News Digest, January 5

Soon, I'm going to start typing in state schedules in a Google calendar format like last season. I'm going to each school Website and print out the latest schedule. If you get word of a change before I do, please let me know. Thanks.

Four state teams in rankings
Clemson (No. 6), South Carolina (No. 7), Coastal Carolina (No. 16) and College of Charleston (No. 22) are in College Baseball Lineup's preseason top 30. Florida, coached by ex-Clemson assistant Kevin O'Sullivan, is No. 1, followed by UCLA, TCU, Vanderbilt (coached by ex-Clemson assistant Tim Corbin) and Oklahoma. There are six SEC teams and five ACC teams in the rankings.

CBL

All-Americans projected
USC's Matt Price is the only state player named first-team All-American by College baseball Lineup.

First team

Second-teamers include Clemson's Brad Miller and Jeff Schaus, USC's Jackie Bradley Jr., Coastal Carolina's Anthony Meo and Wofford's Mac Doyle.

Second team

College of Charleston's Rob Kral is a third-teamer.

Third team

Yahoo!Sports looks at SEC
Kendall Rogers of Yahoo!Sports/Rivals.com takes an early look at the SEC.

SEC

Rogers also looks at coaches wanting more in 2011. One is former Clemson player and assistant John Pawlowski, now at Auburn.

Coaches

Mahtook No. 21
LSU's Mikie Mahtook is No. 21 on College Baseball Daily's countdown of the top 100 players entering the 2011 season.

Mahtook