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Lubbock, TX - The College Baseball Foundation would like to thank the many schools that have sent memorabilia to the College Baseball Hall of Fame for the 2009 season. The 2009 showcase of the collected memorabilia will travel throughout the United States through the course of the year, and then become a permanent fixture in the College Baseball Hall of Fame. A list of several items collected through the 2009 season follows:

Strasburg was the recipient of the 23rd annual Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball's player of the year and named the 2009 College Baseball Foundation Pitcher of the Year. Strasburg was name an consensus All-American and Mountain West Conference Player of the Year for the second year in a row.

Ackley was a finalist for the Dick Howser Trophy. For his performance on the diamond this past year, Ackley was awared the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year and named a consensus All-American.

Hall tossed the fifth complete game no-hitter in Kansas history in the 5-0 victory over Air Force. Hall allowed no runs on no hits with three walks and seven strikeouts, becoming the first Jayhawk pitcher to throw a no-hitter since David Hicks in 1980.

In six games, Hill went 15 for 26 with two doubles, five home runs, 18 RBI and scored nine runs in leading his team to a 5-1 week. He had at least two hits and two RBI in five of the six games.

Calhoun tossed a four-hit complete game shutout (seven innings) as Murray State topped Illinois State 1-0 on Friday. The junior lefty struck out eight Redbird batters without walking a batter. He retired 11-straight hitters from the second through the sixth inning. The eight strikeouts for Calhoun were a career-high. He ended the game by striking out the final two hitters to get out of a two-on, no-out situation.

Wilson broke a Charlotte school record with ten hits in consecutive at bats over a three-game stretch. He batted .769 (10-for-13) this past week and drew five walks for an on-base percentage of .833 and stole four bases. He has scored two or more runs in five-straight games and has a nine-game active hit streak. He leads the team this season in hits, runs, batting average, slugging, on-base percentage and stolen bases.

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.

Hit .667 (10 for 15) with 3 doubles, 4 home runs, 1 run scored, and 13 RBI. Burnette tied Georgia Tech’s single game record going 6 for 6 in the final game of the week in which he had three doubles, three homers, seven runs scored, and nine RBI.

Tied the NCAA record by reaching base 18 straight times in a week. The junior second basemen hit .722 (13 for 18) with 5 doubles, 2 homers, and 10 runs scored.

Threw a seven inning no-hitter against Chicago State. Duncan struck out eight batters and walked just two. His no-hitter was the sixth in Eastern Kentucky school history.

Threw a no-hitter to defeat Northwestern 2-0 in Game 1 of a doubleheader. Struck out five and was perfect through 7.2 innings of work. The no-hitter is the first in a Big 10 Conference game since 2006 and the first for the Spartans since 1993.

Hit .647 (11 for 17) with five home runs, a double, 11 RBI, and 12 runs scored to help New Mexico to a 4-0 week. The senior outfielder finished a three game series against Air Force with a 5 for 5 effort, including 4 RBI, 6 runs scored, a double, and three home runs.

Burgess hit .615 (16 for 26) with 3 homers, 18 RBI, and 9 runs scored in the week. Throughout the season, Burgess is 4 for 4 with three home runs and 14 RBI when he comes to bat with the bases loaded.

Hit .706 (12 for 17) with six homeruns, ten RBI, and twelve runs scored. The junior third basemen had a slugging percentage of 1.824. In the weekend series opener, Spencer was 4 for 4 with two solo homeruns and 4 runs scored.

Batted .667 (10 for 15) for the week with two doubles, a triple, and a homerun. Jones opened the weekend series going 5 for 6 while hitting for the cycle. His two run homer in the eighth completed the cycle and broke a 9-9 tie, leading the Blackbirds to a 15-11 win.

Bravata recently broke the NAIA record for being hit by a pitch 35 times in a season. He broke the record against LSU-Alexandria.

Broke the all-time Southland Conference hit streak record on a seventh inning single Monday against Oklahoma. Kainer’s 35 game streak broke the record set in 1996. He extended that nation’s longest hitting streak to 36 after a 4 for 4 effort against Lamar.

LCU won the NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho against Point Loma Nazarene University where they became the first top-seeded in NAIA World Series history to claim a NAIA Baseball National Title. LCU won their first national championship since 1983.

Leake was a finalist for the Dick Howser Trophy. For his outstanding pitching from this past year, Leake was awared the Pacific-10 Conference Player of the Year for the second time and named a consensus All-American.

Orloff won the 2009 Brooks Wallace Award which goes to the nation's best shortstop. He helped lead the Anteaters to a Big West Conference Championship and was named to the Irvine Regional All-Tournament Team.

