Friday’s College Baseball Top-50 Scoreboard & Wrapup

March 29, 2013
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Most of the top-50 teams from the CB360 Composite National Rankings were in action on Friday, including several  teams that had opened their respective series on Thursday. Higher-raked teams went 27-10 (73%) on Friday, with the more noteworthy upsets including (36) Virginia Tech 3-2 over visiting (5) Florida State, and (31) Arizona State clinching its home series vs. (7) UCLA, 7-4.  front-page photo courtesy of Virginia Tech

Alex Perez (Virginia Tech)

CB360 Top-50 Scoreboard Pages:
week-7 – 
March 25-27  |  March 28
week-6 – 
March 19  |  March 20-21  |  March 22-24
week-5 – 
March 12  |  March 13  |  March 14-15
March 16  |  March 17
week 4 – 
March 4-5  |  March 6  |  March 7-8  |  March 9
March 10
week 3 – 
Feb. 25-26  |  Feb. 27  |  Feb. 28-March 1
March 2  |  March 3
week-2 –
 Feb. 18-19  |  Feb. 20  |  Feb. 21  |  Feb. 22
Feb. 23  |  Feb. 24
week 1 – 
Feb. 15  |  Feb. 16  |  Feb. 17

Joe Chavez (UC Riverside)

UC Riverside knocked off CB360 #26 UC Irvine for the second straight day. clinching that series i in the first week of Big West play

Friday’s seven other CB360 top-50 upsets included the following:
• at Florida Atlantic 6-3 vs. (24) South Alabama  (series opener)
• Lipscomb 5-2 at (28) Florida Gulf Coast  (series tied)
• at North Carolina Greensboro 5-4 vs. (33) Georgia Southern  (series tied)
• TCU 4-1 at (45) Texas Tech  (series opener)
• at Baylor 10-8  vs. (47) Kansas State (13 inn.; series tied)
• at Western Kentucky 10-9 vs. (48) Louisiana-Lafayette  (11 inn.; series opener)
• at Troy 3-2 vs. (50) Middle Tennessee State  (series openre)

Nolan Belcher (South Carolina)

In addition to two games mentioned above (ASU-UCLA and Louisville-ND), there were five other Friday games between CB360 top-50 teams – including (15) South Carolina clinching its home series vs. (27) Texas A&M, 6-4, and (16) Louisville similarly taking a 2-0 series lead vs. visiting (17) Notre Dame in a 2-1 pitchers duel.  Oregon State (cb360 #3) bounced back from its Thursday loss to square the series at (39) San Diego, 14-5, while two teams won their series openers vs. fellow top-25 teams (both at home): (8) Virginia 15-4 vs. (34) Miami, and (12) Arkansas 5-4 vs. (18) Mississippi State.

Ryan Kellogg (Arizona State)

Four top-50 teams needed extra innings to post wins on Friday: (9) Kentucky vs. Georgia … (11) Mississippi at Florida … (13) Oklahoma vs. Kansas … and (44) Pittsburgh vs. Towson. Two others lost in extras: (47) Kansas State at Baylor and (48) Louisiana-Lafayette at Western Kentucky.

The six top-50 teams that were idle on Friday included: (1) North Carolina, (22) Indiana, (29) Gonzaga, (37) Clemson, (42) Dartmouth and (46) Connecticut

Nathan Orf (Baylor)

CB360 top-50 scoreboard pages are updated each day to include links for various live-coverage options, team game notes/weekly releases, and an assortment of postgame offerings (recaps from both teams, final stats in HTML & PDF format, photo galleries, video highlights, and postgame video/audio). Results for each game will include linescores (R-H-E), updated team won-loss records and status of each respective series (i.e. 1-1, sweep, etc.).

Also note that daily highlights from noteworthy CB360 top-50 results (plus other college baseball newsworthy items) are posted on the CB360updates Twitter feed (now followed by 9,000-plus college baseball fans).

