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Here is your Fall Ball Recap for November 16th. Click on the respective link for the full article.

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Tags: Fall Ball, Nevada, Pac 10, San Francisco, UCLA, WAC, West Coast Conference

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Kendall Rogers of Rivals continues his series of articles previewing teams heading into fall ball with the West Coast Conference. The Gonzaga Bulldogs won the conference’s regular season and the subsequent post-season championship series to make the NCAA Tourney before bowing out after three games in the Fullerton regional.

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Tags: Fall Ball, Gonzaga, Loyola-Marymount, Pepperdine, Portland, Rivals, San Francisco, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, University of San Diego, West Coast Conference

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

(San Francisco, CA) – Matt Hobbs has accepted the open pitching coach position at the University of San Francisco, as announced by head coach Nino Giarratano today. Hobbs comes to the Hilltop from UC San Diego, where he held an associate head coaching position for three years.

"We are extremely excited to have Matt Hobbs as a pitching Coach/ recruiting coordinator at the University of San Francisco," said Giarratano. "Matt brings great success, knowledge, and great work habits to our program. Matt will continue to help the program rise."

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Tags: Coaching Changes, San Francisco, West Coast Conference

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

SEATTLE – Greg Moore has been added to the Washington baseball coaching staff, head coach Lindsay Meggs announced today. Moore, who will handle pitching for the Huskies, joins Meggs and Dave Nakama, who was named an assistant earlier this month, on the full-time coaching staff.`

Moore comes to the UW after eight seasons as an assistant at the University of San Francisco.

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Tags: Coaching Changes, Pac 10, San Francisco, Washington, West Coast Conference

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Bend Elks 3, Bellingham Bells 2 (13 innings)

Another West Coast League game, and extra innings. CF Lucas Hileman (Baylor) came home on a wild pitch by Mitch Ludtke (Skagit Valley CC) to provide the winning run in the top of the 13th.

Both teams got excellent efforts from their starters, although they were long gone before it was over. Bend’s Peter Lavin (San Francisco) allowed eight hits over eight innings, and Bellingham’s Tyrell Poggemeyer (Skagit Valley CC, transferring to Lewis-Clark State) allowed five hits over seven innings. After giving up runs in the first two innings on RBI single by RF Cal Towey (Baylor)  and 2B Colin Stock (Saint Mary’s) coming in on a double steal, Poggemeyer retired 17 of the next 18 batters he faced.

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Tags: Baylor, Cal Lutheran, Lewis-Clark State, Oregon State, Saint Mary's, San Francisco, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State

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Kitsap Blue Jackets 3, Corvallis Knights 1 (20 innings) (completion of suspended game)
Corvallis Knights 6, Kitsap Blue Jackets 3 (13 innings)

The Kitsap Blue Jackets play their home games at the Kitsap Fairgrounds and Events Center near Bremerton, WA, which is a one-hour ferry ride west of Seattle.

A wild West Coast League evening started with the completion of a game that was suspended after 16 innings on June 17 with the score 1-1, because the lights went out at 11 PM. It took another four innings to settle it. Andy Bethel (Washington) hit a ball into shallow center field with the bases loaded in the bottom of the twentieth inning. The outfielder dropped it to allow the winning run to score. Cody Hevner (hasn’t picked a college yet) got the win, and Steve Kalush (Santa Clara) got the loss. Box score and play-by-play The Knights defeated the Blue Jackets 1-0 the previous night (Liam Baron [Linn-Benton CC] pitched a three-hit shutout), and Blue Jackets owner Rick Smith, a Bremerton attorney, was quick to point out that his team had held the Knights, ranked #3 nationally by Perfect Game Crosschecker, to a total of two runs over 29 innings. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Portland, Saint Martin's, San Diego State, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Seattle U., Southeast Missouri State, Southern Utah, UC-Irvine, UC-Riverside, Washington, Western Oregon

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The Washington Athletic Department announced on June 22nd that head coach Ken Knutson will no longer serve as the head baseball coach. As of right now, the Huskies have not been able to settle on a coach with several high profile head coaches and assistants pulling out of the running. The two most recent guys to pull out are Pepperdine’s Steve Rodriguez and LSU assistant coach David Grewe. The name everyone keeps bringing up is Nino Giarranto from San Francisco. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big West, CBB Column, Coaching Changes, Gonzaga, Hawaii, LSU, Pac 10, Pepperdine, San Francisco, SEC, WAC, Washington, West Coast Conference

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We will be checking in throughout the year when time permits with some of the best links from around the country.