O'Connor was named National Coach of the Year by the National College Baseball Writers Association after leading the Cavaliers to their first appearance in the NCAA College World Series. Under his leadership, Virginia went 47-13 and won the ACC Championship.

Reed was the 2009 recipient of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Stopper of the Year Award. Reed was perfect in his save opportunities going 20 for 20 and was named All-Mountain West Conference First Team.

Howard College won the NJCAA Division I National Championship this past year. They went an incredible 63-1 with the longest NJCAA winning streak in history with 57 consecutive victories.
Lubbock, TX - The College Baseball Foundation would like to thank the many schools that have sent memorabilia to the College Baseball Hall of Fame for the 2008 season. The 2008 showcase of the collected memorabilia will travel throughout the United States through the course of the year, and then become a permanent fixture in the College Baseball Hall of Fame. A list of several items collected through the 2008 season follows:

This is the bat signed by Georgia Southern University Baseball Players who hit 14 home runs, an NCAA Record, in their game against Columbia University, March 15, 2008, at J. J. Clements Stadium.

Indiana State junior Brady Shoemaker used this bat to hit two grand slams, a first for Indiana State, in a 12-8 victory over Illinois State May 17, 2008. His performance tied a school record with three home runs in the contest and set a new school record with 10 RBIs in the game during the record setting day.

This baseball is one that was used by San Diego State sophomore pitcher Stephen Strasburg, who struck out over 23 batters in a one-hit complete-game shutout of the University of Utah on April 11, 2008 (final score 1-0).

This hat (autographed) was worn by Eric Beaulac of Lemoyne College who pitched a nine inning no-hit game on May 10, 2008, against Rider University in a 1-0 Dolphins victory. He gave up only two walks while striking out nine batters in his first career no-hitter.

This hat was worn by Larry Hays, Texas Tech University Coach, during his 1500th collegiate win—a 10-5 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on April 2, 2008. Hays became the fourth baseball coach in NCAA history to reach 1,500 wins.

This was the first pitch baseball used in the April 16, 2008 game between Northern Illinois University (NIU) and Notre Dame. The game benefited the victims of the February 14 campus shooting at NIU, which took the lives of five students and wounded 16 more. The Chicago White Sox hosted the event.

This baseball is one that was used by University of San Diego junior pitcher Brian Matusz, who struck out 16 in a March 22, 2008, game against Harvard University.

This bat and hat were used by junior David Anderson of Coastal Carolina University to hit three home runs in a May 10, 2008 17-8 win against High Point University. He became the first Chanticleer to hit three home runs in a game in the school’s history. He went 4-5 with three home runs, three runs scored and seven RBIs. He hit two more homers in the third game of the series.

This baseball is one that was used by University of Central Florida (UCF) sophomore pitchers Mitch Houck and Austin Hudson, who combined for a no-hitter in a 6-0 victory over Wagner College on March 17, 2008. It was the first combined no-hitter in UCF history.

This bat junior Florida State catcher Buster Posey’s record setting performance in the May 12, 2008, 10-0 victory over Savannah State, in which he played all nine-positions and hit a grand slam homerun.

This game ball was signed by Coach Mike Martin of Florida State University when the Seminoles defeated Georgia Tech 17-8 on March 16, 2008, making him the 3rd coach in NCAA history to reach the 1500 win mark.

Chris Richburg, junior left-fielder for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, became the fifth player in Texas Tech baseball history to hit for the cycle on in a game against New Mexico State on April 24, 2008.

These are the batting gloves San Diego State University sophomore Pat Colwell used in a 9-2 win over Utah on April 12, 2008, in which he became the first Aztec player to hit for the cycle. He completed the cycle with an inside-the-park home run and also scored five times in the game.

Freshman right-hander, Kyle Blair, helped lead University of San Diego to a 15-0 rout over the University of Hawaii as he set a new school single-game record with 16 strikeouts. He allowed no runs on only two hits in 8 innings of work to pick up his first collegiate win. Blair is now 1-3 overall, has a 2.49 ERA, and leads the team with 41 strikeouts. University of San Diego’s, Josh Romanski, threw his first collegiate no-hitter for University of San Diego to a 12-0 win over Harvard. He faced one above the minimum and had a season high 8 strikeouts. He also had a solo homerun.

Thennis hit a walk off grand slam to help win the series over No. 2 Missouri. This was after Thennis hit a game tying RBI single in the bottom of the ninth of game two. For the weekend he hit .500 going 5 for 10 at the plate with 7 RBI.