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01/30/04
STARKVILLE, Miss. --- There will most assuredly be a doctor in the house Feb. 19 when Mississippi State hosts the seventh annual "First Pitch-Meet the Team" baseball banquet. The featured speaker for this year's event is former Bulldog outfielder Dan Van Cleve, now a cardiovascular surgeon at the
Rush Heart Institute in Meridian, Miss. A seventh straight capacity crowd is anticipated for the 6 p.m. event in the Colvard Union Ballroom on the MSU campus.
Tickets for the season-opening banquet cost $25 per person and go on sale Friday, January 30 at the MSU Athletic Ticket Office (662-325-2600) in the Bryan Athletic Administration Building.
A native of Jackson, Miss., Van Cleve starred in the MSU outfield from 1982 to 1985. He capped his collegiate career by helping guide the celebrated '85 Bulldogs to an SEC championship and a school-best third-place finish at the prestigious NCAA College World Series in Omaha, Neb.
Van Cleve was drafted by the Texas Rangers in 1985 and spent two seasons in the Rangers' organization prior to beginning his medical studies. A 1993 graduate of the University Medical Center in Jackson, Van Cleve completed general surgery residency in 1998 at the Baylor College of Medicine In Houston, Texas. In 2002 he complete a fellowship and residency program in cardiovascular surgery at the prestigious Texas Heart Institute in Houston, and in December 2002 returned to Mississippi in his current position at the Rush Heart Institute in Meridian.
The "First Pitch/Meet the Team" baseball banquet has featured an impressive array of guest speakers in its first six years, including former Bulldogs Jeff Brantley, Will Clark, Boo Ferriss, Alex Grammas and Burke Masters along with best-selling author and MSU alumnus John Grisham.
Mississippi State begins preseason practice Feb. 9 at Dudy Noble Field. The Bulldogs meet Western Kentucky and Illinois in the three-day MSU Challenge at Dudy Noble Field, launching Ron Polk's 25th season as head baseball coach at Mississippi State.
Source: MSU Media Relations
01/28/04 - For those of you who want to order away game baseball tickets, here's some info that will
1) Miss. State Alumni Bus Trips to MSU home baseball game with Tennessee Tech and Alabama away basketball game on March 6th.
Several alumni groups are getting groups together for a bus trip to Starkville for the Tennessee Tech baseball game at 2 p.m., then head over to Tuscaloosa for the MSU-Alabama game at 6 p.m. Groups from Starkville, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Memphis, Mississippi Delta, and Tupelo are working on bus trips. Check with your Alumni Association Chapter for additional details. Each group is buying Alabama tickets in sections A, B and C, which are behind the MSU bench. You can purchase tickets at the official Alabama website.
www.rolltide.com
2) MSU baseball games in Jackson, Mississippi. Phone number 1-601-362-2294.
3) Mississippi State-Southern Miss games in Hattiesburg, April 6th and 7th. Tickets go on sale Feb. 2nd. Phone number 1-601-266-5418.
01/24/04
For those of you who want to attend the MSU-LSU baseball series in Baton Rouge March 26-28, the LSU athletic ticket office will put all of their single-game tickets for all of the 2004 LSU baseball season on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday, January 31, in the LSU athletic ticket office.
Baseball single-game tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children ages 3-12.
Tickets may be purchased in person on the first floor of the LSU athletic administration building, or they may be ordered by phone by calling (225) 578-2184 or 1-800-960-8587. Tickets may also be purchased on the Internet at www.lsusports.net/onlineticketing.html.
Payments may be made with cash, check, VISA, MasterCard or American Express. The ticket office is also open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
01/13/04
STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State is ranked 33rd in the seventh annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association preseason college baseball rankings announced Monday by the NCBWA.
It's the second preseason ranking for the Baseball Bulldogs, who are ranked 30th in Collegiate Baseball magazine's preseason Fabulous Forty poll.
Defending national champion Rice is the preseason favorite in the NCBWA poll, which features representation by eight different conferences and top independents among the 287 baseball-playing schools in the NCAA Division I ranks. LSU is No. 2 in the poll, which also includes four other SEC teams - No. 9 South Carolina, No. 19 Mississippi, No. 24 Florida and No. 33 Mississippi State.
MSU returns 17 lettermen and all but two starting position players from last year's 42-20-1 edition that advanced to the finals of the NCAA Starkville Regional against North Carolina. The 2004 campaign represents the 25th season at MSU for head baseball coach Ron Polk. Polk, currently ranked seventh among the nation's active coaches with 1,198 wins in 30 seasons, is 36 victories away from the 1,000-win milestone at Mississippi State.
The Bulldogs begin preseason practice Feb. 9 before opening the 2004 campaign at Dudy Noble Field Feb. 27-29 against Western Kentucky and Illinois in the MSU Challenge. State plays 17 of its first 19 games at home, including a three-game series against 16th-ranked Southern Cal Mar. 12-14 in the fourth annual National Bank of Commerce Classic.
2004 NCBWA POLL
Rank/School (2003 Record)
1. Rice (58-12)
2. LSU (45-22)
3. Stanford (51-18)
4. Georgia Tech (44-18)
5. Miami (Fla.) (45-17)
6. Texas (50-20)
7. Cal State Fullerton (50-16)
8. Long Beach State (41-20)
9. South Carolina (45-22)
10. Tulane (44-19)
11. Arizona State (54-14)
12. Wichita State (49-27)
13. Notre Dame (45-18)
14. Clemson (39-22)
15. Baylor (45-23)
16. Florida State (54-13)
17. North Carolina (42-23)
18. Washington (42-18)
19. Mississippi (35-27)
20. Arizona (35-23)
21. Nebraska (47-18)
22. North Carolina State (45-18)
23. Texas A&M (45-19)
24. Florida (37-21)
25. Florida Atlantic (47-16)
26. Ohio State (44-21)
27. UNLV (47-17)
28. UC Riverside (41-17)
29. Stetson (41-24)
30. Winthrop (35-22)
31. Southern Miss (47-16)
32. Virginia Commonwealth (46-13)
33. Mississippi State (42-20)
34. Southern (44-7)
35. Oklahoma State (34-24)
Also Receiving Votes: Minnesota, Auburn, Southern California, California, Alabama, Houston, Kansas, Rutgers, Texas-Arlington, Oklahoma, TCU, Pepperdine, Coastal Carolina, Richmond, New Orleans, Arkansas, Princeton, Auburn, Vanderbilt, Illinois-Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri.
Source: MSU Media Relations