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SportsTalk Rewind 1.26.11: USC Pitching Coach Jerry Meyers (AUDIO)

January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Jerry Meyers

Baseball season is less than a month away, and as the state’s biggest sports outlet, we’ve decided it’s time to slowly integrate the hard ball back into the show. Earlier in the week the guys from “SportsTalk First Edition,” Kevin McCrarey and the Wild Man, Bill Gunter, took some time to talk with USC Pitching Coach, Jerry Meyers, about his arms, and the upcoming season.

Practice for the USC baseball team starts tomorrow.  The two-time defending National Champions will open up their title defense February 17 against VMI in Columbia.

AUDIO: Jerry Meyers

Filed Under: college baseball, Sports, SportsTalk Rewind, USC Gamecocks

Chad Holbrook visits SportsTalk

November 30, 2011 By

Story by Rixon Lane:

USC assistant coach Chad Holbrook stopped by SportsTalk First Edition today to talk about the upcoming Gamecock baseball season and the 2012 recruiting class.

 AUDIO: Chad Holbrook

Holbrook was named the 2011 ABCA/Baseball America Assistant Coach of the Year. He has been tabbed as one of the top recruiters in all of college sports by ESPN The Magazine.

The Gamecocks are looking defend their back-to-back national championships on the diamond. South Carolina’s season starts on February 17th.

Carolina put together a recruiting class in 2011 that was received the top ranking by Collegiate Baseball and was tabbed as the 6th-ranked class by Baseball America.

USC currently has 17 commitments in the class of 2012:

DC Arendas (INF, 6-0, 175, Greensboro, NC)

Curt Britt (RHP/1B, 6-3, 205, Rockingham, NC)

Jamie Callahan (P/3B, 6-3, 180, Dillon)

Brandon Hester (RHP, 6-6, 205, Stratford)

George Iskenderian (SS, 6-2, 190, Ramsay, NJ)

Tyler Jackson (RHP, 6-4, 180, Wren)

Jamie Jarmon (OF, 6-3, 205, Millsboro, NJ)

Austin Labounty (3B/1B, 6-1, 185, Gilbert)

Kris Nelson (RHP, 6-1, 180, Florence-Darlington Tech)

Weber Pike (3B, 6-0, 185, Beaufort)

Hunter Rice (RHP, 5-8, 160, Spartanburg Methodist JC) 

Ryan Ripken (1B, 6-1, 185, Baltimore)

Max Schrock (2B, 5-10, 180, Chapel Hill, NC)

Corey Seagar (SS, 6-3, 175, Kannapolis, NC)

Zack Smith (1B, 6-0, 200, USC Sumter)

Jack Wasilewski (LHP, 6-2, 200, Tazewell, VA)

Jack Wynkoop (LHP, 6-4, 185, Virginia Beach, VA)

Filed Under: college baseball, NCAA, SEC, Sports, USC Gamecocks

Clemson Baseball Coach Jack Leggett Reviews Fall Practice (AUDIO)

November 9, 2011 By
Wednesday was the first day of the baseball signing period for the 2011-2012 class.  So we decided to dial up Clemson Head Baseball Coach, Jack Leggett, to gets his thoughts on his newcomers, review the Tigers fall practice, and get a very very premature look at the upcoming season.  Besides, it will be here before you know it.

AUDIO: Jack Leggett

Filed Under: Clemson Tigers, college baseball, NCAA, Recruiting, Sports, SportsTalk Rewind

USC baseball team picks up two ESPNU games

November 7, 2011 By

Matt Price will be in USC's starting rotation this year

USC  will twice be a part of ESPNU’S Thursday Night SEC Baseball Game of the Week, as announced by the league office and ESPN on Monday afternoon. The rematch of the 2011 National Championship Series at the College World Series between South Carolina and Florida will open the league package on Thursday, Mar. 22 from Carolina Stadium. In addition, the series opener between the Gamecocks and Alabama at Carolina Stadium will also be broadcast on Thursday, April 26.

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Filed Under: college baseball, Sports, USC Gamecocks

The Citadel releases 2012 baseball schedule

September 27, 2011 By

Head Coach Fred Jordan and The Citadel Baseball program released their schedule for the 2012 season on Tuesday. The Bulldogs play host to a four-team tournament to open the season and remain in Charleston for the first four weeks of the season, while hosting 33 total games at Riley Park.

“We have a very demanding schedule coming in 2012 with great competition coming early in the season at home,” said Jordan. “Our league schedule will once again be a true battle each and every weekend. We are excited to see a much more balanced schedule that alternates home and away conference series each week after being on the road late much of last season.”

Highlighting the 2012 slate is a three-game series at Minnesota, out of the Big Ten, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn., from March 23-25. The Gophers and Bulldogs have only met on one previous occasion back in 2007 when Minnesota won a 6-3 decision in the Homewood Suites Shootout at Riley Park.

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Filed Under: college baseball, Sports, The Citadel
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