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C-USA Baseball College World Series Notebook
June 10, 2009
Complete Release in PDF Format For the fifth consecutive season, Conference USA will have a representative at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. Southern Miss will become the third different C-USA program over that span to reach the CWS when it faces No. 1 national seed Texas at 6 p.m. CDT on Sunday night (ESPN 2). C-USA is joined by the Pac-10 and SEC as the only conferences that have produced at least one College World Series team in each of the past five seasons. The Golden Eagles No. 8 ranking in this week’s polls marks the highest in school history.
COLLEGE WORLD SERIES All times Central
Sun., June 14 Southern Miss vs. Texas (ESPN 2)................... ........ 6:00p
Tue., June 16 Southern Miss vs. Ariz. St./UNC (ESPN 2)........ ........ 1p/6p
SOUTHERN MISS ADVANCES TO COLLEGE WORLD SERIES Southern Miss' storybook ride through the NCAA tournament will continue in Omaha. The Golden Eagles stunned Florida in the second game of the Gainesville Super Regional, coming back from a five-run deficit to pull out a frantic 7-6 win Sunday, securing the first College World Series berth in program history.
The Golden Eagles win gives C-USA a team in the College World Series for the fifth straight season. Conference USA joins the Pac-10 and SEC as the only leagues to have a team in the C-USA field for each of the last five years.
For the first time in the league history, three Conference USA baseball teams advanced to NCAA Super Regional play. East Carolina and Rice joined Southern Miss in reaching Super Regional play, with the Pirates losing to No. 5 North Carolina and the Owls falling at No. 1 LSU.
Conference USA was the only multiple-bid conference that advanced all of its teams into Super Regional play. Only the ACC and SEC join C-USA in having more than one team among the 16 squads that participated in Super Regionals.
REGIONAL QUICK HITS *C-USA was the only multiple-bid conference that advanced all of its teams to Super Regional play.
*Southern Miss was the only No. 3 seed to advance to the Super Regionals.
*Rice and East Carolina join Clemson as the only teams that lost the second game of a regional and then came back to advance to the Super Regionals.
*Rice had the most hits (70) among the 64 regional teams, while East Carolina was second (67).
*East Carolina and Southern Miss hit more home runs (12 each) than any of the regional squads.
C-USA SENDS THREE TEAMS TO REGIONALS Conference USA received three bids to the 2009 NCAA Baseball Championship. East Carolina hosted and won the Greenville Regional as the No. 1 seed, Rice was the No. 1 seed won as and host of the Houston Regional, while Southern Miss was the No. 3 seed in the Atlanta Regional, hosted by Georgia Tech and won its first-ever NCAA Regional championship.
C-USA YEAR-BY-YEAR NCAA SELECTIONS 2009 East Carolina, Rice, Southern Miss 2008 East Carolina, Houston, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane 2007 East Carolina, Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss 2006 Houston, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane 2005 East Carolina, Southern Miss, TCU, Tulane 2004 East Carolina, Southern Miss, TCU, Tulane 2003 East Carolina, Houston, Southern Miss, Tulane 2002 East Carolina, Houston, Louisville, USF, Tulane 2001 Houston, USF, Tulane 2000 Houston, Tulane 1999 Houston, Southern Miss, Tulane 1998 Charlotte, Tulane 1997 Houston, USF 1996 Tulane, USF
C-USA SUPER REGIONAL TEAMS 2009 East Carolina, Rice, Southern Miss 2008 Rice 2007 Rice 2006 Rice 2005 Tulane 2004 East Carolina, Tulane 2003 Houston 2002 Houston 2001 Tulane 2000 Houston
C-USA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TEAMS 2009 Southern Miss 2008 Rice 2007 Rice 2006 Rice 2005 Tulane 2001 Tulane
ALL-REGIONAL HONORS The following Conference USA players were named to the All-Tournament teams at the NCAA Regionals:
ATLANTA REGIONAL 1B Joey Archer, Southern Miss SS B.A. Vollmuth, Southern Miss (Most Outstanding Player) OF Bo Davis, Southern Miss OF Michael Ewing, Southern Miss P Jr Ballinger, Southern Miss GREENVILLE REGIONAL 1B Brandon Henderson, East Carolina 2B Ryan Wood, East Carolina OF Trent Whitehead, East Carolina (Most Outstanding Player) DH Kyle Roller, East Carolina P Kevin Brandt, East Carolina HOUSTON REGIONAL C Diego Seastrunk, Rice 2B Brock Holt, Rice 3B Anthony Rendon, Rice OF Stephen Sultzbaugh, Rice P Taylor Wall, Rice (Most Outstanding Player)
QUICK NOTES ON C-USA IN 2009 *For the fifth consecutive season, Conference USA will have a team in the College World Series. Southern Miss will be making the first appearance in school history, following Rice (2006-08) and Tulane (2005) in advancing to Omaha. C-USA is joined by the Pac-10 and SEC as the only conferences that have had a representative in the CWS in each of the last five seasons.
