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Florida’s Five Questions to Answer • D1Baseball

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Every team enters the season with questions to answer. It doesn’t matter how confident they may be in their personnel or how much winning they’ve done in recent years, there will always be uncertainty about some things going into Opening Day. 

A lot is known about this Florida team, including that its primary offensive threat is outfielder Wyatt Langford, a preseason SEC player of the year candidate, and that it has a one-two rotation punch with Brandon Sproat and Hurston Waldrep that should lead it to a ton of series wins. But it’s also a team with something to prove,[…]





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USC proves toughness, upsets No. 2 Oregon State • D1Baseball

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The USC Trojans and their shirtless hero Brayden Dowd, celebrate beating Oregon State.

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IRVINE, Calif — A few years ago I went to see a band called The Dollyrots play at a club in the Deep Ellum part of downtown Dallas. The opening band was an all-girl trio called Tough on Fridays. Tonight, for the third time this season, I saw USC play a weekend opener and look damn good doing so. In other words, they’re tough on Fridays. 

… well, in this case it’s a Thursday. But you get the point. 

The first two times I had seen USC this season they lost a 9-8 extra inning game to then-unbeaten TCU on[…]

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Miami’s Ziehl headlines 10 moments to remember • D1Baseball

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Gage Ziehl, Miami (Eric Espada/Miami)

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Here’s an in-depth look at 10 moments you need to remember from Thursday’s college baseball action.

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1. Miami’s Ziehl shows plenty of zeal to dominate against Clemson

Clemson entered Thursday’s contest as one of the hottest hitting teams in college baseball. After all, it absolutely tormented Florida State’s pitching staff — especially the bullpen — at home last weekend. Well, going on the road to Mark Light to face the Hurricanes was a different story, thanks to Miami starting pitcher Gage Ziehl and others. The Hurricanes beat the Tigers 3-2 on a walk-off two-run home run[…]



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Duke’s Miller chases .500; Santucci showcases emerging changeup • D1Baseball

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Duke’s Ben Miller started growing this amazing mustache in October (Aaron Fitt)

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DURHAM, N.C. — After No. 11 Duke turned in a stellar all-around team performance in a 9-4 win against No. 9 Virginia on Thursday, the first thing Blue Devils coach Chris Pollard wanted to talk about was how well his players communicated with each other — in the dugout, on the infield, in between at-bats. That’s not something you often hear coaches talk about, especially after a dominant win that featured stellar play in all phases of the game, but Pollard thinks and talks about baseball in a different way than most coaches, and he’s always strikingly insightful in his[…]



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