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WatchList : 2009 : National Allstar Lineup - Week 5
National Allstar Lineup - Week 5
Mar 23rd, 2009
The College Baseball Foundation and Diamond Sports are proud to announce this week’s National All-Star Lineup.   Dominating pitching highlights the lineup this week with performances from Kyle Gibson, Stephen Strasburg, and Mike Leake.  Also Victor Franklin of Southern finishes the week with 7 home runs and 18 RBI.  Three coaches honored this week for their milestones.  See the full National All-Star Lineup below:
  • Bo Reeder - East Tennessee State

    Reeder led the Bucs to a 4-1 week as the freshman pitched a complete game win on the mound against UNC Asheville and hitting for the cycle against Campbell. On the week, he went 11-for-22 with four doubles, one triple, two home runs and drove in seven while scoring six times. 


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  • Andrew Wolcott - Duke

    Wolcott beat his second straight top-10 opponent Saturday after holding No. 1 North Carolina to one earned run over seven complete innings. Wolcott held the Tar Heels scoreless for his first six innings. Wolcott has allowed just one earned run over his last 16 innings of work (0.56 ERA).


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  • Mike Leake - Arizona State

    Team Co-Captain Mike Leake continued to produce from the mound, throwing his fifth career complete game, allowing only five hits and one run while striking out a career high 15 batters in the 4-1 ASU victory. Leake is now 5-1 on the year. 


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  • Kevin Atkinson - New Mexico

    Atkinson batted .615 (16 for 26) from the plate, with three home runs, one double, nine RBI and 13 runs scored, as the Lobos went 6-0 last week, including a two-game sweep at No. 3 Texas A&M. Defensively, Atkinson tallied 64 putouts and six assists from the first base position.


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  • Matty Ott - LSU

    Ott earned a win and two saves on his four appearances for the week.  In his 6.1 shutout innings he allowed just one hit, no walks, 10 strikeouts while opponents batted .050 against him.  Ott was dominant in collecting a save at South Carolina on Sunday, as he pitched three perfect innings, striking out six of the nine Gamecock batters he faced.


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  • Stephen Strasburg - San Diego State

    Stratsburg went 7.0 innings in a start vs. BYU last Friday, striking out 15 batters and walking two, while giving up no runs.  Strasburg struck out the side in the first inning and retired the first nine hitters he faced - seven strikeouts - overall. He also struck out the side in the fifth and sixth innings. On the night, Strasburg allowed just two hits (both singles) as he held BYU to a .087 batting average.


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  • Tell Ross - Centenary

    Ross helped the Gents to a 5-1 record last week by batting .591.  For the week, he had 13 hits, 13 RBI, 10 runs, 2 doubles, 2 walks and 1 home run.  The junior had a season high five RBI against Texas College, recorded four multi-hit games and leads Centenary with a .462 season average


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  • Chris Henderson - George Mason

    Henderson batted.440 with five doubles, a triple, a homer, four RBI and six runs scored as George Mason went 5-1 last week.  He hit .615 (8-13) as the Patriots won two of three at CCA foe ODU, including becoming just the second player in school history to hit for the cycle in Saturday's 4-2 win.  Henderson is batting .442 for the season.


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  • Victor Franklin - Southern University

    Franklin had a monster week as he belted 7 home runs with 2 doubles and 18 RBIs over six games. He was 15-for-23 at the plate (.652) with 13 runs scored and four walks. His slugging percentage was 1.696. During a 3-game series against Texas Southern, Franklin belted 5 home runs.


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  • Kyle Gibson - Missouri

    For the second week in a row, Gibson posted a complete-game win as he struck out a career-high 16 batters in the Tigers’ 3-2 victory over No. 3 Texas A&M.  He gave up just two runs on five hits.  Gibson’s only walk allowed on the night was an intentional pass in the eighth inning.  Gibson retired the first 10 batters to the plate and 18 of the first 19 he faced.  


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  • Paul Smyth - Kansas

    Smyth saved all three games of the Texas series, collecting three outs in the ninth inning of all three contests. Smyth protected one-run leads in all three cases as the Jayhawks earned their first-ever sweep of Texas, as well as their first sweep of a top-ranked team. 


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  • Alex Wimmers - Ohio State

    Earned Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors for the second week after picking up a complete game win over Indiana.  The sophomore struck out 14, allowing just five hits and no walks.  Wimmers improved his season record to 4-0 and leads the Big Ten in strikeouts with 47.


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  • Austin Lucas - Jacksonville State

    Lucas did not allow an earned run in 14 innings of work last week, posting a 2-0 record and Jacksonville State went 5-1 overall as a team.  Lucas pitched a complete-game shutout in the Tuesday game and followed that up with seven solid innings in a conference win over the weekend.  On Tuesday, he allowed just five hits with five strikeouts and only one walk.  He followed that with a four-hit, five-strikeout, no-walk performance against MSU. 


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  • Matt Skole - Georgia Tech

    Skole, a freshman from Woodstock, Ga., went 10-for-15 (.667) with three home runs and 11 RBI in last weekend's three-game series at Virginia Tech. Skole's three-run homer highlighted a six-run ninth-inning comeback in the Yellow Jackets' 10-9 win over the Hokies in the series opener.


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  • Mike McCann - Manhattan

    McCann began his week with a 2-for-4 and two RBI performance at Seton Hall leading the Jaspers to a 11-4 victory over. He continued his hot streak on Saturday when he notched three doubles and four RBI in a doubleheader sweep at Saint Peter’s. In the second game of the doubleheader McCann hit for the cycle going a perfect 4-for-4 from the plate. Then on Sunday, McCann assisted in the series sweep of Saint Peter’s hitting 4-for-5, including his third home run of the season.


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  • Kyle Roller - East Carolina

    Roller batted .591 (13-for-22) and added four home runs, 15 RBI, two walks, one strikeout and five hit by pitches. He hit three homers in the Pirates’ sweep of C-USA foe UCF, including two during Friday night’s series opener. Roller recorded a career-high five hits with two round-trippers and five RBI in Friday’s contest.


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  • Coach Wayne Graham - Rice

    No. 4-ranked Rice baseball team won a narrow 4-3 road win over Southern Miss in the Conference USA league-opener to give head coach Wayne Graham his 800th win while at the helm of the Owls baseball program.


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  • Coach Sam Piraro - San Jose State

    Coach Piraro achieved win No. 700 in charge of the San Jose State University baseball program with a 6-1 home defeat of Dartmouth College on Thursday night, March 19, at San Jose Municipal Stadium. The winningest head baseball coach in San Jose State history, Piraro has an overall record of 701-523-6 in his 22nd season at the helm of his alma mater. 


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  • Coach Larry Hays - Texas Tech (Retired)

    Texas Tech and Lubbock Christian both honored the longtime coach Monday in a pregame ceremony in which Hays’ signature No. 27, the uniform number he wore at both schools, was officially retired and permanently hung on the right-field wall at Dan Law Field.  His final record stands at 1,509 wins and 860 losses.


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