BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[D3NewYorkBaseball]

Why didnt TLU's NAIA transfer play? TLU's website said he would be starting at 3rd base?

[Blackcat00]

They havent played at Nelson field? Im not sure what the quality of Nelson field is as far as practice.

[Dawgsdad]

They havent played at Nelson field? Im not sure what the quality of Nelson field is as far as practice.

Not sure what this is in reference too, but Nelson field is a shared high school field within Austin ISD. Not much to write about, poor lighting, faces Southeast. Nothing like what CTX is acustom to for sure.  I believe they are playing TXW at Dell diamond on Tuesday. Even better than their old field...

[Dawgsdad]

TLU Completed the series with Austin College with a 4-3 win. Wind was blowing in all day even harder than yesterday.  Childress homered (solo), As did Green (but the ump called Green's foul) - it wasn't but it was hit above the foul pole and with the gray skies perhaps the ump couldn't tell it was still within the foul pole boundaries... next pitch Green lined it to the right center field gap for a double.... Green's defense was in great form today, very solid.

[dp643]

Why didnt Macklin play dad?

[mcmguy19]

How did umhb do the weekend?

[dp643]

UMHB lost 2 out of 3 this weekend to #17 NAIA Texas Wesleyan. All three were pretty good games.

[Dawgsdad]

UMHB lost 2 out of 3 this weekend to #17 NAIA Texas Wesleyan. All three were pretty good games.

Texas Wesleyan has been strong for several years now. CTX will play two against them on Wednesday this week in Round Rock (Dell Diamond)... should be a good match up as well. I may try and make one of the two games it time allows it...

[dbat]

I caught a intense game today in seguin.  Trinity took on TLU after going 0-3 this weekend in the UTTyler tournament.  Trinity sure looked like a team that was not 0-3.  They came out swinging and their starter Clint Robertson came out and threw a pretty good game.  Another pitcher who i was very impressed with is the TLU starter, Brad Orosey.  For a freshman he threw very well.  Both teams were playing like this was a playoff game and the intensity was high!  Great atmosphere to watch a game!  TLU took advantage or timely walks, hit-by-pitches and one big homerun from Clay Childress in the 2nd inning.  I really thought Trinity was going to come back and get this one, but tlu's bullpin came through.  I still think Trinity will be fine this season! Austin College this weekend will be a big one for them! TLU played better than I thought they would.

[UTEx]

I noticed that when one division plays another division, the games do not count as conference games.  Is this correct?

[Ralph Turner]

I noticed that when one division plays another division, the games do not count as conference games.  Is this correct?

Yes, this is the way that the baseball coaches have voted.  (Those games do count as "West In-Region games", which determine seeding in the Regional Tourney and the Pool C bids.)

The 2008 Chair of National D3 Baseball Selection Committee was former McMurry head coach Lee Driggers.

Coach Driggers knew how to construct a schedule.  He played the Chapman's and the best schools in the West Region from the NWC, the SCIAC and the SCAC.  Those are in-region games were valuable when you look at OWP (Opponent's Winning Percentage) and OOWP (Opponent's Opponent's Winning Percentage)

I give Coach Driggers the credit in the pushing this vote thru!

I am happy that this is the situation.  I think that the baseball coaches use their non-divisional games most effectively of the ASC sports.

[Dawgsdad]

I caught a intense game today in seguin.  Trinity took on TLU after going 0-3 this weekend in the UTTyler tournament.  Trinity sure looked like a team that was not 0-3.  They came out swinging and their starter Clint Robertson came out and threw a pretty good game.  Another pitcher who i was very impressed with is the TLU starter, Brad Orosey.  For a freshman he threw very well.  Both teams were playing like this was a playoff game and the intensity was high!  Great atmosphere to watch a game!  TLU took advantage or timely walks, hit-by-pitches and one big homerun from Clay Childress in the 2nd inning.  I really thought Trinity was going to come back and get this one, but tlu's bullpin came through.  I still think Trinity will be fine this season! Austin College this weekend will be a big one for them! TLU played better than I thought they would.

dbat,
I too was in attendance yesterday and agree with most of what you have said. Robertson wasn't overpowering (low to mid 80's) but he worked all sides of the plate and kept the TLU squad a bit off balance. Good outing for sure.

One thing I was surprised at was the sloppyness that Trinity played with. Watching them during warm-ups really showed that they have fully clicked in yet (my opinion, having only seen them once this year so far). TLU did commit one more error than Trinity did, and this was a surprise especially coming from the right side of the infield. Femath just had an off day - not sure what was up, but he was very solid over the weekend. Childress just didn't get his big body in position to make the throw he made pulling green off second. Green is having a good start at SS and the work that he's been putting in with Macklin to his right is showing. Except for a short arm throw, he's been flawless. 

Once Trinity settles in I think they will be stronger than they are today. Their line-up, was tough from the standpoint of 7 of the 9 batters were coming at you from the left side which is sometime that most pitchers at these levels aren't acustom to. I kinda think that it was too much left side dominate, but if it works why change it.

[dp643]

If Trinity is playing sloppy, then they probably are not clicking yet. That is one thing Trinity has always been good for, is good, solid, fundamentally sound baseball. They have had a rough start to their season, losing 4 games to ASC schools.

They have started with a pretty strong schedule though facing UT Dallas, Tyler twice, and not TLU.

[PatriotASID]

CTX - 8 errors in three games??? What's the issue - tight scoring or were they true errors? Any know?

Dawgsdad,

Yes, they were true errors, as I was the one scoring the games.  The wind was vicious all weekend and really reaked havoc.  Now some errors were just errors, but on some if you have ideal conditions those plays probably get made.

[Dawgsdad]

CTX - 8 errors in three games??? What's the issue - tight scoring or were they true errors? Any know?

Dawgsdad,

Yes, they were true errors, as I was the one scoring the games.  The wind was vicious all weekend and really reaked havoc.  Now some errors were just errors, but on some if you have ideal conditions those plays probably get made.

Thanks for the input. I was windy in a lot of places this past weekend. In Sequin, the wind was strong, upwards of 20 mph all weekend... Hopefully Nelson field won't induce too many additional errors for CTX - it's nothing like what they had in the past!!

dawgsdad