Cincinnati adds Kyle Sprague as Assistant Coach
CINCINNATI – Kyle Sprague was named to the University of Cincinnati baseball staff as an assistant coach, Head Coach Scott Googins announced Wednesday.
He joins assistant coach JD Heilmann, who was added to Googins’ inaugural staff on July 12, 2017.
Sprague comes to UC after two seasons on Googins’ staff at Xavier University as the volunteer assistant coach. Sprague directed XU’s camps, assisted in all facets of the program and coached first base during games.
Fresno State adds Jermaine Clark to Coaching Staff
FRESNO, Calif. – Fresno State baseball head coach Mike Batesole has announced the addition of Jermaine Clark to the Bulldogs coaching staff on Wednesday.
“We are very excited to have Jermaine on board,” said Batesole. “He fully understands and is committed to our program goals of ‘Degrees and Rings.’ We were diligent in our search to hire a coach who would move forward with our 22 straight semesters of over a 3.00 Team GPA as well as fight to win our ninth championship ring.”
A scout with the Oakland Athletics for the last nine years, Clark brings major league baseball playing experience to the Bulldogs as the Vacaville, Calif., native played for five franchises over a four-year playing career from 2001-05. A left fielder as well as a second baseman during his professional career, Clark played in 46 games collecting 12 hits in 78 official at-bats and added three doubles, three stolen bases, nine RBIs and nine runs scored in his career.
2 Ex-College Baseball Players Indicted in Avocado Attack
A grand jury has indicted two former college baseball players who hurled avocados at a Bronx bodega clerk, fracturing the man’s jaw, prosecutors said.
Brad Gomez, 28, was indicted on assault charges, as well as criminal mischief and menacing on Wednesday, authorities said.
Kentucky to selects AstroTurf Surface
When the University of Kentucky takes the field for the first time in its new $49 million baseball stadium, that field will be AstroTurf.
UK announced last year that the stadium’s new surface would be synthetic. This week, the school revealed the company that would handle the installation, a change from the traditional real grass and dirt of the team’s current home, Cliff Hagan Stadium.
AstroTurf is the company that invented artificial playing surfaces in the 1960s and takes the name from its installation in Houston’s legendary Astrodome. The AstroTurf of today was everything Kentucky was looking for in a new playing surface.
