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College Baseball's Top Middle Infielders Of 08

Here is the third part of my break down of the top college baseball players in the country. This one has to do with the middle infielders.

Middle Infielders:

1: Ryan Flaherty  Vanderbilt  Jr

2 :Brandon Turner  Mississippi St  So

3: Dallas Poulk  North Carolina St  So

4: David Adams  Virginia  Jr

5: Alden Carrithers  UCLA  Sr

6: Brandon Crawford  UCLA  Jr

7: Aaron Luna  Rice  Jr

Boston College, Duke Working To Climb ACC Ladder

Baseball America has a good story about Duke and Boston College. It is from Aaron Fitt. I am going to post it here for people to read.

Just 10 miles from Duke's Coombs Field, Boshamer Stadium is undergoing renovations that will make it one of the best facilities in the Southeast, as well as the home to a North Carolina program that has reached the College World Series Finals two straight years.

There are two other Atlantic Coast Conference teams within a 90-minute drive from Durham that went to regionals last year, and other conference foes like Florida State, Miami, Georgia Tech and Clemson are so steeped in tradition that it seems a waste of time to entertain even fantastical notions of  the Blue Devils or other teams at the wrong end of the ACC power structure ever leveling the playing field.

Gamecock Head Baseball Coach Ray Tanner Talks Fall Baseball

This story came from CSTV web site and thought I post it here.

Columbia, S.C. - South Carolina head baseball coach Ray Tanner met with the media last week to discuss fall baseball and his squad as it prepares for the 2008 season. The Gamecocks open up the schedule on Friday, Feb. 22 with a three-game series vs. East Carolina at Sarge Frye Field.

(On fall practice)
"I felt like we had a really good fall practice. I'm especially proud of the older guys and their work ethic. Guys that have been in the program for a while. They've been out playing in the summer and really didn't have to come out and prove themselves this fall. I felt like they worked hard and played with the type of enthusiasm and work ethic that we needed to have because of the younger players that we have in the program. Overall I thought it was a good fall for us."

"We're banged up a little bit. Reese (Havens) missed some time. (James) Darnell missed some time. They seem to be okay. We had a couple extra weeks this year compared to previous years because of the new legislation. We get a couple of extra weeks in the fall and we lose a couple of weeks in the spring. It was a good fall."

(On the play of the freshmen)