2011 Baseball Thread

[bonarae]

Fullerton took Game 1 of its rivalry with the Dirtbags, 4-1.

[CatMom]

TXST takes game 1 from Nicholls. Unfortunately, the SFA/SELA game was suspended in a tie in the 10th inning, due to weather. That put our magic number (3) in limbo until they complete this game Saturday.
Worse case,(an SFA win) we would still have a 3 game lead with 5 to play....and the tie-breaker.

Our boys want this out-right.

Sam Houston lost (big time) tonight and pushes them 5 back with 5 to play. I can honestly say they are out and it's a 2 horse race.

Bobcats hold the tie-breaker over everyone except UCA , NSU (playing them) and UTA (next week)

Nicholls took us to the woodshed last year (2/3) and is the main reason we did not get an at-large to the NCAA. It killed our RPI and looked terrible on the resume.

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook swept Binghamton this afternoon in a double header. Game 1 SBU 4 BU 1 , Game 2 SBU 8 BU 3. StonyBrook sits alone atop the America East with only a four game series at home against Albany next weekend. The Seawolves are 37-10 and 18-2 in America East play. Next weekends games will be the first played at our new
Joe Nathan Field.

[bonarae]

Fullerton had a 9-0 lead that was washed away by an 11-0 Dirtbags rally, but then Fullerton scored 5 more runs to claim the series 14-12.

[CatMom]

Lady Bobcats won the SLC tourney and will head to a Regional - TBD

The guys won Fri & Sat. With SFA losing 2 the Bobcats (33-17, 22-7) have won their 3rd consecutive SLC title.
RPI @ 37. Looking good for a Regional


WTG BOBCATS!

[bonarae]

Fullerton swept the Dirtbags 6-1.

Meanwhile, Fullerton softball was left out of the Road to Oklahoma City by its overall record, which is below .500. Pacific and Long Beach State are going, though.

[bonarae]

Fullerton's last game of a staggered series with UCLA at their place was cancelled due to electrical problems on their end.

[tampajag]

SWAC tournament

Fair Grounds Field

Shreveport

Wednesday’s games
Grambling 4, Mississippi Valley State 0
Jackson State 6, Prairie View 3
Alcorn State 6, Texas Southern 5
Southern 10, Alabama State 3

Thursday’s games
Texas Southern 6, Mississippi Valley 5, 11 innings, MVSU eliminated
Prairie View 10, Alabama State 0, 7 innings, ASU eliminated
Alcorn State 20, Grambling 5, 7 innings
Southern 13, Jackson State 6

Friday’s games

Texas Southern 6, Grambling 4, Grambling eliminated
Jackson State 6, Prairie View 2, Prairie View eliminated
Game 11: Alcorn State (24-27) vs. Texas Southern, 3 p.m.
Game 12: Jackson State vs. Southern (28-20), 6 p.m.

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook won the regular season title of the America East today sweeping Albany 6-1 and 6-0. The 39-10 Seawolves
20-2 in America East play will host the conference tournament May 25th-28th at Joe Nathan Field. Both teams finish the regular season on Saturday with a doubelheader.

[bonarae]

Fullerton swept Loyola Marymount 8-1. Next game: U. San Diego at home Tuesday.

[CatMom]

TXST is sucking against crappy UTA this weekend.
Can't buy a damned hit
lost game 1, yesterday, 6-5
Had our Ace start tonight and it's 2-2 in the 8th (late start due to rain delay). He threw over 120 pitches in 7 innings
their relief pitcher has thrown 4 innings and has gotten 7 fly outs of the 12 outs. It's a bit pathetic.

This is not good for a regional at-large if we lose the SLC tournament.

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook completed a four game sweep of Albany today.
Game 1 SBU 13 UA 4
Game 2 SBU 4 UA 3
StonyBrook completes the regular season at 41-10 overall and 22-2 in America East play. The Seawolves will host the America East this week at Joe Nathan Field. This has been the best season ever for StonyBrook Baseball picking up 41 wins and dominating conference play.

[T-Dog]

SoCon final standings. Top 8 made it to the tourney in Chuck Town starting Wednesday.

1. Elon
2. UNCG
3. Samford
4. Georgia Southern
5. College of Charleston
6. App State
7. Furman
8. Western Carolina
9. Wofford
10. Davidson
11. THE Citadel

From regular season and tournament champions and #2 regional seed to DEAD LAST the next season for the CitDogs. Ouch.

