Here is your Cape Cod Baseball League Recap for July 12th.

Cotuit’s Chad Bell (Walters State CC/Tennessee) pitched a nine inning no-hitter against Chatham as the Kettleers picked up a 8-2 victory. Box Score

Brewster defeated Bourne 10-2 behind a complete game shutout from University of San Diego’s Kyle Blair. Box Score Read the rest of this entry »

The Corvallis Knights lead the West Division with a 16-4 record. On July 3, they drew a league-record crowd of 3,506 against the Bend Elks. The Knights won 9-2; Matt Andriese (UC-Riverside) started and got the win, went six innings, allowed five hits, struck out seven. The winning run came on a home run by Dylan Jones (Mount Hood CC) in the bottom of the fourth. Richie Jiminez (Riverside CC) leads the league in hitting with a .429 average. James Nygren (Oregon State) has a record of 2-0, 2.33 ERA. Andriese is 2-0, 0.60 ERA. Read the rest of this entry »

Derek Dietrich (Courtesy of Mike Valeri)

Ed Collins of SouthCoastToday.com has an excellent feature on the Wareham Gatemen. He spotlights Derek Dietrich and Shea Vucinich who each have been the heart and sole of the Gatemen offense this season. Dietrich picked up two homers against Harwich on June 18th while Vucinich picked up two homers against Chatham last Thursday. Dietrich will be entering his junior season at Georgia Tech as he is widely considered one of the prospects in the country. He finished last season with a .311 average while hitting 10 homers and 54 RBI. Shea Vucinich will also be entering his junior season with Washington State. He struggled last season with a .230 average with six homers and 25 RBI but has seemed to turn it around in the Cape Cod League. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is your Day 3 Recap from the Norman Regional.

Oklahoma 7 Washington State 2

NORMAN, Okla. — No. 9 Oklahoma advanced to the championship game of the Norman Regional with its 7-2 win over No. 24 Washington State Sunday afternoon at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

The Sooners meet No. 21 Arkansas at 7 p.m. tonight. Tickets are still available at the ballpark’s box office. Read the rest of this entry »

Recapping the action from the Norman Regional at L. Dale Mitchell Stadium on Saturday.

Arkansas- 17, Oklahoma-6

NORMAN, OK- The No. 21 Arkansas Razorback baseball team pounded out a season high 20 hits including three or more from Ben Tschepikow, Scott Lyons, Andy Wilkins and James McCann to remain undefeated in the NCAA Norman Regional with a 17-6 victory over the No. 9 Oklahoma Sooners at L. Dale Mitchell Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday night.

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Here is your recap from the first day of action from the Norman OK Regional.

Arkansas 10 Washington State 3

NORMAN, Okla. – The No. 21 Arkansas Razorback baseball team exploded for nine runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take down the No. 24 Washington State Cougars at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman, Okla., in the first round of the NCAA Norman Regional on Friday afternoon, 10-3. Read the rest of this entry »

J.T. Wise and the Sooners host the Norman Regional at L. Dale Mitchell Park. (SoonerSports Photo)

The Oklahoma Sooners will host the 2009 Norman Regional at L. Dale Mitchell Park this weekend.  The first game of the regional will be a rematch of opening weekend for Washington State and Arkansas.  It was then that the Razorbacks swept the Cougars at Baum Stadium in Fayetteville.  After Washington State and Arkansas square off in game one at 1 p.m. CT, host Oklahoma will take the field against the fourth seeded Wichita State Shockers at 7 p.m. CT.   The Sooners won both regular season meetings with Wichita State this year by scores of 15-0 and 8-1.

The first elimination game is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. CT and will be followed by the winner’s bracket championship game at 7 p.m. CT.  On Sunday, the 1 p.m. CT game will be for the loser’s bracket championship, and the first championship game will be at 7 p.m. CT.  Read the rest of this entry »

Picture courtesy of Stanford

Might we have an actual battle for the Pac-10 crown? Well, Arizona St. still has a two-game lead in the conference race, but that’s the smallest lead they’ve had in weeks and second-place Washington St. is playing good ball. While those two do battle atop the conference, Oregon St. has seemingly wrapped up a regional bid, UCLA suffered a debilitating series loss to Cal last weekend and quietly Stanford has themselves back in the hunt for a regional berth. All of those teams are in action this weekend as eight teams playing in four Pac-10 series, while Cal takes the weekend off and UCLA plays three with #4 Cal St. Fullerton. Read the rest of this entry »

We get a bit of a break this weekend from Pac-10 play as four teams have a bye in the conference schedule that they will fill with non-conference opponents. There are only three Pac-10 series on the slate this weekend, but each includes one of the three teams battling it out for second place in the conference (with an outside shot at first place). Those three teams, UCLA, Washington St. and Oregon St., play teams they should take the series from, but if one can come up with a sweep they could get some breathing room for that coveted second place spot.

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By: Ryan Rosenblatt

Matt Way of Washington State

It’s week six of the Pac 10 season and all eyes are on Los Angeles where a pair of series will have a major impact on both the Pac 10 standings and the regional prospects of some conference teams. Washington St. visits LA and Dedeaux Field where they will take on a USC team in a series that could determine which team makes a regional. Both teams are either one of the last five in or last five out in just about every regional projection and with the Pac 10 looking ever more like a three bid league, this weekend’s series could determine which club gets that berth. On the other side of town, #25 Oregon St. visits UCLA for three games at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Oregon St.’s series loss last weekend allowed Washington St. to move into a tie for second place with the Beavers, while UCLA’s sweep of Washington has them tied for fourth with USC. Elsewhere, Stanford will visit Arizona in a match-up of struggling teams, Call will look to slow down streaking #3 Arizona St. at home and Washington will head to Oregon. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Ryan Rosenblatt

(Courtesy of USC Media Relations)

Arizona St. continues to roll, USC enhances their regional chances with a series win in Corvallis, Arizona’s still awful in Pullman, UCLA picks up a sweep and Cal gets their first series win in a month. It was a weekend of sweeps in the Pac 10 as three of the five series saw one side go 3-0. rather boring week in the Pac 10 this weekend as each series went to the favorite with exception of USC taking two of three from Oregon St., but the implications of the weekend are wide-ranging. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Ryan Rosenblatt

As we head into week five of the Pac 10 season, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the conference is in the midst of a major down year. We knew the conference would take a step back, but it’s gone to an extreme this year and right now it looks like only two teams, Arizona St. and Oregon St., will make a regional. There are a few teams trying to salvage what’s left of their season and make a late run for that third place conference finish and possible regional spot that could go with it. Those clubs are Washington St., Stanford and USC and each one of them dearly needs to pick up a series win this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »