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FROM COLLEGE BASEBALL FOUNDATION
LUBBOCK, Texas – The College Baseball Foundation announced today the names of the 10 players and coaches comprising the 2009 National College Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Class.

“This is an exciting day for the Hall of Fame every year,” said Mike Gustafson, co-chair of the Hall of Fame and member of the CBF Board of Trustees. “It’s another remarkable class.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: College Baseball Foundation, College Baseball Hall of Fame, Georgia, Georgia Southern, LSU, Michigan, Mississippi State, Texas, University of St. Francis, Wichita State

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
CO-PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Aaron Johnson, Illinois
Jr., C, Sussex Corner, New Brunswick/Sussex Regional
Johnson led the Illini to a series victory over No. 1 LSU over the weekend, batting .500 with a .750 slugging percentage over the three-game set. In Game 1 on Friday, the catcher hit the game-winning two-run home run in the top of the ninth to give Illinois the 3-1 victory. On Saturday, the junior went 2-for-4 with three RBI in a losing effort. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big Ten, Big Ten Player of the Week, Illinois, Michigan

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Due to the recent unavailability of Progress Energy Park, the schedule for the inaugural BIG EAST-Big Ten Baseball Challenge has been adjusted to include games at McKechnie Field in Bradenton and Red McEwen Field at the University of South Florida. The BIG EAST-Big Ten Baseball Challenge, hosted by the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Commission, begins on Friday, Feb. 20.
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Tags: Big East, Big Ten, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. John's, UConn, West Virginia

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
CHICAGO – The Big Ten Network will nationally televise up to 30 Big Ten baseball games, including the entire Big Ten Baseball Tournament, and 25 Big Ten softball games this spring. Every game will be produced in high definition.

“With the network now available to more than 70 million people nationwide, the Big Ten Network is thrilled to give increased national exposure to Big Ten baseball and softball,” network president Mark Silverman said. ”We know that fans will especially enjoy watching these games in HD.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big Ten, Big Ten Network, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – The home and away team designations for the inaugural BIG EAST-Big TEN Baseball Challenge, hosted by the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Commission, have been determined by the participating conference offices, it was announced today. Each team has been designated the home side for at least one of its three games in this first-ever NCAA Division I college baseball challenge. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big East, Big Ten, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. John's, UConn, West Virginia

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Since we are eagerly awaiting the start of the 2009 College Baseball season, I thought I would do a weekly segment with users sending us questions about interesting topics about issues or teams. I will select about five questions every week to be posted with answers on Tuesday morning. You can send us your questions for next week by clicking here. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Atlantic 10, Auburn, Big 12, Big Ten, CBB Column, Charlotte, Michigan, Missouri, MLB, MLB Draft, Rhode Island, SEC, UNC, Xavier

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Rivals.com College Baseball Editor Kendall Rogers put out a great article previewing the Top 10 Seniors for the 2009 season. He names your typical players like Michael Rockett of Texas-San Antonio and Preston Guilmet of Arizona. He also brings up Nate Lape of Marshall who flies under the radar as he plays for the West Virginia based school. The biggest name on his list is Ole Miss’ pitcher Scott Bittle who appeared in 27 games with a ERA of 1.78. He held opponents to a .145 batting average against. The rest of the list includes: Luke Anders of Texas A&M, Cory Harrilchak of Elon, Chris Fetter of Michigan, Chris Rusin of Kentucky, Ben Orloff of UC Irvine and Ben Soignier of Louisiana-Monroe. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Top Players, Arizona, Big 12, Big Ten, Big West, Conference USA, Elon, Kentucky, Marshall, Michigan, Ole Miss, Pac 10, Rivals, SEC, Southern Conference, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, Texas AM, Texas San Antonio, UC-Irvine, University of Lousiana at Monroe

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Our good friend Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com is currently in San Diego at the ABCA Convention. He has a running blog on some of the issues and coaches he is running into at the event. He has already talked with the University of San Diego coaching staff and the Michigan coaches. He will have more reports from the event in the coming days. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big Ten, Michigan, Rivals, University of San Diego, West Coast Conference

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — University of Michigan head baseball coach Rich Maloney has announced the addition of Brant Ust to his coaching staff as a volunteer assistant. Ust, who was the Big East Player of the Year and an All-American in 1998 at Notre Dame, replaces Aaron Hepner on Maloney’s staff. Hepner took an assistant coaching position at Eastern Michigan (Dec. 4).
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Tags: Big Ten, Coaching Changes, Michigan

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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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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

ST. PETERSBURG, FL – The schedule for the inaugural BIG EAST/Big Ten Baseball Challenge, hosted by the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Commission, has been released, API Management and Marketing announced today. Twenty-seven games will be held February 20-22, 2009, at venues in St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Dunedin, FL, highlighted by Friday and Saturday evening doubleheaders at Knology Park and Bright House Field. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big East, Big Ten, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. John's, UConn, West Virginia

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Longhorns announce fall Baseball schedule

Texas hosts games against Rice (10/19) and Texas State (11/02) and travels to Baylor (10/12) and Rice (10/26).

he Texas Longhorns will play four fall baseball games this season, including a pair at The Dell Diamond in nearby Round Rock, the team announced on Thursday.

The Longhorns host Rice on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 1:30 p.m. and Texas State on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 12 p.m.
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Tags: America East, Big 12, Big Ten, Conference USA, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Pac 10, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Stanford, Sun Belt, Texas, WAC