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Texas A&M builds big lead early and beats Tennessee 9-5 in Game 1 of College World Series finals
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Great start. Great finish. And now, after beating Tennessee 9-5 in the College World Series finals opener Saturday night, Texas A&M faces its most difficult task of the season. The Aggies must knock off the high-powered No. 1 national seed one more time...
Georgia's Charlie Condon, the national home run and batting leader, wins Golden Spikes Award
CARY, N.C. (AP) — Georgia's Charlie Condon was selected the winner of the Golden Spikes Award on Saturday as the country's top amateur baseball player. Condon, who last week won the Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's national player of the year, sits atop the NCAA leaderboard...
Ohio State hires Campbell's Justin Haire as baseball coach after Bill Mosiello's resignation
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State has hired longtime Campbell University coach Justin Haire as its new baseball coach. Haire, who spent 17 years at the North Carolina school, including the last 10 as head coach, was named the Buckeyes' 13th baseball coach on Friday. He replaced Bill...
String of injuries can't stop Texas A&M on its run to College World Series finals against Tennessee
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Texas A&M coach Jim Schlossnagle remembers how he felt when he saw Braden Montgomery, one of the biggest stars in college baseball, break his ankle as he slid into the plate in the NCAA super regionals two weeks ago. “Yeah, my heart sank,” he said Friday....
Vols' run at 'unbreakable' HR mark impresses Bertman, whose teams were faces of 1990s 'gorilla ball'
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Until he saw messages flying back and forth on the 1990s-era LSU players' group text thread late this season, Skip Bertman didn't realize the Tennessee team of 2024 was making a serious run at the Holy Grail of the college baseball record book. Bertman's 1997...
Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely
WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month's killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases...
Texas A&M beats Florida 6-0 to make CWS finals for 1st time as Gators shut out 1st time in 2 years
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Texas A&M is going to play for a national championship in baseball for the first time in its program's 130-year history. Jim Schlossnagle had a breakthrough, too. The 53-year-old coach has brought seven teams to the College World Series since 2010 — five...
Tennessee beats Florida State 7-2 to become first No. 1 national seed since 2009 to reach CWS finals
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tennessee fell flat in its two previous College World Series appearances and in between there was the crushing loss in NCAA super regionals as the No. 1 national seed. All that has led to this year's Volunteers putting themselves in position to play for the...
Florida blows out Kentucky 15-4 in CWS elimination game to set up showdown with Texas A&M
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brody Donay hit a grand slam for the first of his two homers, Jac Caglianone became Florida's all-time home run leader and the Gators rode a seven-run first inning to a 15-4 win over Kentucky in a College World Series elimination game Wednesday. The game had been...
Connor Hults halts North Carolina comeback bid to help Seminoles advance with 9-5 win at CWS
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Connor Hults felt a whole lot better walking off the mound at the end of the game Tuesday than he did three days earlier. Hults pitched 4 1/3 innings of shutout relief to thwart North Carolina's comeback bid, and Jaxson West and Max Williams hit back-to-back...
