June 2005 NewsStand
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July 18, 2005
June 30, 2005
Jones snubs Sooners, signs extension
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones, a candidate for the same position at Oklahoma, accepted a one-year contract extension Wednesday that will keep him with the Green Wave through the 2012 season...
Tulane swings for fences behind baseball success
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Shortly after sitting down at a table draped with green-and-white beads in the James Wilson Center, Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson picked up the phone and placed his best sales pitch. A minute later he hung up the phone, grabbed a cookie and smiled...
June 24, 2005
Preview 2005 - Tulane Green Wave
CollegeFootballNews.com
While it might not seem like it to the casual football fan, Tulane head coach Chris Scelfo has done a great job over the last few years considering the team has been all but rebuilt with young players...
June 23, 2005
Role reversal
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Although Tulane's baseball team knew its season could end with a loss at the College World Series, it never expected it to happen the way it did. The team that danced through the regular season behind strong pitching and defense had a collapse in both during the final three innings against Baylor in an elimination game Tuesday night. The Green Wave let a 7-0 lead slip away, and Baylor advanced to play Texas...
Despite loss, Green Wave had a blue-ribbon season
New Orleans Times-Picayune
There was, and will continue to be, disappointment for Tulane. But not shame. Not even after the top-seeded team in the College World Series won just one of its three games at Rosenblatt Stadium, not even after the almost wire-to-wire regular season No. 1 lost a ninth-inning lead for the first time in 50 chances this season, not even after the Green Wave gave up the fourth-largest lead in CWS history...
Relief turned into stunned disbelief
Baton Rouge Advocate
The way Tulane baseball players saw it, they should have been slowly finishing a late breakfast and heading back to their hotel rooms for a nap or some other pregame ritual in anticipation of playing the Texas Longhorns...
Tulane's Jones says loss doesn't tarnish season
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane coach Rick Jones said he doesn't want the way his team's season ended to overshadow its accomplishments during that season. "We had 56 wins," Jones said, noting Tulane tied the school record for victories in a season. "We played in the College World (Series). We had great players"...
June 22, 2005
Baylor wins on throwing error
ESPN.com
Baylor wanted to stick around and play some more baseball at the College World Series. And to do that, the Bears staged a remarkable comeback Tuesday night to knock out top-seeded Tulane. Down 7-0 after six innings, the Bears rallied for three runs in the ninth, scoring the winning run on a throwing error by Tulane second baseman Joe Holland to stun and eliminate the Green Wave 8-7...
Unbearable collapse
New Orleans Times Picayune
One day after Tulane couldn't find a way to score runs to get the lead, its season came to a crashing down Tuesday night because it couldn't hold one. The Green Wave blew a 7-0 lead and was eliminated from the College World Series when Baylor rallied for three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat Tulane 8-7 at Rosenblatt Stadium...
'Toughest loss' gives Wave that sinking feeling
New Orleans Times Picayune
Several of them crouched in position on the field like there was more game to be played, bare hands and gloved hands resting atop their Tulane caps, disappointment and disbelief blaring at jet-engine tones even though not a word was spoken...
Tulane baseball is a family affair
New Orleans Times Picayune
He leapt a tall building in a single bound, right after he stopped a speeding locomotive, right after he outran a speeding bullet. OK, Bill Schell didn't do any of that. He only traveled to the College World Series with four children in tow -- his daughters Kinsey (11 years old) and Caroline (9), son Clayton (6) and niece Sarah Elise Pick (12) -- and served as their adult supervisor...
Wave bullpen falters vs. Bears
New Orleans Times Picayune
This was not the way Tulane's bullpen spelled relief this season -- giving up crucial hits with the game on the line. For the first time this season, Tulane's bullpen blew a game...
Baylor rally KOs Wave
Baton Rouge Advocate
The wildest day at Rosenblatt Stadium in five years saw the biggest collapse in the College World Series in four years. The latter had a familiar ring to it. Tulane, which blew an eight-run deficit to open the 2001 College World Series, blew a seven-run deficit to exit this one...
Lazarus lives in Omaha
Waco (Texas) Herald-Tribune
After taking 27 years to reach Omaha, Baylor refused to let a blowout loss become its final College World Series memory. So the Bears battled, scrapped and made one of the most unlikely comebacks in CWS history against the nation's top-seeded team...
BU never ran short of time
Waco (Texas) Herald-Tribune
With 12 wins in their final at-bat this season, the Baylor players knew there was time to come back from a 7-0 deficit against Tulane in Tuesday's night's College World Series game...
June 21, 2005
Green Wave faces monster challenge
ESPN.com
Defeated, shell-shocked and royally hacked off at themselves, the Tulane baseball players huddled Monday night in shallow right field. Behind them the scoreboard told the shocking story: Texas 5, Tulane 0. It was the No. 1-ranked Green Wave's 11th loss in 67 games and just its third shutout defeat...
Texas holds 'em
New Orleans Times Picayune
One sentence by Tulane coach Rick Jones summed up his team's 5-0 loss to Texas in the College World Series on Monday, and what the Wave has to do to avoid elimination tonight against Baylor...
No need to panic -- Wave's been here before
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was a slow demise, like bleeding to death caused by a barrage of paper cuts, no one nick a fatal slice on its own but, collectively, a barrage of nips that staggered and then felled the No. 1 team in the nation...
Travieso provides the hospitality for TU fans
New Orleans Times Picayune
She isn't Jonny Kaplan's mom. Or his aunt. Or any other blood relation. And yet, there was Charlotte Travieso on Monday afternoon, the temperature in Omaha soaring to the low 90s, decked out in the not-so-cool jersey of a former Tulane player who was an integral part of the team that advanced to the College World Series in 2001 but is nowhere to be found this year...
Tulane's Southard struggles at the plate
New Orleans Times Picayune
This time, there was no magic in the end to save Tulane's Nathan Southard. Against Texas in the Green Wave's 5-0 setback on Monday night at the College World Series, the junior from Luling had his 21-game hitting streak snapped, and it was done in a way he'll probably have a tough time forgetting...
Texas' 'complete game' too much for Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate
Texas Nick Peoples slides under the tag of Tulane catcher Greg Dini to score on Seth Johnson's single in the first inning. To best limit the ability of the Texas Longhorns to manufacture runs Monday, Tulane needed to get an early lead and keep Texas leadoff hitters off base...
Jones not concerned with offense
Baton Rouge Advocate
To say Tulane's offense has been slow to ignite in its last five games would be an understatement. In three super-regional games and two College World Series games, Tulane has three runs in the first six innings, 21 in the seventh, eighth and ninth...
Texas blanks Tulane 5-0
Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
Augie Garrido is not ready to celebrate Texas' early success in the College World Series. After all, he was here last season when the Longhorns won their first two CWS games only to lose in the finals to Cal State Fullerton...
