Dirt on the Spikes: Recap of ASU baseball's first five games
In this week's Dirt on the Spikes, we recap ASU baseball’s first five games of the 2016 season.
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In this week's Dirt on the Spikes, we recap ASU baseball’s first five games of the 2016 season.
ASU baseball's offensive output was relatively similar to its games against Xavier during the opening weekend sweep, but its defense lagged far behind during Tuesday night's 11-5 loss to Nevada.
If you asked Colby Woodmansee in his freshman year if he would be receiving this type of baseball preseason attention before his junior year, he would have said no.
College baseball is nearing its return, and with that come the preseason polls. After being a consensus Top 25 team heading into last season, the Sun Devils are out of everyone's preseason.
The last two weeks of preseason practices for ASU baseball have been full of speculation over starting positions.
ASU baseball rode into last season on the backs of aces in Ryan Kellogg and Brett Lilek, who pitched a combined 193.2 innings.
Heading into last season, ASU baseball's outfield was as solidified as could be with two seniors and a talented junior on a consensus top 25 team in the preseason polls.
This season, The State Press will be going beyond regular practice updates and game stories to give readers an inside look into what we see and hear with ASU baseball.
ASU baseball is experiencing a lot of turnover from last year's team that was knocked out in the Fullerton Regional, mainly in its outfield and starting pitching.
Expectations were higher than ever for ASU football's 2015-16 campaign — head coach Todd Graham called it the best team he's ever coached — but those ambitions eluded the team as reality's swift kick set in throughout the season.
ASU hockey was swept in perhaps its toughest test to date, a weekend series at No. 6 Nebraska Omaha, which went to its first Frozen Four in school history last season and lost to eventual national champion Providence.
ASU hockey had a 2-0 lead after two periods as freshman David Jacobson was riding a shutout in net in just his second-career start.
ASU hockey traveled to New York and came into its weekend series against Clarkson fresh off a sweep of Lake Superior State and boasting a 4-2 record in its last six games.
Two weekends ago, Sun Devil hockey earned its first series sweep in the program's young history with two 3-2 wins over Lake Superior State in Michigan.
ASU hockey earned its first sweep and road sweep of a Division I opponent with a pair of 3-2 wins on Friday and Saturday night. We selected a few of the most notable statistics from those games:
Heading into the five-minute overtime period against Lake Superior State, ASU hockey was facing two more "firsts" in a season that has already seen many for the new NCAA program.
"Be the tradition."
After a bye week, ASU hockey head coach Greg Powers said the focus is on special teams improvement and dictating the pace heading into the two-game tilt at Lake Superior State.
Pac-12 Networks has selected ASU hockey's games against Yale on Jan. 8 and the U.S. National U-18 team on Feb. 28 to televise as the network's first NCAA hockey broadcasts, the Pac-12 Conference and Sun Devil Athletics announced on Monday.
Top Canadian prospect Patrick Kudla committed to ASU hockey on Sunday and will join the team for the 2017-2018 season.
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