The Texas A&M Aggies notched their first SEC baseball title in school history Sunday after knocking out the defending champion Florida Gators 12-5 in Hoover, Alabama.      It certainly qualified as a marquee matchup, as the Gators and Aggies are the top two teams in college baseball—No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, per the USA Today Coaches' Poll. Texas A&M trailed 5-3 going into the seventh inning, but it exploded for nine unanswered runs to win ...

Following a wild semifinal rally Saturday, the Texas A&M Aggies will face the Florida Gators in Sunday's SEC baseball tournament championship game. Down 8-5 to the Ole Miss Rebels after seven innings, the Aggies stormed back, scoring five runs in the eighth and two more in the ninth. They survived a 12-8 slugfest spanning over four hours to earn their first-ever SEC title game appearance. Meeting for the second time in the tournament, Florida earned the last ...

An unpredictable week of action at the 2016 SEC tournament continued Saturday with the final four teams battling for a spot in the championship game.  Texas A&M, Florida, LSU and Mississippi took very different paths, both during the regular season and in the conference tournament, but all four came to Hoover Metropolitan Stadium with the same goal in mind.  Hopefully there will be more drama Saturday than there was Friday, when the two games were decided by ...

Three games had to be played in the 2016 ACC baseball tournament Saturday to decide who will compete in Sunday's championship game for an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.    The situation in Pool A was a bit more straightforward than in Pool B, as the winner of Miami vs. Florida State would represent the first group in the championship game. In Pool B, it was more difficult.  Clemson would be in if it defeated Wake ...

The SEC baseball tournament is down to four teams. After two games that ended by the mercy rule on Friday, the Texas A&M Aggies and Florida Gators steamrolled their respective opponents for a chance at a spot in the SEC title game. The Gators are the defending conference champions. They know what it takes to get to this position, as do their opponents, the LSU Tigers. They were back-to-back champions before Florida dethroned them last year. But the ...

Friday's action in the SEC baseball tournament is halfway done, and the field will be reduced to four teams by the end of the day. After losing to the Vanderbilt Commodores on Wednesday, the Texas A&M Aggies offense erupted early Friday to advance to the semifinals. Later in the day, the Florida Gators and Mississippi State Bulldogs will battle to complete the semifinal field, with the winner taking on the LSU Tigers on Saturday. Take a look ...

The penultimate day of round-robin action at the 2016 ACC Baseball Tournament will set stage for Sunday's championship game.    Friday's key matchup features Louisville against Clemson. Both teams won their opening game in Pool B, so the winner will move to 2-0 with just one game left to play Saturday. Barring something unusual happening Saturday, the game will essentially be a championship play-in game. Wake Forest vs. Virginia in Pool B is the other game with ...

Four heavyweights will meet Friday at the 2016 SEC Baseball Tournament, with each looking for a chance to advance to the semifinals. All four teams playing Friday are in the Top 10 of USA Today's college baseball poll, with Florida being the top-ranked team in the country. Here is a look at the schedule as well as predictions for both games.   Texas A&M vs. Vanderbilt Friday's first game features an early tournament rematch, but this time, it will be an ...

The 2016 ACC tournament rolls on Thursday with a slate of three games that includes the debuts of Clemson and defending national champion Virginia going head-to-head.      Unlike traditional conference baseball tournaments that feature a double-elimination format, the ACC utilizes two groups in a round-robin format that ensures teams get to play three different opponents before deciding which two teams will play for the championship.  One bad day doesn't spell doom for any team, though it ...

Thursday is the most important day of action at the 2016 SEC tournament thus far, with two matchups being elimination games and two others featuring teams getting an automatic day off on Friday with a victory.  Three of the top four seeds are fighting for their tournament lives. Top-ranked Mississippi State was the only lower seed to hold serve Tuesday, which leaves South Carolina, Texas A&M and Florida battling desperation as they seek to secure an ...