June 20, 2005
Big-time Tulane program has Little League team feel
ESPN.com
The Crowne Plaza lobby was largely deserted Saturday night, other than a cluster of family and friends gathered around Brian Bogusevic. On the television a few feet away, "SportsCenter" was ticking down the Top 10 Plays of the Day. Finally, at No. 3, the moment they'd been anticipating arrived...
Bogusevic aims to make his pitch tonight
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's baseball team was a little bit more than halfway though a short practice as Coach Rick Jones held court with the media at one end of the dugout. At the other end, sitting alone, was Brian Bogusevic...
Cut out to be a TU fan
New Orleans Times Picayune
Four made the trip; only three require tickets. The fourth won't complain. He's kind of quiet. He's hard to miss -- the others make sure of that -- but not so blustery as to demand a ticket. He is, after all, attending Tulane's College World Series games in spirit more than body...
Further review shows Madden a logical choice
New Orleans Times Picayune
First, let's get this straight. It's not as if Tulane coach Rick Jones summoned a player hitting below the Mendoza Line to pinch-hit in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday against Oregon State. Scott Madden entered the College World Series hitting .353, with four homers and 45 RBIs in 187 at-bats this season...
Owings provides a scare
New Orleans Times Picayune
No one could blame Tulane coach Rick Jones if he got a little nervous Saturday when Micah Owings limped out of the batter's box toward first base in the Green Wave's 3-1 victory over Oregon State at the College World Series...
Top-seeded Tulane to face Texas
Baton Rouge Advocate
Texas is at the College World Series for the 32nd time, an NCAA record. Tulane is here for the second time. Texas has won 74 College World Series games, tying the Longhorns with Southern California for the most. Tulane has two CWS victories...
Garrido knows all about high expectations
Baton Rouge Advocate
Nobody has to tell Augie Garrido about high expectations. He coaches the Texas Longhorns, the baseball team most associated with the College World Series. Yes, they still love LSU in Omaha. Outside Rosenblatt Stadium late Saturday night, a man wearing a purple-and-gold cap said he does so because he likes the Tigers...
Base hits come in waves for Tulane
Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
Micah Owings plans to be cashing Major League baseball checks in the next few years, but there is a immediate debt he is hoping to pay much sooner...
June 19, 2005
Tulane twosome fighting for same job with Titans
ESPN.com
One thing is certain when Roydell Williams and Chris Bush get together: Somebody is going to win. Each one admits an unwavering competitive desire when it comes to the other, whether it is a computer game such as Madden, a tavern test such as pool or even an improvisational encounter like shooting a ball of tape into a trash can. What makes their battles even more compelling is the fact that they're almost always together. Where there is one, it is almost a sure bet the other is there as well...
Green Wave have that Mojo working
ESPN.com
Between the sixth and seventh innings, Dr. Lance Green strolled down the dugout and delivered my eviction notice. "Skipper would like you to step into the tunnel," said Green, the Tulane Green Wave's team psychologist...
A pinch in time
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Scott Madden, a fifth-year senior who has earned a masters degree in finance, has not only proven to be a quick study, but also to have a quick solution to major problems...
Bogusevic rises to task; Green Wave follows
New Orleans Times Picayune
Clearly, from where Tulane was standing, it could look the loser's bracket in the eye. And then, Brian Bogusevic wasn't standing. He was running and then flying, parallel to the ground, chasing a baseball and a chance...
Failed double play sparks Tulane rally
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was your typical, run-of-the-mill play at second base. Third baseman fields bunt, throws to second for the force out, and the shortstop, trying to avoid the sliding base runner, throws to first in an attempt for a double play...
Green Wave graduates having a ball on RV row
New Orleans Times Picayune
Each RV in the row was about what you'd expect, monotony personified, the particular baseball pennant of a particular school jammed inside its holder per tradition, the pennant gently flapping in the breeze. Save one...
Madden comes through in a pinch for Wave
Baton Rouge Advocate
Scott Madden is the only Tulane player to participate in both College World Series featuring the Green Wave. His seventh-inning double Saturday, in his first CWS at-bat since 2001, was the biggest hit in Tulane's short history in Omaha...
Bogusevic always seems to be in right place at right time
Baton Rouge Advocate
Brian Bogusevic is in the middle of almost every major momentum swing in Tulane's favor this postseason. His speed and hustle are putting him there...
Upset denied
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
Oregon State sophomore Jonah Nickerson was near-perfect on his first 99 pitches on Saturday in the opening round of the College World Series. His 100th offering was a touch off-target and was drilled to the gap for a two-run double in the seventh inning by Tulane pinch-hitter Scott Madden...
Catch proves costly to OSU
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
Cole Gillespie thought he had a hit as he watched his bases-loaded, sixth-inning line drive head into right field. If it fell, Oregon State's lead over Tulane would increase fourfold to 4-0 and the Beavers would be in excellent shape against the top-seeded Green Wave in their first game at the College World Series...
Point of emphasis gets missed, hurts OSU
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
Oregon State baseball coach Pat Casey said two things were made crystal-clear by the umpires and tournament officials in their meeting with the coaches prior to the 59th annual College World Series...
OSU down ... but not out
The Oregonian
It wasn't much -- two desperate dives in the same little patch of outfield grass, two little feet and one controversial call -- but it was enough. It's all that separated top-seeded Tulane and No. 8 Oregon State in the Green Wave's 3-1 victory over the Beavers on Saturday in the teams' opening game of the College World Series...
Big crowd, big game fail to bother OSU
The Oregonian
Oregon State players and coaches had to answer the same question over and over: How will the pressure of being in your first College World Series since 1952 affect your play. As if any of them knew the answer...
Tulane defense paves way for opening win
Omaha (Ned.) World-Herald
To those who claim defense is the least important part of baseball, quickly refer them to Tulane's 3-1 College World Series victory Saturday over Oregon State. One diving catch that was made and another that just missed flipped the dynamics of this Bracket Two opener that kept 20,345 fans at Rosenblatt Stadium engrossed from the first pitch to the last...
Patience pays off for Tulane pitcher Owings
Omaha (Ned.) World-Herald
Sometimes it pays to have a little help in a duel. Tulane pitcher Micah Owings got plenty of defensive support to pick up the 3-1 win over Oregon State starter Jonah Nickerson...
Losman assuming command of Bills
New Orleans Times Picayune
Second-year Bills quarterback J.P. Losman has never been accused of lacking self-confidence. But the 24-year-old former Tulane star knew he faced a daunting task this offseason, needing to prove to coaches and teammates that he could step in, run the offense and become a leader...
June 18, 2005
Two-out, two-run pinch double lifts Green Wave
ESPN.com
The lone holdover from Tulane's last College World Series trip four years ago, Scott Madden knew what to expect Saturday when he was summoned to pinch-hit. The noise and the atmosphere at Rosenblatt Stadium were part of his previous experience as a starting catcher for the Green Wave in 2001...
Finishing touches
New Orleans Times Picayune
It's not where you start the season, but where you finish, Tulane coach Rick Jones has often told his team. The Green Wave went nearly the entire baseball season ranked No. 1 in most of the polls and earned the NCAA's No. 1 national seed...
