BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[Just_Some_Guy]

UT-Dallas playing in McMurry's Coast to Coast Classic in Abilene (great tournament by the way, though I expect nothing less McMurry as they consistently schedule great teams in the pre-conference play), split their Saturday games.

They defeated Whittier 11-5 on the back of Jr. transfer (Eastfield) Jonathan Reeder who threw five innings of 1 hit baseball in relief of starter Mason Thompson. UT-Dallas swung it well at the plate lead by the top of the order, Neal Gordon (2-6), Cody Ross (2-5, 4 RBI), and Jared Smith (2-5, 2 RBI).

Gordon brings his team leading average up to .385, and Ross adds to his team lead in RBI, with 9 now in 6 games.

In the second game, Methodist (NC) pummeled the Comets 13-0. Starter Damien Chelakis was handed the loss going 1.2 IP, and surrendering 5 ER on 7 Hits.

The Comets could only scrape together 5 hits.

JSG

[Blackcat00]

Concordia 14     Huston T. 2

Nelson Field , Austin TX

[Toby Taff]

UMHB edges Methodist University 8-7 in 13 innings last night in Abilene.

http://www.umhb.edu/athletics/news/10007

the article doesn't do the game justice.  I went after driving by and noticing UMHB was playing.  I arrived in the 7th about 7:30 and saw some great defense and a sac bunt that went for 3 bases.  I didn't get home until 10:25.  The article made it seem like a mundane game.

[Dawgsdad]

Some good baseball resulted from Seguin this weekend with a match up between TLU and CSU Eastbay.

Game one (Friday afternoon) went to CSU EB 9-1. Kenneth Cedillo (Union City/Cal St Stanislaus) pitch a good game (complete game) in the winning effort. The Pioneers hit the bulldogs hard. 6 errors within the infield and 7 free passes made it hard for TLU to recover. Hull struggled for his second outing not getting out of the third inning.

Game two (Saturday) brought the bulldogs out looking for something to chew on. Travis Staggs Elmendorf(Southside/Western Texas JC) pitched 7.1 strongs innings giving up a lone run in the 7th (HR) to Devin Grigg (Alameda/Chabot College). Matt McCormick a good game but gave up 3 runs over 6.1 innings. John Volk allowed three more in 2.2 innings for a 2-6 loss to the bulldogs. Series tied at 1-1.

Game three (Sunday) brought TLU's Louis Lee (Cypress/Cypress Christian/Eastfield JC) vs CSU EB's Aaron Hannigan (Martinez/Los Medanos College). CSU EB got on the board first and by the second inning it was 0-3 CSU EB.  Freshman, Brad Orosey (Houston/ Cypress Creek) came in in the third in relief of Lee and went the distance and didn't allow a run to cross  the plate until the top of the 7th inning when an error (Macklin) allowed the leadoff on... Orosey hits the next batter and both of these runners scored in the inning. These runs brought the game square, at five all. The bottom of the eight started with Femath singling and Macklin (Austin/Bowie/Huston Tillotson) blasting his first HR of the season to right center with the wind blowing somewhat inwards. Earlier Drew Farr (Taylor/Taylor) recorded a 2 run HR back in the third inning. Macklin needed only the triple to hit for the cycle today going 3 for 5 with 3 RBI. Bulldogs complete the sweep of the series with the Pioneers of CSU EB 5-7.

Next up for the Bulldogs is Southwestern University on Tuesday in Seguin (2pm)... 

[TexasBB]

UT Tyler swept Castleton yesteday by a combined score of 31-2. Nothing was really learned by that since Castleton in from Vermont and the snow hasn't even melted there yet. I am sure they will play much better in April than they showed yesterday. Even though the Patriots scored alot of runs they are not going to be a team that can pound their opponents into submission. Unlike some of Vilade's teams from the past they do not have any big home run threats this year. A bunch of players can swing the bat but they will have to group their hits to score this year. The pitching will be the strength of the squad as is no big surprise. They have a lot of pitching depth. The next question is defense. Again to early to tell. But for this team to make it to the NCAA dance they must be solid on defense.

