Weekend Series Tops Recent Comings & Goings… What was probably the biggest happening of the fall took place over the weekend in Nashville, when Vanderbilt hosted Cal State Fullerton for a pair of games in the DeMarini Fall Classic. The Titans and new head coach, Rick Vanderhook, took both games in the exhibition series....
Titans, Cardinal Back At It… By CB360 Contributor Jack Blanchat (Jack will be at the Fullerton Regional all weekend. Look for his post-tourney analysis here next week.) Preview: Fullerton Regional Once again, the NCAA schedule makers couldn’t resist the allure of a Stanford – Cal State-Fullerton matchup – but if the Cardinal and Titans...
Cardinal Back On Track… By CB360 Contributor Jack Blanchat Stanford getting a big series win over UCLA was important for several reasons, but the most important reason is that it kept the Cardinal from going into a full tailspin. Stanford had lost five straight Pac-10 games before the Bruins came to town, so getting...
Every weekend provides every team the opportunity to make a statement in the college baseball world, and this past weekend was no different. However, for the most part it was favorites and not underdogs that made statements from April 15-17. Friday’s games saw higher ranked teams in the College Baseball 360 Composite National Rankings...
Beavers Lead Pac-10 After Weekend Sweep… By CB360 Contributor Jack Blanchat There might not be a team in all of college baseball that is hotter than the Oregon State Beavers, and they extended their winning streak to nine games by sweeping the Stanford Cardinal this past weekend in Palo Alto. The three victories put...
A Look At Some Of The Best Non-Conference Slates… It’s 2011, and we’re getting closer and closer to the start of a new college baseball season. The cold winds of winter have been blowing through not only the north and east, but also through traditional sun belt locales (if you watched any bowl games...
A Look Around The Country At Saturday’s NCAA Action The hitting streak continues, but the season is over. Garrett Wittels extended his hitting streak to 56 games in Florida International’s 15-9 loss to Dartmouth. The loss eliminated FIU from the Coral Gables Regional. That means Wittels will begin the 2011 season needing hits in...
The stretch drive of the college baseball season is coming, and conference races are heating up. In this podcast CB 360 Editor Sean Stires talks with our West Coast correspondent, Chase Titleman from Road2rosenblatt.com, about teams like Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona, UCLA and how their NCAA hopes are looking. Will the Pac 10 get...
Thoughts on Tar Heels, Golden Eagles, the Pac 10 and even Toby Gerhart and the NFL Draft with Collegebaseball360.com editor Sean Stires. Two For Home? North Carolina and Southern Mississippi were two of the “Omaha Eight” last year, but more and more they are looking like teams that could be left entirely out of...
Beavers Offense Missing in 5-3 Loss To Cardinal … CB360 west-coast correspondent Chase Titleman checks in from another key Pac-10 series (excerpts of his Road2Rosenblatt.com report included below; edited by CB360 co-founder Pete LaFleur; front-page photo courtesy of Stanford) … Stanford sophomore righthander Jordan Pries, who has been magnificent his past three outings, outdueled...