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Juco World Series News

  • State PGA event sees younger players Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 10:30AMThe Viking Classic field doesn’t often have a lot of easily recognizable names. For golfers like Alex Rocha, that’s not a bad thing at all. Like most rookies on the PGA Tour, Rocha has struggled keeping up with the best golfers in the world. He ranks 190th on the season money list, far below the 125th place threshold needed to keep his tour card. His best tournament of the season was a 33rd ...
  • Elkins' VanNoy and Fox Sign with Potomac State Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 9:43PMLance VanNoy and Scott Fox will both continue their careers with the Catamounts.
  • Your top 5 Ferentz teams — No. 2 2002 Big Ten co-champs Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 4:41PMThis team showed you what was possible at the University of Iowa. An 8-0 record in the Big Ten. A BCS bowl. Some national championship buzz. Second place in the Heisman Trophy race. The Orange Bowl. And, yes, the 2002 Hawkeyes showed you that you can still riot in college football.
  • Summer Sluggers A Big Hit Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 3:59AMDon't let the superstar dreadlocks or "Hollywood" inscription on his Oakley sunglasses give the wrong impression - Marvin Campbell knows he still has plenty to prove to Division I baseball and UNLV. This summer, he's making the most of his chances. After
  • Staying grounded Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 11:51PMKANSAS CITY, Mo. - The ballparks are bigger and immaculate. The crowds have gone from a few thousand ...
  • Playing with Pain Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 8:38PMJust when you start thinking the story of the national baseball champion Navarro Bulldogs can’t get any more made for Hollywood, enter Roy Hobbs. Or I’m sorry, make that Garret Autrey.
  • Area TTAS scores from Tuesday, July 5 Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 10:37AMHere are Tuesday’s scores and Wednesday's schedule from area Texas Teen-Age Softball tournaments from around the area:
  • Mildred Thunder win twice, move into Freshmen District final Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 10:52PMGame 4, Tuesday, July 5 Mildred Thunder 18, Malakoff Adjusters 1 (4) The Thunder scored at least three runs in each inning as they set up a winner’s bracket final matchup with the Malakoff Eliminators. Abbie Burnham and Allison Nix each hit two home runs. Burnham scored four runs.
  • Trio of former county players help Potomac State at JUCO World Series Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 11:31PMPotomac State College’s Jake Ringold, a South Carroll graduate, watches a hit during the JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colo. Below, Ringold closes in on a catch during one of the games. Potomac State finished third in the World Series.
  • TTAS tournaments begin Monday in Mildred, Blooming Grove Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 7:07PMThe Texas Teenage Softball District Tournaments get under way in Mildred and Blooming Grove and other locales around the state beginning on Monday, the Fourth of July.
  • Gene Taylor Baseball Team to Hold Home Opener Tomorrow at Canyon View Park Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 2:42PMBaseball returns to the Western Slope for the first time since the JUCO World Series. The Gene Taylor baseball team will host a double-header tomorrow at Canyon View Park, their first home stand of the season.
  • UH baseball assistant Trout hired by Texarkana College Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 7:33PMOn Tuesday, Steven Trout was hard at work in the blistering Houston heat, instructing and overseeing the 100 youngsters attending the Houston Cougars' summer baseball camp at Cougar Field. By Thursday, the 26-year-old was settling in to his new office, after officially being named the head coach at Texarkana College after spending last season as an assistant coach for the Cougars.
  • Local baseball: Cana Tigers 11U win again Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 6:46PMThe Cana Tigers 11U continued to roll Thursday, defeating North Texas Freedom, 13-3, in bracket play in a AAYBA Tournament. Jacob Farmer pitched four innings for the victory.
  • Pick up a piece of Bulldog history Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 2:01PMThe 2011 JUCO World Series champion Navarro Bulldogs have been celebrated by the  Daily Sun  in Thursday’s newspaper and online with a 40-page commemorative edition  “2011 Road Through Grand Junction.”
  • Ranburne's Cofield to play in Series with SU Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 11:05AMGood things happened for Ranburne’s Drew Cofield and his Southern Union baseball brothers at the Alabama Community College Conference’s state tournament in Ozark.