Vilade has a good team once again. The question is will this finally be the year he wins the conference tournament. He has been to the dance several times over the years between his days at UT Tyler and UD but he has yet to come home with the championship. To move on to the NCAA tournament the ASC can really only bank on their champion. Last year CTX. UT Tyler and Ozarks had great seasons but were all left out.

TexasBB

[Just_Some_Guy]

Some good baseball resulted from Seguin this weekend with a match up between TLU and CSU Eastbay.

Bulldogs complete the sweep of the series with the Pioneers of CSU EB 5-7.

Next up for the Bulldogs is Southwestern University on Tuesday in Seguin (2pm)... 

Dawgsdad,

Sweep to me implies that they won all 3 games of the series. I know you meant, just didn't want others to be confused. TLU actually took the series 2-1. Do we know much about this East Bay team? Maybe Infielddad could give us some perspective on Menlo which would enable us to pass judgment on East Bay.

I think this TLU team is very interesting this year. When I look at them on paper, I expect a team that will try to out slug opponents, yet this TLU team is only hitting .277 and striking out a little too much. I wouldn't expect the guys East Bay ran out there on Sunday to be overpowering, but maybe they had velocity w/o command? Why so many K's ?

What has been impressive has been the pitching staff. Obviously it is still too early to start making assumptions, but Staggs (0.66) and Orosey (0.69) have been awesome, respectively. The rest of the pen have also been good thus far, though the true test will come in ASC play, as it always does. If Logan Hull comes around (and we saw what he was capable of his Freshman year), this is a deeper staff than I anticipated.

And defense. What do they do about defense? For whatever reason Macklin has struggled out of the gate on defense, but I suspect he'll drive plenty in with his stick (and from what I've heard he's always played good D in the past). The Dogs definitely need more offensive production from Green/Femath though if they're going to make a lot of errors up the middle. Until last year, the Bulldogs had always been great up the middle, and it was a recipe for success. Not sure what the answer is, or if they have an answer at this point.

Just my $.02; it's entirely too early to tell a whole lot. Looking forward to the start of cross-over series this weekend.

JSG

[PatriotASID]

UMHB edges Methodist University 8-7 in 13 innings last night in Abilene.

http://www.umhb.edu/athletics/news/10007

the article doesn't do the game justice...article made it seem like a mundane game.

Toby,

With all due respect, that was probably the 3rd or 4th rlease the SID had written that day.  While we all want to make sure the S-As get all the credit they deserve, we too have lives and families.  I thought the article was good and did what its purpose was, to recap the game.  Not too mention he had probably been at the games, if I know him.  So just know while an article may not be very detailed, as SIDs we often don't have the time to be as detailed as we would like, especially in the spring where some schools have as many as 10 sports going on at one time.  Just offering some insight.

[dp643]

I dont think he meant any disrespect. Anyone close to UMHB knows what a tremendous job Jon Wallin does for UMHB athletics and would never intentionally say or do anything to disrespect him.

I am looking forward to the UMHB UT Tyler series this weekend.

There will be some other interesting matchups this weekend with McMurry at the Ozarks, TLU at UT Dallas, and Concordia at Louisiana College.

[Dawgsdad]

Some good baseball resulted from Seguin this weekend with a match up between TLU and CSU Eastbay.

Bulldogs complete the sweep of the series with the Pioneers of CSU EB 5-7.

Next up for the Bulldogs is Southwestern University on Tuesday in Seguin (2pm)... 

Dawgsdad,

Sweep to me implies that they won all 3 games of the series. I know you meant, just didn't want others to be confused.

I think this TLU team is very interesting this year. When I look at them on paper, I expect a team that will try to out slug opponents, yet this TLU team is only hitting .277 and striking out a little too much. I wouldn't expect the guys East Bay ran out there on Sunday to be overpowering, but maybe they had velocity w/o command? Why so many K's ?

What has been impressive has been the pitching staff. Obviously it is still too early to start making assumptions, but Staggs (0.66) and Orosey (0.69) have been awesome, respectively. The rest of the pen have also been good thus far, though the true test will come in ASC play, as it always does. If Logan Hull comes around (and we saw what he was capable of his Freshman year), this is a deeper staff than I anticipated.