Green Wave season won't end in failure
New Orleans Times Picayune
The goal is the same for all eight teams. None has fought its way to the College World Series, overcoming obstacle or exceeding expectation or living up to advance billing, without wanting to win the national title...
Reserves relish their role
New Orleans Times Picayune
Cat Everett and Matt Riser have spent most of their time sitting in the dugout preparing for the end of games this season. That's when they know they're likely to hear their names called...
Wave of nostalgia
New Orleans Times Picayune
Equipped with enough caffeine and company -- FM near the cities, AM in the sticks, CDs anywhere -- to make it from the Carrollton on-ramp to Omaha, Neb., Matt Mann succumbs to the night at 5 a.m...
Tulane taking CWS seriously as Oregon State awaits
Baton Rouge Advocate
At a College World Series news conference Thursday, Oregon State coach Pat Casey was loose and relaxed, joking with Arizona State's Pat Murphy and other coaches who turned the low-key media opportunity into a series of dry one-liners...
Beavers counting on a change-up
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
Oregon State will throw a change-up at Tulane today in its first game at the 59th annual College World Series. The Beavers will start sophomore right-hander Jonah Nickerson against the top-ranked Green Wave, not sophomore Dallas Buck, their ace during the regular season and the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament...
Nickerson will make first pitch
The Oregonian
All it took for Oregon State coach Pat Casey to figure out which of his two star pitchers he was going to start in the Beavers' opening game in the College World Series was a little elementary math. Six is bigger than four. From every angle it came up the same: Jonah Nickerson...
June 17, 2005
Green Wave embrace the Omaha experience
ESPN.com
The Tulane Green Wave baseball players had been signing autographs for an hour straight at Rosenblatt Stadium, but they weren't done yet. Not when they saw the corporeal canvas in front of them...
Keeping up with Jones
New Orleans Times Picayune
The fly ball disappeared into the glove. The thousands of fans screamed indecipherable cheers. The players flopped onto one another like a stack of pancakes. The coach emerged from the darkness of the dugout...
Rosenblatt still holds its magical charm
New Orleans Times Picayune
The whispers seared themselves into the memory of Tulane coach Rick Jones. It was June 7, 2001. It was the day of Tulane's first practice at the College World Series. And a charter bus carrying the Green Wave baseball team, heading south on 13th Street, had reached the crest of a hill when it came into view...
ESPN analyst gets good-natured teasing
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane players joked with ESPN analyst and former Major League Baseball player Harold Reynolds during batting practice Thursday afternoon at Rosenblatt Stadium. Reynolds grew up in Corvallis, Ore., the home of Oregon State, Tulane's first-round opponent at 1 p.m. Saturday...
This year's CWS lacks perennials
Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald
There was a time that the only way Tulane, Baylor, Oregon State and Nebraska could have attended the College World Series was to buy tickets. Welcome to college baseball 2005, baby, where the most popular question might be: Who are those guys?...
Timing is right for Oregon State in Omaha
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
The commemorative shirt and cap sat, neatly folded, on a shelf in Pat Casey's office for two years. Oregon State's baseball coach said he wouldn't touch the souvenirs...
A busy life
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
It was a busy first full day for Oregon State at the College World Series. The Beavers had team meetings at 1:30 p.m. and practice from 2-3 p.m. The players then met with NCAA and law enforcement officials warning them about not associating with gamblers...
Master of motivation
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
Think Pat Casey doesn't take his job seriously? Oregon State's veteran baseball coach, a wiry, athletic guy to begin with, lost 15 pounds while directing the Beavers to arguably the greatest season in school history...
Long-time coming for Beavers
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
The last time Oregon State was in the College World Series, the Beavers traveled by train and were stunned by the 90-degree heat when they walked off the Union Pacific Streamliner in Omaha at 3 a.m...
Madras, take a bow
The Oregonian
Tuesday, the day before he boarded a charter flight to Omaha, Neb., Oregon State all-American center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury stood outside the Beavers' locker room talking about . . . everything...
June 16, 2005
Graffagnini is walking on air
New Orleans Times Picayune
Flipping through the radio dial and making a stop on a Tulane baseball game, Sean Kelley, the voice of the Green Wave, doesn't need to tell the score to reveal who's winning. In fact, he doesn't have to say anything...
Owings makes construction complete
New Orleans Times Picayune
The Green Wave, coming off a College World Series berth in 2001, had the foundation of a good team. But with the addition of Georgia Tech transfer Micah Owings, it feels construction might be complete...
Jones, Tulane put business first in College World Series
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's coaching staff and three Green Wave players know what it's like to participate in the College World Series. The rest of the team has no idea, according to the seven veterans of the CWS in Omaha, Neb...
Success begins in the summer
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
Many of the Oregon State baseball players have expressed their satisfaction in hard work paying off at the end of the season. The Beavers started training together in September, and now are in Omaha, Neb., this weekend for the 59th College World Series...
Beavers position themselves for success
The Oregonian
The player behind the plate for most of Oregon State's baseball games this season summed up his previous experience as a catcher. "Half an inning in high school," Mitch Canham said. "That was about it"...
June 15, 2005
College World Series Team Capsules
Baseball America
Tulane Scouting Report: They have dominant starting pitching, a very solid experienced defense and power in the middle of the lineup. Of course, the front-line pitching is as dominant with all three starters as you can have in college baseball...
Wave has insight into Oregon State
New Orleans Times Picayune
Huddled around the television with several of his Tulane teammates hours after the Green Wave beat Rice 9-6 to advance to the College World Series on Monday, Brian Bogusevic began to plot ways to defeat a couple of familiar faces...
Wave's work 'all worth it' to earn trip to CWS
New Orleans Times Picayune
Whenever someone mentioned Tulane and Omaha in the same sentence to Green Wave coach Rick Jones during the regular season, it was usually followed by Jones' standard line: "No one floats to Omaha on a cloud"...
Owings' arrival key to Tulane's run
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane leaves today for the College World Series, a destination it was expected to reach from the time it was named the No. 1 national seed on May 30, if not from the time it was ranked preseason No. 1 by Baseball America in January, if not from the time Micah Owings enrolled in September...
Beavers prepare to fly
Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times
Less than 24 hours after the Oregon State baseball team secured a place in the College World Series, the players were back in the club house in Goss Stadium on Tuesday afternoon...
June 14, 2005
Wave reviews
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's hitters had watched hours of tape of Rice pitcher Eddie Degerman. To be successful against him, they knew they'd have to lay off his "lethal" curveball. Brian Bogusevic, however, didn't have that luxury...
Stung Owings strikes back
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Micah Owings preceded the Green Wave's eighth-inning rally against Rice in Game 3 of the New Orleans Super Regional on Monday by convening an impromptu pep rally in front of the dugout at Turchin Stadium...