[citdog]

SoCon final standings. Top 8 made it to the tourney in Chuck Town starting Wednesday.

1. Elon
2. UNCG
3. Samford
4. Georgia Southern
5. College of Charleston
6. App State
7. Furman
8. Western Carolina
9. Wofford
10. Davidson
11. THE Citadel

From regular season and tournament champions and #2 regional seed to DEAD LAST the next season for the CitDogs. Ouch.

The Major League Baseball Draft has been especially hard on the Cadets the last few seasons. Enjoy it while it lasts. Mostly Knobs this season.

[CatMom]

Day 1 games
1 - UTSA vs TAMUCC
2 - Lamar vs SFA
3 - SAM vs SELA
4 - Nicholls vs TXST

Day 2 games
5 - TAMUCC vs
6 -
7 - UTSA vs
8 -


will update

[tampajag]

Alcorn beats Southern 12-6 to win the SWAC baseball tournament.

[bonarae]

Fullerton closes out its home schedule with a win over U. San Diego 6-4. A win gives us the autobid and a co-championship, two wins will give us the outright Big West title.

[Seawolf97]

In the opening round of the America East Tournament today # 2 Maine defeated # 3 Binghamton 4-3 . #1 seed Stonybrook demolished #4 seed Albany 14-2. The Seawolves will meet the Blackbears tomorrow in the winners bracket. StonyBrook is now 42-10 and 23-2 in America East games.

[Seawolf97]

Top seeded StonyBrook was upset by Maine this afternoon in the winners bracket losing 8-1. StonyBrook must now play Albany on Friday in an elimination game. The winner of that game will play Maine at 3pm t for the America East Title.

[bonarae]

Fullerton was only able to clinch the Big West autobid today with a 6-0 shutout of Northridge. Fullerton will claim the Big West title with a win tomorrow.

[CatMom]

OK, so I lied. I was at the tournament and wiped out by the time I got home each night. It was in the high 90s Weds & Thurs and over 100 the last 2 days. Plus I was at 8 of the 15 games. Didn't get home till 11:30 Friday.

TXST lost their first game but came back with a vengeance, from the losers bracket, and took 5 straight to secure the auto bid for Regionals.

scores
L - Nicholls 6, TXST 0
W TXST 5, SELA 2
W TXST 13, SAM 2
W TXST 14, Nicholls 2
W TXST 10, Nicholls 7
W TXST 9, SFA 0

I didn't know who was going to pitch the championship game but here's a quote from the SLC website:
"Perhaps the most impressive part of the win was the pitching of Joseph Dvorsky, who made his first career start and allowed only four hits in getting the complete-game shutout. After only two appearances all of last season, the senior made 22 relief appearances out of the bullpen in 2011 and recorded six saves."

Also, our CF had the #1 play of the day on ESPN. Catch it if you get the Op.

We had 5 guys on the All Tournament team, plus the Tournament MVP.

All Tournament Team

C - Jarid Scarafiotti - SFA
1b - Ory Kalenkosy - TXST (also MVP)
2b - Tyler Sibley - TXST
3b - Bobby Buckner - TAMUCC (yes, Bill Buckner's son)
SS - Christian Gallegos - TXST (filling in for our regular SS due to injury)
OF - Bryson Myles - SFA
OF - Bret Atwood - TXST
OF - Luke Plucheck - SAM
P - Joseph Dvorsky - TXST
P - Todd Simko - TAMUCC

[CatMom]

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[tampajag]

Regional Hosts:

Atlanta - Georgia Tech (40-19)
Austin, Texas - Texas (43-15)
Fullerton, California - *Cal State Fullerton (39-15)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina - North Carolina (45-14)
Charlottesville, Virginia - *Virginia (48-9)
Clemson, South Carolina - Clemson (41-18)
College Station, Texas - *Texas A&M (41-18)
Columbia, South Carolina - South Carolina (45-14)
Corvallis, Oregon - *Oregon State (38-16)
Fort Worth, Texas - TCU (42-17)
Gainesville, Florida - *Florida (44-16)
Houston - Rice (41-19)
Los Angeles - *UCLA (33-21)
Nashville, Tennessee - *Vanderbilt (47-9)
Tallahassee, Florida - *Florida State (42-16)
Tempe, Arizona - *Arizona State (38-16)

[CatMom]

No guess work here, we'll be sent to UT

[tampajag]

Here is the bracket:
http://espn.go.com/ncaa/bracket?id=6607258