Monday, February 1, 2016

News digest, Feb. 1

Holbrook, Lee among club speakers
South Carolina's Chad Holbrook will be the featured speaker at the year's first meeting of the Upstate Baseball/Softball Club Feb. 8 at the Phoenix Inn in Greenville.

Clemson's Monte Lee, Furman's Ron Smith and North Greenviulle's are among the other speakers. The complete schedule is listed below.

Meetings begin at noon. Membership costs $25 and allows attendees to eat the buffet lunch for $10. Call Ron Scarborough at 864-505-5071 for more information.

Feb. 8 -- Chad Holbrook, South Carolina
Feb. 15 -- Matt Lecroy, BHP, Clemson and Washington Nationals farm system manager
Feb. 22 -- Open
Feb. 29 -- Bob Bolin, ex-MLB pitcher
March 7 --Ron Smith, Furman
March 14 -- Monte Lee, Clemson
March 21 -- John Rocker, ex-Atlanta Brave
March 28 -- Landon Powell, North Greenville
April 4 -- Greenville Drive representative
April 11 -- Billy O'Dell, Clemson and ex-MLB
April 18 -- Leo Mazzone, ex-Atlanta Braves pitching coach

Clemson's Okey honored
Clemson catcher Chris Okey was a first-team selection on Baseball America's preseason all-American team.
BA

USC Lancaster gets added home games
USC Lancaster's scheduled Saturday doubleheader at Catawba Valley CC will be played at Doomsday Corner in Lancaster instead. The teams also play two games in Lancaster on Sunday.

Polls
The NCBWA and CollegeBaseballDaily,com polls were released today. Others were released earlier and I just Tweeted links instead of making blog posts.

NCBWA
1. Florida. 23. College of Charleston. 24. South Carolina. 34. College of Charleston.
Writers

College Baseball Daily
1. Louisville. 18. Coastal Carolina
CBD

Collegiate Baseball
1. Florida. 32. College of Charleston. 33. Coastal Carolina. 35. South Carolina. 38 Winthrop.
CB DI

USA TODAY coaches
1. Florida. 23. South Carolina.
USAT

D1Baseball.com
1. Florida. 17. South Carolina. 23. Coastal Carolina.
D1

PerfectGame.org
1. Florida. 21.Coastal Carolina.
PG

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