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07.09.06: Fitzgerald
takes bittersweet promotion ... Paper defuses report on Mayo
to USC ... More national acclaim for Houston's Lincoln ...
SMU golfer wins Greater Cincy title |
07.08.06: Former
ECU slugger Hastings joins BC staff ... Tar Heel baseball
stars transition to pros ... Rice's Britton packing to play
in Philippines |
07.07.06: Report:
No. 1 prep hoops star choosing USC ... Motorcycle wreck
claims Georgia Southern star ... NBA exhibition games coming
to Dean Dome |
07.06.06: Owls'
St. Clair chosen for Team USA baseball ... Houston, Rice
rookies make all-frosh team ... Case-era Pack hoops legend
Dickey passes |
07.05.06: National
honors piling up for Houston's Lincoln ... Wade's wallet now
packs a wallop ... Duke gets QB from prestigious prep
program |
07.04.06: Howard
joins ECU media relations staff ... Bertman leads college
baseball hall's first class ... Temple gets prized hometown
grid recruit |
07.03.06: Paper:
C of C and Cremins come to agreement ... Four depart Oregon
in search of playing time ... Gator recruit wins national
prep QB award |
07.02.06: College
of Charleston hires Bobby Cremins ... Duke gets pair of
football commitments ... Georgia Tech baseball coach gets
extra year ... Big Sky Conference expands by one |
07.01.06: SI.com
columnist rates O'Leary among best ... Bogdan, Floyd get top
awards in C-USA track ... Northwestern mourns passing of
Walker |
06.30.06: NCAA
gives new life to Houston bowl game ... Memphis duo makes
school history in NBA draft ... LSU selects Mainieri to
direct baseball program ... Marshall backpedals back to
Winthrop |
06.29.06: BCS
to tweak timing of weekly poll ... Louisville to push two
players for Heisman ... Redick fares well in draft despite
impediments |
06.28.06: Postgraduate
scholarship goes to ECU's Davenport ... UCF center foregoes
final year of eligibility ... Sinclair named women's athlete
of the year |
06.27.06: Beavers
beat Heels to win College World Series ... Irish baseball
coach to interview for LSU job ... Cal quarterback suspended
after assault charge |
06.26.06: Mustangs
lead
C-USA teams in Director's Cup ... Tulane AD receives
prestigious service award ... Calipari racking up some
broadcast work |
06.25.06: Coal
industry to sponsor Marshall-WVU series ... Mountaineers
extend Rodriguez deal to 2012 ... Vols add non-league
challenges |
06.24.06: Del
Conte takes reins as AD at Rice ... Contact at combine means
fine for Emory ... UNCW aligns with adidas for shoes,
uniforms |
06.23.06: Witter
starts professional ball with a flourish ... Big Ben's
little sister commits to Sooners ... Wake Forest football
recruit faces felony charges |
06.22.06: Big
Ten scores momentous television deals ... Former ECU diver
Derr to coach at JMU ... Grizzlies turn to Tinkle on
hardwood |
06.21.06: Troth
returns to the fold as ECU assistant ... College of
Charleston, Herrion settle on buyout ... Another national
award for Houston's Lincoln |
06.20.06: ECU
announces long-term pact with Nike ... Pirates release
women's soccer schedule ... Three C-USA linemen on Outland
Trophy list |
06.19.06: USM-Memphis
game shifts to Sunday for ESPN ... Tar Heels AD Baddour gets
contract extension ... U.S. Women's open to have distinct
Duke flavor |
06.18.06: Rice
rallies in its College World Series opener ... Houston's
Lincoln gets 2006 Howser Trophy ... C-USA's top scorer backs
away from NBA draft |
06.17.06: ECU
grad Millican wins N.C. women's amateur ... College World
Series: Tigers win in comeback ... LSU's Carter sweeps
national track honors |
06.16.06: Ex-ECU
assistant named Campbell grid coach ... Pirate softball ace
Keli Harrell named All-State .. Report: Back woes nix Redick
draft workouts |
06.15.06: Camels
expected to name football coach ... Rice leads C-USA
contingent on A-A team ... K-State, UCLA announce football
dates |
06.14.06: ECU's
Smith among 7 C-USA All-Americans ... Duke star Redick
charged with drunk driving ... UAB selects Shoop to guide
baseball program |
