The College Baseball Blog and StatStud.com have teamed up this season to bring a weekly award for the top players in the last week. We will select one pitcher and hitter every week throughout the regular season. This week Anthony Shawler of Old Dominion is our selection for Pitcher of the Week while Stephen Hunt of South Florida grabs the Player of the Week award. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big East, CAA, CBB Players of the Week, Old Dominion, South Florida

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES
NORFOLK, VA–Chris Keenan (Chesapeake, VA.) and Anthony Shawler (Chesapeake, Va.) both knocked in three runs and Ryan Bergh (Reddick, FL.) pitched a complete game as Old Dominion (21-21/12-10) defeated Northeastern (16-20-1/ 8-13-1), 7-3 Sunday afternoon. The Monarchs sweep the three-game CAA series.

Northeastern scored two runs in the first inning when Mike Lyon tripled home Mike Tamsin, then scored on an ODU throwing error. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: CAA, Northeastern, Old Dominion

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Old Dominion 13 Northeastern 0

Norfolk, Va. - Junior right-hander Dan Hudson struck out 11 in just over seven innings of work and the Monarchs of Old Dominion scored 13 runs on 16 hits to shutout the Huskies of Northeastern 13-0 at Bud Metheny Baseball Complex Saturday afternoon. Nine of the Monarchs 16 hits went for extra bases, including two doubles, three triples and four home runs.

With the game scoreless heading into the bottom of the fifth, ODU shortstop Gerard Hall took it upon himself to get the Monarchs on the board. Hall opened the inning with a single to right and promptly stole second and third base. Northeastern starter Les Williams struck out the next two Monarch batters, but with Williams pitching from the windup and with right-handed batter Jimmy Miles in the box, Hall stole home sliding up under the tag of NU catcher Frank Pesanello. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alabama, Auburn, Big East, CAA, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Louisville, Northeastern, Old Dominion, SEC, South Florida, Vanderbilt, Villanova

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES
NORFOLK, VA–Old Dominion University (19-21/10-10) junior righthander Anthony Shawler (Oscar Smith HS) tossed a complete game two-hit shutout and struckout a school record tying 18 batters as the Monarchs defeated Northeastern, 10-0 Friday night.

The 18 strikeouts ties him for the school mark originally set on April 15, 2006 by Jason Godin against the same Northeastern Huskies. Justin Verlander (’04) now with the Detroit Tigers fanned 17 twice during his Monarch career. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: CAA, Northeastern, Old Dominion

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Kentucky 2 Western Kentucky 1

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Collin Cowgill and Ryan Wilkes delivered solo home runs, lifting the 17th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats to a 2-1 victory over state rival Western Kentucky – sweeping the two-game season series - in front of a WKU school-record 3,057 fans at Nick Denes Field.

Kentucky (31-10, 9-9 Southeastern Conference) got the only two runs it needed from Cowgill and Wilkes. Cowgill’s home run was his 16th of the season, good for second in the NCAA, three behind Georgia shortstop Gordon Beckham’s 19 homers on the year. Wilkes belted his sixth of the season after hitting four combined homers in his first three years for the Wildcats. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alabama, Atlantic 10, Big South, CAA, George Washington, James Madison, Liberty, Old Dominion, SEC, South Alabama, South Florida, Stetson, Sun Belt, Western Kentucky

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UNC 17 Charlotte 0

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - No. 2 North Carolina pounded out a season-high 22 hits and had five pitchers combine on a four-hit shutout in a 17-0 win over Charlotte Tuesday at Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium. The Tar Heels (35-7) became the first team in the nation to reach the 35-win mark and extended their season-best winning streak to 10 games with the victory. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Atlantic Sun, Big East, Big South, Boston College, CAA, Charlotte, Clemson, Duke, Elon, Georgetown, GT, Harvard, Ivy League, Maryland, Mercer, Old Dominion, Radford, Southern Conference, UNC, UNC-Greensboro, UVA, VT, Wake Forest, Western Carolina

#28 North Carolina-Wilmington 10 Georgia State 9 Recap
James Madison 8 Delaware 7 Recap
George Mason 10 Hofstra 4 Recap
Towson 12 Old Dominion 9 Recap
Game 1: William and Mary 15 New York Tech 9 Recap
Game 2: William and Mary 7 New York Tech 2 (7 innings) Recap
VCU 16 Northeastern 2 Recap

Tags: CAA, CAA Recap, Delaware, George Mason, Georgia State, Hofstra, James Madison, New York Tech, Northeastern, Old Dominion, Towson, UNC-Wilmington, VCU, William and Mary

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George Mason 5 Towson 4

Towson, Md. - The George Mason baseball team snapped a four-game losing streak on Sunday afternoon when the Patriots scored five runs in the first three innings and then held off Towson over the final six as Mason beat the Tigers, 5-4.

