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Here is your Fall Ball Recap for November 1st. Click on the respective link for the full story.

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Tags: ACC, Big 12, Big South, Coastal Carolina, Fall Ball, Florida, Louisiana-Lafayette, Maryland, Mountain West, NC State, SEC, Southland Conference, Sun Belt, Texas, Texas State, UNLV

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Both Texas State and Texas wrapped up their fall practice schedule with a 14 inning scrimmage between the two clubs. The scrimmage is used to give the players a chance to get a look at some different pitchers besides their teammates during fall practice.

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Longhorns outscored the Baylor Bears 10-8 in a scheduled 14-inning baseball exhibition game on Sunday afternoon at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

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Baseball America has put out their incoming 2010 Recruiting Class Rankings which are led by the University of Florida. Stanford comes in at the runner up spot with Arizona State, TCU, and Cal-State Fullerton completing the Top 5.

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Tags: 2010 Recruits, ACC, Arizona State, Baseball America, Big 12, Big Ten, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, Central Florida, Clemson, Conference USA, Florida, Kentucky, Louisville, Miami (FL), Michigan, Mississippi State, Missouri, Mountain West, NC State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac 10, Rice, SEC, Stanford, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, UCLA, UNC, Vanderbilt, Virginia

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The College Baseball Blog staff recently got together to start discussing the 2010 season. We have each put out our 2010 picks for the College World Series. The most popular selection is Texas showing up on all six ballots with LSU, Cal-State Fullerton, and Virginia showing up on five of them. There are seven different conferences represented and 17 different schools listed. You can check out each writer’s prediction below.

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Tags: 2010 CWS, 2010 Season Preview, ACC, Arizona State, Arkansas, Big 12, Big Ten, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, CBB Column, Clemson, Conference USA, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kansas, Minnesota, Ole Miss, Pac 10, Rice, SEC, Texas, UC-Irvine, UCLA, UNC, Virginia

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
AUSTIN, Texas — As if trying to lend credence to the name Fall Ball, the weather was cool and rainy as the Texas Longhorns converged on UFCU Disch-Falk Field for their first full-team practice on Thursday.

Another piece of the bridge spanning the gap between the 2009 and 2010 seasons began to take shape and there were some noticeable changes.

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Kendall Rogers continues his series of conference reports heading into Fall Practice with the Big 12. He states that the Big 12 on paper is slightly down from where they have been in the past couple of years but as I always say when the pedal gets to the metal in February we will see how strong the Big 12 actually is.

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Tags: Baylor, Big 12, Fall Ball, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Rivals, Texas, Texas AM, Texas Tech

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Baseball America recently put out their Top 25 College Baseball and High School Prospects for the 2010 MLB Draft. The college rankings are led by Bryce Harper who has received national attention for skipping his final two years of high school to play college baseball with Community College of Southern Nevada. The rest of the top five is Anthony Ranaudo from LSU, Deck McGuire from Ga Tech, Levon Washington from Chipola JC, and Chris Sale from Florida Gulf Coast. The rest of the top 25 is available below.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, ACC, Arkansas, Atlantic Sun, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, CC of Southern Nevada, Chipola (Fla), Conference USA, Florida Gulf Coast, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Jacksonville State, Kentucky, LSU, Middle Tennessee, MLB Draft, NJCAA, Ohio State, Ohio Valley Conference, Ole Miss, Rice, SEC, South Carolina, Sun Belt, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech, UC-Riverside, University of San Diego, Virginia, Virginia Tech, West Coast Conference, West Virginia

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There was an interesting article recently on the official Texas Longhorns website about Taylor Jungmann’s struggle to add weight to his delicate frame. The reasoning for him to add weight is that his motion last season put stress on his shoulder. If he was able to add weight then his shoulder would be healthier later in the year. He was able to add 15 pounds by having a diet of 5,000 calories a day and they couldn’t come from any breaded or battered food. As anyone knows, that is a tough thing to do but he was able to succeed in doing it.

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The University of Texas has put the final touches on their 2010 schedule. With the season starting on February 19th and ending the weekend before Memorial Day, this gives teams 14 weeks to play  a 56 game schedule. Texas will play 52 games in 2010, including 34 home contests. They start out the season with New Mexico State on opening weekend, followed by a visit from Stanford the following weekend. Afterward, Texas will travel to Houston, Texas for the Houston College Classic where they will be joined by Houston, Rice, Missouri, Texas Tech, and Texas Christian.
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Baseball America writer Jim Callis reports that the Pittsburgh Pirates and Colton Cain have agreed on a 1.125 million dollar contract bypassing his collegiate eligibility. Cain was expected to become a key contributor to the Longhorns program as he features a mid-90’s fastball and also had potential into developing into a top level first baseman. Cain’s stock dropped as he told many MLB clubs that he was set on attending college but with this substantial offer for the eighth round pick he had to sign a professional deal.

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Tags: 2010 Recruits, Big 12, MLB Draft, Texas

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I took the day off from work to take in the Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game on Thursday night. The game was played at Fenway Park for the first time since the late 1980’s as the players got their chance to play at one of the better MLB parks in the country.

The game started early as the weather forecast called for heavy rains later in the night.

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Tags: Arkansas, Big 12, Big East, Big West, CAA, Cal State Fullerton, CBB Column, CBB Visit, Conference USA, Jacksonville State, Ohio Valley Conference, Pac 10, SEC, Southern Miss, Texas, UCLA, UNC-Wilmington, West Virginia