06.13.06: Owls
carrying C-USA banner to Omaha ... ECU's Ray shares Coastal
Plain League honor ... Terms of Huggins' K-State contract
reported |
06.12.06: ECU
ticket office temporarily relocates ... Irish safety's ring
debut: Bell rung quickly ... Miners seventh in NCAA men's
track |
06.11.06: Miami
loses Berry- recruited QB to baseball ... Clemens award
finalists have C-USA flavor ... Buckeyes announce series
with Toledo |
06.10.06: ECU
network announces blowtorch flagships ... "The Buzz" remains
in Pirate broadcast lineup ... Former LSU athlete turned pro
wrestler dies |
06.09.06: ECU's
"Voice" revving up for benefit "Ride" ... Pirates bow out at
NCAA track & field meet ... ODU makes plans to add I-AA
football |
06.08.06: MLB
Draft: Smith selected by A's, Mathews by Giants ... ECU's
Hunt, Krug take Scholar Athlete honors ... NCAA nixes course
credits from 'diploma mills' |
06.07.06: ECU's
track elite at NCAA meet in Sacramento ... Super region
pairings pit Rice against Sooners ... Cleared USC
quarterback says he's rejoined team |
06.06.06: NCAA
change on grad transfers gets reaction ... Duke reinstates
men's lacrosse with conditions ... Cardieri resigns as
baseball coach at USF |
06.05.06: Owls
carry C-USA banner against Bears ... Laval steps down as LSU
baseball coach ... Date of "Civil War" changed for TV |
06.04.06: C-USA
players reap All-America honors ... "Flesh- eating" germ
claims Tulsa gridder ... Blazers baseball coach hangs up
cleats |
06.03.06: ECU's
Jake Smith named 2nd-team All-America ... Pirates get first
signee in McPhaul golfing era ... Duke men's lacrosse
program to be reinstated |
06.02.06: Bucs'
new pitching coach has LeClair pedigree ... Three gridders
depart WVU program ... ECU announces blue chip tennis
signees |
06.01.06: Pirates
announce kickoff times, TV games ... ECU excels among
C-USA's academic elite ... Rice's Degerman makes Academic
All-America |
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ECU alum Godwin to wear LSU's purple & gold
Former East Carolina slugger Cliff Godwin has been
named hitting coach at LSU by new Tigers head baseball coach Paul Mainieri,
according to a release posted on
ecupirates.com.
Mainieri also welcomed pitching coach Terry Rooney
to his staff.
A former standout catcher at ECU, Godwin joined the
Notre Dame staff as an assistant coach in the fall of 2005. Godwin served as
Notre Dame's hitting coach, worked directly with the team's catchers and
assisted Rooney in the baseball program's recruiting effort.
Under Godwin's direction, the 2006 Notre Dame
hitters compiled the program's best plate discipline ratio (BB + HBP - Ks)
since 1990, finishing at +66 with 247 walks, 100 times hit-by-pitch and just
281 strikeouts (4.5 per game).
The `06 Irish squad recorded the second-most
sacrifice bunts in school history (65, one shy of the team record) while
finishing with the program's third-best totals in two other categories:
10.81 hits per game and 100 times hit-by-pitch.
Prior to serving as director of baseball operations
at Vanderbilt during the 2004-05 academic year, Godwin spent one season as a
volunteer assistant coach at UNC-Wilmington ('03-'04). His duties at
Vanderbilt included helping organize daily activities associated with the
baseball program and serving as liaison to the Bullpen Club support group.
Godwin was part of the historic UNCW season in 2004,
as the Seahawks claimed their first Colonial Athletic Association conference
title and advanced to the final game of the NCAA regional in Kinston.
An all-region catcher and two-time Academic
All-American at East Carolina ('97-'01), Godwin was a three-year team
captain who started 126 games in his final three seasons. He earned all-East
Region honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association in 2001 after
batting .322 with 15 home runs and 45 RBI. The lefthanded-swinging Godwin
was also named first team all-Colonial Athletic Association in `01, when his
other season stats included 14 doubles and 23 walks in 57 games played.
