The best performance of the night? Easy.
Andrew Liebel from Long Beach State. He earned a no-decsion in a 1-0 win over #6 Rice.
Liebel nearly doubled his career-high in strikeouts for LBSU, bettering his mark set last year of six, to 11 with eight shutout innings. He gave up just five hits and walked just one using 93 pitches to do so.
Andrew's first card is in the 2006 Anchorage Bucs team set.
Junior right-hander Tyson Ross combined with another pitcher to one-hit Kansas State as California won its season-opener, 5-1. Ross (1-0), a preseason All-American, finished the contest throwing 5.0 innings with only one hit, one run, one walk and seven strikeouts. Ross also appears in 2006 Bucs set.
David Duncan tossed seven shutout innings as No. 25 Georgia Tech (1-0) defeated Youngstown State . Duncan (1-0) pitched an efficient seven innings, throwing just 80 pitches and yielding only two hits to the Penguins. He struck out six and walked two. David's first card ever appears in the 2006 Cotuit Kettleers team set.
Chris Mason says he's the best prospect in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays system. Who are we to argue?
Read about it in the Charlotte Observer.
Mason's first ever card appears in the 2004 Mat-Su Miners set.
College of Charleston's Josh McLaughlin is no where to be found when college experts mention the top closers in the nation. McLaughlin was one of the top prospects in the Alaska Baseball league in 2005 and he hasn't stopped throwing darts.
In 15.1 innings, McLaughlin has been down right dirty: 7 hits, zero earned runs, 9 BBs and 17 SO. Opponents are hitting only .143 off him.
He'll be an interesting find on draft day - and should be mentioned among the nation's elite closers.
Josh's first card ever can be found in the 2005 Mat-Su Miners set (along with super stud Michael Taylor).
