#14 Terps Hit Myrtle Beach to Open 2015 Campaign
2/12/2015 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 14 Maryland baseball team will seek to feed off the momentum from last season's historic run at the season opening Caraville Resort Tournament this weekend in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Leading it off
Caraville Resort Tournament
Fri., Feb. 13-Sun., Feb 15
Friday - Feb. 13 (home team is listed second)
11 a.m. Maryland (RHP Mike Shawaryn) vs. Western Kentucky (LHP John Harman) - Live Stats
Saturday - Feb. 14
11 a.m. Canisius (RHP Brandon Bielecki) vs. Maryland (LHP Jake Drossner) - Live Stats (Link TBA)
6 p.m. Maryland (LHP Tayler Stiles) vs. Old Dominion (LHP Joey Benitez) - Live Stats
Sunday - Feb. 15
1 p.m. Maryland (RHP Bobby Ruse) at Coastal Carolina (TBA) - Live Stats - Live Audio - Live Stream
Location: Conway, S.C.
Stadium: Spring Brooks Stadium
Radio: Maryland Baseball Network
Live Stats: goccusports.com
Twitter: @TerpsBaseball
Highly rated
| Terps in the Polls | ||||||||||
| D1Baseball | Baseball America | USA Today/ESPN | NCBWA | |||||||
| Team | 14 | 16 | 20 | 20 | ||||||
• After a historic 2014, Maryland has received its highest preseason ranking in history from multiple polls. D1Baseball.com has the Terrapins the highest at No. 14.
• Maryland is the highest ranked Big Ten team in most major polls.
Preseason Honors
INF Jose Cuas
• Perfect Game Preseason All-Conference Team.
INF Brandon Lowe
• D1Baseball Preseason All-American (3rd Team)
• Big Ten Player to Watch
RHP Kevin Mooney
• Big Ten Player to Watch
• 2015 NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List
RHP Mike Shawaryn
• D1Baseball Preseason Big Ten Pitcher of the Year.
• Big Ten Player to Watch
B1G Favorite
• The Terps have been picked to top the Big Ten in its inaugural season in the conference. The conference's coaches voted on the top six teams.
1. Maryland
2. Nebraska
3. Illinois
4. Indiana
5. Michigan
6. Ohio State
• Maryland is also the consensus selection to win the conference among national publications.
Super 2014
• Following a 43-year absence, Maryland advanced to the NCAA Tournament, and then swept the Columbia Regional, beating Old Dominion and South Carolina, to make their first trip to a Super Regional in team history. The squad's first victory in that regional over the Gamecocks snapped the home team's 28-game postseason winning streak. Maryland fell one game short of a trip to Omaha, falling to Virginia in the Super Regional.
• Maryland set a school record for wins in a season with 40. The Terps notched its third straight winning season, a streak not seen since 1976-78.
• The Terrapins left the ACC with a bang, notching its first winning season in the conference since 1981 and appearing in the ACC title game for the first time since 1976
• The Terps' success did not fly under the radar. Maryland finished the season with its highest ever ranking, rising to as high as No. 13 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. The Terps finished the season ranked 14th by Baseball American, Collegiate Baseball News and Perfect Game. The NCBWA ranked the Terps No. 16 in its final poll.
Postseason Plaudits
• The Terps had five players named to the Columbia All-Regional Team led by centerfielder Charlie White (graduated), who was named the regional's most outstanding player. Jose Cuas (third base), Kevin Martir (catcher) Mike Shawaryn (pitcher) and LaMonte Wade (first base) joined White on the squad.
• Shawaryn and Brandon Lowe earned Freshman All-American honors from Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, the NCBWA and Perfect Game. Shawaryn recorded a Maryland single-season record 11 victories while Lowe paced the Terps in average (.348), slugging (.464), on-base percentage (.464) and triples (3).
• Lowe, White and Jake Stinnett all earned All-ACC honors. Stinnett and White were named to the second team while Lowe was a third-team selection.
• Maryland had three players placed on the ACC All-Tournament Team. Martir batted .462 in the tournament and added two home runs, three runs scored and four RBIs. Wade and Blake Schmit were also named to the team.
Stellar Szefc
• Head coach John Szefc is 70-48 at Maryland entering his third year in College Park. No Maryland skipper has ever won that many games in a two-year span.
• The native of Middletown, N.Y., has coached 80 players that have been drafted or signed professional contracts since 1997.
• Szefc earned 30 victories in his first season, the most ever by a Maryland first-year head coach. He was most previously the associate head coach at Kansas State.
pro Terps
• Four Terrapins were selected in the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft, led by Jake Stinnett who was taken 45th overall by the Chicago Cubs. Left-handed pitcher Ben Brewster was chosed in the 15th round by the Chicago White Sox while Charlie White was picked in the 21st round by the Cubs. Blake Schmitt rounded out the selections, drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 26th rounds.
• The four join former Maryland players Brett Cecil (Toronto Blue Jays), Justin Maxwell (San Francisco Giants)*, Alfredo Rodriguez (Milwaukee Brewers), Adam Kolarek (New York Mets), Jimmy Reed (St. Louis Cardinals) and Jack Cleary (Milwaukee Brewers) as members of MLB organizations at the end of the 2014 season.
*ended the season as a member of the Kansas City Royals. Non-roster invite to San Francisco spring training.
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