Akron 10 Lamar 8

Akron Recap
Lamar Recap

Texas Arlington 26 McNeese State 1

Texas Arlington Recap
McNeese State Recap

Texas State 3 Northern Illinois 1

Texas State Recap
Northern Illinois Recap

Sam Houston State 9 St. Louis 4

Sam Houston State Recap
St Louis Recap

Texas A&M CC 5 Notre Dame 2

Texas A&M CC Recap
Norte Dame Recap

Tags: McNeese State, Northern Illinois, Notre Dame, Sam Houston State, St. Louis, Texas AM CC, Texas State, UT-Arlington

Here are your links for today about college baseball.

USF: Addison Maruszak Interview
Gotham Baseball: Week 2 Recap
The Diamondback (UMD): Baseball working on Focus
The Daily Kansan: KU set to host Lemoyne
The Observer: UND recovering from Week 1 losses

Tags: ACC, Big 12, Big East, Gotham Baseball, Kansas, Lemoyne, Maryland, Notre Dame, South Florida

GT 6 Rutgers 0

ATLANTA - Zach Von Tersch, Kevin Jacob and Taylor Wood combined on a three-hit shutout and Tony Plagman drove in four runs to lead No. 22 Georgia Tech (7-1) to a 6-0 win over Rutgers (2-3) Sunday afternoon at Russ Chandler Stadium. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Auburn, Big East, Big Ten, Binghamton, CAA, Clemson, Columbia, Cornell, Florida, FSU, GT, Hofstra, Ivy League, Lehigh, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, Notre Dame, Patriot League, Penn State, Rutgers, SEC, South Carolina, Southern Conference, St. John's, The Citadel, UNC, UVA, VT

FROM PRESS RELEASE
Clearwater, Fla. – The Liberty Flames plated four runs in the fourth inning and never looked back in a 6-2, season-opening victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Friday afternoon in the first game of the Clearwater Invitational at Jack Russell Stadium

Winning in head coach Jim Toman’s coaching debut, the Flames move to 1-0, while the Fighting Irish fall to 0-1. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big East, Liberty, Notre Dame, Southern Conference

The College Baseball Blog continues our series of interviews with head coaches with Notre Dame Head Coach Dave Schrage who is entering his second season in charge of the Irish program. Last year, his squad finished with an overall record of 28-28 and 11-14 in the Big East. The Fighting Irish will look to continue their success over the past ten years which started under current LSU coach Paul Mainieri. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big East, CBB Interview, Interviews with Coaches, Notre Dame

CSTV editor Doug Kroll checks in with an article previewing the top freshmen in the country. He ranks Matt Harvey of North Carolina as the best freshmen entering the season. Harvey was rated as a first round pick before the 2007 MLB Draft but his stock slipped when his ties with Scott Boras came up. He ended up getting drafted in the third round by the Angels but decided to head to Chapel Hill to play with Mike Fox. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Top Players, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, CSTV, Doug Kroll, GT, Kent State, Miami (FL), Notre Dame, Oregon State, SEC, Tennessee, Texas, UNC

Eric Sorenson of CSTV recently checked in with one of our favorite baseball coaches in Paul Mainieri of LSU. He discusses many different topics including how much influence his father Demie Mainieri the legendary coach of Miami-Dade North Community College for over 30 years. Sorensen gets Mainieri to discuss how difficult it was to coach at Notre Dame with the strong academic standards and the horrible weather in the Northeast. There are some other suprises in the interview like how Tommy Lasorda is the godfather to Paul’s youngest son and how former ND assistant Brian O’Connor of UVA hit it off with Mainieri. The full interview is available here.

Thanks to CSTV and Eric Sorenson for the great picture of Mainieri with former closer Ryan Doherty.

Tags: Big East, CSTV, Interviews with Coaches, LSU, Notre Dame, SEC

FROM PRESS RELEASE
St. John’s, which won 41 games and claimed a share of the BIG EAST regular-season title last year, has been chosen as the favorite to win the 2008 conference championship by the 12 BIG EAST head coaches, who were not permitted to vote for their own teams. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Preseason Poll, Big East, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Seton Hall, St. John's, UConn, USF, Villanova, West Virginia

The CBB has been previewing some of the top players in the country for the 2008 season throughout this off-season. This week we check in on the top freshmen in the country.