Wave never breaks despite facing high pressure for entire season
New Orleans Times Picayune
Fittingly, appropriately, Tulane heads where it belongs, the top-ranked baseball team in the nation making the pilgrimage that counts the most, its sights centered on the only item that hasn't been marked off a checklist that has just one errand left undone...
Waves of fans pump up TU
New Orleans Times Picayune
Dr. Dennis Schexnayder quickly exited Turchin Stadium -- the most contagious place in New Orleans from noon to 3 p.m. -- offering a half-hearted goodbye, walking with that unmistakable physician's pace when there's an emergency...
Riding the Wave to Omaha
Baton Rouge Advocate
Since the NCAA created the super-regional round of the college baseball postseason in 1999, the team that won the first game went on to win its three-game series 80 percent of the time...
Graham gives kudos to Owls, Green Wave
Baton Rouge Advocate
There was something graceful, but not surprising, about the simple eloquence of Rice baseball coach Wayne Graham after the Owls lost Monday to Tulane, ending Rice's season one victory short of a trip to the College World Series...
Tulane bounces back from miscues, into CWS
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's 9-6 victory over Rice in the deciding game of the New Orleans super regional Monday at Turchin Stadium was much like the Green Wave's three-day performance on the road to the College World Series...
Wave crests to Omaha
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
Pitchers who hit and hitters who pitch have delivered Tulane to the sweet spot of college baseball for the second time in four years. The No. 1 ranked Green Wave (55-10) rode the duality of two-way players Brian Bogusevic and Micah Owings all season and on Monday in a 9-6 victory over Rice to win an NCAA Super Regional and trip to Omaha, Neb., for the College World Series...
Tulane rallies to down Rice
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
The way Tulane's Micah Owings saw it, the road to Omaha went through the Rice dugout. The Green Wave had to chase Eddie Degerman there. Tulane scored seven runs in the final two innings, overcoming a 3-2 deficit and then a 6-6 tie, to beat the Owls 9-6 on Monday afternoon in the third and deciding game of a NCAA super regional...
Bullpen collapse keeps Owls home from Omaha
Houston Chronicle
Somewhere around mid-April, after Rice shored up its defense and familiarized itself with the concept of clutch hitting, wishful thinking began to morph into guarded optimism...
June 13, 2005
Owings overpowers Owls like a pro
New Orleans Times Picayune
When Micah Owings was selected in the third round of last week's major league baseball draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks, it set him up to become another of Tulane's million dollar bonus babies. Against Rice on Sunday afternoon in a do-or-die situation, Owings played like one...
Tulane's season of promise comes down to one game
New Orleans Times Picayune
Win and in. One and done. Analyze the scenario any way you want, but it's that simple. The season dies or it lives on today for Rice or Tulane when the third and deciding game of the New Orleans Super Regional is played at Turchin Stadium, a euphoria accompanying a trip to the College World Series awaiting the victor...
Crowel gets wish, will start final game
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane pitcher J.R. Crowel was hoping he'd be pitching today. Rice pitcher Eddie Degerman was hoping he wouldn't. Crowel wound up getting his wish, and the Green Wave's junior left-hander will be going against the Owls' junior righty in today's deciding game of the New Orleans super regional...
Tulane pitcher shuts out Rice
Baton Rouge Advocate
What the Arizona Diamondbacks saw in Tulane pitcher Micah Owings, the Rice Owls saw up close Sunday. With top-ranked Tulane's season on the line, Owings threw his first complete-game shutout, a superb three-hitter as the Green Wave won 7-0 to force a third and decisive game in the New Orleans super regional...
Tulane bench delivers at crucial junctures
Baton Rouge Advocate
Two of the more-rested Tulane players got the two biggest RBIs in the Green Wave's season in a 7-0 victory Sunday that evened the super regional against Rice at one victory apiece...
Tulane blanks Rice, forces third game
Houston Chronicle
Sunday afternoon provided Tulane junior Micah Owings an opportunity to validate his decision to leave Georgia Tech following the 2004 season. The Green Wave had stumbled through a loss to Rice in Saturday's opener of this best-of-three super regional series, leaving Owings with the ball in his hands and the chance to not only square the series but flush the remnants of Game 1's forgettable performance...
Owings uses heat in the heat, keeps Tulane in hunt for CWS
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Micah Owings suspected even before he struck out the side in the first inning that he was about to pitch one of his best games. Owings threw a three-hit shutout and national top seed Tulane broke open a scoreless pitchers' duel in the late innings to keep its season alive...
Life preserver
Alexandria (La.) Town Talk
Rice's 69-year-old baseball coach Wayne Graham knows a good pitcher when he signs one, and when he gets beat by one. The latter happened Sunday afternoon when Tulane pitcher Micah Owings turned in a Rice-like performance in holding Rice to three hits over nine innings for a 7-0 victory before 4,653 - the second record crowd at Tulane's Turchin Stadium in two days...
June 12, 2005
Rice is right on against Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Getting an early lead on opponents and making them play differently are things Tulane has done extremely well this season. On Saturday, Rice gave the Green Wave a chance to see how it feels...
Trip to CWS becomes longer for Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
All of a sudden, Omaha looks more than 1,043 miles from Turchin Stadium. So what does Saturday's losing coach have to say about that?...
Shell-shocked Tulane falls to Rice, 9-5
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane looked like the just-glad-to-be-here young team. Rice looked more like the veteran ballclub. Baseball sure is a funny game, and Rice's scrappy players fought back grins and guffaws...
Injured Savery scheduled to pitch
New Orleans Times Picayune
To say the least, Rice freshman first baseman Joe Savery had an interesting two innings Saturday. In the bottom of the first, he was called out for leaving third base too early, ending the Owls' inning after they had scored three runs...
Rice's Savery wants to pitch if at all possible
Baton Rouge Advocate
Rice freshman sensation Joe Savery said he wants to pitch today against Tulane, but after a hand and wrist injury, a trip to the hospital and a lot of pain Saturday, his status for the second game of the New Orleans super regional is uncertain...
Rice strikes early against top-ranked Tulane
Houston Chronicle
All Rice earned from its upset of LSU last weekend at the Baton Rouge Regional was additional conversation relating to its underdog status, and how Tulane lefthander Brian Bogusevic could dominate the Owls' lineup...
Rice roughs up Bogusevic, Tulane
Shreveport (La.) Times
Tulane's No. 1-ranked baseball team is not used to being down by a touchdown in the first quarter, and it never recovered in a 9-5 loss to Rice on Saturday afternoon in an NCAA Super Regional. The only people more shocked than the Turchin Stadium record crowd of 4,602 with Wave first-round draft choice pitcher Brian Bogusevic falling behind 6-0 in the second inning were the other Green Wave players...
Owls push Tulane to the brink
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane left-hander Brian Bogesuvic kept the ball around the plate. But the Rice Owls knew what to do with it. Rice collected 16 hits, about half of them slap shots that skipped through the infield...
