Tag Archive | "Baseball08"
Closing the Book on ‘08 Baseball
For some of us, the last memories of ‘07-’08 Wolfpack sports is a good one: the great run of the baseball team that ended one win away from a berth in Omaha. Included in this run was a win in the first regional hosted at home for the Wolfpack (and two nice wins over [...]
Continue reading...Why I Don’t Get Worked Up About Avent
Monday, June 9, 2008
As you no doubt know by now, the Georgia Bulldogs advanced to the CWS yesterday, shit-canning the Pack Nine 17-8. I was disappointed, but in no way surprised or really upset. Elliott Avent has been at State a long damned time. He has not won an ACC title, and twice bumped up against the “Sendek glass [...]
Continue reading...Pack Nine One Game Away From the College World Series!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
The Wolfpack baseball team beat Georgia on Saturday10-6 and can punch their ticket to their first College World Series in 40 years with a win in Athens on Sunday!! We cannot over-emphasize the significance of today’s opportunity is for the entire NC State Athletics Department. Since Lee Fowler became Athletics Director at NC State, Virginia – whose [...]
Continue reading...NC State vs. Georgia: Super Regional Preview
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
The Wolfpack Nine will travel to Athens to take on the SEC regular season champion Georgia Bulldogs (18-6 winners over Georgia Tech in a decisive regional contest) in the Super Regional round of the NCAA baseball tournament, which opens at noon on Friday. Super Regional format has the host team “home” for the first and [...]
Continue reading...PACK WINS!!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Wolfpack downs South Carolina by a score of 2-1 while only allowing 3 hits for second time this weekend! Baseball America has a nice article that can be read by clicking here. In our NCAA tournament preview podcast last week, I said North Carolina State’s pitching was very good, but not great. John Manuel disagreed. I was wrong, [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack downs Gamecocks! Needs one to advance to Super Regional
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Great night at the Doak as a horrendous umpiring crew still were not able to keep the Wolfpack from notching an important and impressive win over Ray Tanner’s South Carolina Gamecocks in Raleigh. In fact, this win was so impressive and so important that it will easily rank in the Top 5 wins of the 2007-2008 [...]
Continue reading...“Raleigh Regional” Preview- What to Watch For (Updated 9:05 am)
Thursday, May 29, 2008
We’ve known the participants since Monday, we might as well meet them and look for things to watch for in the first regional hosted by the Wolfpack since 2003 (and the first in Raleigh, as the 2003 regional was in Wilson). Let’s take a look at some team stats first. RPIs are from warrennolan.com. State’s [...]
Continue reading...Another chance for baseball to deliver
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Last week we ran a great entry highlighting the NC State Baseball program’s opportunity to deliver a much needed ACC Championship in a major sport. (If you missed the entry then you are not allowed to read further until you go read it). Coach Avent failed to win his first ACC Championship in twelve years over [...]
Continue reading...USC and Charlotte to Play in Raleigh Regional
Monday, May 26, 2008
SFN Breaking News: Sources close to the athletic department have indicated that USC and Charlotte will be playing in the Raleigh Regional this weekend. We will update this after the official brackets are released.
Continue reading...NC State Will Host Baseball Regional
Sunday, May 25, 2008
It has just been announced that NC State will host a baseball regional. Wolfpack Club and current season-ticket holders can purchase advance tickets from the time of the announcement until 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 5 p.m. Tuesday. All orders after 5 p.m. Tuesday evening are subject to availability and [...]
Continue reading...Late pushes fall flat for Pack; Baseball represents last hope
Sunday, May 18, 2008
After failed attempts to garner some kind of notable success by a couple of NC State’s non-revenue sports fell flat this week (men’s golf and women’s softball), NC State’s Baseball team remains as the last primary opportunity for Lee Fowler’s athletics department to do something special and win a “major” ACC Championship. It is something that [...]
Continue reading...Pack loses pitching duel 1-0
Friday, May 16, 2008
Updated: FSU scored the games only run in the bottom of the 8th inning on a sacrifice fly. Down 3-0 in the count, NC State chose to pitch to the best hitter in the ACC and Buster Posey made us pay. The potential #1 draft pick in this year’s draft hit the [...]
Continue reading...Pack Nine Providing Hope For a Title (FINALLY!)
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
NC State has cracked the Top 20 in most national baseball rankings on the heels of sweeping Boston College this past weekend to advance to 30-13 overall and 15-8 in ACC. The Wolfpack’s relative regular success in the nation’s most difficult baseball conference provides NC State fans with a slight glimmer of hope that NC State [...]
Continue reading...Elliot Avent Interview
Friday, April 25, 2008
Just yesterday the N&O ran a Q&A with Tom O’Brien so today’s article focused on Elliot Avent in Technician fits nicely into the week. Avent has coached at NC State for 12 years and “has compiled 443 victories, second-most in Pack history.” Whenever the media talks in total number of wins and not winning percentage I [...]
Continue reading...Pack’s win over Pirates raises RPI rating to #5
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Updated: Pack wins 7-6. NC State now sitting at #5 in this updated RPI Rating. NC State (23-11, 10-7) is hosting East Carolina (26-9, 2nd place in Conference USA) tonight @ 6:30 pm in Doak Stadium. There might be a few tickets remaining only available to WPC members. If you are interested [...]
Continue reading...Baseball Double-Dip vs Wake Forest Today
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Mother Nature decided not to cooperate yesterday, so a double header is underway. I’ve commented on these before- I love double headers against a superior opponent, hate ‘em against inferior competition. The basic reason is, well, they’re hard to sweep! State took Friday’s season opener 7-2 behind an outstanding pitching performance by Clayton Shunick including [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack defeat Tarheels on the diamond
Sunday, March 30, 2008
We had in depth comments in yesterday’s entry…so, we needed to stay on top of baseball. State comes from behind in the diamond to beat Carolina in something! Wolfpack 8 Tarheels 6 The Wolfpack, which improved to 15-9 overall and 5-6 in the ACC, carried a 2-2 tie into the bottom of the sixth inning, only [...]
Continue reading...Saturday Bytes – Tarheels defeat Wolfpack (sound familiar?) OR State’s/Davidson irony (Updated 2pm)
Saturday, March 29, 2008
……crunch….. Carolina’s third ranked baseball team beat the Wolfpack 5-2 yesterday (I thought we had some new authors who were excited about covering baseball on SFN? hello? anyone out there?). The Tar heels are 21-4 overall and 8-2 in the ACC. After a one-hit loss to Marshall, the Wolfpack are tracking just perfectly to an average [...]
Continue reading...The Late Baseball “Preview” Or, “I’m Slow”
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Note: This is about, oh, 3 weeks late- but it is still relevant I suppose as a “getting to know you” for those not as attached to baseball as I. In an effort to expand coverage a bit here at Statefansnation I have volunteered to try my hand at providing some baseball commentary (as has vtpackfan, [...]
Continue reading...State Guys to Watch for in MLB in 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Yeah, I was in the show…You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, someone else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains. (Crash Davis in “Bull Durham”) These [...]
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
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