Despite a storied past, the Tennessee Tech baseball team has risen to new heights over the past few seasons. In 2009 the Golden Eagles captured the OVC tournament championship, while the 2010 season brought the team the regular season OVC title as well as the no. 1 seed headed into the post-season.
Golden Eagle sluggers combine for nine total All-America Team appearances for the 2010 season with their most recent selections to the ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams.
Juniors A.J. Kirby-Jones and Chad Oberacker, recent MLB draft picks and vital players in Tech's winning the 2010 OVC Baseball regular season championship, have been named co-winners of the university's Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year Award.
Recent MLB draftees AJ Kirby-Jones and Chad Oberacker are named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Associate All-America second and third teams, while Kirby-Jones was also named third team by Baseball America.
Golden Eagle senior right-hander Lee Henry will continue playing baseball, signing with the Pensacola Pelicans, the 2009 South Division Champions of the American Association.
Accolades continue to flood in for Tennessee Tech juniors and new MLB draftees Chad Oberacker and A.J. Kirby-Jones, who have both recently been named second team All-America by Ping!Baseball.
The Tennessee Tech University baseball team is the recipient of the 2009-10 Team Sportsmanship Award as announced Wednesday by the Ohio Valley Conference. This marks the first time since the inception of the award in August of 2005 that the baseball program at Tech has received the honor.
Opportunity awaits four Golden Eagle juniors as they were selected to four different Major League Baseball teams on day two of the 2010 draft.
Tennessee Tech juniors Chad Oberacker and A.J. Kirby-Jones have been named All-America by TPX Louisville Slugger Collegiate Baseball News, as announced Thursday, June 3. With the selection of the two Golden Eagle sluggers, Tech joins the ranks of some of the nation’s premier college baseball programs.
Former Tennessee Tech baseball coach, already a member of the TTU Sports Hall of Fame, was inducted Friday into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame at the league's annual awards dinner in Nashville.
The Golden Eagles combined for 11 hits and eight runs off of three JSU pitchers, but couldn't pull out a victory in Sunday's OVC Championship game against the Gamecocks to earn the automatic invite to the NCAA regional.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms have suspended Sunday's match-up between the Golden Eagles and the Jacksonville State Gamecocks.
The Golden Eagles will play Jacksonville State Sunday for the OVC Tournament championship. Tech rebounded from a 9-7 loss to the Gamecocks by claiming a 15-6 win over Murray State to reach the title game. Tech must win twice Sunday to claim its second consecutive OVC Tournament crown.
Tech's OVC Tournament game against Jacksonville State scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday has been postponed by rain in West Tennessee. The two teams will take the field Saturday for an 11 a.m. contest in Pringles Park.
A light malfunction on Wednesday night and two extra-inning games have pushed the schedule off the tracks in Jackson at the 2010 OVC Baseball Tournament. The top-seeded Golden Eagles are scheduled to meet No. 6 Eastern Kentucky at approximately 9:30 p.m. Thursday.
Senior Lee Henry threw 160 pitches in a complete-game, 7-4 victory Thursday night (and early Friday morning) as Tennessee Tech advanced to the winner's bracket final in the OVC Baseball Tournament at Pringles Park in Jackson.
