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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. “His [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Via Media Relations Mississippi State (32-16, 14-11 SEC) jumped out to an early 2-0 lead Sunday but was unable to hold off Georgia (22-31, 10-17 SEC), which completed a Sunday doubleheader sweep and clinched the SEC weekend series with a 5-3 win at Foley Field. It was Georgia’s fifth consecutive series win over MSU and [...]

Via Media Relations No. 15 Mississippi State scored seven runs in a decisive fifth inning, roaring past No. 19 Mississippi 14-9 in the first Governor’s Cup Tuesday night at Trustmark Park. With the victory, MSU improved to 24-8 and completed its most recent abbreviated road swing with a 5-1 mark. Ole Miss fell to 25-14. [...]

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10 Former, Current Major Leaguers Returning For Baseball Alumni Weekend Anticipation is building for the 12th Mississippi State Baseball Alumni Weekend as the number of former Bulldog baseball players and managers returning for this weekend’s event on campus continues to grow. More than 140 Diamond Dogs representing eight decades of MSU’s tradition-rich baseball program are [...]

With Will Clark’s recent induction into the College Baseball Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class, many people are looking back at his career at Mississippi State and what made him one of 9 players out of tens of thousands to be selected for this inaugural induction class. This Clarion-Ledger article features interviews [...]

Via The Clarion-Ledger Even after a good year turned sour, Polk has never talked of not coming back for another round. His four year contract, which started when he returned to fill the HC spot, expired officially on June 30. “There is nothing unusual about not having an agreement signed,” MSU athletic director Larry Templeton [...]

Despite what some would consider a bad second-half of the season, as well as missing out on the Southeastern Conference Tournament, which MSU won just a year ago, Mississippi State landed as a #3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs will travel to Clemson, SC and take on #2 seed Elon in the first [...]