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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 »

Tags: Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac 10, Pac 10 Recap, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State

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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 »

Tags: Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, CBB Column, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac 10, Pac 10 Weekend Preview, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State

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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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Tags: Brown, Cal, Oregon, Pepperdine, Sacramento St., Santa Clara, Stanford, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UCLA, USC, Washington

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LOS ANGELES – Heated rivals Japan and Korea met Monday night at Dodger Stadium with the World Baseball Classic championship on the line.

But it wasn’t even the most important baseball game played in Los Angeles.

The city’s bragging rights were at stake a mere six miles away, as USC hosted archrival UCLA in the rubber match of a three-game set at Dedeaux Field. The Bruins had won Saturday’s contest 14-4, while the Trojans responded with a 5-1 Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Top Players, Injury, MLB Draft, Pac 10, UCLA, USC

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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 »

Tags: Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Hawaii, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac 10, Portland, Saint Mary's, South Dakota State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Arizona State junior outfielder Jason Kipnis has been named the Pac-10 Baseball Player of the Week and USC junior right-handed pitcher Kevin Couture has been named Pitcher of the Week for Feb. 16 – 22, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Pac 10, Pac 10 Players of the Week, UCLA, USC

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LONG BEACH, Calif. – Even though the geographic region of Southern California is somewhat of college baseball’s mecca, with nationally ranked squads within a thirty minute drive of one another, I was pleasantly surprised to be sitting in traffic on the way to the Dirtbags home opener.  It being February, and the support for both the Long Beach State and USC baseball squads this early in the season was quite surprising.  Obviously, last years season of success for the Dirtbags is still carrying momentum into this season, which brought the biggest crowd in Long Beach State baseball history, what actually looked much bigger from within, a tally of 3, 342 fans at Blair Field. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big West, CBB Visit, Long Beach State, Pac 10, USC

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Here is your Big West Recap for February 21st. The information comes from various press releases.

Game 1: Cal-Poly 10 Rice 3
Game 2: Cal-Poly 7 Rice 6

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Sophomore first baseman J.J. Thompson’s double to the gap in right-center field knocked in the winning run with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning as Cal Poly completed a comeback from a 6-2 deficit and upset No. 3 Rice 7-6 Saturday night in Baggett Stadium.

Coach Larry Lee’s Mustangs (2-1) also won the first game of Saturday’s day-night doubleheader, 10-3, and captured the season-opening non-conference baseball series, two games to one. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big 12, Big West, Big West Recap, Cal, Cal State Fullerton, Cal-Poly, Cal-State Northridge, Conference USA, Hawaii, Long Beach State, Mountain West, Pac 10, Pepperdine, Rice, TCU, UC-Irvine, UC-Riverside, USC, WAC, West Coast Conference

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Here is your Pac-10 Recap for February 21st.

Game 1: Arizona State 13 Wisconsin Milwaukee 5

TEMPE, Ariz. – Six home runs, including two each from Jason Kipnis and Carlos Ramirez, helped the No. 6 Arizona State University baseball team to a 13-5 victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the opening game of a doubleheader Saturday at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark. The Sun Devils improved to 2-0 on the season with the win. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Arizona, Arizona State, Big West, Cal, Fresno State, Horizon League, Long Beach State, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac 10, Pac 10 Recap, Sacramento St., Saint Mary's, SEC, Stanford, Tennessee, UC-Davis, UC-Riverside, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, WAC, Washington, West Coast Conference, Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Arizona State is selected to win the Pac-10 this year, but as Head Coach Pat Murphy points out, “We might have the least experience of any team in college baseball.” (East Valley Tribune) Also, here’s a preview of this weekend’s tilt against University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. (Pitchfork Nation) Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Season Preview, Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, CBB Column, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac 10, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
With a combination of a favorable home schedule, one of the nation’s top players and the return of almost the entire pitching staff, the USC baseball team has every reason to be optimistic for the 2009 season. Head coach Chad Kreuter begins his third season at USC with five returning starting position players, headlined by junior All-America shortstop Grant Green, and losing just two members of the pitching staff. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Season Preview, Pac 10, USC

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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Arizona State has been chosen as the favorite to win this year’s Pac-10 baseball title, according to a vote of the league’s coaches.

The Sun Devils received three of 10 first-place votes, earning 69 points overall. UCLA also received three first-place votes and 67 total points for the No. 2 spot, while Stanford was picked third with one first-place vote, totaling 64 points. Rounding out the top five was Oregon State, which nabbed two first-place votes and 58 points overall, and Arizona grabbed the final first-place vote for a total 56 points. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Preseason Conference Poll, Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac 10, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State