  • Mildred QB makes his mark at camp Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 7:46PMNic Shimonek is having a terrific summer flinging around the football. Shimonek was one of three quarterbacks to advance out of the Southwest region of the Top 100 National Underclassmen Combine in Duncanville.
  • AAU Basketball: Local team competes in Shreveport Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 7:46PMThe Higher Authority AAU basketball teams coached by Art Prevost had a strong showing last weekend at a tournament in Shreveport.
  • Youth Baseball: Cana Tigers win opener in AAYBA bracket play Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 7:46PMThe Cana Tigers 11U team defeated the North Texas Angels, 14-6, in the opening game of bracket play in the AAYBA Tournament in the Dallas area.
  • Area Golf: Senior Scramble held Wednesday at Oak Trail Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 7:46PMJohn Dozier, Jimmy Glenn, Mac Tackett and James Cummins won Wednesday’s weekly Senior Scramble at Oak Trail Golf Club, shooting an 18-hole score of 59.
  • Central Arizona's Keenyn Walker signs with White Sox Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 7:11PMCentral Arizona's Keenyn Walker has signed with the Chicago White Sox, meaning he'll fore-go his final two years of elgibility to begin his pro career.
  • Wills: Memory lane Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 7:16PMWe all have those sports moments where we can remember exactly where we were when...It happened. Two of them remarkably have been in the last month, and lifetime memories for most of us in Corsicana. The Navarro Bulldogs winning the JUCO World Series. The Mavericks winning the NBA Championship.
  • Kirkwood’s Lewis retires after 32 seasons and 1,000 wins Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 3:13PMCEDAR RAPIDS – You’ll never guess where John Lewis was when he answered his cell phone early Tuesday afternoon. OK, that’s wrong. You’ll definitely guess where he was.
  • Bishop Walsh’s Myers commits to Purdue Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 11:27PMCUMBERLAND — Bishop Walsh pitcher Kevin Myers won’t begin his senior year of high school for two more months.
  • Los Angeles Dodgers file for bankruptcy protection Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 11:16AMLOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection in a Delaware court Monday, blaming Major League Baseball for refusing to approve a multibillion-dollar TV deal that owner Frank McCourt was counting on to keep the troubled team afloat.
  • All-Texomaland Baseball -- Liss is more for Bearcats Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 10:29PMSherman's Tyler Liss did plenty of work both on the mound and in the field to help return the Bearcats to the playoffs.
  • TCHS' Haffner signs with Shelton State Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 3:38AMTUSCALOOSA | Burke Haffner, a versatile player for the Tuscaloosa County High School baseball team, might fill more than one role in college.
  • Oppenheim steps down as CCBC head coach, stays in classroom Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 5:12AMElliott Oppenheim has retired as baseball head coach after 24 years at Community College of Baltimore County, Dundalk, and 49 total years with Maryland college teams. He plans to continue working as an adjunct assistant professor at CCBC Dundalk and will assist new head coach Jonathan Karsos as pitching coach and third-base coach. Oppenheim was a two-time All-American [...]
  • MSSU softball signs juco pitcher Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 11:46PMHannah Cooke, a junior college transfer, has signed to pitch for the Missouri Southern softball team.
  • CHS Football: Castles close to having staff intact Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 8:49PMPhil Castles is getting close to having his complete football staff for the Tigers back intact.
  • On the move: 6/24/11 Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 5:57PMAccounting Erika Pecora has been hired by Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates, of Baltimore, as an account executive in its technology solutions group. Pecora, who has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Towson University, previously was an investment operations representative for Martin/Wight & Co., an investment and insurance agency affiliated with Mass Mutual Financial Group ...
  • GC Softball: Hubbard’s Edens, Saucke make TGCA All-State team Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 9:49PMHubbard senior Natalie Edens and freshman Kate Saucke were selected to the Texas Girls Coaches Association All-State Softball Team released this week.
  • Senior Scramble held Wednesday at Oak Trail Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 9:49PMGerry York, Ed Flores, James Cummins and Zane Stites won Wednesday’s weekly Senior Scramble at Oak Trail Golf Club, shooting an 18-hole score of 56.
