UH. Tulane’s Rick Jones became the school’s all-time winningest coach on Sunday with his 642nd career victory. Jones, who will coach Team USA this summer, broke former baseball coach Joe Brockhoff’s record, which stood at 641 wins since Brockhoff’s retirement following the 1993 season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Conference USA, Conference USA Players of the Week, East Carolina, Memphis

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The opening weekend of the 2009 Conference USA baseball season is in the books. As a league, C-USA got off to a good start, going 19-10 overall, with six teams posting winning records and another going .500. East Carolina and Southern Miss made it through the first weekend unscathed, going 3-0 against Monmouth and Lehigh, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Conference USA, East Carolina, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB, UCF

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Texas A&M 8 Wright State 5

Sophomores Caleb Shofner and Brooks Raley had four hits each on Sunday afternoon as No. 1 Texas A&M rallied for an 8-5 win over Wright State and a series sweep before 3,207 fans at Olsen Field.
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Tags: Baylor, Big 12, Big West, Conference USA, Gonzaga, Horizon League, Illinois-Chicago, Kansas, Louisiana-Lafayette, MAC, Manhattan, Memphis, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Pacific, Summit League, Sun Belt, Texas, Texas AM, Texas Tech, UT-Pan American, WAC, West Coast, Western Illinois, Wright State

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For the 2009 edition of Memphis baseball to be successful, they must be prepared to take on a list of unique challenges, meanwhile putting a tough 2008 season out of sight and out of mind.

“The main point that we’ve talked about as a staff is to keep this team focused and upbeat with two major hurdles to overcome,” said fifth-year head coach Daron Schoenrock. “One of them is to overcome the demons of last year and what we went through as a young team. Second is to change the outcome of those 12 one-run loss games.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Season Preview, Conference USA, Memphis

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
Seventeen games against six programs that advanced to the 2008 NCAA Tournament highlight the University of Memphis’s 56-game 2009 baseball schedule, Head Coach Daron Schoenrock announced today. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Schedules, Conference USA, Memphis

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Some schools will send out a press releases when they have everybody signed and some will send out multiple releases when they have received the LOIs. Today that is what I will be working on. Gathering all those press releases with one or two signings and then posting them here in this article. If you have one that we have not posted please let us know and we will be more than happy to put the info out.

Note: Have a Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Loyal Readers. Be Safe!

Meade Tenth Player to sign with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

exas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball head coach Scott Malone announced the tenth member of its 2009 recruiting class as Josh Meade has signed to join the Islanders.
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Tags: 2010 Recruits, Big 12, Big East, Conference USA, Louisville, Loyola-Marymount, Memphis, Ole Miss, Oregon State, Pac 10, SEC, South Alabama, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, Texas, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, West Coast Conference

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Mississippi State has reached into Alabama, Georgia and Texas for its latest signees of the 2008-09 college baseball recruiting campaign.

Joining the initial Bulldog recruiting class of first-year MSU skipper John Cohen are left-handed pitcher Matt Lane of Marietta, Ga. (Pope High School), outfielder Jaron Shepherd of Kilgore, Texas (Kilgore High School/Navarro College) and shortstop Nick Vickerson of Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Hillcrest High School/Florida State/Shelton State).
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Tags: 2010 Recruits, Atlantic Sun, Campbell, Conference USA, Louisiana-Monroe, Memphis, Mississippi State, Pac 10, Santa Clara, SEC, Sun Belt, Washington, West Coast Conference

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With today being November 12th, We enter the first step for potential college baseball athletes in deciding on where they will play for the next 3-4 years. The next step will be to see where they get drafted in the MLB Draft in June and the final step will be to see if they make it to campus in September.

As We get press releases they will be posted on the site.

Georgia Tech have signed three prep standouts to NLI’s

Two prep All-Americans highlight a list of three high school standouts that have already signed National Letters of Intent to play baseball at Georgia Tech beginning next fall, head coach Danny Hall announced Wednesday.
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Tags: 2010 Recruits, ACC, Baylor, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Louisville, Memphis, Michigan, Mississippi State, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Northern Iowa, Samford, SEC, Southern Conference, Sun Belt, TCU, Texas, University of Lousiana at Monroe

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Freshman Trey Turner’s two-out infield single plated fellow freshman Heith Hatfield for the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth to give the Blue team a 6-5 win over the Gray in Game 3 of the 2008 Garibaldi’s Series. The Zu Crew (Blue) takes a 2-1 series lead with the win. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Conference USA, Memphis

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For the second consecutive game, it was a Tiger pitcher who garnered Player of the Game recognition as junior lefthander Brennon Martin struck out four and allowed two runs in five innings to lead the Gray squad to a 9-5 win over the Blue in Game 2 of the annual Garibaldi’s Series. The Feds’ win evens the series at 1-1. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Fall Games, Conference USA, Memphis