BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry beats HPU 19-0.  Today's posting of the standings has the incorrect record for CUA.  It should be 13-6 and not 13-7 as listed.  CUA will be the 3rd seed and will travel to #2 Seed UT-Dallas.  The UT-Dallas Comets lost a DH to last place Letourneau.  McMurry will be the fourth seed and travel to Clinton.

On the West, #1-seed TLU won the West and will host ASC-East #4  Austin College.  #2-seed HSU hosts #3-seed Louisiana College.

ASC Standings posted on Saturday April 22nd.

[Warren Thompson]

Ralph:

Who's your pick to take the ASC playoffs?

[Ralph Turner]

If McMurry can put together 3 good games out of their reconfigured pitching lineup at MissColl, and the bats stay awake as they did against HPU, and the thunderstorms don't mess up the progression of the series, then I like our chances.

To spark some posts, let me post my choices in the playoffs.

McMurry over MissColl
UT-Dallas to edge CUA
HSU over LaCollege.
TLU over Austin College.

TLU to host the tourney.  I see the top 6 teams in the ASC to be the ASC-West tourney teams plus MissColl and UT-Dallas.

Let me re-pick the tourney when we know the brackets.

I think the winner will be the pitching staff that puts it all together for the tourney.

[Ralph Turner]

Here is a breakdown of the season records:

Team/Overall/Division/Inter-division/other In-reg D-3/IN-Region D-3/D1/D2/NAIA/other

ASC-East Seeds 1-4

MC/27-13/14-7/5-1/3-3/22-11/1-0/2-0/0-0/0-0

UT-D/28-12/13-8/10-1/0-1/23-10 /0-0/0-0/6-2/0-0 

LaColl/18-21/10-11/4-2/2-3/16-16/0-1*/0-0/2-4/0-0  * one D1 game remaining

AustinColl/19-20/9-12/2-5/3-1/14-16/0-0/0-0/5-2/0-0

ASC-West Seeds 1-4

TLU/27-10-1/14-5/3-2-1/2-1/19-8-1/0-0/0-0/4-1/4-1**  (** vs. non-Region D3's)

HSU/25-15/15-6/5-3/1-2/21-11/0-0/0-0/4-3/0-0

CUA/21-15/13-6/3-3/2-1/18-10/0-0/0-0/3-5/0-0

McM/25-14/14-7/4-3/4-2/22-12/0-0/0-0/2-2/1-0** (** vs. non-region D3's)

[Ralph Turner]

Abilene Reporter-News write-up on the McM-HPU game.

To demonstrate how bad the batting slump that McMurry has had the last month, we see the McMurry team batting average on March 20th was .323.

Thirty-three days later, going into the final HPU game on April 23rd, the batting average had dropped to 286.

This has the best time of the season to break out of a long slump.

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry's Albert Carrizales pitched a 4-hitter to lead the Indians over the top seeded Choctaws by a 9-2 score in the first game of the ASC Tourney in Clinton.

TLU defeated AC 4-1.

[baddog]

What's the latest with Miss. College and McM today? Pretty good day for HSU: ASC Softball Champs, ASC Women's Tennis Champs, Men's Tennis team playing for the ASC Championship, and the baseball team winning 2 over La. College to advance in that ASC tourney.
Doesn't HSU play the winner of today's MC-McM game?

[Ralph Turner]

Miss Coll came from a 10-4 6th inning deficit yesterday to beat McMurry 20-15 and then won 7-6 in 10 innings today.

McMurry's downfall was pitching beyond Carrizales, Erickson and Casey.

Carrizales picked up the loss today, pitching 3 1/3 innings on one day's rest and giving the winning run in the bottom of the 10th.

Carrizales gave up 3 runs in 12 1/3 innings this weekend.

I wish we had 3-4 more pitchers like him.

Congratulations on a tremendous McMurry Career, Albert!

[dsc]

Congratulations!!!

Yes, it was a very good week for Hardin-Simmons University sports:

ASC Softball Champions, 2006
ASC Men's Tennis Champions, 2006
ASC Women's Tennis Champions, 2006

Winners of the LC Baseball Series...to play MC next week in Seguin.

Add to that also the Men's and Women's ASC Soccer Champions in November, 2005!!!

...and still most of us HSU fans are still trying to figure out how the 2005 football championship "slipped" through our hands!

Good luck next weekend, Cowboys!!!

[Ralph Turner]

TLU 11 AC 10.  TLU wins the series 2-0.  They host the tourney next week.

Austin College leaves the ASC-East frying pan and jumps into the SCAC fire.

[Ralph Turner]

UT-D 9-9, CUA 8-8.   UT-Dallas holds to advance to the Tourney.

Home teams won all 4 series.  Only McMurry took the series to 3 games.

[baseball3]

Whos goin to win the ASC baseball tournament? I feel Mississippi College has to be the favorite!!

[baseball3]

Mississippi College leads the conference in every hitting statistic. They also lead the country in home runs. Behind the Russell kid and solid pitching in the bullpen they will sweep through the ASC tournament. No pitching can consistantly hold those hitters down.

[Ralph Turner]

baseball3, as a McMurry fan, I must respectfully disagree with your assessment of the Choctaws.

I believe that McMurry had the weakest pitching staff of the 4 West Teams.  The Chocs were shut down by Albert Carrizales, who was making only his 4th start of the year. Carrizales gave up only 3 runs in 12 1/3 innings in the Series, coming back to pitch Game 3 on one day of rest.

Our (McM) #2 starter held you to 4 runs in 6 innings.  We had no other pitching comparable to the other staffs in the West!

You scored 16 runs against the weakest bullpen in the ASC-West.  Miss College was the ASC-East team to have their series go to 3 games.

This is why we play the game, but I think that TLU and HSU will contend for the slot.  I also think that the Chocs are 2 and done.  Good luck and travel safely.

[baseball3]

Well, You might not have had good pitching, or the chocs were taking the team lightly the decided they better start playing. Erickson has the most wins out of anyone in the west side so obviously Mcm's staff wasnt that bad. And How can you explain TLU escaping Austin College, And LC has been down the last few weeks and HSU barely escaped them. I understand that is baseball. But with the leagues top hitters and one of the top pitching staffs they are sure to be a favorite.