June 11, 2005
Recipe for a rivalry
New Orleans Times Picayune
When the NCAA baseball selection committee selected the regional hosts, the stage was set for a super regional matchup between No. 1 national seed Tulane, and LSU, the No. 1 seed in the Baton Rouge Regional...
Green Wave excited about being at home
Baton Rouge Advocate
Last year Tulane couldn't get the job done on the road. Rice couldn't get it done at home. This year the two baseball teams try a different approach...
Rice, Green Wave feature 2-way stars
Baton Rouge Advocate
Rice and Tulane are noted for having outstanding two-way baseball players, but it's possible not all of them will play two positions in the same game this weekend. Much depends upon the matchups, coaches and team officials said Friday...
Tulane playing like a No. 1 team
Houston Chronicle
Top-ranked Tulane began the season No. 1 in the nation, and there has been minimal fluctuation by the Green Wave over the past four months. Opponents have come and gone, and the Green Wave continue to win, undeterred by the bull's-eye on their back and focused on Omaha, site of the College World Series where Tulane made its lone appearance in 2001...
C-USA baseball looking Super
Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
Tulane and Rice, two of the nation's top college baseball programs, will tangle with one another next year as members of Conference USA. But the two private institutions will begin their journey toward a longtime rivalry this weekend with the winner earning a spot in next week's College World Series in Omaha, Neb...
Rice challenges powerful Tulane
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
Perhaps only Tropical Storm Arlene can stop the Tulane baseball team, and that seems to be fouling off beyond right field, so to speak. The Green Wave, No. 1 ranked in the nation and 53-9 on the season, is two wins away from its second trip to Omaha, Neb., for the College World Series in five years. It hosts No. 15 Rice (44-17) in a best-of-three Super Regional in Tulane's Turchin Stadium at noon today, which is about the time Arlene is expected to strike Alabama or Florida...
Weather outlook appears better
New Orleans Times Picayune
Barring an overnight shift in conditions, the New Orleans Super Regional should escape the worst effects of Tropical Storm Arlene. That's good news to NCAA representative Mike Knight, who would have to make the call about when, and maybe where to play, should inclement weather strike...
Joining C-USA may help Rice
New Orleans Times Picayune
There are plenty of good reasons why Rice shouldn't even been trying to compete in Division I-A anymore. The self-dubbed "Harvard of the South," ranked No. 17 among all colleges by U.S. News & World Report, has some of the most exacting academic standards in the country...
Rodriguez savors this year's ride
New Orleans Times Picayune
For Rice shortstop Josh Rodriguez, the team bus was redemption on wheels with plush seats, rolling past the gas stations and swamps of east Texas/west Louisiana on a late Thursday afternoon...
June 10, 2005
Southard is 'in a zone'
New Orleans Times Picayune
Prior to the start of practice in January, Tulane coach Rick Jones could see how serious Nathan Southard had become about being the Green Wave's starting center fielder for the second consecutive season...
Weather watching the thing at Tulane
New Orleans Times Picayune
Last week, Tulane associate athletic director Scott Sidwell made some new friends -- the folks with the National Weather Service's regional office in Slidell. It's a good thing because Sidwell likely will be calling on his newfound friends again this weekend when Tulane takes on Rice in an NCAA super regional...
Tulane more than pair of superstars
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane's Micah Owings was the Conference USA Player of the Year and teammate Brian Bogusevic was the first Louisiana Player drafted this week, going 24th in the first round to the Houston Astros...
Tulane adding 400 more seats for super regional
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane has figured out a plan to squeeze an additional 400 seats along the right-field line and outfield of Turchin Stadium in time for Saturday's opener of an NCAA super regional against Rice, university officials said Thursday...
Rice's Graham shows ability to adapt
New Orleans Times Picayune
None of the Rice baseball players calls Owls coach Wayne Graham "Grandpa." At least not to his face. "I don't think they'd dare," Graham said. "They know there's some of them I can still whip"...
Owls rearm with new trio
Houston Chronicle
A call to arms at the top of last year's amateur draft meant the phone was ringing often at Rice, which had three pitchers drafted among the top eight picks...
June 9, 2005
Latham saves best for last
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Daniel Latham knows he's not going to overpower hitters the way he sometimes did while at Covington High School, and the 90-plus mph fastball that most late-inning pitchers possess, he says, is not a part of his game...
Tulane's powerful lineup answered all challenges
Baton Rouge Advocate
Had Southern University left fielder Mario Spann been able to squeeze a baseball in his glove at the wall of Turchin Stadium on Friday afternoon, the fourth-seeded Jaguars would have been able to do what seemed the impossible in this NCAA regional: keep a lead on top-ranked Tulane for a full inning...
June 8, 2005
Green Wave baseball rides the high times
New Orleans Times Picayune
So what was Monday's most amazing statistic as collage baseball's No. 1 team made it into the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament? That's easy...
Stadium should be ready
New Orleans Times Picayune
One look at Turchin Stadium's outfield Tuesday revealed what Tulane athletic grounds director Todd Halbert needed to know. The waterlogged baseball field was in no condition for play, but it should be ready by the time Tulane hosts Rice on Saturday in the New Orleans Super Regional -- assuming it doesn't take any more rain, Halbert said...
Tulane opts to face Rice on home field
Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate
Tulane could have hosted next weekend's NCAA super regional showdown with Rice in a modern minor league baseball stadium with more than 10,000 chair-back seats, more than a dozen private suites and even a swimming pool behind the right field wall...
Wave's Bogusevic, McNeese's Marceaux taken
Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate
Southern signee Cameron Maybin, Tulane signee Jay Bruce, Tulane junior pitcher Brian Bogusevic, and McNeese State junior pitcher Jacob Marceaux all were picked Tuesday in the first round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Those players were the best of the ones with ties to state colleges (other than LSU) or high schools...
Local talent is abundant in MLB draft
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was no surprise that Tulane junior Brian Bogusevic headlined the Louisiana-based selections in the Major League Baseball draft Tuesday. Twenty-two players from Louisiana or state high schools and colleges were drafted in the first day of the two-day draft, which covered 18 rounds Tuesday...
Tulane duo hoping for a strong finish
New Orleans Times Picayune
The NCAA Track and Field Championships in Sacramento, Calif., is almost 2,300 miles from New Orleans, but Tulane senior Angela Dooley and sophomore Gloria Asumnu prefer to think of it in more manageable terms -- 30 meters at a time...
June 7, 2005
Wave reigns
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane shortstop Tommy Manzella was right. On Sunday night, he said the postponement of the New Orleans Regional championship game was only going to delay, not stop the nation's top-ranked team from advancing to the super regional...
Helicopter comes to rescue
New Orleans Times Picayune
The way Tulane has hit the baseball this season, Turchin Stadium could easily be called a "launching pad." For an hour Monday its outfield looked like it could have been a helicopter pad...
