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• In November 2010, Rivals.com selected Liberty as one of the Top 10 rising college baseball programs in the country. • The Flames have posted a 145-90-1 record in the first four seasons under head coach Jim Toman. Liberty's 145 victories are the most during the first four years by any head coach in program history. • Liberty had seven players taken during the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft. The number was the most players chosen in a single draft in the 38-year history of the program. In addition, Liberty tied the 2007 and 2010 Coastal Carolina squads for the Big South Conference record for most players picked in a single draft. • The Flames set a school record for wins in a single season with 42 in 2010. • With 18 Big South wins in 2011, the Flames have recorded the top three single season conference win totals by Liberty baseball, all under Toman, since joining the Big South in 1982. In 2010, the Flames won a school-record 19 conference games, while in 2009, they eclipsed the previous school standard of 15 for the first time with 17 wins. • Last season, the Flames pitching staff posted a 4.05 ERA, the best for a Liberty team since 1991, which had a 3.77 ERA. • Other school records during Toman's four-year tenure include: • Highest team fielding percentage for a single season - .974 (2009) • Fewest errors committed in a single season - 53 (2009) • Most strikeouts by a pitching staff in a season - 508 (2008) • Most doubles in a season - 155 (2008) • Posted the best record of any Liberty team under a first-year coach – 35-26-1 (2008) • Set program hit-by-pitch record twice (2009 & 2010). ► In 2010, the Flames were hit 126 times, the most of any team in the nation and the second most in NCAA Division I history.