2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team
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Clemson, SC Regional Champions | |
Tempe, AZ Super Regional, (L 4–7, L 2–8) | |
Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Division | Atlantic |
Record | 44–22 (19–11 ACC) |
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Home stadium | Doug Kingsmore Stadium |
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Atlantic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 10 Florida State xy | 19 | – | 9 | .679 | 45 | – | 18 | .714 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 15 Clemson y | 19 | – | 11 | .633 | 44 | – | 22 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boston College y | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | 34 | – | 26 | .567 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maryland | 10 | – | 20 | .333 | 27 | – | 27 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NC State | 10 | – | 20 | .333 | 25 | – | 31 | .446 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wake Forest | 6 | – | 24 | .200 | 22 | – | 30 | .423 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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No. 5 North Carolina xy | 19 | – | 10 | .655 | 48 | – | 18 | .727 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 18 Georgia Tech y | 17 | – | 10 | .630 | 38 | – | 19 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 20 Miami y | 18 | – | 12 | .600 | 38 | – | 22 | .633 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 6 Virginia ‡y | 16 | – | 11 | .593 | 49 | – | 15 | .766 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duke | 15 | – | 15 | .500 | 35 | – | 24 | .593 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virginia Tech | 12 | – | 17 | .414 | 32 | – | 21 | .604 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2009[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
The 2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team represented Clemson University in the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team played their home games at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, SC.
The team was coached by Jack Leggett in his sixteenth season at Clemson.
Preseason
On January 27, 2009, the coaches in the ACC picked Clemson to finish second in the Atlantic Division behind Florida State. Overall, the Tigers were picked third behind North Carolina and Florida State respectively.[2]
Regular season
On March 5, 2009, Head Coach Jack Leggett announced that Fifth-year shortstop Stan Widmann had left the team for personal reasons. Widmann, who graduated from Clemson with a degree in sport management the previous December, had withdrawn from school to pursue job opportunities.[3]
On Wednesday, March 18, pitchers Justin Sarratt, Scott Weismann, Kyle Deese, Tomas Cruz, and Matt Vaughn combined to pitch a no-hitter in Clemson's 14–0 victory over USC Upstate at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. It was the Tigers' 14th no-hitter in school history and first since the second game of a doubleheader on March 6, 1984, when Scott Parrish no-hit The Citadel in a seven-inning game. It was also just the second no-hitter involving multiple pitchers in Tiger history.[4]
On Tuesday, April 21, sophomore outfielder Jeff Shaus hit a walk-off grand slam to lift the Tigers to a 5–3 victory over the visiting Coastal Carolina Chanticleers. It was Clemson's first walk-off home run since April 27, 2007, when Doug Hogan hit a walk-off solo homer to top Georgia Tech 3–2 in 11 innings. It was also the second walk-off grand slam in Tiger history, matching the walk-off grand slam hit by Tyler Colvin in the Tigers' 11–8 win over Oral Roberts in the 2006 Clemson Super Regional.[5]
Postseason
ACC tournament
Clemson went 1–2 in the 2009 ACC baseball tournament with losses to 7-seeded Duke and eventual champs, 6-seeded Virginia. On May 23, in their final game of the tournament, Clemson beat 2-seeded and top-five nationally ranked North Carolina in eleven innings in front of a crowd of 6,956. This set a record for the highest attendance ever at a college baseball game in the state of North Carolina.
NCAA tournament
Clemson was awarded a host site for the regional round of the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. After beating 4-seeded Tennessee Tech in their first game of the regional, the Tigers would lose their next game to the 3-seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys. Clemson then proceeded to win their next three games to advance out of the loser's bracket and on to the Super Regional round of the tournament. With the win, Jack Leggett extended his streak to 11–0 in home games that clinch a regional or super regional championship.
In the Super Regionals, Clemson traveled to Tempe, Arizona to take on the number five national seed Arizona State. The Sun Devils defeated Clemson in the first two games of the best-of-three series, earning a trip to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The losses ended Clemson's season with a record of 44 wins and 22 losses.
Coaching staff
Name | Title | First Season at CU | Alma Mater |
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Jack Leggett | Head Coach | 1994 | Maine (1976) |
Tom Riginos | Associate head coach | 2003 | Stetson (1990) |
Kyle Bunn | Assistant Head Coach | 2008 | The Citadel (2000) |
Toby Bicknell | Volunteer Assistant Coach | 2007 | Wingate (2002) |
Schedule/Results
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2009 ACC Baseball Tournament
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2009 NCAA Division I baseball tournament – Clemson, SC Regional
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2009 NCAA Division I baseball tournament – Tempe, AZ Super Regional
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Awards and honors
Wilson Boyd
Chris Dwyer
Chris Epps
Mike Freeman
Casey Harman
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Ben Paulsen
Jeff Schaus
Matt Vaughn
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Rankings
Ranking Movement | Week | |||||||||||||||
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Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Final |
USA Today/ESPN Coaches[10] | 251 | 21 | 24 | 19 | 20 | 17 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 19 | 14 | 13 | 14 | ||
Baseball America[11] | 19 | 19 | 19 | 22 | 20 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | 21 | 20 | 19 | 13 | 16 | |
Collegiate Baseball[12] | 26 | 25 | 19 | NR | 18 | 22 | 22 | NR | 21 | 26 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 15 | |
NCBWA[13] | 26 | 19 | 18 | 21 | 16 | 20 | 18 | 22 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 16 | |
Rivals.com[14] | 20 | 15 | 17 | 22 | 19 | NR | NR | NR | 22 | NR | 22 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 17 |
1- USA Today / ESPN did not release a poll after the first weekend of play.
Major League Baseball Draft
Player | Year | Round | Pick | Team |
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Ben Paulsen | Jr. | |||
References
- ^ "College Baseball Conference Standings – 2009". Boyd's World. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
- ^ "North Carolina leads ACC Baseball Coaches Preseason Poll". Baseball. The ACC. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
- ^ "Injuries force Tigers' Widmann to end career". The State. the McClatchy Company. Retrieved March 5, 2009. [dead link]
- ^ "#18 Clemson No-Hits USC Upstate in 14–0 Win Wednesday". ClemsonTigers.com. Clemson University Athletic Department. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2009.
- ^ "Schaus' Walkoff Grand Slam Lifts No. 20 Tigers Over No. 19 Chanticleers 5–3 Tuesday". ClemsonTigers.com. Clemson University Athletic Department. Retrieved April 21, 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ ESPN/USA TODAYpreseason baseball coaches' poll
- ^ "Twenty-one ACC Student-Athletes Named to Brooks Wallace Award Preseason Watch List". Baseball. The ACC. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2008.
- ^ "2009 Preseason All-American Team". Baseball America. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ "NCBWA ANNOUNCES 2009 STOPPER OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST". National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Retrieved February 17, 2008.
- ^ USA TODAY/ESPN baseball coaches' poll
- ^ Baseball America's College Homepage
- ^ Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's NCAA Div. I Poll
- ^ National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America Homepage
- ^ Rival's Collegiate Baseball Poll