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Baseball is back!

Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks; I don’t care if I ever get back! The classic American sport of Major League Baseball attracts people of all ages, and with 30 different teams, everyone has someone to root for. On April 4th the MLB had its 2012 spring season opening bringing in an audience of [...]

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Workouts revolutionized

Dancing, playing volleyball, golfing, running and competing in baseball and soccer were ideally made for the outdoors, but as video games evolved, so did the ability to play sports indoors and essentially build stamina without outdoor involvement. As mentioned at Time.com, before video games evolved, people only exercised their thumbs because there was no other [...]

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Bulb half-lit on Lancer athletic facilities

Baseball players can only see light shining from the softball field for now but they will have the chance to shine their own lights as part of the “Lighting Up the Lancers” campaign at California Baptist University. The three-phase campaign has raised 65 percent of the funds needed to light up the aquatics center, which [...]

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Lancer’s Athletics Creates Opportunities

The California Baptist University Lancers established themselves as a very successful collegiate program, not only for their ability to win titles at the collegiate level, but also in their ability to produce professional athletes. The baseball program at CBU has been especially successful, seeing their players get drafted into Major League Baseball. This success has [...]

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A strong core for CBU baseball

The California Baptist University baseball program ended its 2010 season in a new location: the NAIA World Series, after five years of not being in the tournament. After a program record of 49 wins, Point Loma Nazarene University sent the Lancers home from Lewiston, Idaho after losing game three of the NAIA World Series. Though [...]

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Lancers baseball on road to victory

The California Baptist University baseball team began well, jumping off to a 23-3 start. Now the team aims to find new ways to pick up momentum after their losses in the last month have them sitting at 31-10. Led by head coach Gary Adcock, the team is currently ranked eighth in the National Association of [...]

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For the love of the game

The California Baptist University baseball team is off to a good start, with an exciting 19-2 record for the 2011 season. Taylor Siemens, a senior accounting major, is the starting pitcher for the Lancers and has been on the team since his freshman year in 2008. Siemens attended La Mirada High School, where he played [...]

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Lancer hall of fame

In recent years, athletic programs flourished at California Baptist University. Outstanding individual and team performances in the field of athletics are not a new concept at CBU though, as the tradition of athletic achievement has been woven into the history of the CBU community for decades. In order to commemorate the prestigious CBU alumni who [...]

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New Look Lancers Raise Expectations

Preparing for the new season has kept the California Baptist University Lancer baseball team busy and optimistic. “Our expectations stay the same each year. We work diligently on preparing ourselves to compete in the ultra competitive GSAC. We hope to compete for a conference and national title,” Gary Adcock, head coach said. Freshmen Tyler Cook, [...]

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Baseball Starting Off With A New Swing

College baseball is about to experience a drastic change to the game offensively. As of Jan. 1, 2011 the NCAA will be replacing the “ball exit-speed ratio” (BESR) baseball bats with a “ball-bat coefficient of restitution” or BBCOR bat, because it is a more direct measure of bat performance. The NCAA Research Panel decided to [...]

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