America's pastime gets its due at the collegiate level in late May, as the final weeks of spring not only signal the coming summer but the start of the NCAA conference baseball tournaments as well.On May 19, the SEC will descend upon Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama, for the 2015 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament. The SEC is a powerhouse in Division I baseball, with 10 of the past 25 winners of the national championship ...

The ACC has been one of the most dominant baseball conferences in the country for years, but success in the College World Series has not been easy to come by. Wake Forest is the only program with a championship, coming back in 1955, but this year features a loaded collection of talent looking to reverse history.  Before those teams are able to do that, they must first take care of business against each other in the ...

Washington State's Layne Bruner plunked Arizona State outfielder Johnny Sewald to load the bases in the sixth inning Saturday night. Instead of charging the mound, Sewald did something you really don't see too often.He caught the baseball. Then he threw it back. The pitch hit Sewald right in the torso, enabling him to cup it with his elbow. He calmly took the ball and flipped it back to Bruner.To add to this rare highlight, the announcers' reaction was priceless. Daron Sutton and ...

This is certainly not the least painful way to make an out.Arizona shortstop Kevin Newman was running back to make a play on a fly ball Friday night against UCLA. Newman couldn't find the ball with his glove, however, which led to it bouncing off his head.Fortunately, left fielder Jared Oliva kept his eyes on the ball and made a diving catch after it clanked off Newman's dome.Arizona had the play of the night, but ...

Baseball players from the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns and the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks found some entertaining ways to pass the time during a rain delay Friday night. While they waited for the game to be officially postponed, players from both sides competed in one of the most intense games of rock-paper-scissors that you've ever seen.After that, the Ragin' Cajuns players and managers decided to engage in a dance-off.The two teams may be Sun Belt Conference rivals, but both ...

For Illinois Fighting Illini sports fans that have been wondering when a team from Champaign will be relevant again, you need to start paying attention to what has been happening on the diamond at Illinois Field. There has been some seriously good baseball being played there by a team that has gone virtually unnoticed. It's time to stop complaining about the football and basketball teams and tune in to watch this team, because these guys can ...

LSU, Louisville and UCLA all maintained their posts atop the latest NCAA Top 25 baseball rankings, according to the polls released by D1Baseball.com earlier this week.   Rank School Record Previous 1 LSU 43-8 1 2 Louisville 40-12 2 3 UCLA 36-12 3 4 TCU 39-9 5 5 Illinois 43-6-1 6 6 Florida 38-14 10 7 Texas A&M 42-9 4 8 Florida State 37-16 8 9 Miami 38-13 13 10 Vanderbilt 36-16 9 11 Missouri State 38-10 16 12 Dallas Baptist 39-9 17 13 Oklahoma State 31-16 12 14 Iowa 37-12 18 15 UC Santa Barbara 35-13-1 7 16 Southern California 34-16 14 17 Arizona State 30-17 11 18 College of Charleston 39-10 19 19  Oregon State 32-14-1 22  20  Rice 33-16 NR  21  Arkansas 33-19 20  22  Houston 32-16 NR  23  Radford 36-14  25  24  Florida Atlantic 36-14 15  25  California 31-16  NR    LSU (43-8) has been the top-ranked team in the nation for four consecutive weeks. The team ascended into first place in the SEC standings with a sweep of Missouri over the weekend. Missouri was previously ranked No. 21 ...

Lehigh University baseball swept Navy in comeback wins in a doubleheader Sunday at Legacy Park in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.Lehigh pitcher Nick Stephens finished a complete game to capture a 3-2 win in the opener. During the postgame interview, teammates thanked him by putting him on a poster.While Stephens was talking about senior leadership, teammates combined for the monster alley-oop and then celebrated accordingly.How about that charge call at the end?This isn't the first time we've seen such ...

Mississippi State's baseball team unveiled warm-ups designed by Adidas on Thursday, but as Michael Bonner of The Clarion-Ledger reported, the "Viva Starkvegas" outfits feature an explicit message."Hail State" and "Left Field Lounge" are written in dotted neon lines—and so is "F--k the school up north":So much for subtlety.Athletic director Scott Stricklin was not amused with the design. He apologized for the "inappropriate phrase" in a series of tweets shortly after the uniform's reveal:Adidas also apologized, ...

Josh Jyawook might have had the catch of the year Wednesday night.During the fifth inning of the Indiana-Evansville game, Jyawook robbed Hoosiers hitter Craig Dedelow of a home run.The Evansville outfielder not only leaped above the fence to make the grab, he leaped over it.The play turned out to be pretty important, as the Purple Aces won the game 2-1 in 14 innings.[BTN]Read more College Baseball news on BleacherReport.com