My favorite time of year is fast approaching- baseball season is upon us! We open next Friday against Marshall. I’m particularly excited about this year’s edition of the Pack Nine as we have a good mix of talented veterans and newcomers this season. The new arrivals should be very, as evidenced by a recruiting class […]
Baseball
Friday Farrago
August 19, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL CHIP ALEXANDER (N&O) Pack’s Kuhn, Sweezy worlds apart Most know of Kuhn’s unusual story, of how he and his father, Wolfgang, came to the U.S. from Germany in 2006, visiting colleges, looking for a place to play. Kuhn didn’t have a recruiting resume. He had size and a DVD […]
Tuesday Tidbits
August 16, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Ryan Tice (TheWolfpacker.com) Mon. practice report: O’Brien talks individuals How’s the precision of the offensive line? It’s better now. It was good, [Duran] Christophe went down and it got bad. It’s starting to get better. You only get better when you get cohesion. I think they took a little […]
Conference Title Drought
With the heat wave that has been in the Raleigh area as well as most places in the Southeast over the last week or so, it brought up another area where a major drought is occurring. Now that baseball is down to the College World Series, all conference tournaments have been completed in all sports […]
ACC Baseball Tournament
NC State, following a three game sweep of Boston College, is heading into the 2011 ACC Baseball Tournament on a 5 game winning streak and is playing their best baseball of the year. The Wolfpack are the 7th seed in the tournament. Here is the setup of the tournament: Pool A 1. Virginia 4. North […]
HUGE doubleheader for Pack Nine today
Heading into this weekend CollegeBaseballInsider.com framed the race for NCAA Tournament slots as follows: ACC (7) – The big news here this week was NC State (11-13, 28-21, RPI 33) dropping two of three to ETSU out of the A-Sun, but the Wolfpack didn’t drop too much in RPI. But this weekend’s series with FSU […]
State sweeps Tar Heels, WRAL takes role of Inside Carolina
NC State swept three straight games from #5 ranked UNC this weekend. Great stuff. Big wins. We’ll take it. Especially in light of the heat starting to get applied to Elliot Avent. But, check out the ‘journalism’ we get in the coverage from WRAL in this link. Interesting to say the least. First, the title […]
2011 Wolfpack Baseball: The Offense
So… I’m ridiculously slow. You can thank 90 hour work weeks for that. However, as promised, I have this year’s glimpse at the NC State baseball squad, and we’ll focus first on the offense. Why the offense? Well, let’s face it- it’s sexy. Pitching and defense win championships, but unless you’re a hard-core baseball person, […]
Wade Moore working his way to Washington
Named after Wade Boggs, the 23 year-old Wade Moore (Bats: L / Throws: R) is one of the best pure athletes Rowan County has produced. Initially committing to the Tarheels, Wade changed his mind and decided to lace up at Doak Field. After a rocky road, he earned a starting spot as a Junior… only […]
October Chatter
It’s getting pretty cold, but I’m not talking about teeth. I’m talking about baseball! Let’s take a moment to not think about football. Consider it therapy. The College Baseball Blog has started it’s countdown of the 2011 Top 100 Players, and Wolfpack Junior Pratt Maynard is the first (and probably last) NCSU player to make […]
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