2008 Wichita State Shockers baseball team

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.

2008 Wichita State Shockers baseball
MVC champion
MVC Tournament champion
ConferenceMissouri Valley Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 13
CBNo. 12
2008 record48-17 (19-5 Missouri Valley)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Bret Kemnitz
  • Jim Thomas
Home stadiumEck Stadium
2008 Missouri Valley Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
No. 13 Wichita State†  ‍‍‍ 19–5 .792  48–17 .738
Missouri State  ‍‍‍ 18–6 .750  40–17 .702
Creighton  ‍‍‍ 16–8 .667  37–21 .638
Northern Iowa  ‍‍‍ 14–10 .583  30–24 .556
Southern Illinois  ‍‍‍ 12–12 .500  34–23 .596
Bradley  ‍‍‍ 10–14 .417  26–28 .481
Indiana State  ‍‍‍ 9–15 .375  18–32 .360
Illinois State  ‍‍‍ 6–18 .250  22–30 .423
Evansville  ‍‍‍ 4–20 .167  14–42 .250
† – Conference champion
As of April 12, 2020; Rankings from Baseball America

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]

Player Position Round Overall MLB Team
Pete Kozma*Shortstop118St. Louis Cardinals
Jon Gilmore*Infield/Pitcher1-s33Atlanta Braves
Derek Norris*Catcher4130Washington Nationals
Travis BanwartPitcher4150Oakland Athletics
Damon SublettSecond baseman7244New York Yankees
Matt BrownOutfield13407Cleveland Indians
Noah KrolPitcher17541Detroit Tigers
Josh WorkmanSecond baseman23722Minnesota Twins
Kenneth WilliamsOutfield32971Colorado Rockies
Kyle TouchattPitcher341026Baltimore Orioles
Tyler FlemingPitcher391179Texas Rangers
Ronnie MoralesPitcher451342Chicago 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

  • 2 Bret Bascue - RS Sophomore
  • 9 Andy Dirks - Senior
  • 11 Kenny Williams Jr. - RS Junior
  • 13 Ryan Jones - Sophomore
  • 18 Kevin Hall - Freshman

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 (48-17)

Rankings
Main article: 2008 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Final 
Coaches'[6] 10 10* 10* 16 11 11 5 6 7 8 10 15 14 14 13 13 
Baseball America[7] 20 20 25 24 20 16 12 9 7 14 14 14 22 23 21 13 13 13 13 13 
Collegiate Baseball^[8] 9 7 23 27 24 16 8 5 5 7 9 15 19 20 18 11 12 12 12 12 
NCBWA†[9] 10 10 17 15 15 13 8 5 6 8 11 13 18 18 16 12 15 15 15 15 
D1Baseball

^ 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.

References
  1. "MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from". Baseball-Reference.com.
  2. "WSU Signs Ten Baseball Players in Early Period". Wichita State Athletics.
  3. "2008 Baseball Roster". Wichita State University Athletics. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  4. "Sunday Baseball Game Cancelled". Wichita State Athletics.
  5. "WSU-OU Baseball Game Cancelled". Wichita State Athletics.
  6. "DI Baseball Rankings - D1Baseball.com Top 25 | NCAA.com". www.ncaa.com. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  7. "College Top 25". Baseball America. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  8. "Collegiate Baseball Div 1 Poll 12-18-18 - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper". baseballnews.com. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  9. "NCBWA > News > Division I Poll". sportswriters.net. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
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