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Danny Hayes (Oregon State)

FRIDAY’S TOP-50 MATCHUPS  (March 29, 2013)
(both teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings)

upsets in italics

• (3) Oregon State (22-3)  14-18-2 … won at (39) San Diego (17-10)  5-8-6 … series tied
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  OR-St. Recap  |  USD Recap

Mike Papi (Virginia)

at (36) Virginia Tech (19-8/6-4 ACC)  3-6-0 … def. (5) Florida State (23-3/7-3)  2-11-0  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  VT Recap  |  FSU Recap  |  Photos

at (31) Arizona State (15-7-1/4-4 Pac12)  7-8-0 … def. (7) UCLA (17-6/5-3)  4-8-1 ... ASU has clinched series, 2-0
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  ASU Recap  |  UCLA Recap

• at (8) Virginia (24-2/8-2 ACC)  15-16-2 … def. (34) Miami (19-10/4-6)  4-8-3  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  UVa Recap  |  Miami Recap  |  Video Highlights

Matt Vinson (Arkansas)

• at (12) Arkansas (20-7/5-2 SEC)  5-7-2 … def. (18) Mississippi State (22-7/2-5)  4-11-0  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  ARK Recap  |  Miss.-St. Recap  |  Photos  |  Video: Highlights & Postgame

• at (15) South Carolina (21-6/4-4 SEC)  6-11-3 … def. (27) Texas A&M (18-10/5-3)  4-9-2  (SC has cliched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  SC Recap (w/ postgame video links)  |  A&M Recap  |  Quotes  |  Video Highlights

• at (16) Louisville (21-5/3-2 BigEast)  2-7-4 … def. (17) Notre Dame (15-8/2-3)  1-5-0  (Cards have clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  LOU Recap  |  ND Recap  |  Photos

Nick Burdi (Louisville)

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FRIDAY’S OTHER TOP-50 RESULTS  (March 29, 2013)
(based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings)

upsets in italics

• (2) LSU (24-2/6-1 SEC)  2-6-0 … won at Missouri (9-13/2-5)  0-6-2  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  LSU Recap  |  Mizzou Recap  |  Photos

• at (4) Vanderbilt (23-4/6-1 SEC)  4-8-1 … def. Tennessee (13-11/3-4)  3-11-2  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  VAN Recap (w/ video links)  |  TN Recap (w/ postgame video)

• at (6) Cal State Fullerton (23-4/2-0 BigWest)  11-10-1 … def. Univ. of the Pacific (7-14/0-2)  6-11-3  (CSF has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  CSF Recap  |  UOP Recap

• at (9) Kentucky (20-5/5-2 SEC)  3-8-0 … def. Georgia (9-18/0-7)  2-9-1  (10 inn.; series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  KY Recap  |  UGa Recap  |  Photos

• at (10) Oregon (21-6/7-1 Pac12)  1-8-1 … def. Washington (6-18/2-6)  0-3-0  (Ducks have clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  ORE Recap (w/ postgame video links)  |  WA Recap

• (11) Mississippi (23-4/4-3 SEC)  4-7-1 … won at Florida (11-16/2-5)  3-10-1  (11 inn.; series opener)
… Final Stats: HTMLPDF  |  OleMiss Recap  |  FL Recap

• at (13) Oklahoma (25-4/5-0 Big12)  2-8-4 … def. Kansas (14-10/2-3)  1-4-1  (10 inn.;  OU has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  OU Recap  |  KU Recap  |  Photos  |  Video Highlights

• at (14) Georgia Tech (20-5/7-3 ACC)  5-12-2 … def. Wake Forest (15-13/3-7)  1-6-0  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  GT Recap  |  WFU Recap

• (19) Houston (22-5/4-0 CUSA)  3-4-0 … won at Memphis (14-12/1-3)  1-5-0  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  HOU Recap  |  MEM Recap  |  Postgame Video (MEM)

• at (20) Rice (20-9/4-1 CUSA)  6-11-1 … def. Tulane (14-15/2-3)  3-9-0  (Owls have clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  Rice Recap  |  Tulane Recap

Austin Gomber (Florida Atlantic)

• at (21) North Carolina State (18-9/4-6 ACC)  3-5-1 … def. Maryland (14-11/3-7)  2-7-3  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  NC-St. Recap  |  MD Recap  |  Video Highlights

