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Huskers Host Red/White Series; Head to Iowa

The Nebraska baseball program closes the fall portion of its workouts next week with three games, including the Huskers’ first-ever fall road trip.

Nebraska will conduct its annual Red-White Series on Tuesday, Oct. 14, and Wednesday, Oct. 15, at Sherman Field (225 West South Street). Tuesday’s first pitch is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. with Wednesday’s game slated for a 3:05 p.m. first pitch. The Huskers will then travel to Iowa City, Iowa, to take on the Iowa Hawkeyes in the fall finale on Friday, Oct. 17, at 6 p.m. There is no admission charge for any of the three games next week.
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The Texas Longhorns Baseball Strength and Conditioning coach Lance Sewell recently sat down with Former Longhorn pitcher Randy Boone to discuss the program. He talks about his background and how UT is different from the University of Miami (FL) and the Cincinnati Reds who are two of his former employers. Lance also talks about how he develops a strength program for the Longhorns from Injury Prevention to Performance Enhancement. Read the rest of this entry »

Rivals College Baseball Editor Kendall Rogers has put out some interesting articles over the last week. The first article focuses on some head coaches around the nation that have failed to live up to expectations. He lists South Florida’s Lelo Prado as disappointing in his first two years in Tampa. I tend to disagree with Rogers since it takes longer then two years to develop a solid program. He brings up Tony Gwynn who has been an absolute disaster with the San Diego State program over the last six years only finishing over .500 in 2004 with a 35-29 record and in 2008 when they went 31-28. Read the rest of this entry »

Field Turf at Disch Falk Field- Photo Courtesy of Donald J Boyles

It is has been over 4 weeks since my last update on the new Field Turf going in at Disch Falk Field. Since my last update it shows just bare ground well today they have the New Field Turf laid out and ready for the final touches. They need to put in the cut outs for the base path and the pitching mound and also finish the warning track around the outfield.
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Head Coach Pete Wilk- Georgetown University

Georgetown Baseball Announces Incoming Recruiting Class

- Head Coach Pete Wilk announced that Georgetown Baseball will be welcoming eight new players to the fold this upcoming season. Billy Cosmopulous, Nick Geary, Will Harris, Alex Johnson, Kevin Johnson, Bobby Kirby, Andy Lentz and Rand Ravnaas comprise the incoming class that will try and help the Hoyas move up in the BIG EAST pecking order.
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2008 Fall Scrimmage- Photo Courtesy of Donald J Boyles

Augie and Company have already started on the “Road to Omaha”. Today’s intrasquad scrimmage was held at the Dell Diamond due to Dish Falk Field turf being replace with Field Turf. This is the third straight fall that Texas has had to use the Round Rock Express facility as the last two years Disch-Falk Field was being remodel.

The scrimmage took place in front of about 12-15 scouts. It was open to the public so, I took advantage of a fantastic late summer afternoon to go and watch some College Baseball.

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The University of Texas- Baseball Team- Picture Provided by Donald J Boyles

Longhorns announce fall Baseball schedule

Texas hosts games against Rice (10/19) and Texas State (11/02) and travels to Baylor (10/12) and Rice (10/26).

he Texas Longhorns will play four fall baseball games this season, including a pair at The Dell Diamond in nearby Round Rock, the team announced on Thursday.

The Longhorns host Rice on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 1:30 p.m. and Texas State on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 12 p.m.
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Our good friend Kendall Rogers continues to put out solid information about College Baseball. A couple of articles that caught my attention were around Northern Baseball programs and the lack of success. He discusses how the Northern schools are facing challenges both on the field and off the field around the budgets. The other article that he recently wrote is about the decline of several national powers over the last five years. I tend to agree with him with several of the schools. His final article is about how Texas has failed over the last three seasons. He also has a weekly mailbag with the latest edition linked below.

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Head Coach-Augie Garrido University of Texas Picture provided by Donald J Boyles

Augie Garrido, who has won 1,668 games which is the most in NCAA Division I baseball history will be among the inductees into the Men’s Longhorn Hall of Honor, the school announced this past week.

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Disch Falk Field-Photo provided by Donald J Boyles

Teams from around the nation will start up fall practices where they will have 45 days to conduct 33 fall practices with that being said the Texas Longhorns will be conducting scrimmages at several different locations. Primarily, they will be using the Dell Diamond which serves as the home of the Houston Astros AAA team.

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Clay Van Hook-Asst. Baseball Coach-McNeese State

After spending the last four years of his life at the University of Texas, Clay Van Hook will begin his coaching career at McNeese State. Clay was the Volunteer Assistant and was the First Base Coach and helped out with the infielders last year at the University of Texas.

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Disch Falk Field- Picture By Donald J Boyles

Ever since the University of Texas finish remodeling Disch Falk Field last December it has been widely speculated that they would replace the turf with Field Turf. As of today there was a crew pulling out the old turf. With fall ball not starting until the middle of September and the summer camps are all over, this will allow the crew undivided attention on the turf.

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#15 Jordan Danks- Picture by Donald J Boyles

Jordan Danks has agree to terms with the Chicago White Sox. It is being reported that he has agreed to a $500,00 signing bonus. He was able to get a 2nd round bonus after being drafted in the 7th round. Jordan will now be able to work with his older brother John.

#15 Jordan Danks- Picture by Donald J Boyles

The last day a MLB team can sign one of their draft picks is this Friday August 15th by Midnight. Jordan Danks and the Chicago White Sox are at a standstill over bonus money. (Baseball Prospectus reported that he signed a contract which was posted on this very site. The report was erroneous.) Jordan wants 2nd round money and the White Sox are hesitant to give him 2nd round money. Alan Trubow of the Austin American Statesman has written an article this evening talking with the Danks about this very subject.

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USA Baseball Logo

The USA Olympic Team will begin play on Wednesday August 13th when they open up round robin play against South Korea. It will be the first game in the Olympics for Team USA since their Gold Medal victory over Cuba in the 2000 Olympics behind the right arm of Ben Sheets. We break down the position players today with some background information. We will be checking out the pitchers on Sunday as we continue our preview of Team USA. They open play on Tuesday when they play South Korea at 6 am Eastern time. Read the rest of this entry »