Derek Dietrich SS/P (Georgia Tech)

Derek Dietrich is a 6′1 199 pound shortstop/pitcher out of Parma OH. He was a third round pick by the Houston Astros in 2007 but elected to enroll at Georgia Tech after failing to come to terms on a contract. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Arizona State, Big 12, Big East, GT, Kent State, LSU, MAC, Miami (OH), Mountain West, Notre Dame, Pac 10, SEC, Texas, UNC, UNLV

The Notre Dame baseball program, on the heels of signing a current freshman group that was rated the nation’s fourth-best recruiting class, recently completed the signing of eight more highly-regarded high school seniors to national letters of intent, during the 2007 early signing period. The class, which will join the Irish starting in the fall of 2008, features four lefthanded pitchers - Dustin Ispas (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), two-way standout Steve Sabatino (Lockport, Ill.), Ryan Richter (South Bend, Ind.) and Joe Spano (Verona, N.J.) - plus righthander Will Hudgins (Richmond, Va.), the switch-hitting outfield duo of Alex Robinson (Dallas, Texas) and Leighton Cooper (Fort Washington, Md.), and infielder Tommy Chase (Cohasset, Mass.). Sabatino, who will be a position-player candidate at first base and in the outfield, bats from the left side and will help give his class quality hitting ability from both sides of the plate.

For the full article follow the LINK.

Tags: 2009 Recruits, Big East, Notre Dame

The College Baseball Blog took some time off for the Holiday so we are catching up on some the schedules that we missed that were released over the last week. Some of the big time programs that have released a schedule are Kansas led by Ritch Price expects to compete for the 2008 Big 12 title and Notre Dame who looks to return to prominence under second year head coach Dave Schrage. The links to schedules are available below.

Kansas
Notre Dame
Western Carolina
St. John’s
Cincinnati
Memphis

Tags: Big 12, Big East, Cincinnati, Conference USA, Kansas, Memphis, Notre Dame, Southern Conference, St. John's, Western Carolina

The Notre Dame Baseball program has ended the Blue-Gold series with the Gold team winning two out of the three games. The Notre Dame Media Relations department has recaps of each game which can be read by clicking on the respective games.

Game 1
Game 2
Game 3

The Notre Dame Media Relations department has also released a recap of the summer league action from the ND baseball players. It can be read by clicking here.

Tags: Big East, Notre Dame

Here is your update on Fall Baseball Scrimmage Action for October 16th. Click on the links below for more information.

Notre Dame (Video also available at the site)
Illinois State
Tulane
Georgia Tech
Memphis
Dartmouth vs Umass

Tags: Dartmouth, Illinois State, Memphis, Notre Dame, Tulane, UMass

Teams have started fall practices over the last few weeks. We have put together a list of schools that have previewed their incoming classes.

UCLA
Notre Dame
FSU
Southeast Missouri State

Tags: 2008 Recruits, ACC, FSU, Notre Dame, Southeast Missouri State, UCLA

Coach Paul Mainieri and Recruiting Coordinator Terry Rooney took home the title of #1 Recruiting Class of 2008. The Collegiate Baseball title was unsurprising as Coach M (in his first year at Baton Rouge after a successful stint in South Bend) and Coach Rooney had assembled a massive class including 12 Freshman and 7 JuCos, including several All-Americans.

The future is certainly looking bright for LSU, which is seeking to restore its position as one of the top programs in the country.

This was the 25th ranking of recruiting classes by Collegiate Baseball. The full release can be found here.

The list of top classes goes as follows:

Rank Team Recruits

1. Louisiana St. 19

2. Florida St. 20

3. Oregon St. 16

4. Notre Dame 14

5. UCLA 11

6. Cal. St. Fullerton 16

7. North Carolina 12

8. Arizona St. 17

9. San Diego 18

10. Texas 17

11. Washington 16

12. Auburn 14

13. Virginia 16

14. Oklahoma St. 18

15. Vanderbilt 13

16. Georgia 14

17. Rice 12

18. South Carolina 13

19. Missouri 16

20. Miami, Fla. 8

21. Clemson 10

22. Stanford 13

23. Georgia Tech. 11

24. Arizona 9

25. Mississippi 17

 

Tags: 2008 Recruits, ACC, Big 12, Cal State Fullerton, FSU, LSU, Notre Dame, Oregon State, Texas, UCLA, UNC, University of San Diego, West Coast Conference