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NACOGDOCHES, Texas - SFA head baseball coach Johnny Cardenas announced the upcoming 2010 schedule on Wednesday, a full 56-game schedule that includes SFA hosting its first-ever tournament on the season’s second weekend.

The `Jacks are slated to take on four teams that made an appearance in the national rankings a year ago and four that also made the NCAA Tournament. The 23-game non-conference schedule blends with 33 Southland games just one year after the conference sent multiple teams to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2004.

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BEAUMONT – Lamar University will play a 56-game baseball schedule next spring highlighted by visits to Vincent-Beck Stadium by perennially-strong Rice University, Penn State and the University of Houston.

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Head Coach Mark Johnson has released the 2010 slate for his Sam Houston State Bearkats.  After winning the Southland Conference Tournament in 2009, the Bearkats look to continue their winning ways this season.  The team will open the campaign on the road against in-state foe TCU (Feb. 19-21).  After returning from Fort Worth, Sam Houston State will host Prairie View A&M (Feb. 23), Utah (Feb. 26-28), and Texas Southern (March 2) as well as the Hillcrest Invitational Tournament (March 5-7) in which Creighton and Northern Colorado will take part.

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NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Lumberjack baseball team opened up fall practice on Monday with approximately 60 players reporting for duty as Johnny Cardenas and his staff begin preparations for the 2010 season.

The `Jacks can work as a full team for 20 practices in the fall with a intrasquad world series scheduled for the final week of practice.

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BEAUMONT, Texas – Jim Gilligan borrowed one of legendary University of Texas football coach Darrell Royals’s favorite sayings in assessing the prospects for his 2010 Lamar University baseball team.

"Darrell used to say the definition of a guy who has potential is that he’s a guy who hasn’t done it yet," said Gilligan.

When Gilligan’s 2010 hopefuls hit the Vincent-Beck Stadium field for their first of 20 fall practices Monday afternoon, they’ll be loaded with guys who have "potential." It’ll be up to the 34th-season head coach and his assistants to identify the guys who truly have the abilities "to do it."

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SAN ANTONIO — UTSA head baseball coach Sherman Corbett announced Friday that he has promoted Brett Lawler to assistant coach and Josh Lee has joined the program as a volunteer assistant.

Lawler, who has been the Roadrunners’ volunteer coach the last two seasons, replaces Mike Clement, who accepted a position with Texas A&M last month. The College Station native will work with the team’s hitters and mentor the catchers and outfielders defensively.

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The baseball and softball fields at the Chapman Field complex are getting a makeover as the backstops and dugouts are being remodeled to upgrade the facilities.  The removal of the current structures began on Monday as contractors began disassembling the baseball side first.

The entire process will take roughly two weeks from start to finish and will see the current chain link fencing on the backstops and dugouts come down while being replaced with brick dugouts and wall comprising the backstop.  The fence will be replaced by netting that will allow a better view of the action as current support poles will be removed in favor of the net.

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Texas A&M-Corpus Christi head baseball coach Scott Malone has announced the addition of James Mansinger to his staff. Mansinger will serve as the team’s pitching coach on the field while also being responsible for camps and field maintenance.

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NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin head baseball coach Johnny Cardenas has announced the signing of seven student-athletes to National Letters of Intent for the upcoming 2010 season. The seven players include three junior college transfers, and four directly out of the high school ranks.

The all-Texas class includes three pitchers – Tyler Herriage (Weatherford JC), Kyle Rogers (Dulles HS), Cody Priest (Dobie HS) – and four position players – Darren Crabtree (Temple College), Bobby Loveless (Alvin CC), Cole Popper (Second Baptist Academy), Jordan Lewis (W.T. White HS).

"I think the guys we brought in can certainly make an immediate impact here at the Division I level," Cardenas said. "They will not only bring us plenty of options, but also give us tremendous balance as we compete for a Southland Conference championship next season."

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The Victoria (TX) Advocate has an excellent feature on Texas State head coach Ty Harrington who just completed his tenth season with the school. He has been influential in getting the program on the national stage as they had an excellent 2009 season which saw them go 41-17. It was good enough to get them the number 2 seed in the Austin TX regional before going 0-2 with tough losses to Boston College and Army.

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RAMIREZ PROMOTED TO TOP ASSISTANT ON BASEBALL STAFF

Texas A&M Corpus Christi University head baseball coach Scott Malone has named Chris Ramirez as his top assistant.

“Chris has done an excellent job since he arrived here,” said Malone. “He has worked to gather a large pool of talent. I am extremely pleased with the work he has done to bring in local players. It was our goal when we came here to keep the top local talent in the Coastal Bend and he has been able to get players from Calallen, Carroll and Moody to join our club.”

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Head Coach Chip Durham’s latest recruiting class is one of the deepest in school history.

THIBODAUX – As the Nicholls State University baseball team wrapped up its latest recruiting class, head coach Chip Durham could hardly contain his excitement for the upcoming fall season. With 20 new recruits making up one of the program’s deepest classes ever to go along with a pitching staff that ranked fourth in the Southland Conference in ERA in 2009 and returns its top two starters, one could hardly blame him.

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