BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

Ralph Turner · March 18, 2011, 10:13:23 PM

McMurry and UMHB in a rain delay.

With all of the wildfires in west Texas, this is good.

TexasBB · March 19, 2011, 07:33:45 PM

UTT sweeps Ozarks to go 21-0. They won the 3 games by a combined score of 42-7, (22-3, 10-0 and 10-4). The only concern is that Sherman was pulled early in the first game today. He has had shoulder surgery and was making a comeback this year after sitting out all of last year. For his sake, I hope he is not hurt. He was having a tremendous year.

Texas BB

Ralph Turner · March 20, 2011, 04:40:39 PM

Who can figure? McMurry sweeps UMHB in the weekend series, 3 games to none.

hatbaseball · March 22, 2011, 11:44:31 AM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 20, 2011, 04:40:39 PM
Who can figure? McMurry sweeps UMHB in the weekend series, 3 games to none.

I've thought all along that McMurry is not as bad as its record would appear. They've played pretty good competition and there really have only been about 4 games where they just got "beat". So many games early in the season they were out-hitting the opponent, making fewer errors yet still losing because the other team would get clutch hits and McMurry didn't. The last game of the UMHB series was an exact opposite of what the McMurry season has been like. UMHB had more hits than McMurry. McMurry had 4 errors to 0 for UMHB but McMurry got a lot of 2 out rbi hits and won the game. It's nice to be on the other side of that for a change.

dp643 · March 22, 2011, 11:34:03 PM

As much as I hate to say this, I dont necessarily think sweeping UMHB really proves anything for McMurry. It puts them in a very good position over UMHB, but UMHB hasnt exactly been Mr consistent this season. UMHB now has to win 2 of 3 in Seguin to keep their playoff hopes alive in my opinion.

TexasBB · March 22, 2011, 11:56:27 PM

Why is UTT playing Jarvis Christian. They are not even NCAA. So they get no credit for 27-2 win. Certainly they could have found a game against an NCAA Div III or even a DIV II school.

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Ralph Turner · March 23, 2011, 01:02:28 AM

Quote from: TexasBB on March 22, 2011, 11:56:27 PM
Why is UTT playing Jarvis Christian. They are not even NCAA. So they get no credit for 27-2 win. Certainly they could have found a game against an NCAA Div III or even a DIV II school.

Texas BB

Mid-week game that is easy on the travel budget! No missed class time. JCC is only 20 miles away.

The nearest non-ASC D3's are 2.5 hours away, one way, at Austin College and UDallas. I don't think that UDallas wants a stomping to hurt their Pool B chances with a low-probability win.

Maybe Jarvis needed the game, too.

Ralph Turner · March 23, 2011, 01:04:30 AM

Quote from: dp643 on March 22, 2011, 11:34:03 PM
As much as I hate to say this, I dont necessarily think sweeping UMHB really proves anything for McMurry. It puts them in a very good position over UMHB, but UMHB hasnt exactly been Mr consistent this season. UMHB now has to win 2 of 3 in Seguin to keep their playoff hopes alive in my opinion.

Oh I was delighted with the sweep. We needed the wins. I think that we are playing for the #3 seed, unless we can pin 3 losses on HSU, which is not likely to happen.

dp643 · March 23, 2011, 08:32:24 AM

Anyone else notice how many Home games Tyler is playing this year? I think only one discretionary road game? The TLU series was conference scheduled. 13 Road games, and only one was voluntary I believe. Pretty nuts.

BigPoppa · March 23, 2011, 08:48:58 AM

Quote from: dp643 on March 23, 2011, 08:32:24 AM
Anyone else notice how many Home games Tyler is playing this year? I think only one discretionary road game? The TLU series was conference scheduled. 13 Road games, and only one was voluntary I believe. Pretty nuts.

Many warm-weather schools have a ton of home games as others travel through the region tp play games.

dp643 · March 23, 2011, 09:00:08 AM

Quote from: BigPoppa on March 23, 2011, 08:48:58 AM
Quote from: dp643 on March 23, 2011, 08:32:24 AM
Anyone else notice how many Home games Tyler is playing this year? I think only one discretionary road game? The TLU series was conference scheduled. 13 Road games, and only one was voluntary I believe. Pretty nuts.

Many warm-weather schools have a ton of home games as others travel through the region tp play games.

I would go with that except they are playing all warm weather schools at home. Id love to make my schedule each year and play every discretionary game at home except one.

BigPoppa · March 23, 2011, 09:01:53 AM

Quote from: dp643 on March 23, 2011, 09:00:08 AM
Quote from: BigPoppa on March 23, 2011, 08:48:58 AM
Quote from: dp643 on March 23, 2011, 08:32:24 AM
Anyone else notice how many Home games Tyler is playing this year? I think only one discretionary road game? The TLU series was conference scheduled. 13 Road games, and only one was voluntary I believe. Pretty nuts.

Many warm-weather schools have a ton of home games as others travel through the region tp play games.

I would go with that except they are playing all warm weather schools at home. Id love to make my schedule each year and play every discretionary game at home except one.

No one HAS to play them at Tyler. Teams CHOOSE to. Kudos to Tyler for having the ability to make it happen.

dp643 · March 23, 2011, 09:10:34 AM

Right, kudos to them. They have it roadmapped for the conference tournament to be in Tyler too assuming they keep winning. Assuming they get a regional bid, they could go to the regional in Abilene with 45-48 games roughly played and only 13 being away from Tyler. Nice planning on their part for sure.

TexasBB · March 23, 2011, 01:39:40 PM

They have 3 away games at UTD this weekend. This series should be telling as to how good UTT really is. UTD traditionally is tough at home and will be gunning for them.

Texas BB.

dp643 · March 23, 2011, 02:13:32 PM

Yep! Tyler plays almost 25% of their road games this weekend. Should be interesting!