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College Baseball Regionals 2014: Dates, Schedule, Bracket and Predictions
The road to Omaha is officially set, and chances are it's going to go through the SEC.
Of the 64 teams in the college baseball tournament field, 10 are from the powerhouse conference. As ESPNU pointed out, that sets a new record:
Along with LSU, who earned the No. 8 national seed by winning the league, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss and South Carolina will all host regionals.
The Big Ten has been at the complete opposite end of the ...
College Baseball Regionals 2014: Bracket, Schedule and Hosts
Schools now know where to book their flights and 16 teams are gearing up for some hungry visitors as the field of 64 has been set for the 2014 NCAA baseball tournament regionals.
The top 16 schools host a regional with four teams in a double-elimination format, and the winner of each advancing to a best-of-three super regional. The winner of that will be among the eight making the trek to Omaha, Nebraska, for the College ...
Kent State Baseball Player’s Celebratory Leap Creates Awesome Photos
The Kent State Golden Flashes baseball team won the Mid-American Conference tournament for the fifth time in six years, but it doesn't look like earning a trip to the NCAA tournament ever gets old.
Kent State scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning and walked away with a 3-0 victory over Akron in the conference tournament final.
After the Golden Flashes recorded the final out of the game, it took right fielder T.J. Sutton ...
ACC Baseball Tournament 2014: Analyzing Biggest Georgia Tech Stars in Title Run
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets navigated their way through a deep 2014 ACC baseball tournament field and capped off their run to the championship with a 9-4 victory over Maryland on Sunday.
This marks the second title for Georgia Tech in three seasons, and it comes as the No. 9 seed in the bracket. Now the Yellow Jackets find themselves suddenly with an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament. Coach Danny Hall was impressed with how ...
SEC Baseball Championship 2014: Score, Results and Analysis for LSU vs. Florida
With one swing of the bat in the eighth inning on Sunday with two outs and a full count, Sean McMullen elevated the LSU Tigers to a 2-0 victory over the Florida Gators in the 2014 SEC baseball championship.
As a result of downing the No. 1 RPI team in the nation, the Tigers seized their 11th SEC tournament title and fifth in the past seven years.
McMullen's heroics followed what were seven innings of elite defensive ...
ACC Baseball Tournament Uses Bat Dogs Instead of Bat Boys
The future of bat retrieval in baseball is finally here.During this year's ACC baseball tournament, someone had the terrific idea of replacing the bat boy with a bat dog. The dog in the Instagram video above is Miss LouLou Gehrig, the bat dog of the Single-A Greensboro Grasshoppers.The ACC is using two bat dogs for its tournament, and as you can see below, they're pretty awesome.[Instagram, Twitter, Vine, h/t College Spun]Read more College Baseball news ...
ACC Baseball Championship 2014: Maryland vs. Georgia Tech Result, Score Analysis
Sometimes all it takes is a single base hit.
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Maryland Terrapins were locked in a back-and-forth struggle for the ACC championship Sunday that featured lead changes, ties and blown rallies throughout the first seven innings.
However, Connor Justus broke the game open in the top of the eighth inning with a timely two-run single to stretch the Yellow Jackets' precarious one-run lead to 7-4. From there, Georgia Tech's bullpen shut ...
SEC Baseball Tournament 2014 Scores: Final 4 Bracket Results, Championship Pick
After each won a single-elimination semifinal test on Saturday, the LSU Tigers and Florida Gators will do battle Sunday for the 2014 SEC baseball tournament championship.
Saturday's semifinal action was thrilling and down to the wire on one end, but quite lopsided on the other. Top seed Florida and ninth-seeded Kentucky played in a barnburner, but LSU and Arkansas didn't even make it the full nine innings.
The regular-season-champion Gators were tested early. Kentucky jumped ahead 3-0 ...
ACC Baseball Tournament 2014 Scores: Day 5 Bracket Results, Championship Pick
The ACC baseball tournament championship is set, as Maryland will encounter Georgia Tech for the title game after Saturday weeded out the pretenders.
In reality, the first game between Miami and Duke was all that mattered. The Hurricanes pulled off the win by a 6-5 margin, which sent Duke home for good. Had the Blue Devils won, they would have played for the title.
The top-ranked Hurricanes needed every bit of a 12-inning spectacle to down Duke ...
ACC Baseball Tournament 2014: Day 5 Scores, Bracket, Championship Schedule
Saturday was "Decision Day" at the 2014 ACC baseball tournament. With Maryland already locked into Sunday's championship game after winning its first two games, Pool A action stood to be another potential shocker.
Top-seeded Miami's chances were vanquished via back-to-back losses. All that the Hurricanes were playing for Saturday was a chance to play spoiler for rival Duke. The Blue Devils were a win away from a championship run after their 6-0 win over Georgia Tech ...