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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia associate head coach Kevin McMullan has earned the 2009 ABCA/Baseball America Assistant Coach of the Year Award, the ABCA and Baseball America have announced. McMullan helped Virginia win an ACC Championship and reach the College World Series last season.

McMullan will be presented his award at an honors luncheon at the national coaches’ convention in Dallas on Jan. 9, 2010.

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Tags: ACC, National Awards, Virginia

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The CBB continues our countdown for the 2010 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the list today with number 85 in our countdown with Virginia junior RHP Robert Morey. He is from Virginia Beach, Virginia and attended Cape Henry High School. He was a Four-time TCIS First-Team All-Conference member while having a 0.72 ERA with 129 strikeouts (2.26 K/9 IP) as senior.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, ACC, Cape Cod League, CBB 2010 Top 100 Players, CBB Column, NECBL, Virginia

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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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Rivals.com College Baseball editor Kendall Rogers has put out an article detailing five programs that are rising in prestige and five that are starting to fall off the map. The programs that he sees coming on are: TCU, Virginia, East Carolina, Kansas and Ohio State. The five programs that are starting to fall are: Arizona, Baylor, Tulane, Nebraska, and California. He has some interesting commentary on each team as I can see his reasoning on all the programs except for one in Baylor.

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Tags: ACC, Arizona, Baylor, Big 12, Big Ten, Cal, Conference USA, East Carolina, Kansas, Mountain West, Nebraska, Ohio State, Pac 10, Rivals, TCU, Tulane, Virginia

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Here is a list of Fall Games played on October 8th. Click on the respective links for a full recap.

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Tags: ACC, Akron, Big 12, Conference USA, East Carolina, Fall Ball, MAC, Nebraska, Pac 10, Virginia, Washington

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The Virginia Cavaliers baseball team held a scrimmage on Tuesday evening where Robert Morey tossed 4.2 innings scattering four hits and allowing one run. He also had five strikeouts.

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Tags: ACC, Conference USA, East Carolina, Fall Ball, Virginia

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Coming off the program’s first appearance in the College World Series as well as an ACC Championship, the Virginia baseball team will face a challenging slate for the 2010 season, with 27 games against 2009 NCAA Tournament teams. The schedule for 2010 was announced today by Virginia head coach Brian O’Connor. 

Eleven participants in the 2009 NCAA Tournament, including Super Regional qualifiers Clemson, East Carolina, Florida State and North Carolina, dot the Cavaliers’ 56-game regular-season schedule. Thirty-six games will be against teams that won at least 30 games in 2009.

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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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Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com recently put out an article about each ACC program and what to watch for during fall workouts. Some of the stories are Mickey Wiswall having to step up at Boston College, Duke looking to replace Nate Frieman and Alex Hassan, and many others.

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Tags: ACC, Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Fall Ball, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, UNC, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

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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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Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com recently has been checking in on some programs which have some major holes to fill while other programs are looking to just fill in minor holes here and there as they looks to make a run to the College World Series. One example of a program facing some major holes to fill is LSU who lost number 1 starter Louis Coleman, first round pick Jared Mitchell, DJ LeMahieu, Ryan Schimpf, and Sean Ochinko to just name a few. On the other hand, he names the Virginia Cavaliers as a program who doesn’t have too many holes to fill as their only three key losses were Robert Poutier, Andrew Carraway, and Matt Packer who were not top of the rotation pitchers this past season.

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Tags: ACC, LSU, Rivals, SEC, Virginia

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Paul Montana of The Cavalier Daily recently had a chance to check out the Virginia baseball team which is going through fall workouts after last seasons run to the College World Series. He states that Virginia has finally became a real factor in the chase for the national title.

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Tags: ACC, Virginia