By: Ryan Rosenblatt

As we head into week five of the Pac 10 season, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the conference is in the midst of a major down year. We knew the conference would take a step back, but it’s gone to an extreme this year and right now it looks like only two teams, Arizona St. and Oregon St., will make a regional. There are a few teams trying to salvage what’s left of their season and make a late run for that third place conference finish and possible regional spot that could go with it. Those clubs are Washington St., Stanford and USC and each one of them dearly needs to pick up a series win this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Former Auburn coach Paul Nix

Here are some of the best College Baseball links from around the nation.

The first article comes from Nate Owen of The Huntington News about Northeastern taking the final two games of their series with Dallas Baptist over the weekend. The next two articles come from The Daily Cal from Katie Dowd who wrote a recap of the Cal-Stanford game and Matt Kawahara who did a feature on the struggles of the Cal baseball program. The next article comes from The Cavalier Daily (UVA) writer Eric Strow who wrote an article about how difficult it was to follow Cavalier baseball last weekend in their big series against Georgia Tech. The final article comes on a sad note from Dothan Eagle which reports former Auburn baseball coach Paul Nix passed away at age 76. Read the rest of this entry »

Huskie Jason Erickson

Erickson Deals Golden Bears 6-2 Loss
SEATTLE – Jake Rife hit a double and a home run and Jason Erickson turned in the longest start of the year by a Husky pitcher as the Washington baseball team beat California, 6-2, in a Pac-10 game Friday night at Husky Ballpark. [READ MORE] Read the rest of this entry »

For the first time this season, the Pac-10 Conference will feature a full schedule of in-conference games. Among the highlights: the Oregon schools renew the Civil War, each Washington school travels to California to face an opponent from the Bay Area, and the Los Angeles teams host an opponent from Arizona. Read the rest of this entry »

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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Here are some of the best links from around the nation. The first article comes from Rivals College Baseball editor Kendall Rogers who looks at the winners and losers from the weekend. The next group of articles come from The Daily Cal which recaps the Cal-Stanford series. The last article is from The Huntington News which talks about the Northeastern and James Madison series. Read the rest of this entry »

Cal Baseball Defeats Stanford, 7-6, to Open Pac-10 Play

BERKELEY, Calif. – The University of California baseball team – behind home runs from Brett Jackson and Dylan Tonneson, and stellar relief pitching from Michael Bugary and Blake Smith – defeated Bay Area rival Stanford, 7-6, Saturday in the Pac-10 opener at Evans Diamond. The Golden Bears improved their record to 11-7 (1-0), while the Cardinal dropped to 3-9 (0-1). Cal also got strong hitting efforts from sophomore shortstop Brian Guinn (2-for-4, two RBI) and senior third baseman Michael Brady (2-for-3, two doubles, RBI). [READ MORE]

No. 4 ASU Takes Out Arizona 7-3

TEMPE, Ariz. – For the second consecutive night, a strong starting pitching performance led the No. 4 Arizona State University baseball team to victory over Arizona, as Josh Spence earned the win in a 7-3 victory on Saturday. A second straight sellout crowd of 4,371 fans at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark saw the Sun Devils improve to 16-3 overall, 2-0 in the Pac-10, on the season Read the rest of this entry »

Bill Thurston (Courtesy of Amherst Media Relations)

I will check in throughout the year with some interesting links from around the nation. If you know of an interesting article please send it to us by clicking here. We start today off with an article from The Republican (MA) which talks about Amherst baseball coach Bill Thurston who picked up his 800th victory on Thursday with a 15-8 win over Bowdoin College. Read the rest of this entry »

Kyle Conley

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Washington junior outfielder Kyle Conley has been named Pac-10 Baseball Player of the Week and Stanford freshman right-handed pitcher Jordan Pries has been named Pitcher of the Week for for Mar. 2 – 8, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today. Read the rest of this entry »

Ben Clove

#4 Texas 6 at #23 Stanford 2

The Texas Longhorns got a complete-game effort from Chance Ruffin and three hits apiece from Travis Tucker and Brandon Belt to post a 6-2 win over the Stanford Cardinal at Sunken Diamond on Friday.

Ruffin (3-0) scattered four hits and three walks while striking out seven over 9.0 innings. The sophomore right-hander yielded just one earned run to earn the win.
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Mark Marquess welcomes Texas to Palo Alto this weekend.

The Texas Longhorns make the trip west to face off with the Stanford Cardinal this weekend. Texas enters the series with a perfect 10-0 record, while Stanford is looking to get back on track after a 2-6 start to the season. The key to Texas’ fantastic start has been great pitching. The Longhorns boast an amazing 1.24 team ERA and have held opponents to a .164 batting average. Stanford, on the other hand, is looking for somebody to step up on the hill. The Cardinal have a team ERA of 6.49 and are allowing opponents to hit at a .295 clip. Read the rest of this entry »

There was two substantial upsets on Thursday night. The biggest upset was  Illinois-Chicago scoring two runs in the top of the ninth for a 3-2 victory over the Vanderbilt Commodors. Saint Mary’s caught the Stanford Cardinal looking ahead to Texas by scoring a 6-5 victory at Sunken Diamond. Read the rest of this entry »