Mason scored in the first when Chris Henderson and Justin Bour hit two-out singles and Scott Krieger brought home Henderson with a single to left. Towson tied the game in the bottom of the inning behind a walk and a double. Mason took the lead for good in the second behind the game’s lone error. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: CAA, CAA Recap, George Mason, Georgia State, James Madison, Longwood, Northeastern, Old Dominion, Towson, UNC-Wilmington, VCU, William and Mary

FROM CAA PRESS RELEASE
CAA BASEBALL Co-PLAYER OF THE WEEK:

Jason Appel, UNC Wilmington Sr., OF

Appel batted .579 (11-19) with six runs scored and five RBI as UNCW went 4-0 on the road last week. The senior laced a two-out single in the ninth to give the Seahawks a 6-5 victory over VCU on Sunday, extending the nation’s longest winning streak to 20 games. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: CAA, CAA Player of the Week, George Mason, James Madison, Old Dominion, UNC-Wilmington

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William and Mary 9 Delaware 4

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Senior Paul Juliano hit a grand slam in the seventh inning to help William and Mary earn a 9-4 victory against Delaware on a cold and rainy afternoon at Plumeri Park on Sunday. With the triumph, W&M claimed the series against UD and improves its record to 18-10 overall and 9-6 in conference play.

In addition to the grand slam, Juliano went 2-for-2 with five RBI. The Northfield, N.J., native also drew three walks as he reached base in all five of his trips to the plate. Senior Greg Maliniak also hit a home run, while classmate Tim Park went 3-for-5 with a run scored. Junior Jeff Jones came up big with a 2-for-4 effort and scored twice. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: CAA, CAA Recap, Delaware, George Mason, Georgia State, Hofstra, James Madison, Northeastern, Old Dominion, UNC-Wilmington, VCU, William and Mary

FROM PRESS RELEASES

James Madison 6 Hofstra 2

Hempstead, NY- Justin Wood pitched a complete game, allowing only four hits and striking out six to lead James Madison past Hofstra in game two of a Colonial Athletic Association series Saturday afternoon. Trevor Knight had two RBI for the Dukes while Matt Prokopowicz contributed a single and a run scored for the Pride. Hofstra falls to 8-18 (0-11 CAA) while James Madison improves to (18-7, 11-3 CAA). Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Albany, America East, CAA, CAA Recap, Delaware, George Mason, Georgia State, Hofstra, James Madison, Northeastern, Old Dominion, Towson, UNC-Wilmington, VCU, William and Mary

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College of Charleston 8 Davidson 6

Michael Kohn broke a ninth inning tie with an RBI double and Brandon Sizemore homered and collected four hits lifting the College of Charleston to an 8-6 win at Davidson and a sweep of its three-game Southern Conference baseball series at Wilson Field on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Albany, America East, Atlantic 10, CAA, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Davidson, Furman, George Mason, James Madison, Northeastern, Old Dominion, Rhode Island, Southern Conference, Temple, The Citadel, UNC-Wilmington, William and Mary

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UNC 7 Princeton 0

CARY, N.C. - Freshman right-hander Patrick Johnson and three relievers combined on a two-hit shutout to pitch No. 3 North Carolina past Princeton, 7-0, Wednesday at Cary’s USA Baseball National Training Complex. Shortstop Garrett Gore and outfielder Ben Bunting each drove in two runs for the Tar Heels (15-3). Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, America East, Appalachian State, CAA, Cornell, Duke, Florida, FSU, Hartford, Ivy League, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, Old Dominion, Princeton, SEC, Southern Conference, Stony Brook, Towson, UNC, UVA, Wake Forest

Northeastern 5 Bowling Green 0

Sophomore Sheldon McDonald threw eight shutout innings of five-hit, nine-strikeout ball and did not walk a batter, as he led the Huskies to a 5-0 win over the Western Michigan Broncos on Wednesday afternoon at IMG Academies in BRadenton, Fla. Western Michigan entered the game having scored at least 15 runs in three of its last five games, but McDonald kept the Bronco bats silent all afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alabama, Atlantic 10, Bethune Cookman, Big East, Big South, Bowling Green, CAA, Eastern Kentucky, Evansville, James Madison, Kentucky, Liberty, Louisville, MAC, Missouri Valley, Northeastern, Ohio Valley Conference, Old Dominion, Rutgers, South Florida, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, SWAC, TCU, Temple, Tennessee, Texas State, Troy

Clemson 12 High Point 3

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Virginia 7 Old Dominion 3

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Georgia Tech 1 GA Southern 0 (10 innings)

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Duke 9 Alabama A&M 0

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Appalachian State 18 Wake Forest 8

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Virginia Tech 14 Davidson 10

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Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Alabama AM, Appalachian State, Big South, CAA, Clemson, Davidson, Duke, Georgia Southern, GT, High Point, Old Dominion, Southern Conference, SWAC, UVA, VT, Wake Forest