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Campbell
defeated the Duke Blue Devils for the second consecutive game of the series by
a score 10-4 on Tuesday afternoon at Jack Coombs Field on the Duke campus. The
Camels move to 3-1 on the season while Duke falls to 1-3.[i]
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Taylor Johnson's two-run seventh inning double broke open a close ball game and
helped Furman defeat Presbyterian, 7-5, in baseball action Tuesday afternoon at
Latham Stadium. The win evened Furman's
record at 2-2 on the year while the loss dropped PC to 0-4 on the young
campaign.[ii]
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A
stellar offensive outing from Joey Rapp and steady pitching from Shelby Aulds
carried the ULM baseball team to a 9-3 win over Tulane Tuesday afternoon in the
opening game of 2012 at Warhawk Field.[iii]
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Carlos Rodon and Ethan Ogburn combined
for a shutout and the Wolfpack offense provided a 10-run explosion in the
bottom of the eighth to carry NC State to a 10-0 win over UNC Wilmington
Tuesday evening at Doak Field at Dail Park[iv]
I asked 6-4 junior
Ogburn how the game went for him and he
was candid:
The 6th I came in just trying
to pound the zone. The first guy went quitely grounding out to 3rd. The next
hitter had a good at bat but ended up grounding to first on a fastball inside.
Finished off the inning on a strikeout looking. The 7th I was fortunate enough
to miss a few bats for 2 K's. Diaz made a nice play at short on a groundball to
his left to end the inning. In the 8th Trea Turner made a really good play on a
groundball down the 3B line to start the inning. The next hitter tried to drag
bunt. He didn't quite push it hard enough. Ceincin at 1st made a nice play on
my throw. The last out of that inning, Brett Austin did a nice job blocking a
curveball in the dirt to tag the guy to record the strikeout. The 9th went
smooth. The first hitter went down on 3 straight pitches. The next guy grounded
straight back to me on a first pitch curveball. Finally, the last out of the
game Brett was able to frame a borderline fastball well enough to get the call
for strike 3.
Ethan is a
converted starter that went 4-2, 3.18, in 12-appearances out of the pen last
season. We’ll keep an eye on him.
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The
Auburn baseball team pounded out 20 hits, nine of which went for extra bases,
and its pitching staff held Alcorn State to just four hits as it picked up a
22-0 win on Tuesday afternoon at Plainsman Park. Creede Simpson was 4-for-4 at the plate with two doubles while Patrick Savage and Kody Ortman both
hit home runs as Auburn evened its record at 2-2.[v]
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Georgia
Southern University’s junior OF Victor Roach is off
to a fast start in defending his Division One home run title. He’s hit two
already in the first three games this past weekend. His bat has been compared
to people like Jayson
Heywood and Ryan Howard and
I just have this feeling that he will be gone in one of the five top picks.
There are a lot of scouts that wish he played for a team in a harder division,
but frankly, a bat like tis only comes around once in a while.
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Dropping
on the mock lists is RHP Lance McCullers Jr., who started the off season as
the top pitcher in the June draft. Most scouts now project him as a
reliever/closer, which means he hasn’t developed any plus secondary pitchers to
go along with his 100mph fastball.
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Speed
Checks:
o
Harvard-Westlake
Academy RHP Lucas
Giolito – 95-96 first three innings –
93-95 to end
o
Vanderbilt
RHP Tyler Beede – 89-91, 76-curve, 80-81 change
o
Stanford
LHP Brett Mooneyham – 88-92, 79-slider,
84-change
o
Vanderbilt
LHRP Phillip Pfeifer – 88-91, 73-76 curve,
84-change
o
Stanford
RHRP David Schmidt – 92-94
o
Rice
RHRP J.T. Chargois - 98
[iii] http://www.ulmwarhawks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=90641&SPID=10978&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205384168&DB_OEM_ID=19000
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