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Agony in Austin: Texas ends ASU’s baseball season
There has never been a time when both the softball and baseball teams from one college have won the NCAA Championship in the same season. And it won’t happen this year, either. After Arizona State’s softball team rolled through the Women’s College World series and claimed the 2011 national crown, the Sun Devil baseball team [...] -
Texas forces ASU baseball to Game 3 in Super Regional
Going into last night’s second game of the Austin Super Regional, the Texas Longhorns were 36-0 when leading after the sixth inning. Unfortunately for Arizona State, they’re now 37-0. Texas (48-17) had a 2-1 lead after the sixth and then used a three-run homer by Jordan Etier over the left field fence in the eighth [...] -
Now it’s the ASU men’s turn to win a College World Series
The Arizona State softball team took care of their end of the business on Tuesday night, winning the NCAA Championship for the second time in four years. Now, it’s the guys’ turn. ASU’s baseball squad swept through the regional tournament, going 3-0 to advance to this week’s Super Regional in Austin, TX, the fifth straight [...] -
ASU, UA in regional baseball finals, but Cats are in a hole
Arizona and Arizona State have both advanced to the championship games in their NCAA baseball regionals. But the Wildcats had to do it the hard way…and still hold the short end of the stick. (Update: Senior second baseman Bryce Ortega led the Wildcats against Texas A&M with a 3-for-3 performance at the plate, and Josh [...] -
Central Arizona College is 1 win from JUCO baseball title
The Central Arizona College baseball team was rolling through the field at the junior college world series when it tripped over the Catamounts, just short of the championship game. CAC had beaten the Potomac State Catamounts earlier in the week, 12-2, but got caught looking past them a second time Thursday. The 11-3 loss to [...] -
Cron, Haeger records make 2011 the ‘Year of the Long Ball’
The 2011 baseball/softball season may go down in the Arizona high school record books as The Year of the Long Ball. Home-run records were set in both sports. Or perhaps it should be The Year of the Dual-Threat Pitcher. Both of the players who set new home-run records this season are pitchers. Not just wannabe [...] -
After more than 300 games, ASU baseball gets blanked
Arizona State dropped the third game in the weekend baseball series with Washington, 3-0, which was somewhat perplexing since ASU put up 18 runs in the first two games, while the Huskies couldn’t score even one. But that was only half the story, it turns out. A press release from the ASU Sports Information guys [...] -
Mtn Pointe wins baseball title; Red Mtn repeats in softball
Neither softball or baseball offered any real surprises at the high school state 5A-I championship games. But there were some interesting story lines on both sides. At the Rose Mofford Sports Complex, Red Mountain High School (Mesa) and Basha High School (Chandler) met in the softball championship game. No big surprise there. One or the [...] -
Mountain Pointe’s Cron may join brother in MLB draft
Kevin Cron and his older brother, C.J., may pull off a rare feat in professional sports when the Major League Baseball draft rolls around next month. Both are expected to be taken in the same draft. Kevin is a senior at Mountain Pointe High School in Phoenix and C.J. is a junior at the University [...] -
ASU baseball at top of its game, despite post-season ban
For a baseball team that knows it won’t be playing in the post-season, the Sun Devils haven’t let that impact their game. Arizona State is 30-9 and the sixth-ranked team in the country, sitting in second place in the Pac-10, and riding an eight-game winning streak. The post-season ban was handed down by the NCAA, [...]
