Posts Tagged ‘ North Carolina ’

Podcast Interview With Kyle Roller

October 26, 2009
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Podcast Interview With Kyle Roller

Roller The East Carolina slugger had a monster 2009 summer in the Cape Cod League.  Roller helped the Bourne Braves win their first ever Cape championship by hitting .342 with 10 home runs, 33 RBIs, and a 1.093 OPS (including a .644 slg. %).  He was named the Cape Cod League MVP and Cape...

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Growing College Baseball

October 20, 2009
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Growing College Baseball

Four Ways To Promote The Game Where It Needs Promoting By CB360 Editor Sean Stires I have been thinking about writing this for a while, so I thought I should actually sit down and do it before October is over.   It seems like every year around NCAA Tournament selection time we hear about “growing...

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Friday College World Series Thoughts And Notes

September 28, 2009
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Friday College World Series Thoughts And Notes

Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires shares some thoughts from another day at the College World Series… Does Arizona State’s Kole Calhoun remind anyone else of the character ‘Ham” Porter from the movie Sandlot?   Calhoun (pictured right) and his teammate, Carlos Ramirez, are built more like beer league softball players than college baseball players, but...

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Tuesday College World Series Thoughts

September 28, 2009
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Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires shares some College World Series thoughts… How important is it to win your first round game in Omaha? Since the CWS began in 1947 just ten teams have lost their first game and gone on to capture the national championship. Since 1980 just Oregon St. in 2006, USC in 1998...

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Pre-Day Two CWS Thoughts

September 28, 2009
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Yesterday was a day for mostly “big boys” with LSU, Fullerton, Arkansas, and Virginia all in action. Arkansas and Virginia have just three trips to the CWS between them in the last ten years (and obviously this is UVA’s first trip), but they’re still from power conferences. Three more “big boy” teams are in...

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