Godwin, who spent 2003 as an assistant coach at
Kinston High School, played two seasons of professional baseball (2001-02)
for the Frontier League's Gateway Grizzlies in Sauget, IL.
The Snow Hill native was a three-sport standout at
Greene Central High School, earning all-conference honors in football,
basketball and baseball. He also was an all-state performer in baseball,
starred on the hardwood as a shooting guard for his father's team and
quarterbacked the Greene Central football team to the best season in the
school's history, receiving 1995 conference player of the year honors.
Godwin graduated magna cum laude from East Carolina
in December of 2000, with a science degree in management information
systems. He received the Pat Draughon Postgraduate Scholarship and, after
completing his final season, received his MBA from ECU in 2002.
Tulane resumes baseball stadium renovation
In another sign of New Orleans' recovery from
Hurricane Katrina, Tulane has announced the resumption of a major expansion
and renovation of Turchin Stadium, home of the Green Wave baseball team.
According to an announcement on Tulane's athletic
website, the $7.5 million project will feature a grandstand design of
structural steel, a new playing surface and an increase in seating from
3,000 to a maximum 5,000 seats. The project will also increase the number of
chair-back seats in the stadium from 900 to 2,600 and add private suites, a
covered club seating area and a new press box.
Updated netting and sound systems, a new outfield
wall, new concession stands, new restrooms and an expanded merchandise sales
area are also in the construction plan.
Club seating behind home plate will be covered and
will include access to an open-air breezeway at the top of those sections.
Four private suites will flank the breezeway on the first base line and will
include air conditioning and restrooms. Suites will be sold on multi-year
leases and will be accessible via elevator, which will also provide access
to the press box.
For the first time, the press box will include
individual broadcast booths, Ethernet capability and expanded space for the
print media.
Tulane spent $1.5 million on the project prior to
Katrina. Preliminary construction on the restarted phase has already begun
and the expansion will be completed by the opening of the 2007 baseball
season.
Originally constructed in 1991 thanks to a sizable
donation by Robert and Lilian Turchin, the stadium has been home to the
Green Wave baseball program for the majority of the last 16 years. The
on-campus facility has hosted a pair of conference tournaments and two NCAA
Regionals.
Turchin Stadium was the site of the 2005 NCAA Super
Regional where Tulane defeated Rice two games to one to advance to its
second College World Series in the last five seasons.
Kelly rejoins O'Leary at Central Florida
David Kelly, the associate head coach at Duke the
last two seasons, has been named the director of high school relations at
Central Florida, according to an announcement on the school's athletic
website.
Kelly, who has 12 years of Division I coaching
experience, previously served under Golden Knights coach George O'Leary at
Georgia Tech from 2000-01.
Kelly got his start in coaching as a graduate
assistant coach at Furman in 1979-80, with the Paladins posting a 9-1-1
overall mark in 1980 as they won the Southern Conference title. He then
served as an assistant coach at Dunwoody (GA) High School for three seasons
(1981-83) before taking over the head coaching slot for 10 years (1984-93).
The Union, SC, native moved back into the college
ranks in 1994, joining the staff at Georgia for two seasons as the running
backs coach. While with the Bulldogs, Kelly coached the likes of Robert
Edwards, Hines Ward, Terrell Davis and Larry Bowie while helping Georgia to
the 1995 Peach Bowl.
Kelly then served four years on the staff at LSU,
aiding the Tigers' run to a pair of bowl games (Peach in 1996 and
Independence in 1997).
During his tenure under O'Leary at Georgia Tech,
Kelly served as the wide receivers coach. In 2000, Kelly coached all-ACC
performer Kelly Campbell as the Yellow Jackets offense finished in the top
20 nationally in scoring, passing and total offense.
Kelly graduated from Furman in 1979 with a bachelor
of arts degree in education. He earned four letters as a member of the
Paladin football squad, playing wide receiver, running back and cornerback
during his tenure. During his senior season, Furman went 8-3 and captured
the Southern Conference championship. He went on to earn a master's degree
in education from Furman in 1981.
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published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
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