2008 Wichita State Shockers baseball team

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2008 Wichita State Shockers baseball
Conference Missouri Valley Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 13
CB No. 12
Record48-17 (19-5 Missouri Valley)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Bret Kemnitz
  • Jim Thomas
Home stadium Eck Stadium
Seasons
 2007
2009  
2008 Missouri Valley Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 13 Wichita State 195 .7924817 .738
Missouri State  186 .7504017 .702
Creighton  168 .6673721 .638
Northern Iowa  1410 .5833024 .556
Southern Illinois  1212 .5003423 .596
Bradley  1014 .4172628 .481
Indiana State  915 .3751832 .360
Illinois State  618 .2502230 .423
Evansville  420 .1671442 .250
Conference champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of April 12, 2020
Rankings from Baseball America

The 2008 Wichita State Shockers baseball team represented Wichita State University in the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Shockers played their home games at Eck Stadium under 31st year coach Gene Stephenson.

Contents

Previous season

The 2007 Wichita State Shockers baseball team finished the year 53-22 overall and 20–4 in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Shockers had their own Super Regional. In the first game, Wichita State would lose 6–7 to New Orleans. In the losers' bracket they would beat Oral Roberts 11–4, a rematch win against New Orleans 7–3, and would beat Arizona in the next two games 4-3, then 3–0 in the Regional Finals. In the Super Regionals, the Shockers would lose to UC Irvine 0-1, then 2–3.

2007 MLB Draft

The Shockers had ten players drafted in the 2007 MLB draft. [1]

PlayerPositionRoundOverallMLB team
Pete Kozma*Shortstop118 St. Louis Cardinals
Jon Gilmore*Infield/Pitcher1-s33 Atlanta Braves
Derek Norris*Catcher4130 Washington Nationals
Travis BanwartPitcher4150 Oakland Athletics
Damon SublettSecond baseman7244 New York Yankees
Matt BrownOutfield13407 Cleveland Indians
Noah KrolPitcher17541 Detroit Tigers
Josh WorkmanSecond baseman23722 Minnesota Twins
Kenneth WilliamsOutfield32971 Colorado Rockies
Kyle TouchattPitcher341026 Baltimore Orioles
Tyler FlemingPitcher391179 Texas Rangers
Ronnie MoralesPitcher451342 Chicago White Sox
Nick CoblerPitcher491431Minnesota Twins
  • Peter Kozma was expected to play for Wichita State, but was drafted and signed with the St. Louis Cardinals. [2]
  • Jon Gilmore was expected to play for Wichita State, but was drafted and signed with the Atlanta Braves.
  • Derek Norris was expected to play for Wichita State, but was drafted and signed with the Washington Nationals.

Players in bold are signees drafted from high school, community colleges that will attend Wichita State or attendees that will stay for the 2008 season.

Roster

2008 Wichita State roster
 

Pitchers

  • 3 Logan Hoch - Junior
  • 4 Tyler Fleming - Junior
  • 15 Cameron Maldonado - Freshman
  • 21 Matt Smith - Junior
  • 23 Clint Maune - Freshman
  • 26 Any Womack - Senior
  • 27 Tyson Fugett -Sophomore
  • 29 Rob Musgrave - Senior
  • 32 Max Huston - Senior
  • 35 Anthony Capra - Junior
  • 36 Tim Kelley - RS Freshman
  • 41 Aaron Shafer - Junior
  • 42 Khol Nanney - RS Senior


 

Catchers

  • 12 Tyler Weber - Senior

Infielders

  • 1 Kyle Sisney - RS Freshman
  • 7 Taylor Brown - Freshman
  • 19 Roberto Rios - Junior
  • 22 Josh Workman - RS Junior
  • 34 Conor Gillaspie - Junior


 

Outfielders

Utility

  • 6 Remington Johnson (1B/P) - Freshman
  • 8 Dusty Coleman (INF/P) - Sophomore
  • 14 Ryan Engrav (UTIL) - Freshman
  • 16 Grant Muncrief (3B/P) - Freshman
  • 17 Justin Kemp (C/P) - Freshman
  • 20 Mitch Caster (OF/P) - Freshman
  • 31 Clint McKeever (1B/P) - RS Sophomore
  • 33 Cody Lassley (UTIL) - RS Sophomore
  • 38 Tyler Hill (UTIL) - Junior


Schedule and results

Legend
 Wichita State win
 Wichita State loss
 Postponement
BoldWichita State team member
2008 Wichita State Shockers baseball game log
Regular season (41–15)
Postseason (7–2)

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend:██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
Week
PollPre12345678910111213141516Final
Coaches' [6] 1010*211611115678101514141414*14*13
Baseball America [7] 2020252420161297141414222321131313
Collegiate Baseball^ [8] 97232724168557915192018111212
NCBWA [9] 10101715151385681113181816121515

^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
* New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.

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