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Jimmy Comerota (Courtesy of Rice Media Relations)

HOUSTON — Led by junior Jimmy Comerota’s seven-hit, five-RBI day that was punctuated with a deep home run, the Rice baseball team closed out its fall training period with a 21-2 exhibition win over visiting McNeese State Saturday afternoon at the Owls’ Reckling Park in Houston, Texas. Read the rest of this entry »

Watch the Owls

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The Rice baseball program will hold its final exhibition of the fall season on Saturday (Nov. 1) at 1 pm at Reckling Park. Admission is free for the 14-inning exhibition against longtime rival McNeese State.

Not only is it the last chance to get a sneak peek of the 2009 Rice baseball team, head coach Wayne Graham will speak about the conclusion of the fall training period and provide an outlook for the upcoming season. The Owl players will introduce themselves to the fans in attendance.
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I know we post a ton of links to Rivals articles but they do an excellent job reporting on the College Baseball landscape. Kendall Rogers daily column today focuses on the Top Ten college baseball stadium in the country. He has the usual suspects on the list like Arkansas and Florida State leading the group. Rice, Nebraska, Mississippi State, Texas, Baylor, Ole Miss, and Auburn are all mentioned. The biggest surprise in the list is the fact that he includes Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park which opened during the summer of 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

Matt Evers in action on Sunday (Property of CBB)

The game pitted two freshman pitchers against each other, as Taylor Wall got the nod for the Rice Owls and Taylor Jungmann started the game for the Texas Longhorns. Wall pitched a scoreless first inning, striking out 2 Longhorn hitters. Read the rest of this entry »

Diego Seastrunk looking to make an impact

The Rice Owls are experimenting during Fall ball with Diego Seastrunk behind the plate, where he is projected to play at the next level. Why are teams putting players entering their junior season behind the plate without any experience at the position? Read the rest of this entry »

Texas vs. Rice- Courtesy of Donald J Boyles

Anytime that Texas and Rice get together for a baseball game in the regular season or in the fall neither team likes to lose. There was a very nice crowd at the Dell Diamond today to watch these two teams get after it. Texas got on the board in the first when Tucker(#2) drew a lead off walk off of Rice starter Ryan Berry. Tucker moved to 2nd on a steal and then on an error on the throw from Diego Seastrunk took 3rd base. Tucker came on in on a ground out to 1st. Read the rest of this entry »

Jimmy Comerota

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The tandem of Jimmy Comerota and Chad Mozingo combined for nine hits, five runs and five RBI to pace the Rice baseball team to a double-header sweep of Texas State in its first fall exhibition games Saturday afternoon at Reckling Park. The Owls won the first exhibition game over the Bobcats 8-4 and the second by a score of 5-2.

Comerota was 5-for-7 with three runs scored and three stolen bases for the two games. Mozingo was 4-for-8 with four RBI and a pair of runs. The offense was in gear and the Owls’ pitchers followed suit. Junior right-hander Ryan Berry started and worked three shutout frames with three strikeouts. Veterans Mike Ojala, Jordan Rogers, Zack Harwood and Matt Evers all saw action on the mound and newcomers like Taylor Wall and Anthony Fazio caught the coaches’ attention with solid work.
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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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Head Coach Wade Simoneaux

Louisiana Tech Bulldog Baseball Sets Fall Schedule

For the first time in the Wade Simoneaux era at Louisiana Tech, the Bulldog baseball team will play four fall games against outside competition.

Simoneaux announced Monday that Louisiana Tech would play LSU-Shreveport Oct. 3, Panola Junior College Oct. 9, Grambling State Oct. 16 and Bossier Parish Community College Oct. 18.
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Xavier Baseball Summer League Winners

CINCINNATI - Several members of the Xavier baseball team have had a successful summer break playing in summer leagues in the area. Congratulations to Billy O’Conner, Steve Brown, Ryan Bellamy and Charlie Leesman, members of the Cincinnati Steam, the 2008 Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Champions. Danny Rosenbaum was a member of the North Woods League Champion Thunder Bay Border Cats. Additionally, several Musketeers were named to All-League as well as All-Star teams. Read the rest of this entry »

Augie Garrido Talking with Moldenhauer- Picture from Donald J Boyles

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This story originally appeared in the Dallas Morning News and is being re-publish with the permission of the Author Brian Davis.

For years, college baseball coaches have divvied up an NCAA-maximum 11.7 scholarships among 30 to 40 players. Learning how coaches manage those scholarships can be sobering for parents who believe their son is a future star.

“As far as the numbers go, with 11.7 scholarships, it doesn’t go very far,” Texas coach Augie Garrido said.

As one might expect, better recruits get more scholarship money. A coach may offer a top recruit thousands for tuition, room and board, a figure that could be 70 to 80 percent of a full scholarship.

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Aaron Fitt of Baseball America has put out his predictions for the 2009 College World Series. He expects two teams from the ACC in Miami (FL) and North Carolina to make it back to Omaha after strong 2008 campaigns. He has three teams from the West Coast to make it to the College World Series in Cal-State Fullerton, Oregon State, and the University of San Diego. Aaron expects Big 12 rivals Texas and Texas A&M to make it back to the big stage after subpar 2008 campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »

The LSU late-inning magic continues as the Tigers, who were on the verge of elimination in the Super Regionals before rallying to earn a trip to Omaha, staved off elimination from the College World Series by scoring four runs in the bottom of the ninth to claim a 6-5 decision and send Rice home.

Rice did itself no favors, as pitcher Cole St. Clair hit Sean Ochinko on an 0-2 count, and an error by shortstop Rick Hague allowed the Tigers to load the bases. Blake Dean then knocked a 1-0 pitch to the left field wall, clearing the bases and giving LSU its first lead of the game, along with the victory. Read the rest of this entry »

It was Rice’s opening game of the College World Series on Sunday, but it was so much more to Tracy Kuhlman.

She made the trip from Houston as a tribute to her grandfather, who died just a few weeks before his beloved Owls competed in Omaha. It was a trip the two planned to make together before George “Poppie” Thomen — Rice, class of 1941 — passed away May 28 at age 89.

“It’s such an honor to be sitting here today,” Tracy said. “My grandfather would have gotten such a kick out of this.”

George wasn’t at the game, but his spirit certainly was. His Rice baseball cap was in the team dugout in hopes of bringing the team good luck.

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OMAHA - An offensive explosion of 11 runs by the fourth inning, 13 hits and four homeruns vaulted the Fresno State Bulldogs to a 17-5 win over No.6 National seed Rice in the opening round of the College World Series.

Rice (47-14) is ranked No. 5 ranked in the nation and the Bulldogs have now six wins over teams ranked in the top 11 nationally in their last eight games. Fresno State improved to 6-2 at the NCAA tournament. Read the rest of this entry »