The first two articles come from The Daily Cal writers Katie Dowd and Matt Kawahara who ran a Live Blog and posted their recap of Cal’s 4-1 victory over San Francisco. The next article comes from The Kent State News writer Cody Erbacher who wrote a quick snapshot with Greg Rohan. The next article today comes from The Journal-Gazette in Fort Wayne Indiana who has started a blog with Notre Dame football/baseball player Golden Tate. The final article comes from The Orange County Register writer Randy Youngman who wrote an article about Cal-State Fullerton achieving the number 1 ranking even though they have had one of the toughest schedule in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big East, Big West, Cal, Cal State Fullerton, Football, Kent State, Links, MAC, Notre Dame, Pac 10, San Francisco, West Coast Conference

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McNeese opens season with victory over Houston Baptist

On Friday evening at Cowboy Diamond on the campus of McNeese State University, the HBU baseball team out-hit McNeese State but fell by a score of 9-6 in the season-opener for both teams.

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Tags: Arkansas State, Chicago State, Creighton, Houston Baptist, Independents, Louisiana-Monroe, McNeese State, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, New Mexico, Nicholls State, Northwestern State, Sam Houston State, San Francisco, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Texas State, UT- San Anotnio, West Coast Conference

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

SAN BRUNO, CA – San Diego and Pepperdine were picked as favorites to win this year’s WCC regular season title in the 2009 preseason baseball poll, as voted on by the head coaches in the conference. The Toreros and Waves have already been receiving several preseason accolades by several publications as San Diego has been ranked as high as No. 11 by Baseball America, while Pepperdine was ranked No. 17 in the same poll. San Diego and Pepperdine both received 45 points, with the Toreros receiving four first place votes to three for the Waves. Santa Clara, which has received votes in several preseason publications, was picked to finish third with 35 points. Gonzaga received the last remaining first place vote, and received 30 points, to come in at fourth place, edging out San Francisco, which received 26 points, for fifth place. Rounding out this year’s poll are Loyola Marymount, with 20 points, Saint Mary’s, with 14 points, and Portland, with nine points.
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Tags: 2009 Preseason Conference Poll, Gonzaga, Loyola-Marymount, Pepperdine, Portland, Saint Mary's, San Francisco, Santa Clara, University of San Diego, West Coast Conference

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All Things Valley League has put together a Top 15 of the best hitters in the league during the 2008 season. The list is led by Florida International’s Tyler Townsend who had an outstanding summer with Winchester. He finished the season with a .387 average with 12 homers and 36 RBI in only 42 games. He also stole 14 bases in 17 attempts. Brandon Sizemore of College of Charleston comes in the runners up spot. He had a .377 average with 10 homers and 34 RBI. The rest of the top 5 is filled out by Marcus Nidfiffer (Kentucky), Drew Johnson (San Francisco), and Mickey Wiswall (Boston College). You can see a breakdown of each player by Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Atlantic Sun, Big East, Big South, Boston College, CAA, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Duke, FIU, James Madison, Kentucky, Liberty, MAAC, Marist, Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion, San Francisco, SEC, Southern Conference, Stetson, Sun Belt, Tennessee, Valley Baseball League, West Coast Conference, West Virginia

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Head Coach Giarratano and the Dons open the 2009 season with a 4 game series with the University of Texas-San Antonio with a double header schedule for Saturday. They follow that with a single road game with UC-Davis on February 24th.
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Tags: 2009 Schedules, San Francisco, West Coast Conference