And defense. What do they do about defense? For whatever reason Macklin has struggled out of the gate on defense, but I suspect he'll drive plenty in with his stick (and from what I've heard he's always played good D in the past). The Dogs definitely need more offensive production from Green/Femath though if they're going to make a lot of errors up the middle. Until last year, the Bulldogs had always been great up the middle, and it was a recipe for success. Not sure what the answer is, or if they have an answer at this point.

Just my $.02; it's entirely too early to tell a whole lot. Looking forward to the start of cross-over series this weekend.

JSG

JSG,

I totally agree with you. First, I meant that they won the series and not a complete sweep of the three games.

I think what's happening at the plate is a combination of things - guessing, not being able to adjust to reasonable breaking balls, and being off balance. I see of lot of guys like Femath, Green, Childress, and a few others dropping there back shoulder and leading with there front foot - just off balance.  I'm hopping that will correct itself very soon or you'll be right about struggling in ASC play.

I wouldn't say that the guy from Eastbay had overpowering stuff, Didn't see many guns out Saturday or Sunday and what I did see or hear about on Friday was nothing to write home about - and we got rocked - There number one just kept most of the team off balance and our defense and pitching on Friday stunk...

The pitching staff is a bright spot but we need more production out of our starters. Macklin was warming in the 8th and 9th (between innings) but they didn't use him. May see him tomorrow a bit against Southwestern perhaps.

Defense- well, I generally agree that Macklin is suppose to be the stronger of those out there, but he's had a fairly hot corner early on and frankly he getting re-use to playing third - played there in his second year, played outfield all of last year and now back in at 3rd this year.  Green has been exceptionally good this early part of the season. He's made some really tough plays and I expect that both will improve overall. Jeremy is huge compared to Green and Femath, both of these guys can stand under Jeremy's out stretched arms - you should see the three of them standing together behind second base - comical to say the least. I'm not too worried about the defense, more worried about the hitting at the moment.

The more we face good pitching (those that can move the ball around as well as bring the heat) the more I'm going to be asking questions if they can't adjust. Harvey, Farr and Nokebly all need to stop chasing or looking at pitches especially with two strikes - way too much of that in my opinion.

Thanks for the comments nonetheless. I too am looking forward to the series up in dallas this weekend... Are you planning to attend? My wife and are will make the trip.

Dawgsdad

[dp643]

UMHB leading Trinity 10-2 Bottom of the third and still batting.

Trinity has 3 passed balls, and UMHB 4 stolen bases thus far.

[Blackcat00]

Wow whats going on with Trinity. They seem to be starting off slow and struggling. I took the 3rd of March see the CTX Trinity match up at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock.

CTX and Texas Weslayan rescheduled for tommorow due the the rain here in Austin,Round Rock area. Will play tommorow the 18th.

[dp643]

UMHB wins 16-5.

I dont know what the story with Trinity so far is. They have I believe everyone from their starting lineup back from last year (minus one or two possibly). They were a team that made it to the regional finals and lost to chapman by one run twice last year.

I wasn't at the game, but it looked like Trinity played pretty sloppy, and that definitely isnt a characteristic of theirs from past history. They have been absolutely destroyed thus far by the ASC.

Knowing Trinity I bet they bounce back, but right now it isnt looking good.

Are there going to be any live stats for the Concordia game tomorrow?

[Blackcat00]

I know the Concordia's Website doesnt do any live feeds for baseball. I hope Texas Weslayan does because It is during the day and I wont be able to go. This is going to be a great match up at the Diamond.

[Dawgsdad]

Somewhat of a soggy day in Seguin today. TLU put it to Southwestern 6-14.  10 of the 14 runs for the Bulldogs came from Farr and Macklin. Farr getting his second and third HR in back to back games. Chris Green also homered in the game today, his first.

[mcmguy19]

Does TLU have any guys left from the three time ASC championship teams?

Also MCM travels to Ozarks this weekend anyone heard anything about Ozarks.  Last year they had a good team and from what I remember a young team as well....anyone have anything on Ozarks and the outcome of the series in Arkansas?