• at (23) Cal Poly (19-6/2-0 BigWest)  7-114-0 … def. UC Davis (10-14/0-2)  1-7-0  (CP has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  CP Recap  |  UCD Recap

at Florida Atlantic (17-9/5-2 SunBelt)  6-12-2 … def. (24) South Alabama (22-5/5-2)  3-10-1  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  FAU Recap (w/ postgame video links)  |  So.-AL Recap

Hunter Brothers (Lipscomb)

Texas at (25) Oklahoma State – suspended (OK-St. leads 3- b2; resume Sat. at 1 CT;  TX won opener on Thur.)

at UC Riverside (12-9/2-0 BigWest)  7-12-0 … def. (26) UC Irvine (16-7/0-2)  5-10-1  (UCR has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  UCR Recap  |  UCI Recap

Lipscomb (10-18/2-3 A-Sun)  5-6-0 … won at (28) Florida Gulf Coast (17-6/3-2)  2-6-2  (series tied)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  LIP Recap  |  FGCU Recap

• at (30) Campbell (23-3/6-1 BigSouth)  11-14-0 … def. Radford (12-11/2-2)  3-12-2  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  CAMP Recap  |  RAD Recap

• (32) Stanford (13-8/3-2 Pac12)  9-10-0 … won at Washington State (15-10/2-3)  3-9-1  (Card have clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  STAN Recap  |  WSU Recap  |  Postgame Video (WSU)

Zach Leach (UNC Greensboro)

at North Carolina Greensboro (13-13; 2-6 SoCon)  5-13-0 … def. (33) Georgia Southern (18-8/9-2)  4-6-0  (series tied)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  UNCG Recap  |  GS Recap  |  Postgame Video (GS)

• at (35) Central Arkansas (21-6/2-3 SLC)  12-9-0 … def. Lamar (21-8/1-4)  7-13-1  (UCA has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  UCA Recap  |  Lamar Recap

• (38) Austin Peay (21-5/6-1 OVC)  10-13-1 … won at Murray State (12-14/6-5)  3-4-1  (AP has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  AP Recap  |  MUR Recap  |  Postgame Notes (AP)

• at (40) Arizona (17-11/2-6 Pac12)  15-10-1 … def. Utah (12-12/2-6)  4-10-4  (‘Cats have clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  AZ Recap  |  Utah Recap

• (41) UNC Wilmington (18-8/5-1 CAA)  1-5-0 … won at Old Dominion (13-11/4-6)  0-3-1  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  UNCW Recap (w/ postgame video links)  |  ODU Recap  |  Photos

Derek O’Dell (TCU)

• at (43) Mercer (23-7/6-2 A-Sun)  6-13-0 … def. Jacksonville (9-18/2-3)  1-4-0  (MER has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  MER Recap  |  JU Recap

• at (44) Pittsburgh (17-6)  5-13-1 … def. Towson (13-11)  2-6-1  (series opener; DH gm-1)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  Pitt Recap |  TOW Recap

• at (44) Pittsburgh (18-6)  2-11-0 … def. Towson (13-12)  1-9-1  (DH gm-2; Pitt has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  Pitt Recap  |  TOW Recap

TCU (10-15/2-5 Big12)  4-6-1 … won at (45) Texas Tech (16-12/3-4)  1-9-0  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  TCU Recap  |  TT Recap  |  Postgame Notes (TCU)  |  Postgame Notes & Quotes  |  Video Recap

Western Kentucky hitter (played ID currently not available)

at Baylor (12-15/2-2 Big12)  10-16-3 … def. (47) Kansas State (18-9/23-2)  8-16-2  (13 inn.; series tied)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  BAY Recap  |  K-St. Recap  |  Quotes  |  Video: Highlights & Postgame

at Western Kentucky (15-11/6-1 SungBelt)  10-15-2 … def. (48) Louisiana-Lafayette (18-7/3-4)  9-15-4  (11 inn.; series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  WKU Recap  |  ULL Recap

• at (49) UNLV (18-8/3-4 MWC)  4-11-1 … def. Air Force (8-16/2-3)  1-7-4  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  UNLV Recap  |  AFA Recap

at Troy (17-8//4-3 SunBelt)  3-7-2 … def. (50) Middle Tennessee State (16-12/3-4)  2-8-0  (series opener)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF  |  Troy Recap  |  MTSU Recap

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