The Coastal Carolina University Baseball Team is getting some well deserved national attention this week. Coastal is ranked #8 in the nation according to Baseball America and the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Poll.
Coastal went 5-0 last week. This included a midweek victory at Wake Forest. The highlight of the weekend was taking two from UC-Irvine at [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Coastal Carolina Baseball’
March 3, 2010
Coastal Baseball Cracks Top Ten
February 19, 2010
Opening Day
College baseball season begins today. I’m getting ready to head out to the ballpark to watch Kentucky and Virginia Tech open it up. Afterwards, it will be Coastal and West Virginia. The weather is great and I’m excited about the new season.
It’s been an incredibly busy week for us with court so I haven’t written anything about [...]
January 26, 2010
Coastal Carolina Baseball Picked to Win BSC
Today the Big South Conference’s Head Baseball Coaches voted Coastal Carolina University’s baseball team the conference’s preseason favorite. The coaches also voted Coastal outfielder Rico Noel the Conference’s Preseason Player of the Year and Coastal junior Cody Wheeler the Pitcher of the Year.
This is the third consecutive year that Coastal has been named the Big South’s [...]
December 19, 2009
Update on Paxton Lawsuit
For the background story on UK ace pitcher, James Paxton, click here. He wanted to know what the NCAA wanted to talk about. I suspected it was about the draft process and Paxton’s advisor. According to John Hale at BluGrass Baseball, we now know that:
Paxton is almost certainly under investigation by the NCAA for violating the no-agent rule.
That should come [...]
December 8, 2009
Cody Wheeler – 43rd best player
The College Baseball Blog is counting down the top 100 college baseball players in the country. Today the CBB named Cody Wheeler number 43. I knew he would be there, I just didn’t think it would be this soon (I knew this because Brian Foley said it about a month ago). I also knew Cody would be in the [...]
December 5, 2009
UK Ace sues University of Kentucky
Sometimes in law, just like in baseball, the best defense is a good offense. James Paxton is the University of Kentucky’s ace pitcher. He was the number 37 pick in the draft earlier this year but chose to return to UK to play his senior year. He is now suing the university to make sure he gets that opportunity.
Apparently [...]
November 2, 2009
No. 10 is No. 79
The CBB announced today that Scott Woodward is the 79th best player in the country. Congratulations to the CCU junior IF/OF. Of course, I believe he is much better.
October 25, 2009
Coastal Carolina World Series
The Chanticleer World Series starts Friday with Pro Day. The team will work out for scouts at 4 p.m. Game one of the three game scrimmage series begins at 5:30. Games two and three are set for 2:30 on Saturday and Sunday respectively. Admission is free so let’s get out there and support the team as [...]