Tulane tops Alabama, captures N.O. regional
Baton Rouge Advocate
So what was a full day's worth of rain delays? You can never have a celebration that comes too late. Behind a tough-in-the-clutch start from Micah Owings and, for the rain-delayed regional's sake, let's say a steady-as-raindrops offense...
Wave washes Tide out of regional
Baton Rouge Advocate
The weather was about the only thing that didn't go the way Tulane would have drawn it up during the New Orleans regional. The Green Wave lived up to its billing as the No. 1 national seed, sweeping through the regional and finally finishing things off with a weather-delayed 7-4 victory over Alabama on Monday night at Turchin Stadium...
Tulane ends Tide's season after long delay
Birmingham (Ala.) News
Rain fell. Roads flooded. Wind blew. Thunder howled. Lightning cracked. And finally, after seven combined hours of weather delays, Alabama's baseball season ended...
Tide all washed up
Mobile (Ala.) Register
They needed more weather delays and a water-dispersing chopper, but No. 1-ranked Tulane is moving on. The Green Wave eliminated No. 2 seed Alabama 7-4 in the raindrops late Monday to bring a merciful end to a rain-soaked New Orleans Regional before 4,125 fans at Turchin Stadium...
Tulane slides by Tide
Huntsville (Ala.) Times
After waiting more than 24 hours to finally play the game and then squandering repeated opportunities to pull off a stunning upset, Alabama's baseball season came to a soggy end late Monday night. The Crimson Tide twice took leads against top-ranked Tulane but fell 7-4 to the Green Wave in the championship round of the NCAA Tournament's New Orleans Regional before 4,125 fans, the second-largest crowd in Turchin Stadium history...
Green Wave closes the door on Alabama's season
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
The University of Alabama baseball team pushed No. 1 Tulane in the NCAA New Orleans Regional, but the No. 1-ranked Green Wave always found a way to push back, ending the Crimson Tide's season with a 7-4 win...
Tulane too tough for Tide
Decatur (Ala.) Daily
The game that never would start finally ended late Monday night. It just wasn't the ending Alabama wanted...
Tide drowned out by Green Wave
Dothan (Ala.) Eagle
Mother Nature kept delaying the New Orleans Regional championship game, but host school Tulane finally ended up with the win...
LSU, Tulane players excited about draft
Baton Rouge Advocate
In the eyes of some Major League Baseball scouts, no LSU player has done more for himself this season than pitcher Greg Smith. The question now becomes, will it be enough for the junior left-hander to bypass his final year of eligibility?...
June 6, 2005
Wave sees bright spot after rain delays
New Orleans Times Picayune
For the second consecutive Sunday, Tulane's parade got rained on -- and rained out. The Green Wave, which had last week's Conference USA tournament championship game canceled because of rain, had its New Orleans Regional title game with Alabama postponed until today. The game is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Turchin Stadium...
Weather doesn't dampen TU's, Dickson's spirits
New Orleans Times Picayune
Rain was soaking Turchin Stadium, but it did nothing to dampen the spirits of a onetime University of Tulsa baseball player. "You're talking to a former nondescript pitcher/outfielder," Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson said...
Tide endures rain, Cajuns' comeback
New Orleans Times Picayune
The man wore a red cape and a black ball cap inside out, and he screamed his Ragin' Cajun heart out, more than four hours since he entered Turchin Stadium. Security had already tried to calm the UL-Lafayette Superfan, but at this point in the Alabama-ULL game, the secret service might have had difficulty muzzling him. In the bottom of the ninth, ULL trailed 4-2 with no outs, when Justin Morgan drilled a solo home run...
Players find amusement during rain
New Orleans Times Picayune
With water cascading off the roof of the dugout, Louisiana-Lafayette players stopped thinking about the baseball game. In the middle of the fifth inning of the Ragin' Cajuns' game against Alabama on Sunday in the New Orleans Regional, play was halted by an hour-and-a-half rain delay...
High Hopes for Baseball Draft
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane's Brian Bogusevic and Micah Owings, and LSU's Greg Smith could be picked early in the Major League Baseball draft...
Tulane, Alabama play today to advance
Baton Rouge Advocate
The New Orleans regional championship game between Tulane and Alabama was rained out Sunday night at Turchin Stadium. The game was rescheduled for 1 p.m. today. If the top-seeded Green Wave (52-9) wins, it will advance to host a super regional next weekend...
UL-Lafayette eliminated by Alabama
Baton Rouge Advocate
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette kept giving Alabama a four-run lead in two NCAA regional games, and that's never good...
Wave goodbye
Birmingham (Ala.) News
How do you like Alabama's chances now? Thanks to a 4-3 victory Sunday over Louisiana-Lafayette in an NCAA Tournament elimination game, the University of Alabama baseball team must do the following to advance to its first Super Regional since 1999...
Bama bounces UL
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
How many more things could go wrong for Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun baseball team Sunday? The sore-armed ace starting pitcher was only able to face seven batters before leaving. The starting center fielder and leadoff hitter jammed his shoulder in the third inning and was ineffective the rest of the way...
June 5, 2005
Wave turns back Tide
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane is now in the New Orleans Regional's cat-bird seat. The Green Wave put itself in that position playing long ball against second-seeded Alabama on Saturday, hitting three home runs on its way to a 10-4 victory over the Crimson Tide at Turchin Stadium...
Versatile big guys Owings, Bogusevic tow the line for Green Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Saturday was Big Guy night for Tulane's two-way guys. At the plate, 6-foot-5, 225-pound Micah Owings was launching moonshots out of Turchin Stadium...
Owings leads Green Wave's power surge
New Orleans Times Picayune
Immediately, people began calculating the distance. The scoreboard in left field at Turchin Stadium is about 30 feet tall. It is about 370 feet from home plate. Where's a geometry book when you need one?...
Owings, Bogusevic power Tulane
Baton Rouge Advocate
Micah Owings homered twice and drove in five runs to support 7 1/3 strong innings by Brian Bogusevic as Tulane defeated Alabama 10-4 Saturday night in front of 4,097 fans at Turchin Stadium to advance to the championship of the New Orleans regional...
Tulane tops Alabama
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
Micah Owings personally put Tulane one win away from the title of its own NCAA Regional Championships here Saturday night. Now, he'll try to pitch the Green Wave to that crown. Owings uncorked a pair of tape-measure home runs, one a three-run shot in the third inning that gave the Wave a 3-0 lead, and the other a clinching two-run shot in the top of the ninth that added to a final 10-4 margin over Alabama...
Green Wave sends Tide to losers' bracket
Birmingham (Ala.) News
When U.S. National Team slugger Micah Owings made up his mind to leave Georgia Tech after his sophomore season in 2004, he immediately became, in Alabama coach Jim Wells' words, "the free agent of the summer"...
No. 1 Tulane whacks Tide
Mobile (Ala.) Register
Brian Bogusevic has major league millions in his near future, but his Tulane teammate Micah Owings wowed the scouts more on Saturday night. Bogusevic labored through seven-plus innings and got the win, and Owings homered twice and drove in five runs as No. 1-ranked Tulane downed Alabama 10-4...
