March 2, 2010

Team of the Week

Coastal Carolina Named CBI Team of the Week
 

Coastal Carolina put together an impressive 5-0 week to raise its record to 7-1. The Chanticleers are the CollegeBaseballInsider.com Team of the Week.

 

No. 17 Coastal Carolina started its week with a 2-0 win at Wake Forest on Tuesday. In the Baseball at the Beach Tournament at BB&T Coastal Field in Myrtle Beach, S.C., the Chanticleers defeated James Madison, the CAA favorite, 11-7 on Friday. Coastal swept a doubleheader from No. 5 UC Irvine on Saturday, winning 7-3 and 13-6. The Chants quieted the hot bats of NC State on Sunday, 6-3. Coastal rose to No. 9 in this week’s CBI Composite Poll.

 

Honorable mention goes to Le Moyne, which won two of three at Southern Miss, a 2009 College World Series participant. No. 5 Texas defeated Dallas Baptist on Wednesday and swept a three-game set from No. 19 Stanford. No. 10 TCU took two of three at No. 9 Cal State Fullerton. No. 20 East Carolina topped Old Dominion on Tuesday and won two of three against No. 14 South Carolina. Southeastern Louisiana went 4-0, with a home win over Mississippi Valley State and a three-game sweep at Mississippi State. UCLA went 3-0, with wins at Long Beach State, against Vanderbilt and against USC at Dodger Stadium. No. 15 Rice rebounded to go 4-0 with home victories over Lamar, Elon, Nebraska and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Washington State went 4-0 in the inaugural Brooks Wallace Memorial Classic in Lubbock, Texas, beating Bethune-Cookman twice and host Texas Tech twice. Louisville defeated Morehead State and went 3-0 in the Big East/Big Ten Challenge with wins over Michigan, Michigan State and Minnesota. Kent State won three of four at Wake Forest. Kentucky moved to 6-0 with a three-game sweep of Bowling Green. Liberty went 3-0 at the Hughes Bros. Challenge in Wilmington, N.C., with wins over Morehead State, Lehigh and host UNC Wilmington. Southern Illinois took two of three at Jacksonville State.

 

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Feb. 23 - New Mexico

 

(photo courtesy of Coastal Carolina Media Relations Office)