Cornell has turned to an alumnus to replace Tom Ford as head coach. The Big Red hired Tim Walkenbach, who played for Cornell in the mid-1990s and served as an assistant under Ford from 2003-05. He’s spent the last three years as the head coach at Division III Franklin & Marshall (Pa.). Now he returns [...]

Oklahoma State lefthander Andrew Oliver’s eligibility has been restored–for now. An Ohio judge granted Oliver a temporary restraining order against the NCAA, which makes him eligible until a preliminary injunction hearing on Sept. 9. Oliver, who was suspended on May 31 for violating the NCAA’s "no agent" rule, is back in class at Oklahoma State today. "It’s [...]

North Carolina first baseman Dustin Ackley, who left the Cape Cod League after batting .415/.586/.707 in 12 games for Harwich, had Tommy John surgery on his right (throwing) elbow, UNC has confirmed. Ackley, one of the top prospects for the 2009 draft, is expected to recover in time for the start of the season. The surgery [...]

Behind a complete-game shutout from righthander Mike Ford (UC Santa Barbara), the Santa Barbara Foresters beat the Seattle Studs 2-0 on Friday to win the National Baseball Congress World Series. Center fielder Andre Miller (Loyola Marymount graduate) went 2-for-3 with a home run and an RBI triple for the Foresters, and Ford allowed just five [...]

Fenway Park will not host the 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament, as originally scheduled, because of an in-house scheduling error, according to Fenway Sports Group. The ACC will look for a new venue for the 2009 tournament, but Fenway will host the 2010 tournament instead. "We sincerely apologize for the error that resulted in Fenway [...]

The Harwich Mariners won their first Cape Cod League championship in 21 years Thursday night, beating Cotuit 2-1 in the decisive third game of the championship series. Mark Fleury (North Carolina) delivered a pinch-hit, two-run single in the ninth inning against Kettleers closer Drew Storen (Stanford), turning a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win for [...]

Not all college baseball news this time of year revolves around signings and summer league results. Last week we wrote about meetings of the Rules Committee, Baseball Issues Committee and a subcommittee of the Academic Enhancement Working Group. The Division I Baseball Committee also met last week, and this week I caught up with NCAA [...]

Loyola Marymount announced Thursday that it has hired Jason Gill to replace Frank Cruz as head coach. Gill has spent the last four years as an assistant to George Horton at Cal State Fullerton and then Oregon, but he has LMU ties–he was an assistant there in 1999 and 2000, the last two years the [...]

Thomasville became the first team to win three consecutive Coastal Plain League championships this weekend, beating Florence 7-4 in the final game of the Petitt Cup tournament championships. A pair of teammates from The Citadel combined to score the eventual game-winning run in the fifth, as Richard Jones singled home Chris McGuiness from second to [...]

The Harwich Mariners returned to the Cape Cod League championship series for the first time in 11 years in dramatic fashion. Harwich needed 18 innings to pull out a 1-0 win over Orleans on Sunday, clinching a trip to the finals against the winner of tonight’s decisive third game between Falmouth and Cotuit. Harwich outfielder Brian [...]