Owings wallops Tide in No. 1 Tulane's victory
Huntsville (Ala.) Times
Alabama couldn't pull off the shocker of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday night. The Crimson Tide injected a jolt of drama in the fifth inning with a three-run rally and eventually pulled within a run in the seventh inning...
Green Wave tosses Tide to loser's bracket
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
It may be in New Orleans, but what's facing the University of Alabama baseball team now is anything but the Big Easy. The Crimson Tide fell to No. 1 ranked Tulane 10-4, dropping Alabama into a desperate situation in the loser's bracket...
Tulane hammers Alabama
Dothan (Ala.) Eagle
For the second straight game in the New Orleans Regional, Alabama fell behind 1-0 in the first inning...
Top ranked Tulane trips up Tide
Decatur (Ala.) Daily
After relying on Brent Carter to get the Tide out of jams the past few weeks, Alabama coach Jim Wells tried a new tactic Saturday night -- starting him. It didn't work. Neither did David Robertson's relief pitching. Against Tulane, the top-ranked team in the nation, maybe nothing would've worked...
Ragin' Cajuns end Southern's season
Baton Rouge Advocate
You could gauge the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's baseball team by the roar of those vermilion-clad Ragin' Cajuns in the stands...
UL aggressive in win
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
If somebody had told Tony Robichaux that his University of Louisiana baseball team was only getting nine hits Saturday, and the Ragin' Cajuns were going to leave 11 runners on base, he would have been making plans to go home...
June 4, 2005
Tulane, LSU pull away for first-round victories
New Orleans Times Picayune
For the majority of the season, Tulane has lived on its stellar pitching and defense. On Friday, in the first game of the New Orleans Regional against Southern, the Green Wave's hitting took center stage and made up for sub-par pitching and defensive miscues...
In the blink of an eye, Hamilton sees to it Wave has enough runs
New Orleans Times Picayune
It might be stretching it a bit, but I'll go ahead and make the case. It took Tulane a total of 120 seconds to get off to a winning start as the nation's No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament...
Jags lament snag that got away
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tulane third baseman Brad Emaus could have sworn it was out of the park. Who could blame him? The wind roared out of Turchin Stadium all afternoon Friday, and this fly ball soared for an extended time...
Just not enough for SU
Baton Rouge Advocate
Southern gave Tulane a game, sure enough. But then again, top-ranked and No. 1 overall seed Tulane gave the Jaguars way more than they could handle...
Hamilton helps pick up slack
Baton Rouge Advocate
Tulane didn't pitch or play defense like the No. 1 team in the country, but left fielder Mark Hamilton made sure it didn't matter in the Green Wave's 17-7 victory over Southern in the opening game of the New Orleans regional Friday afternoon at Turchin Stadium...
Wave ride Hamilton
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
Mark Hamilton hasn't been healthy for most of his two seasons on Tulane's baseball team. He's well now. Southern's Jaguars can attest to that. Hamilton broke open a close NCAA Regional game with a fifth-inning grand slam, and then turned the Green Wave's opening-round battle into a runaway with a three-run eighth-inning shot...
Tide engulfs Cajuns
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
The question over whether the University of Louisiana can win an NCAA Baseball Regional without an effective Kevin Ardoin remains to be answered. But the question over whether Ardoin could bounce back from four straight shaky outings was answered, and it was an emphatic no...
Alabama tops UL-Lafayette
Baton Rouge Advocate
The early hallmark of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's baseball team evolved into its greatest liability at the most inopportune time of the season. The Ragin' Cajuns, who won 14 of their first 15 games, rocketed to as high as No. 10 nationally, chiefly behind the arms of senior pitchers Kevin Ardoin and Austin Faught...
N.O. Notes: Kirk's dad doesn't mind making sacrifice
Baton Rouge Advocate
After Friday's outing, Joshua Kirk could use some time with his dad. Good thing Ruben Ram Jr. made the red-eye flight to New Orleans. After clocking in at his San Bernardino, Calif., office at 8 a.m. Thursday, Ram worked a full day at his job as a mortgage lender, then got to the Los Angeles airport at 11 p.m. for a 1 a.m. flight that touched down in New Orleans around 9 a.m. Friday...
Bush powers Tide to victory
New Orleans Times Picayune
The slugger wasn't slugging. In 12 consecutive at-bats, Alabama's Evan Bush went hitless, making the SEC tournament forgettable. But in his last at-bat of that tournament, down one run in the ninth with a runner on, he hit a towering fly ball to deep center -- 402 feet -- that was caught three feet from the fence...
Evan Bush breaks slump to spark UA win
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
Evan Bush isn't the first person to come to New Orleans and forget his troubles. Not everyone, however, does it in such dramatic fashion...
New lineup sparks Tide
Mobile (Ala.) Register
Slumping slugger Evan Bush broke out in fine fashion Friday night with a pair of homers as Alabama rode a juggled lineup to a 7-5 win over Louisiana-Lafayette in an opening-round NCAA Regional game...
Bush blooms again for Tide
Huntsville (Ala.) Times
Maybe all it took was a little Louisiana humidity to thaw out the bat of Alabama third baseman Evan Bush. On a muggy Friday night at Turchin Stadium, Bush snapped out of a lengthy slump by smashing two tape-measure home runs and the Crimson Tide rolled to a 7-5 win over Louisiana-Lafayette in the NCAA Tournament's New Orleans Regional...
June 3, 2005
The Total Package
New Orleans Times Picayune
During his three seasons at Tulane, Brian Bogusevic has been a standout on the mound, with the bat and in the field, prompting Rick Jones to rank him among the best players he's coached...
Another selling point for Wave
New Orleans Times Picayune
Pesky salesmen. They'll try to sell anything. Sean Morgan had heard it all during his high school days in Sugar Land, Texas. But one day, a salesman from New Orleans opened up his bag and pulled out some blueprints. Morgan was sold...
Southern tries to fulfill potential against top-ranked Green Wave
Baton Rouge Advocate
You know what Tulane can do. Who knows what Southern can do? Tulane is the No. 1 national seed and a legitimate 50-game winner. The Green Wave began as a preseason No. 1 and put together the best regular season in the program's history...
ULL, Alabama look for early-season form
Baton Rouge Advocate
Both the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and Alabama hope to revert to their form of earlier in the season when they meet in the second game of the New Orleans regional at 6:30 p.m. today at Turchin Stadium. The third-seeded Ragin' Cajuns (47-17) were just 9-8 in May and lost five of their last eight games, including a 2-2 record in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament...
Southern hopes to continue surge
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
Southern University baseball coach Roger Cador didn't hesitate when he was asked about the Jaguars' turnaround this year. He can pick out the game, the inning and even the play that turned the tide and boosted his club into the NCAA Tournament...
