BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks.  The West is a tough division.  McMurry opens with HSU next weekend.

They play the West Marietta, LeTourneau, AC, Manchester IN twice, AC and Southwestern from here out.

[yuckmonkey]

does anyone have scores from ctx on saturday?

[HAMBONE]

Atl I never mentioned Riggles? Michael Johnson is thier best pitcher this year and he didnt throw. Yes Riggles did have 9k's against UT Dallas to open the year , and did struggle again a great team in Texas Weslayan. I dont know where you are going with this ? Whitley is the # 3 or four guy, and the pitcher that Transfered in from TCU didnt even throw the first game.  You need to seriously go to some games or revamp your insight on baseball to come with that weak smack . I hear Tennis is easy to catch up on.

Yes I know you never mentioned Riggles....my original post was taken off before you could read it so here it is with a little edit some grown men can't read bad words or get all mad like a bunch of women at a tea party

anyways all this hype over this san Jac pitcher is a bunch of BS....if he was the real deal he would have been drafted out of San Jac or gone to a D1 or D2 program....in fact he might have got offers but wanted to make his stats look better against D3 opponets....wow he can throw in the 90's he is 5'10 that ball is mostly likely flat as hell and would get crushed by anybody who can actually swing the stick...im sure he has a good curve, but I bet he cant hit with it every time...If HT got an average of a hit every inning he pitched he cant be that great...

Atl, I know you are still lurking around...why don't you enjoy this article instead of the Sunday paper today...thanks for your scouting report!

http://athletics.concordia.edu/news/2009/2/28/BB_0228093102.aspx

[Just_Some_Guy]

So quick weekend wrap-up:

Concordia 2 of 3 from UT Dallas
McMurry 2 of 3 from UT Tyler
TLU swept Miss Coll
UMHB swept LeTourneau
Schreiner swept La College
HSU swept Ozarks
ETBU swept Sul Ross State

West Division Pitcher of the Week will probably be be CUA's Michael Johnson:
7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 17K

West Division Hitter of the Week should probably be TLU's Jeremy Macklin:
11-12, 11 Runs, 4 2Bs, 3 HR, 18 RBI, 5 BB (raises average to .553)

JSG

[yuckmonkey]

i was just looking at the stats from utt & mcm what happened to Booher he was pulled in the first inning was it control issues or some kind of injury.  he a horse and i was not at the game just wondering out loud.

[TexasBB]

It doesn't look good. Booher walked two batters and was pulled. That is after he had contol problems last week walking 5 in 5 innings. Being the father of a former pitcher this sounds like it could be related to an injury. When a  pitcher all of a sudden has problems locating his pitches often it is due to something wrong physically. I sure hope not for him and for the Patriots. That would explain why they pulled him. Normally they would have went with him and allowed him to work through things given his history.

[BigPoppa]

Losing Booher would be a devastating blow to Tyler.

[Dawgsdad]

It was an amazing day down in Seguin yesterday. This weekend's match up between TLU and CTX should be interesting. No predictions from me, but if conditions are right, it should provide some good baseball to watch

http://www.tlu.edu/athletics?newsid=5625

Don't be fooled, not all of the homer hit yesterday were wind assisted...

[Ralph Turner]

It doesn't look good. Booher walked two batters and was pulled. That is after he had contol problems last week walking 5 in 5 innings. Being the father of a former pitcher this sounds like it could be related to an injury. When a  pitcher all of a sudden has problems locating his pitches often it is due to something wrong physically. I sure hope not for him and for the Patriots. That would explain why they pulled him. Normally they would have went with him and allowed him to work through things given his history.

Ohhhhhhhhh...  [Long painful groan]

I hope you're wrong.

[dp643]

Ok Divisional play begins this weekend and there we are all dead! What are the predictions for this weekend?

[Ralph Turner]

Ok Divisional play begins this weekend and there we are all dead! What are the predictions for this weekend?

Not gonna predict!  The West is too balanced!

McMurry needs to sweep HSU.  2 of 3 means just one game up on the top half of the conference.

CTX at TLU  A chance to see how Johnson does on the mound for CTX

UMHB at SRSU  Getting that road trip out of the way.

Schreiner at HPU -- Should be a good series.  If one team could sweep this, it would help towards the tourney.

[tloc14]

It looks like the ASC West is once again superior to the East this year.  Tyler has a history of not playing well away from home, and for whatever reason, they simply did not have their top game this past weekend in Abeline.  Congrats to McMurry for putting together 3 solid games.  I think at this point in the season McM is in more of a mid-season form due to playing a better schedule.  Their 3 games vs Chapman probably helped in this past series because they had atleast seen some good pitching already this season.  So far UTT has played 2 schools that have good teams this season, and they are 1-3 against them.  Does not bode well for that school, it is possible that the team might be a little overrated.

On a side note, James Vilade has a tendency to pull a quick trigger on his starting pitchers.  And, when he has capable arms in the bullpen, why not I suppose.  However, the Booher situation is obviously different considering he was pulled in the first inning.  Possibly a panic button issue because UTT was 0-2 up to that point on the weekend, but the possibility of a more serious situation is certainly there.  I wonder how Booher's velocity was.  If it was down significantly, then he probably isnt 100% right.  No news has surfaced on the UTT website, but losing him would be a tough blow for the team.  UTT would probably move either their tuesday starter into that 3rd spot or move Ziegler from the closer position to fill the gap.

There is no question in my mind that even without Booher, UTT is the class of the East.  But, after seeing the results of this weekend I do not know if that means much this year.

[dp643]

UMHB up 6-0 first inning today against Southwestern.

Not too sure how hard Booher and Holland typically throw, but neither one were throwing very hard vs UMHB (versus what I expected). Holland was 82-86 with numerous fastballs below 82 as well.  Booher was slower than that. This was two weekends ago vs UMHB. Im wondering if he hasnt been battling an injury and they pulled him quick to rest him because they dont have a conference series this weekend.

Update: UMHB up 12-0 and still batting in the first

[dp643]

Wind must be blowing out, top of the 2nd already 4 homeruns  12-2

[dp643]

16-2 BOTTOM OF 3. Villegas already has 7 RBI