Grambling, LA – Grambling State Tigers senior outfielder Jeremy Shelby was taken in the 38th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft by the Baltimore Orioles. The Lexington, Kentucky native becomes the first Tiger to go in the MLB draft since current interim head coach James Cooper was taken in the 33rd round as [...]
Fayetteville, Ark. – The Grambling State Tigers mounted a comeback that was nothing less than heroic, however, their rally fell short in a, 9-8, loss to the Wildcats of Kansas State in the first elimination game of the Fayetteville Regional of the NCAA baseball championship. The Tigers fell behind early giving up a run in [...]
Grambling, La— The No. 4 seed Grambling State Tigers, 2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball champions, will travel to Fayetteville, Arkansas to take on No. 1 seed Arkansas Razorbacks in the NCAA Fayetteville Regional hosted by Arkansas at Baum Stadium. The Tigers and Razorbacks will face each other in game one at 2:05 pm and will [...]
Shreveport, La. – Grambling won its first SWAC baseball title since 1985 Sunday with a dominating 15-2 performance over Alcorn State. The Tigers exploded for 15 hits and took advantage of six errors by the Braves in a game that was not too much in doubt after a four-run fourth inning that gave the Tigers [...]
SHREVEPORT—The #3 Grambling State Tigers Baseball team weathered the storm and a nearly two hour weather delay to hold off the Delta Devils of #2 Mississippi Valley State University for a 8-4 win in game two of the 2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball tournament. The Tigers jumped on the board early as Mychal Roby singled [...]
The Alcorn Braves defeated the Jaguars of Southern University 12-0 in Shreveport. The Braves will face the UAPB on Thursday at 3:00PM.
Southern’s Hall, Jackson State’s Drain earn top individual honors BIRMINGHAM – With the 2010 SWAC Baseball Championship tournament underway, the Southwestern Athletic Conference announced its All-Conference Baseball Honors Wednesday, headlined by Southern’s Frazier Hall voted Player of the Year and Jackson State’s Quintavious Drains voted Pitcher of the Year. The teams were voted on by [...]
Birmingham, Ala. – Jackson State and Texas Southern each won their respective division titles and earned #1 seeds in the upcoming SWAC Baseball Tournament, to be held May 26-30 in Shreveport, La. Jackson State, once 2-3 in SWAC play, won its final 11 conference games to pull away from the pack in the SWAC East [...]
PLAYER IF Eduardo Gonzalez, Alcorn State; 6-3, 190, SO; Lutz, FL Gonzalez batted .520 (13-of-25) with nine runs scored and 12 RBI in five games last week (three vs. Alabama A&M, two vs. Tougaloo). Gonzalez had at least three hits in the final four games of the week, highlighted by a 4-for-5 performance [...]
• 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