Offense key in matchup
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
Even with the pre-tournament talk surrounding the pitching matchups, it's likely this weekend's survivor of the NCAA Baseball Tournament's New Orleans Regional will do so because of offense. That's what players on both teams expect tonight when Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns make their first NCAA appearance in three seasons, facing second-seeded Alabama at 6:30 p.m. at Tulane's Turchin Stadium...
Road trip wasn't in Tide's plans
New Orleans Times Picayune
Tuscaloosa's ticket scalpers are free this weekend. A few weeks ago it seemed like a lock -- the scorching Alabama baseball team was on track to host one of the 16 regionals in the NCAA Tournament. Entering May 6, the Crimson Tide was 33-14, with wins against Ole Miss and LSU, two teams that are hosting regionals...
Tide's pitchers key to NCAA success
Birmingham (Ala.) News
A scorching Big Easy summer awaited Alabama's baseball players on the Tulane University campus Thursday. And as they practiced at quaint, neighborhood-enclosed Turchin Stadium for today's start of the NCAA Tournament, most of the heat seemed to fall directly on the pitchers. After all, they're part of the million-dollar question...
New Orleans Regional Capsules
Birmingham (Ala.) News
Record: 50-9 (24-6 in Conference USA). Why they're here: They've been No. 1 in the national polls for most of the season and they made mincemeat out of the C-USA Tournament, sweeping past UAB, East Carolina and Houston...
Tide focusing on Ragin' Cajuns
Mobile (Ala.) Register
The hullabaloo surrounding Alabama's draw with No. 1-ranked Tulane in the NCAA New Orleans Regional created a windstorm that made it easy to forget something. The Crimson Tide has a formidable opponent in Louisiana-Lafayette in its mug before the mighty Green Wave can ever be an issue...
Easy won't do it this weekend for Alabama
Huntsville (Ala.) Times
There won't be anything easy about the Big Easy this weekend. That's the perspective of Alabama coach Jim Wells and it's not just ordinary coachspeak. Three of the four teams here for the NCAA Regional at Tulane's tiny Turchin Stadium are ranked in the Top 25 - No. 1 Tulane, No. 18 Alabama, No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette...
Coaching strategy key in NCAA Tournament
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
The NCAA Baseball Tournament, like all postseason baseball, will have its share of dramatic home runs and diving catches. What happens on the field is important, of course...
ULL's Robichaux uncertain about starting pitching
New Orleans Times Picayune
It was as sure as an afternoon shower in July in New Orleans. Almost every time pitchers Kevin Ardoin and Austin Faught earned a decision for Louisiana-Lafayette, it was a victory. Entering May, only once did either lose -- Ardoin was 9-1; Faught was 9-0...
Kirk on tap for SU in first game
Baton Rouge Advocate
Southern likely will start sophomore right-hander Joshua Kirk in today's NCAA regional game with Tulane in Turchin Stadium. Though he mentioned four different players, including reliever Jeffrey McCollum, at a news conference, SU coach Roger Cador later said he was leaning toward Kirk, the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament MVP...
June 2, 2005
Turchin Stadium facelift about to get off ground
New Orleans Times Picayune
The long-awaited renovation of Turchin Stadium is about to become a reality. The project, which was delayed last summer because a water main had to be rerouted under the baseball diamond, will begin in the next couple of weeks, Tulane officials said Wednesday...
Tulane using familiar postseason road map
Baton Rouge Advocate
If Tulane gets back to the College World Series this season, it will use a similar road map to the one it used in its only other trip to the CWS in 2001. The Green Wave is again hosting a regional on campus and playing Southern in the first round, just as it did in 2001 when it beat the Jaguars on its way to the regional title...
Mason ring leader of Jaguars
Baton Rouge Advocate
Southern's Brandon Mason split his first two Southwestern Athletic Conference championship rings. One went to his father, Carl, for being dad. The other went to his only sibling, older brother Carl, because he went to Grambling and never got one...
ULL pitcher Faught back, goes 12-0 after surgery
Baton Rouge Advocate
Austin Faught's season-long comeback story contains components that would make most pitchers envious. Instead of pitching off the mound, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette senior spent all of 2004 undergoing post-surgical therapy...
New Orleans Notes
Baton Rouge Advocate
Senior catcher/designated hitter Brandon Mason and junior relief pitcher Emary Frederick are the only current Southern players to have played in an NCAA tournament game. Mason is 6-for-19 (.316) with four RBIs and two runs, starting in five tournament games (in 2002 and '03)...
Cajuns and pitcher Kevin Ardoin hope to turn the Tide
Lafayette (La.) Daily Advertiser
Two pitchers who started the season as their club's solid No. 1 hurler will square off Friday, but both will be looking to answer questions when Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns take on Alabama in the NCAA Regional Baseball Tournament...
Tide looking for solution to slump
Mobile (Ala.) Register
More conspiracy theories are hatching in central Alabama after the Crimson Tide baseball team was dispatched by the NCAA selection committee to the New Orleans Regional where national No. 1 seed Tulane awaits...
Left-hander Brent Carter a key for Tide in new role
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
The last time the University of Alabama baseball team entered the NCAA Tournament, Brent Carter was leading the way. This year, Carter, a senior left-handed pitcher, has a different role...
June 1, 2005
Regionals fail to provide unique games
Lake Charles (La.) American Press
With all the over-populated Californias and Texas' and Floridas out there hitting December fungoes, only one state has more entries in the NCAA baseball tournament than our own Louisiana...
Wave to create a new chapter
New Orleans Times Picayune
Inside Turchin Stadium, they were adding bleacher seats along the foul lines in right field and left field, upping capacity to 4,000. Outside Turchin Stadium, a line was forming at the box office...
Transfer major cog for Wave
Baton Rouge Advocate
Micah Owings never thought of himself as the final piece to Tulane's puzzle, but it's beginning to look like he might be just that...
Maryland assistant joins Green Wave staff
New Orleans Times Picayune
It has taken Tulane basketball coach Dave Dickerson a little bit longer than he anticipated, but he completed his coaching staff Tuesday. Andrew Novick, who spent the past two seasons as a graduate assistant at Maryland where Dickerson served as the associate head coach, has joined Dickerson's staff...
Nelson 'heart and soul' of Jaguars
Baton Rouge Advocate
Southern's Kevin Nelson, a fifth-year senior, has become one of the Jaguars' leaders. 'We look up to Kevin,' SU pitcher Joshua Kirk says. If there is a textbook way a player handles himself and goes out as a senior, then Southern University first baseman Kevin Nelson has followed that to the letter...
Prep players big part of ULL's rebuilding
Baton Rouge Advocate
How can a Division I mid-major program sustain prominence and make frequent returns to the NCAA College World Series? After getting his team there for the first time five seasons ago, University of Louisiana at Lafayette baseball coach Tony Robichaux said he's found the answer...
Alabama baseball team experiencing offensive woes
Dothan (Ala.) Eagle
The University of Alabama baseball team will get its first taste of NCAA Tournament baseball in two years Friday at Tulane's Turchin Stadium in New Orleans...
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