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Collegiate Baseball The Voice Of Amateur Baseball Started In 1958 At The Request Of Our Nation’s Baseball Coaches Vol. 62, No. 12 Friday, July 12, 2019 $4.00 Vanderbilt players celebrate in high style after beating Michigan 8-2 for the 2019 NCAA Division I national championship. Commodores Capture Second National Title Vanderbilt never By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. national baseball championship runs per game and led the nation (42-for-190). Editor/Collegiate Baseball 8-2 over Michigan with a group of with 100 home runs, 770 hits and It was the lowest batting average backed down from battle tested players who refused to finished second nationally with 164 of a national champion since 1972 any challenge during MAHA, Neb. — Over- quit when the toughest of challenges doubles. (47 years ago) when Southern 2019 season as they coming adversity is erupted. Yet this offensive juggernaut California hit .208 over 6 games. t h e h a l l m a r k o f a l l The Commodores had the struggled at the College World In fact, only three national had an answer for O championship teams. most imposing hitting lineup in Series against fabulous pitching every scenario. Vanderbilt won its second the country that averaged 8.1 as the Commodores only hit .221 VANDERBILT NEVER, Page 4 Inside Collegiate Baseball Web Site: www.baseballnews.com Four Powerful Photo Pages Tim Corbin Coach Of The Year Extreme Shifting On Defense All the action, drama, jubilation, Vanderbilt skipper presses all College World Series teams put devastation captured at College the right buttons as Commodores on a clinic when pull hitters come World Series/Pages 9-12 win NCAA Div. I title/Page 14 to bat 28 different times/Page 5 Page 2 Collegiate Baseball Friday, July 12, 2019 Coaching Changes Take Place Across United States T U C S O N , A r i z . — A s UNC Wilmington and Virginia Tech. Previously he served as pitching coach the summer progresses, more He replaces Loren Hibbs who retired at Missouri and Rice. announcements have been made after 27 years. He was a star catcher at Rice about coaching changes at the Mike McGuire was named the and helped lead the Owls to NCAA fourth head coach to lead the University Tournament appearances in each season, collegiate level. of South Carolina Upstate baseball including three College World Series Head Coaches team. appearances. Mitch Canham was selected as For seven years he was the head Steven Trout is the new head coach Oregon State’s head coach. He is coach at Morehead State and compiled at Texas State. He recently completed his a former All-American catcher and a 228-187 record at the school. Nine of sixth season overall and second season two-time national champion with the his players have been drafted by MLB as the school’s associate head coach and Beavers. teams and 13 have signed professional recruiting coordinator. Canham served a half a season as the contracts. Three of the last four years has seen manager of the Arkansas Travelers, the Will Bolt returns to Nebraska as the Texas State post a top three fielding Seattle Mariners’ Double-A affiliate in Huskers’ 24th head baseball coach. percentage in school history, including a the Texas League. The club clinched a He brings 16 years of coaching program best .977 mark this spring. The first-half division title on June 9. experience to the Nebraska program, team was the 2019 Sun Belt Conference After graduating from OSU, he was including five seasons on the Husker regular season champions and ranked a first round selection by the Padres in baseball staff and four years as a head in the top half of 13 different offensive 2007 and spent four seasons with their coach at Texarkana College. He was categories. organization, reaching as high as Triple- the Associate Head Coach at Nebraska Saint Peter’s University named Lou A Portland. He also spent time in other under Darin Erstad from 2012 to 2014 Proietti its newest head coach. He brings MLB organizations before ending his and a volunteer assistant in 2005. a decade of coaching experience. playing career. Steve Owens is the 13th head coach For the past four years, he coached Cal State Northridge named Dave at Rutgers University baseball. He is an at Stonehill College, a Division 2 Serrano as the 10th head coach of the 11-time conference coach of the year school in Massachusetts, serving as Matador baseball team. One of the most and brings 28 winning seasons of head the Associate Head Coach. He was the experienced coaches in college baseball, coaching experience. For the last nine team’s recruiting coordinator, hitting he has spent 24 seasons coaching at the Mitch Canham (right) is the skipper at Oregon St. years, he was at Bryant University . He and defensive coach. He also coached Division 1 level. He led two different has a 914-483-3 career record. at Rider and McMaster University in schools to the College World Series and at FSU. Choate joined the Lions as the Missouri assistant coach and recruiting Canada. boasts a 446-302-1 record. Jason Gill was named the head coach pitching coach and recruiter in 2018. coordinator Lance Rhodes was named West Georgia named Jeff Smith the Overall he has been a part of seven at the University of Southern California His pitching staff boasted the West Coast the new head coach at Southern Illinois. eighth head baseball coach in school College World Series teams. He has after 11 seasons as the head coach at Conference’s best ERA, allowing 3.50 Rhodes has led turnarounds at Southeast history. He takes over the program after coached at UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, Loyola Marymount. earned runs per game and ranked 14th Missouri and Missouri in the last seven nine years as an assistant coach under Tennessee and West Virginia. In 2019 he led LMU to a WCC in the nation. years. SEMO teams earned conference former head coach Skip Fite, who Longtime Florida State assistant Tournament Championship and an He previously was the pitching championships and appearances in the retired this spring. coach Mike Martin Jr. was promoted NCAA Tournament Regional coach and recruiting coordinator for the NCAA Tournament while Mizzou teams Smith helped guide the Wolves to to head coach following the footsteps of appearance. University of San Diego, Grand Canyon posted 30+ wins a season and earned the Gulf South Conference tournament his father, Mike Martin, who held the Loyola Marymount’s Assistant Coach University and UC Riverside. spots in the national rankings. seven times and the NCAA South job for 40 years. Nathan Choate was promoted as the Robert Woodard was named head Pat Hallmark is the new head coach Regional in 2016. Martin has spent the past 22 years as team’s newest head coach. LMU Lions coach at UNC Charlotte. For the past at Texas-San Antonio. He was named He has been a college baseball coach an assistant coach focusing on hitting had a great season as they participated in three season, he was the pitching coach the 2019 Southland Conference Coach for 28 years and spent six years as head and recruiting. He has coached 16 Major their first NCAA post-season tournament at the University of North Carolina of the Year after two record-breaking Leaguers and numerous All-Americans since 2000. and also served as pitching coach at seasons as head coach at Incarnate Word. 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