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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Santa Clara University’s baseball program has initiated its fall training, with a focus on skills development, strength and conditioning and individual instruction. The theme `commitment’ is being emphasized as the program prepares for its first official team practice Monday, October 19.

"We’re trying to get a number of things established this time of year," said ninth-year Santa Clara head baseball coach Mark O’Brien. "First and foremost is the commitment level. Equally important is the infrastructure; how we do things, how we run our offense, how we run our defense, almost establishing a team identity in a sense."

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Tags: Fall Ball, Santa Clara, 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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The official website for the Santa Clara Broncos recently sat down with junior to be RHP Joe Supple who recently tossed a no-hitter in the Cal-Ripken League. He is playing this summer for the Rockville Express as he leads the team with a 2.84 ERA.

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Tags: Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate League, Santa Clara, West Coast Conference

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UNCW Summer Baseball Update – July 24

Cody Stanley (Cotuit) – Stanley represented UNCW and Cotuit at the Cape Cod All-Star game on July 23 and finished the rain-shortened contest 0-2 and caught the first four innings of the game. Stanley knocked in the second run of the game for the West team with a ground out. He’s hitting .296 with 13 runs scored in the pitching dominated summer league.
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Tags: Big 12, Big Ten, CAA, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Sam Houston State, Santa Clara, Southland Conference, Texas Collegiate League, UNCW, West Coast

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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 Corvallis Knights lead the West Division with a 21-5 record. The defending champions swept three games against the Kelowna Falcons, and won two of three against the East Division leader, the Wenatchee AppleSox.

Eddie Orozco (UC-Riverside), Trevor Smith (Linn-Benton CC), Drew Leary (San Diego State), and Liam Baron (Linn-Benton CC) combined for a 3-0 shutout at Kelowna, holding the Knights to three hits. The next night, Steve Kalush (Santa Clara) scattered five hits over seven innings in a 6-0 shutout of the Falcons. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific, Portland, San Diego State, Santa Clara, UC-Riverside, UCLA, Washington State

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The Pac-10 was 7-0 in games played on Wednesday.

BERKELEY, Calif. - Cal scored twice in the third inning and then exploded for seven runs in the fourth inning on the way to a 9-6 victory over Santa Clara Wednesday afternoon at Evans Diamond. The Golden Bears improved to 13-8 overall and the Broncos dropped to 10-8. The winning pitcher for Cal was sophomore right-hander Yasser Clor, who improved his record to 3-0 by throwing a career-high 5.1 innings with six hits, four runs, one earned run, two walks and two strikeouts. Sophomore right-hander Kevin Miller earned his first collegiate save by throwing the final 3.2 innings (five hits, two runs, one earned run, one walk, two strikeouts). Sophomore right fielder Mark Canha, who is leading the Bears with a .398 average, had a two-run single in the third, while senior third baseman Michael Brady, sophomore shortstop Brian Guinn, junior first baseman Blake Smith, junior second baseman Jeff Kobernus, freshman left fielder Danny Oh and junior catcher Dylan Tonneson all had RBI in the fourth inning. [READ MORE]

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Tags: Brown, Cal, Oregon, Pepperdine, Sacramento St., Santa Clara, Stanford, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UCLA, USC, Washington

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Fresno State. Fresno State lost two of three against the Oregon Ducks in Eugene this weekend. In game one on Friday the Bulldogs lost a pitching duel 1-0 on Friday. Oregon’s Andrew Schmidt hit a walk-off single with two outs giving the Ducks the victory in front of a sold-out crowd of 2,777. Holden Sprague pitched 7.2 innings giving up just four hits and walking just one.

On Saturday Oregon’s bats pushed them to a 7-1 victory over Fresno State. The Ducks scored two runs in the bottom of the second, three in the bottom of the third and added single runs in the bottom of the sixth and seventh. Fresno State starter Sean Bonesteele lasted just 2.1 innings giving up five runs, all earned and allowed five hits. He also walked four batters.
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Tags: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Chicago State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Kansas State, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico St., Oregon, Sacramento St., San Jose St., Santa Clara, UC-Santa Barbara, University of San Diego, WAC, WAC Recap, Washington

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Here is your ACC Recap for February 22nd.

UNC 11 VMI 3

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – All-America Dustin Ackley had a career-best five hits and right-hander Matt Harvey struck out 11 batters to lift No. 1 North Carolina to an 11-3 win over VMI Sunday at Bryson Field at Boshamer Stadium. With Sunday’s victory, the Tar Heels (3-0) swept their season-opening series for the seventh straight season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Atlantic 10, Atlantic Sun, Big East, Big South, Boston College, Bucknell, CAA, Charlotte, Clemson, Conference USA, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Hofstra, LaSalle, Lipscomb, Marshall, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, Patriot League, Rutgers, Santa Clara, Stetson, UNC, UNC-Wilmington, Virginia, VMI, Wake Forest, West Coast Conference

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – After one of the more successful seasons in Santa Clara baseball history, the 2009 Broncos return to the diamond this year with two clear goals in mind – to win the West Coast Conference Championship and move on to postseason play.

“We built a good foundation in the fall with some key returning players,” said Bronco head coach Mark O’Brien. “We are battle-tested. It’s nice to have guys who have been there before in your lineup and to have pitchers who have gone through the battles on the mound.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Season Preview, Santa Clara, West Coast Conference

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – In this second installment of Countdown to Opening Day 2009, SantaClaraBroncos.com introduces Bronco fans to the newest members of the 2009 squad. Eighth year head coach Mark O’Brien welcomes one junior transfer and 11 freshmen to the roster. Here are a couple fun facts about each of the new Broncos.
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Tags: Santa Clara, West Coast Conference

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ULM Baseball Opens Practice

MONROE, La.—The defending Sun Belt Conference Champion ULM baseball team opened up practice for the 2009 season on Sunday afternoon. Preseason camp will continue until the Warhawks open the season on Feb. 20 against Northwestern State.

The Warhawks spent the first day of practice working on fielding drills before the pitchers and hitters squared off against each other for the first time since the fall.

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Tags: Big 12, Big East, Big West, Louisiana-Monroe, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Santa Clara, SEC, Sun Belt, Texas Tech, UC-Irvine, USF, West Coast Conference