BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

dballa · April 15, 2006, 07:18:11 PM

If HPU plays error free baseball next week they have a good chance of beating McM in all 3 games but thats really unlikely.

Crazier things have happened though.

dballa · April 15, 2006, 07:24:16 PM

It's finally a final HPU 18 HSU 8

Warren Thompson · April 15, 2006, 07:35:33 PM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on April 15, 2006, 07:13:35 PM
dballa, I am going to count HPU holding onto a 14-run lead with 3 outs remaining.

Here are the standings going into the next weekend. All teams play 3 games series.

T1) TLU 11-5 (.688); at Schreiner. (Has the series advantage over CUA, 1-0)
T1) CUA 11-5 (.688); at UMHB.
T3) HSU 12-6 (.667); hosts SRSU. (HSU has the series advantage over McM, 2-1.)
T3) McM 12-6 (.667); hosts HPU.

TLU--can host the Tourney if they sweep Schreiner.
CUA--can host the Tourney if they sweep UMHB, and TLU loses at least one game.
HSU--can host the Tourney if they sweep SRSU and both TLU and CUA lose one game.
McM--can host the Tourney if they sweep HPU and TLU, CUA and HSU lose one game.

HPU--can gain the final playoff spot by sweeping McMurry.

The above scenarios are the clean and simple ones. The criteria and the tie breakers are simple. The first criterion here is winning percentage.

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Sounds as if the ASC baseball race is one very tight thing, with two different flavors of Lutherans apparently on top. Could it be the water down there? Or which team's players are more likely to imbibe Shiner beer in their adulthood? Or maybe the theology?

Please advise ....

Ralph Turner · April 15, 2006, 08:15:22 PM

Warren, Conspiracy theorist are speculating about the decision not to make up the other 2 games in the CUA-TLU series from earlier in the season. This definitely gives them an advantage. A CUA-TLU split in those games could throw the division into a big tie.

Ralph Turner · April 19, 2006, 10:02:23 PM

Trinity's Britton Horn pitched 8 strong innings to shutout HSU 11-0.

With the ASC-West Division title on the line this weekend and TU playing thier last game of the season and the SCAC tourney being more than a week away, it looks like HSU pitched the Committee today, and TU bats got to almost everyone. $:-\$

I like TU's pitching staff best of anyone that I have followed this year.

Ralph Turner · April 22, 2006, 02:06:59 PM

Friday's action:

CUA 9, UMHB 8 in 11 innings.
TLU 11, Schreiner 6.

DH's today!

McM-HPU, HSU-SRSU and UT-D-LeTU play single games on Sunday!

CUA and TLU can clinch Co-championships with DH-sweeps today!

dsc · April 22, 2006, 06:29:28 PM

HSU took two from SRSU.

6-2 and 22-1

One game tomorrow...Sunday.

(Not sure of the score in the first game, but HSU did win.)

dballa · April 22, 2006, 06:56:24 PM

McM won the first game 9-1 HPU won the 2nd 2-1

final game to be played Sunday. HPU I guess is officially out of the conference tournament.

Ralph Turner · April 22, 2006, 07:17:27 PM

UMHB 4, CUA 3 in ther first game of the DH.

TLU 9 Schreiner 6 in the first game.

No score from the TLU at Schreiner 2nd game yet.

TLU must win the 2nd game to clinch outright the ASC-West title.

If they lose, then HSU has the title outright.

dsc · April 22, 2006, 07:26:16 PM

RT,

Doesn't HSU still have to win their game tomorrow...SRSU...to win/host the West/playoffs?

Ralph Turner · April 22, 2006, 08:19:27 PM

CUA 10, UMHB 9. The Tornados score 2 runs in the top of the 8th and 2 in the top of the 9th to come from a 9-6 deficit.

Ralph Turner · April 22, 2006, 08:21:55 PM

dsc, TLU can win the West outright, if they win the second game vs. Schreiner.

Ralph Turner · April 22, 2006, 08:34:02 PM

TLU clinches the ASC-West with a 16-0 win over Schreiner.

Ralph Turner · April 22, 2006, 10:33:35 PM

HPU's Justin Davies gets the win over McM's Greg Erickson, 2-1.

McM's Albert Carrizales has blossomed as a starting pitcher in the month of April. He got his second complete game (7-innings) win in the 9-1 decision.

Ralph Turner · April 23, 2006, 03:13:03 PM

Last regular season game for 5 McMurry seniors, each of whom have been awarded 3 Varsity Letters to date:

Chris Manley (3B from Little Elm),
Albert Carrizales (SS/P from Crowley) who got the career record 247th hit in the 3rd inning
Craig Richardson (LF from Austin),
TJ Renshaw (C from Frisco),
Greg Erickson (RF/P from Crowley) who got the career record 51st double immediately after Carrizales'.

It has been fun following you these last four years. Good luck in the Tourney and let's get back to the NCAA's.

Going to the bottom of the fifth, with Hank Casey on the mound, McMurry has a 12-0 lead.

The Indians got to HPU senior pitcher Doug Wren, with a hitting exhibition that we haven't seen since SRSU!