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08/27/98 - Former Bulldog pitcher Gary Rath had a very good game the other night. He gave up 2 runs on 7 hits in 7 innings. At the plate he was 3-for-3 with 3 RBIs.
08/26/98 - Miss State baseball had their first team meeting yesterday. The players start their weight training next week.
08/19/98 - Corey Sumner, a redshirt freshman outfielder from Germantown, Tenn., was selected to the All-Tourney team for his regional in the National Baseball Congress World Series.
08/19/98 - Did you know that Miss State's 1998 summer baseball camps had about the same number of campers as the Miss State football camps? They both had about 1,200 kids. Did you also know that Miss State baseball recruits heavily from among the players who attend their camps?
BTW, I will be setting up a page after this weekend that will have weekly photos of the baseball stadium expansion. I will leave the photos on the page until the expansion is complete.
08/18/98 - The official time for the Friday night SEC home games is 6:30. For those of you who didn't notice, on my 8/16/98 football skuttle-butt was listed the new starting time (5:00 p.m) of the Saturday SEC home games. Sunday's games will start at 1:30 p.m.
08/16/98 - I thought you would like to know that MSU Diamond Dawg Chris Lotterhos was selected the Most Valuable Player of the Northwoods League this summer. He was selected by a season-long vote of the fans. Chris was also selected an all-star, which makes him a three-time Northwoods League all-star selection.
08/15/98 - The Malouf Construction Company's equipment has been moved in and they will begin construction on the baseball stadium expansion in a day or two. They should be through with the sky boxes by the beginning of the season but the additional chairback seats probably won't be ready until several days into the season.
BTW, the first baseball game will be played on February 13th. This is the earliest home baseball game MSU has ever played. State will play an 8-game home stand at the beginning of the season. Of their 55 regular season games, State will also play 34 games at home next season.
Sorry for no updates on any of the other skuttle-butts. I ran out of time due to having to get up very early to go to the 8 a.m. football practice so that I could report on it for you guys. I will have a complete Bulldog Club Meeting and practice report for you Sunday morning. Pictures too, I hope.
08/11/98 - The latest word is Starkville Academy's Cager Garner will walk on this fall. Cager runs a 6.7 60-yard dash and batted .455 this past baseball season.
8/11/98 - Meridian CC sophomore-to-be pitcher Jeff Hunter is being recruited by Miss State, Alabama, Ole Miss and Southern Miss.
08/05/98 - Miss State baseball now has two signees that were selected USA Today Baseball Player of the Year in their respective states. I was emailed this Germantown News article yesterday.
"Joey Collums, a recent graduate of Evangelical Christian School, was recently named USA Today's Baseball Player of the Year for the State of Tennessee. Collums led ECS to a 26-5 overall record and the school's second Division II state championship in the last three years. The 6-4, 180-pound left-hander finished with a 10-0 record for the year and an overall 29-3 career record. Collums has been an All-State performer for three years and was named Best of Preps Baseball Player of the Year. He also played first base, hitting .477 with 12 doubles, 2 triples, and 2 home runs. He has signed with Mississippi State University."
In case you have forgotten, the other USA Today Baseball Player of the Year was Arkansas high schooler Lance Lamberth.
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