• CONFERENCE PLAY BEGINS THIS WEEKEND
Conference play begins for eight of the SWAC’s 10 teams this weekend as the quest to earn a berth in the conference tournament begins.
Southern begins defense of its title at home vs. Prairie View A&M. Last season, the Jaguars won four of six games vs. the Panthers.
Alcorn State, last season’s [...]
PLAYER
OF Corbin Smith, Texas Southern; 5-8, 170, FR; Houston, TX
Smith hit .375 with four RBI in five games last week (two vs. Texas College, three vs. Southeastern La.)
Smith had six hits in 16 at-bats, highlighted by a 3-for-5 game, including a triple in a 6-1 extra-inning win over Southeastern La.
PITCHER
P Dakota Laufenburg, Texas Southern; 6-0, [...]
Texas Southern is riding high. But the Tigers aren’t ready to put this thing on auto-pilot.
Texas Southern knocked off the No. 29 team in the country Sunday when the Tigers beat Southeastern Louisiana, 6-1, in 12 innings in Hammond, La. TSU salvaged one of the three games in the weekend series and beat a Southland [...]
PLAYER
1B/C Frazier Hall, Southern; 6-3, 220, JR; Baton Rouge, LA
Hall hit .364 with two runs scored and six RBI in games vs. UCLA, Cal-State Northridge and Bethune-Cookman. In his top game of the week, Hall went 2-for-5 with three RBI in Southern’s 12-9 come-from-behind win over Cal State Northridge.
PITCHER
P Collin Arnold, Alcorn State; 6-3, 190, [...]
Alcorn State’s Gonzalez, Southern’s Maloy voted top honors;
Jaguars picked to repeat as champions
BIRMINGHAM – The Southwestern Athletic Conference announced its 2010 baseball preseason honors Thursday, with Alcorn State 1B Eduardo Gonzalez named Preseason Player of the Year, and Southern’s Jarrett Maloy the Preseason Pitcher of the Year.
Southern, the 2009 Champions, was picked to repeat as [...]
INSIDE SWAC BASEBALL
• BATTER UP! 2010 SEASON BEGINS FRIDAY
The college baseball season begins nationwide on Friday and all 10 Conference schools will be in action this weekend, nine of them on Day 1.
• BIG MATCHUPS AMONG OPENING WEEKEND SLATE
Highlighting the opening weekend is defending SWAC Champion Southern participating in the Major League Baseball Urban Invitational [...]
This time last year, the world was spinning nearly 100 miles per hour for Prairie View A&M University head baseball coach Waskyla Cullivan. After participating in the SWAC Tournament Championship for the fourth consecutive season in 2008, the dynamics of the Prairie View A&M baseball program changed drastically in the summer as former head coach [...]
ITTA BENA, Mississippi – The Mississippi Valley State University Delta Devils will open the 2010 baseball season with a three-game series against the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. The teams will meet at Magnolia Field on MVSU’s campus at 1 pm on Friday with the Saturday and Sunday contests being played at Greenville’s Legion Field [...]
BIRMINGHAM – The 2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament will be played at Shreveport, LA’s Fair Grounds Field, Commissioner Duer Sharp announced today.
This year’s tournament will be played May 26-30, with the top four teams in each of the SWAC’s Eastern and Western Divisions qualifying for Conference postseason play.
The SWAC Baseball Tournament returns to Fair [...]
MATTESON, Ill.- University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff baseball player Kevin Edwards passed away on Saturday evening in his home state of Illinois after suffering from a fatal car accident. Edwards was a standout pitcher for the Golden Lions last season leading his team in total appearances (13) in 2009.
“Kevin Edwards was a model student and a [...]
Grambling, LA — James Darrell Cooper has been tabbed as the new head baseball coach of Grambling State University as announced by, GSU Athletics Director, Lin Dawson in a press conference held this morning in the student union atrium on the GSU campus.
Cooper, 27, has long been a staple of the Grambling community and has [...]
Alcorn State , MS —Freshman Eduardo Gonzalez has been named to the 2009 Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American Team. Gonzalez completed his freshman campaign with a batting average of .407 (1st in the SWAC and 43rd in the Nation), seventy (70) hits (1st in SWAC, 1st on Team), 11 doubles and 41 RBIs.
He was named [...]
David Arrendondo, Texas Southern
Manny Kumar, Grambling State
Charles Derkowski, Texas Southern
Milt Barney, Grambling State
Jesse Olivar, Southern
Jamaal Thelwell, Jackson State
Jerome McCollum, Univ. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Brad McDavid, Southern
James Armstrong, Southern
Jabari Graham, Alcorn State
Joshua Brufield, Alcorn State
Most Valuable Player: Jarrett Maloy, Southern
Jaguars claim SWAC Baseball title, NCAA Tournament Berth
The Southern Jaguars won the SWAC Baseball Championship with a 12-10 win over Alcorn State.
Scoring all its runs in the first four innings, Southern (30-15) took the lead for good with a four-run third and a three-run fourth. Brad McDavid’s three-run double in the third inning helped the [...]
Jesse Olivar’s single scored James Armstrong to give Southern a 10-9 win in 12 innings in the SWAC Baseball Tournament.
The Jaguars (29-15) advance to play Alcorn State in Sunday’s
Championship game at 1 p.m.
Grambling State (17-37) scored eight runs in the second-fifth innings. Brandon Smith’s two-run homer and Arthur Mazierski’s RBI single gave the Tigers [...]
Alcorn State defeated Texas Southern 7-6 to advance to the SWAC Championship Game.
The Braves (28-18) will play for their first ever SWAC Baseball
Championship against the Grambling-Southern winner at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The top of the lineup helped set the tone for the Alcorn State
offense.1-2-3 hitters Joshua Brumfield, Adrian Bowens, and Jabari Graham combined go 6-for-11 with [...]
Grambling rallied to a 5-4 win over Southern to force an elimination game between the two teams at 6 p.m. tonight.
The game, which originally began Friday night, was suspended by rain and resumed at noon Saturday.
The Tigers came back from a 3-1 deficit with a pair of runs in each of the sixth and seventh [...]
Alcorn State keeps its hot streak alive as the Braves defeat Texas Southern 7-1.
The two teams will play again Saturday at Noon in an elimination game.
The game was delayed nearly three hours due to rain in the third inning with Alcorn State leading 3-1. The Braves broke the game open in the sixth. Kenneth Rowan’s [...]
Grambling State scored runs in all but one inning in eliminating Jackson State 15-1 (7 innings) in the 2009 SWAC Tournament.
Grambling State (16-36) scored single runs in the first and second innings, but broke the game open with five runs in the fourth, four in the fifth and three in the sixth in winning for [...]
Alcorn State defeated University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3-1 in an elimination game of the 2009 SWAC Baseball Tournament.
The Braves (27-18) advance to face Texas Southern at 3 p.m. today.
Trailing 1-0, the Braves scored in the sixth inning on Rodney Warren’s two-run single to center field, scoring Joshua Brumfield and Adrian Bowens. Warren went 3-for-4 to [...]
Southern defeated Grambling State 5-2 in Game 8 of the 2009 SWAC Baseball Tournament.
The Jaguars (27-14) advance to face the Jackson State-Grambling State winner at 6 p.m. Friday. Grambling (15-36) and Jackson State will square off at Noon Friday in an elimination game.
Southern never trailed in the game. They took the lead in the fourth [...]
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