*For the first time in the league history, three Conference USA baseball teams advanced to NCAA Super Regional play.
*Two Conference USA teams hosted regionals for the first time. East Carolina hosted the Greenville Regional, while Rice hosted the Houston Regional.
*For the first time in league history two different C-USA teams not only defeated, but shut out the No. 1 ranked team in the country in the same season. Rice defeated then-No. 1 Texas A&M, 2-0 on Feb. 28 and East Carolina blanked top-ranked North Carolina, 4-0 on Apr. 22.
*Seven of the nine Conference USA baseball teams posted at least one win over a nationally-ranked non-conference opponent in 2009. Five teams have defeated at least one top 10 team.
*Seven different players have been named All-Americans, while five different players were named Freshman All-Americans.
*Four different C-USA players have been named National Players of the Week in 2009. East Carolina’s Kyle Roller, Rice’s Ryan Berry, UAB’s Digger Towe and UCF’s Shane Brown have each earned National POW accolades this season.
*Two Rice players (Rick Hague and Anthony Rendon) and two Tulane players (Nick Pepitone and Jeremy Schaffer) have been invited to the Team USA tryouts, a team that will be coached by Tulane head coach Rick Jones.
*Five different teams have won at least 31 games, two of the winningest teams in college baseball in East Carolina (46) and Rice (43).
C-USA ALL-AMERICANS Here’s a look at the players from Conference USA that have received All-American recognition this spring:
COLLEGIATE BASEBALL THIRD TEAM 2B Ryan Wood Sr. East Carolina 3B Anthony Rendon Fr. Rice
NCBWA SECOND TEAM 2B Ryan Wood Sr. East Carolina 3B Anthony Rendon Fr. Rice THIRD TEAM OF Bo Davis Sr. Southern Miss
PING! BASEBALL FIRST TEAM 2B Ryan Wood Sr. East Carolina DH Kyle Roller Jr. East Carolina RHP Ryan Berry Jr. Rice SECOND TEAM LHP Donnie Joseph Jr. Houston THIRD TEAM 3B Anthony Rendon Fr. Rice HONORABLE MENTION RHP Todd McInnis So. Southern Miss
C-USA FRESHMAN ALL-AMERICANS Here’s a look at the freshman players from Conference USA that have received All-American recognition this spring:
COLLEGIATE BASEBALL C Jeremy Schaffer Tulane C Beau Taylor UCF 3B Anthony Rendon Rice OF Kameron Brunty Southern Miss LHP Kevin Brandt East Carolina
NCBWA FIRST TEAM C Jeremy Schaffer Tulane 3B Anthony Rendon Rice SECOND TEAM OF Kameron Brunty Southern Miss
THE POLLS
Baseball America (June 9)
Collegiate Baseball (June 9)
NCBWA (June 9)
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Which C-USA player will have the biggest impact in Super Bowl XLVI?
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