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Players hold up the trophy following their victory in the 2017 ACC Baseball Tournament in Louisville, KY, Sunday, May. 28, 2017. (Photo By Timothy D. Easley, theACC.com)(Photo: Timothy D. Easley, Timothy D. Easley, theACC.com) Florida State took down No. 2 seed North Carolina to win its seventh ACC Championship on Sunday afternoon. The Seminoles (39-20) defeated the Tar Heels 7-3 at Louisville Slugger Field to take the tournament after starting…

HOOVER, Ala. — Arkansas and LSU are rolling from the Hoover Met for this 2017 SEC Baseball Tournament Championship. Follow along with live stats and updates right here on SEC Country. Arkansas baseball vs. LSU live blog, score updates Top 4 3 p.m. – An LSU single to rightfield and an E5 – Jared Gates booted the ball on an easy grounder – have the Tigers cooking with nobody out….

SAN JOSE — The spirit of Calvin Riley was present at San Jose Municipal Stadium. After Menlo School’s dramatic 1-0 victory over No. 8 Burlingame in the Central Coast Section Division II baseball title game on Saturday, Menlo coach Sean Riley couldn’t help but think of his son, Calvin. A former star baseball player at Serra High in San Mateo and the College of San Mateo, Calvin Riley was taken…

OKLAHOMA CITY — It’s championship day at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark as No. 6 Texas and No. 8 Oklahoma State clash for the 2017 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship game at 1 p.m. CT today. The Longhorns and Cowboys advanced out of their divisions to secure a spot in the final game, going a combined 6-1 vs. the league’s other six participants. Here are a few notes heading into today’s Championship:…

North Carolina is headed back to the championship game of the ACC Baseball Tournament for the first time since the Tar Heels won the title in 2013. And this time, the Tar Heels did it coming from behind. Miami jumped ahead 3-0 in the first inning, but North Carolina got the bats going after a nearly two-hour rain delay to score three runs in the fourth and sixth innings and…

Jim Bunning, a hard-throwing Hall of Fame pitcher who once threw a perfect game and who took his intimidating, combative style from the baseball diamond to Capitol Hill as a Republican member of the House of Representatives and later as a two-term U.S. senator from Kentucky, died May 26 at a hospice facility in northern Kentucky. He was 85. His former chief of staff, Jon Deuser, confirmed the death. The…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This interview was conducted in Spanish and has been translated. Read in Spanish here. Cubs catcher Willson Contreras made his MLB debut last summer after seven years in the Cubs’ Dominican and minor league system. Since then, he has hit a home run in his first at-bat, caught a Cy Young finalist every five games and played in (and…

It’s been a big year for Laguna Niguel native Harrison White. An alumnus of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in 2013, White, 22, graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s in political science while helping his team win the Ivy League Baseball Championship. He led his team with an on-base percentage of .479 in his senior year. As he prepares for the NCAA Regional Championships beginning Friday, June 2, White spoke with…

Welcome to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Homer Simpson. Yes, you read that correctly. Homer Jay Simpson, the cartoon character from “The Simpsons,” has become an inducted member of baseball’s most hallowed halls, plaque and all. Okay, not really. The induction ceremony, which took place Saturday morning in Cooperstown, N.Y., was part of an event to kick off a Simpsons-themed exhibit that will open inside the shrine celebrating the 25th anniversary…

WHO: LSU (42-17) vs. Arkansas (42-16) WHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, Hoover, Ala. TV: ESPN2 RADIO: WDGL-FM 98.1; WWL-AM, 870; KLWB-FM, 103.7 RANKINGS: LSU is ranked No. 8 by Baseball America. Arkansas is No. 13 SUNDAY’S LIKELY STARTERS: LSU, Fr. RHP Eric Walker (6-1, 4.04 ERA, 78.0 IP, 22 BB, 62 K) vs. Arkansas Sr. RHP Dominic Taccolini (4-1, 4.78, 43.1 IP, 25 BB, 38…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This interview was conducted in Spanish and has been translated. Read in Spanish here. Cubs catcher Willson Contreras made his MLB debut last summer after seven years in the Cubs’ Dominican and minor league system. Since then, he has hit a home run in his first at-bat, caught a Cy Young finalist every five games and played in (and…

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8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This interview was conducted in Spanish and has been translated. Read in Spanish here. Cubs catcher Willson Contreras made his MLB debut last summer after seven years in the Cubs’ Dominican and minor league system. Since then, he has hit a home run in his first at-bat, caught a Cy Young finalist every five games and played in (and…

Caption Close BRIDGEPORT—Wilton pitcher Billy Black is scheduled for surgery on his pitching elbow next week. Before he goes under the knife, the Warriors ace threw one last gem and it was a game neither he nor anyone associated with Wilton baseball will soon forget. Black struck out 10 batters, including the last batter he will ever face in a Wilton uniform, allowing only three hits as the No. 2…

BASEBALL CITY Division III Championship, Friday •Valley Arts/Sciences 4, Sherman Oaks CES 3

Final: Lee County 8, Johns Creek 0 in decisive semifinal game 3. Tough end to a controversial series. #Team11 pic.twitter.com/YSimVpgX6p — 11Alive Sports (@11AliveSports) May 26, 2017 A controversial baseball series in Georgia came to a close on Friday. Four days after the GHSA Board of Trustees accepted the Johns Creek (Ga.) baseball team’s appeal of a ruling that overturned their Class AAAAAA semifinal win, the team fell to Lee…

Virginia outfielder Adam Haseley (7) rounds third base on his way to score during game ten of the 2017 ACC Baseball Tournament in Louisville, KY, Friday, May. 26, 2017. (Photo By Timothy D. Easley, theACC.com)

“Wissman’s been pretty good for a few years,” Hill said. “We knew that going in. We hit a couple of balls right at people, but we couldn’t string hits together, like we had been doing. When you can throw a couple of pitches for strikes, that’s baseball in a nutshell. We thought if we got into their (bullpen), we’d have a shot, but Peltier has a good arm, too. Unfortunately,…

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