Texas catcher Rupp, Florida two-way threat Johnson earn top CB360 Primetime honors … Texas junior catcher Cameron Rupp (Plano, Texas) and Florida freshman lefthander/DH Brian Johnson (Cocoa Beach, Fla.) headline the nation’s players who turned in noteworthy performances during the past week, as the college baseball regular season entered its final month. Rupp has...
Six 2009 Semifinalists On 2010 List USA Baseball announced Thursday its preseason Golden Spikes Award Watch List, marking the organization’s first step toward identifying the top amateur baseball player in the country. Sponsored by Major League Baseball, the Golden Spikes Award will be presented in 2010 for the 33rd time. The Watch List features...
Ten Questions On The Eve Of The College Baseball Season By Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires A new college baseball season is about to begin. It’s a season that is started a week earlier than it was originally slated to begin, and one school (James Madison) has already canceled its season opener, because (spoiler) it...
Longhorns Look To Win Again 2009 Regular Season Champion: Texas 2009 Tournament Champion: Texas beat #3 seed Missouri 12-7 in the title game. Postseason Power: The Big 12 was well represented in the postseason with 8 of 10 teams that play baseball (Colorado and Iowa State do not) going to an NCAA Regional. However,...
Longhorn Longball In Omaha The Texas Longhorns played 61 games in 2009 before their trip to the College World Series. In those games they hit a total of 39 home runs, but Omaha was much more agreeable to Augie Garrido’s squad. After averaging just .63 home runs a game in those 61 contents the...
LSU’s Ranaudo Tabbed Preseason National Player of the Year TUCSON, Ariz. — The 2010 Louisville Slugger pre-season All-American baseball teams, selected by Collegiate Baseball newspaper, features a who’s who of NCAA Division I baseball players. The pre-season pick as National Player of The Year is RHP Anthony Ranaudo of Louisiana St. The 6-foot-7, 231-pounder...
Rupp and Jungmann Named MVPs At Team’s Award Banquet AUSTIN, Texas – Taylor Jungmann and Cameron Rupp were named the Texas Baseball Most Valuable Pitcher and Most Valuable Player, respectively, at the Longhorns’ 2009 Baseball Awards Banquet on Sunday afternoon. Jungmann was 11-3 with a 2.00 ERA and 101 strikeouts in 94.1 innings. He...
Collegebaseball360.com Editor, Sean Stires, shares some thoughts from a day of baseball at Rosenblatt Stadium… Quite a Sunday afternoon game between North Carolina and Arizona St. UNC’s Alex White: 9 IP-7H-1 ER- 3 BB – 12 K & ASU’s Josh Spence & Mitchell Lambson combine for 10 IP-11H- 2 R – 1 ER –...