2009 Clemson Tigers baseball team

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.

2009 Clemson Tigers baseball
Clemson, SC Regional Champions
Tempe, AZ Super Regional, (L 4–7, L 2–8)
ConferenceAtlantic Coast Conference
DivisionAtlantic
2009 record44–22 (19–11 ACC)
Head coach
Home stadiumDoug Kingsmore Stadium
2009 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
Atlantic
No. 10 Florida State  xy 199 .679  4518 .714
No. 15 Clemson  y 1911 .633  4422 .667
Boston College  y 1315 .464  3426 .567
Maryland   1020 .333  2727 .500
NC State   1020 .333  2531 .446
Wake Forest   624 .200  2230 .423
Coastal
No. 5 North Carolina  xy 1910 .655  4818 .727
No. 18 Georgia Tech  y 1710 .630  3819 .667
No. 20 Miami  y 1812 .600  3822 .633
No. 6 Virginia  y 1611 .593  4915 .766
Duke   1515 .500  3524 .593
Virginia Tech   1217 .414  3221 .604
x Division champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2009[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

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 due to 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 Widmann, who graduated from Clemson with a degree in sport management the previous December, had withdrawn from school to pursue job opportunities.[3]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
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

2008 Clemson Tigers baseball Game Log

Awards and honors

Rankings

Ranking Movement Week
PollPre1234567891011121314Final
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
Ben Paulsen Jr.

References

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