  • National champion Bulldogs honored on Texas Senate Floor Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 5:04PMThe Navarro Bulldogs baseball team was honored Wednesday on the Texas Senate Floor for winning the 2011 JUCO World Series. The national champions were honored under Senate Resolution 80.
  • Player of the Year: Hard work helps Naile make it look easy Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 12:12AMCHARLESTON -- After nearly every game, whether he's pitched or not, Charleston ace James Naile can be seen running foul pole to foul pole. He'll run no matter the outcome on the mound or if he had hit at the plate or not.
  • Filauro brothers help Potomac State reach JUCO World Series Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 10:55AMTwo former John Jay baseball standouts recently helped the Potomac State (W.Va.) baseball team finish third at the Junior College Division I World Series. Brothers J.K. Filauro (John Jay ’08) and Alan Filauro (John Jay ’09) were one win away from the championship game, before falling to defending national champ Central Arizona on June 3. Both are sophomores at Potomac State, which finished the ...
  • Koerper's Crossroads Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 11:57PMIt has been a few years, four summers ago, that Kris Koerper last suited up for a summer baseball team.
  • What our dads taught us Saturday, June 18, 2011 @ 10:28PMAsk Whoa Dill, coach of the Navarro College baseball team, this year’s winners of the National Junior College World Series, what he has learned from his father, Randy Dill, and he’ll tell you: “Everything.”
  • ACU softball team begins anew after forgettable season last year Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 8:53PMBobby Reeves doesn't like the term rebuilding — too many negative connotions. He'd like to think of his first season as Abilene Christian University's head softball coach as a fresh start.
  • Wildcats graduate reaches Juco WS Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 5:06PMBrittain Ibbotson has grown up on the baseball diamond.
  • FSU's Shouppe not expected to return Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 9:00PMWith rumors swirling about his future with FSU baseball, pitching coach Jamey Shouppe plans to make an announcement Thursday.
  • Suplizio Field demolition Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 5:44PMDemo crews take to the home of the JUCO World Series, prepping for new digs.
  • Trio of JUCO players wins hitting and fielding awards Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 1:01AMThree baseball players from the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series received awards for their play this season. The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) announced its player of the year, Gold Glove awards and Big Stick awards Tuesday.
  • Kentucky Football: Randall Cobb and the 5 Best and Worst Offseason Developments Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 12:11AMKentucky football is coming off its fifth straight season of playing in a bowl game. Even with last year’s record of six wins and seven losses, the Kentucky Wildcats were still bowl eligible and were selected to play in the BBVA Compass bowl. If you were to say, “Yes, but that is a bush-league bowl game,” then you do not understand how special it is to play in a bowl game. The SEC is without ...
  • Seahawks' infield trio, coach honored Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:11PMThe accolades continue to pour in for the Cecil College baseball team, which finished fifth in the NJCAA Division II World Series in Enid, Okla., earlier this month.
  • We're lucky to have JUCO World Series on Western Slope Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 5:12AMDaily Press Circulation Director Phil Ashley and I ventured out to Grand Junction Saturday night to watch the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series' championship game, and we had a blast.
  • Questions abound for Coastal Carolina baseball in '12 Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 9:30PMCoastal Carolina baseball coach Gary Gilmore was at a showcase event in Columbia this week as he, Liberty coach Jim Toman and South Carolina assistant Chad Holbrook discussed the draft and the challenge of getting recruits to choose college over jumping into their professional careers.
  • 2011 JUCO All-American list Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 7:11PMThis year's 2011 JUCO All-American list only saw two World Series players on the first team.
  • Ranburne's Cofield to play in Series with SU Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 3:40PMGood things happened for Ranburne’s Drew Cofield and his Southern Union baseball brothers at the Alabama Community College Conference’s state tournament in Ozark.
  • NBA FINALS: LeBron tweets it's 'Now or Never' time Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 12:35PMNow or never? LeBron James is apparently making that his mantra entering Game 5 of the NBA finals. At 2:27 a.m. Eastern time Thursday, James posted "Now or Never!!" on his Twitter page, and said after the Miami Heat practiced in Dallas later that morning that the tweet was simply a pep talk to himself.
  • Top hurler Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 11:05AMJones County Junior College pitcher Andrew Pierce has been named an NJCAA Division II first-team All-American for the second straight season.