Mississippi State Sports Blog

Mississippi State’s Ron Polk, the winningest baseball coach in Southeastern Conference history, announced he will resign effective at the end of the current season, MSU Director of Athletics Larry Templeton confirmed.
“It goes without saying that we are most appreciative of the outstanding job Ron Polk has done for Mississippi State baseball,” Templeton said. […]

The Mississippi State baseball team came out on the short end of an offensive slugfest Saturday at Harmon Stadium. North Florida scored the game’s final 13 runs to take a 17-9 victory in the middle game of a three-game weekend series.
The series finale is set for noon CT Sunday afternoon. The Bulldogs are scheduled to […]

Mississippi State University opened the 2008 baseball season on a positive note with an 8-2 win over the University of North Florida Friday afternoon at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, home of the Class AA Southern League Jacksonville Suns.
With the victory, M-State won its season opener for a fifth straight season. Coach Ron Polk is […]

I get an email in my inbox every morning from Google News that has any story from the last 24 hours that mentions Mississippi State in one way or another. I am going to try to start sharing those links here as much as possible starting today.
So here we go.

Chris Talbott of the Sun Herald […]

The SEC Coaches Baseball poll is out and it looks like Vanderbilt is picked to win the SEC outright. Ole Miss is picked to win the West with MSU picked second. Here is the full run down.
WESTERN DIVISION
1. Ole Miss 65 (10)
2. Mississippi State 47
3. Arkansas 39 (2)
4. Auburn 34
5. Louisiana State 33
6. Alabama 29
EASTERN […]

Mississippi State has garnered its third and highest preseason national ranking in baseball, picked 23rd in the USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ poll.
The Bulldogs, who begin preseason practice Feb. 4 in advance of a Feb. 22 season-opening three-game series Feb. 22-24 at the University of North Florida, were previously ranked 24th by Collegiate Baseball newspaper […]

Mississippi State’s Baseball Bulldogs have garnered another preseason national ranking, tabbed 24th in the poll conducted by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).
Arizona State is ranked first in the NCBWA poll, with North Carolina, Rice, South Carolina and Arizona rounding out the top five.
The Southeastern Conference placed an NCAA-leading seven teams in the preseason […]

Coach Ron Polk announced yesterday that Homewood (Alabama) High left-hander David Hayes had officially signed a scholarship to play with the Diamond Dogs.
Hayes is a 6-2, 170-pound two-sport standout at Homewood High School, where he a three-year regular on the mound for coach Doug Gann and for four seasons was a quarterback for the HHS […]

The Mississippi State Maroon/White Baseball game is set for next Saturday, October 5. It gives fans in town for the homecoming festivities a chance to get a preview of the 2008 Diamond Dawgs.
The game is scheduled Friday, October 5 at Dudy Noble Field with a 4 p.m. start and is one of several scheduled events […]

The MSU Athletics website is reporting that senior catcher Wyn Diggs is the 4th member of the 2007 College World Series team to sign a pro contract.
Diggs, who hit .316 in 2007 and was the primary backup behind the dish to 2007 Johnny Bench Award winner Edward Easley, signed July 19 with the San Angelo […]

Via Media Relations
Mississippi State junior catcher Edward Easley added the biggest award of his career to an already impressive list late Wednesday night, being named the recipient of the 2007 Coleman Company Johnny Bench Award as the nation’s top collegiate catcher. He becomes the third Southeastern Conference player to win the award since it was […]

Via Media Relations
Mississippi State University has signed catcher Logan Moro of Houston, Texas, to a national letter of intent, MSU head baseball coach Ron Polk announced Tuesday.
Moro is a 6-2, 197-pound right-handed hitting catcher and three-year starter at James E. Taylor High School in Katy, Texas. He earned 2007 Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association […]

Via Media Relations
The school’s eighth advancement to the prestigious NCAA College World Series helped propell Mississippi State to a No. 8 finish in the final USA TODAY/ESPN college baseball coaches’ poll for 2007. It’s the highest season-ending national ranking for the Baseball Bulldogs since the 1997 and 1998 MSU clubs earned No. 6 national rankings […]

Senior right-hander Josh Johnson of Caledonia, Miss. has signed with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Johnson was the first player selected in the 16th round of the MLB June draft and has already departed for his career-opening assignment with Hudson Valley Renegades of the New York-Penn League in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
Johnson compiled a 3-3 record […]

Senior Jeffrey Rea of Nettleton, Miss. has signed with the Chicago Cubs in Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft. He was taken in the 18th round. He will report on June 26th to Mesa, Arizona to begin his career with the Mesa Cubs of the Arizona League
Rea compiled a .343 batting average with 84 […]