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Here is your ACC Recap for April 16th.

UNC 20 Winthrop 4

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Ben Bunting went 3-for-5 with three RBI and tied a school record with two triples, and No. 4 North Carolina got eight strong innings from its bullpen in a 20-4 win over Winthrop Wednesday at Boshamer Stadium. Garrett Gore and Ryan Graepel also added three hits, as the Tar Heels (28-10) snapped a two-game losing skid with their biggest offensive outburst of the season. Read the rest of this entry »

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Here is your ACC Recap for March 25th

#2 Miami (FL) 13 Florida Atlantic 6

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Four Hurricanes drove in multiple runs – including three RBI from both Vickash Ramjit and Jason Hagerty – and Jason Santana improved to 4-0 on the season as the second-ranked University of Miami baseball team picked up a convincing 13-6 win over FAU Wednesday night at FAU Stadium. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, America East, Atlantic 10, Atlantic Sun, Big South, Boston College, CAA, Charlotte, FAU, Florida Gulf Coast, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Holy Cross, Liberty, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, Patriot League, SEC, Sun Belt, Towson, UMBC, UNC, VCU, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Winthrop

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Here is your ACC Recap for March 18th

#1 UNC 6 Princeton 1

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Right-hander Bryant Gaines tossed 5 2/3 shutout innings, and Levi Michael and Mark Fleury each homered to lift No. 1 North Carolina to a two-game sweep of Princeton, 6-1, Wednesday at Boshamer Stadium. With the victory, the Tar Heels (16-2) extended their season-best winning streak to eight games. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, America East, Atlantic Sun, Big South, Boston College, Bryant, CAA, Canisius, Clemson, Duke, Elon, Georgia Tech, High Point, Independents, Ivy League, Kennesaw State, MAAC, Maryland, MEAC, NC State, Northeast Conference, Old Dominion, Princeton, Southern Conference, UMBC, UMES, UNC, USC-Upstate, Virginia, Virginia Tech, VMI, Wagner, Wake Forest

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— Last year’s regular season champion, Binghamton University, barely edged out the defending tournament champion, Stony Brook University, to claim the top spot in the 2009 America East Baseball Preseason Coaches’ Poll. The Bearcats received four of a possible six votes and garnered 34 points, while the Seawolves claimed the remaining three votes and finished with 33 points. Head coaches were not permitted to vote for their own teams. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Preseason Conference Poll, Albany, America East, Binghamton, Hartford, Maine, Stony Brook, UMBC, Vermont

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BALTIMORE-To mark the 42nd season of UMBC baseball and practice starting next week, head coach John Jancuska announced that seniors Shawn Retz (Baltimore, Md./Western Tech/Catonsville C.C.), Ryan Morse (Frederick, Md./Catoctin/Chesapeake JC) and Dave Warrenfeltz (Hagerstown, Md./Williamsport) have been named captains for the 2009 squad. The trio went through an interview process with the coaching staff and were voted tri-captains by their teammates. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Navy Midshipmen Examiner writer Tom Flynn  has an excellent article previewing college baseball in the state of Maryland. He has the Maryland Terrapins as the top program in the state. The Terps usually struggle against the highly competitive teams in the conference but have the best team. He has CAA runner up Towson in the second spot after they went 30-28. The Navy Midshipmen come in at the third spot after another 30 win campaign and an appearance in the Patriot League Championship series. The rest of the top five is filled out by America East member UMBC and Northeast Conference member Mount St. Mary’s. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, America East, CAA, Maryland, Mount St. Mary's, Navy, Northeast Conference, Patriot League, Towson, UMBC

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

BALTIMORE—UMBC baseball head coach John Jancuska recently announced the Retrievers’ 2009 schedule, which will feature teams from 11 conferences outside of the America East and one independent.

For the second year in a row, the team will travel to Florida for Spring Training from Mar. 14-20. During the course of the week, the Retrievers will play teams from power conferences, such as Ohio State from the Big 10 and Pittsburgh from the Big East. The highlight of the week is facing 2008 NCAA College World Series participant Miami from the ACC on Mar. 18.
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Tags: 2009 Schedules, America East, UMBC

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES

FSU 4 Florida 2

Tallahassee, Fla. – Second-ranked Florida State (32-3) captured its first regular season series victory over intra-state rival and No. 24 Florida (24-13) since 2005 with a 4-2 win Tuesday night. A new Dick Howser Stadium crowd of 6,737 were on hand to see senior Ryan Strauss pick up his second straight win over the Gators this year while throwing his first career complete game.

“Florida State, Florida is enough said,” added head coach Mike Martin on taking the season series from the Gators. “Florida has a great ball club and we were very fortunate to win. We executed very well offensively and you have to give Florida credit. They kept the ball game close throughout by making some very good pitching decisions.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, America East, Big South, Coastal Carolina, Conference USA, Davidson, Duke, East Carolina, Florida, Florida State, Maryland, NC State, North Carolina Central, SEC, Southern Conference, UMBC, UNC, UNC-Greensboro, Virginia, Wake Forest

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES

Miami (FL) 7 Bethune-Cookman 6

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Freshman catcher Yasmani Grandal drove in the game-winning run after junior Dave DiNatale hit a two-run game-tying single in the bottom of the eighth as No. 2 Miami rallied to defeat Bethune-Cookman, 7-6, Wednesday night at Mark Light Field. Junior right-hander Carlos Gutierrez tossed the final inning to record his fifth save for the Hurricanes, who improved to 19-2 on the season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Recap, Alabama State, America East, Atlantic 10, Atlantic Sun, Bethune Cookman, Boston College, Charlotte, Clemson, Conference USA, Duke, Elon, Florida State, Gardner-Webb, George Washington, Holy Cross, Marshall, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, North Carolina Central, Patriot League, Stetson, SWAC, UMBC, UNC, Virginia, Wake Forest

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The CBB continues our series of previews of different conferences throughout the nation. This week we check in on the America East conference which had Binghamton win the Regular Season title and Albany won the conference tournament in a classic 1-0 pitching duel. Albany was put into the Arkansas regional where they lost to Arkansas 9-0 and Creighton 21-11. The conference tournament will be double elimination at the number 1 seed’s home field. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2008 Conference Preview, Albany, America East, Binghamton, CBB Column, Hartford, Maine, Stony Brook, UMBC, Vermont

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The Maryland Terrapins picked up a 11-6 victory over UMBC on Tuesday evening. Maryland used a six run third inning to cruise to the victory. Casey Baron got the win by working two innings and striking out five out of the six outs he recorded. Sean Rae got the loss for UMBC by giving up six runs in his two innings of work. Maryland will be back in action on Wednesday when they host Maryland Eastern-Shore while UMBC will host America East rival Binghamton on Friday for the start of a four game set.

Maryland Recap
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Tim Kearney pitched a perfect scoreless inning in relief of Maryland starter Brett Curll to pick up his first career victory with a 9-0 shutout over UMBC. The Terps were led by Mike Murphy, Steve Braun, and Wink Nolan who each went 2-3 in the victory. UMBC’s leading hitter was Scott Peddicord who went a perfect 3 for 3 at the plate. Maryland returns to action on Wednesday when they head to Towson for a non-conference match-up while UMBC is off until Friday when they host Hartford.

Maryland Recap
UMBC Recap

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