BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[UP AND IN]

Alright well I guess we are out of the woodwork then...
I don't know anything about this Boyd's ranking thing, but I know that if it's on a national level then the west and the ASC should be proud to have teams ranked pretty high... We all know only the ASC champion will make a regional that's in Oregon this year unless maybe tyler sweeps MC and loses 2 in the championship at the Tourney...

Injuries and unforeseen personal issues, but thanks for asking

I'm really looking forward to see how this weekend turns out, since Tyler entred the conference nobody has had this much of a shot to take the conference from them and once again the top of the West is all jumbled up. Should be and interesting weekend with some nasty weather mixed in possibly!

[dp643]

Tough break, are you going to get a medical redshirt?

[TexasBB]

Made my day!!



Yanks open new stadium with humiliating 10-2 loss
Published - Apr 16 2009 07:04PM CST

By RONALD BLUM - AP Baseball Writer

The Yankees opened baseball's fanciest and priciest ballpark Thursday with a performance that would have embarrassed Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and other stars from their famous pinstriped past. After an 85-year run in a stadium that produced 26 World Series titles, New York saw its hitters fizzle and its bullpen come apart on a sunny afternoon in a 10-2 loss to the Cleveland Indians.

Jhonny Peralta broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run double off Jose Veras, and Grady Sizemore hit a grand slam into the right-field seats off Damaso Marte.

"To come in here and do what we did is something we'll always remember," Sizemore said.

By the time Victor Martinez's solo homer capped the nine-run burst, just as the shadow of the famous frieze was about to creep past home plate, angry fans who paid up to $2,625 list per ticket taunted the Yankees with chants of, "We want Swisher!"

That was a reference to the Yankees right fielder who pitched during a blowout loss at Tampa Bay earlier in the week.

"It felt like we disappointed quite a few people today," Johnny Damon said.

On April 18, 1923, Ruth homered as New York opened the original Yankee Stadium with a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox, and the ballpark quickly was dubbed "The House that Ruth Built."

The opening of the new $1.5 billion house for baseball's most storied team wound up being much less memorable. Yankees batters stranded 10 runners in the first five innings, going 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. The primary cheers were for Jorge Posada, who hit the first home run in the ballpark's history, a fifth-inning drive off Cliff Lee that that landed in Monument Park behind center field.

"I'm going to remember the home run, no question about it, but right now it's a little disappointing," Posada said.

CC Sabathia, pitching in pinstripes for the first time since signing a $161 million, seven-year contract, allowed an RBI double to Kelly Shoppach in the fourth. But he left after 122 pitches and 5 2-3 innings in his first start against his former team.

[Blackcat00]

Out of the woodwork? ha is this guy serious. Im not sure if we live our life off a message board as you. Keep the real baseball talk coming. There have been some really good posts on here.

[TexasBB]

No surprise UTT and MC postponed tonight will resume Sat with double header and single 9 inning game on Sunday.

[TexasBB]

UMHB and HPU series pushed back a day.

TLU is hammering HSU in first game 12-4 in the 4th

[Ralph Turner]

Sully leads McM 1-0 in the top of the 7th with runners on 1st and 2nd iwth one out.

Garza from Sul Ross has pitched a beautiful 3-hitter.

I like how quickly the SRSU batters get into the batter's box.  They seem to play at a faster pace.

Sully 2-0 on an RBI single by Arrieta.  Going to the bottom of the 7th.

Sully up 3-0, 2 of the runs are unearned!
McMurry bats in the bottom of the 8th.

Final score Sul Ross 5 McM 2.  Lucas Garza gets the complete game win on 139 pitches. 

McMurry is dangerously close to buying a bus ride to Mississippi College.

[Dawgsdad]

Sully leads McM 1-0 in the top of the 7th with runners on 1st and 2nd iwth one out.

Garza from Sul Ross has pitched a beautiful 3-hitter.

I like how quickly the SRSU batters get into the batter's box.  They seem to play at a faster pace.

Sully 2-0 on an RBI single by Arrieta.  Going to the bottom of the 7th.

Sully up 3-0, 2 of the runs are unearned!
McMurry bats in the bottom of the 8th.

Final score Sul Ross 5 McM 2.  Lucas Garza gets the complete game win on 139 pitches. 

McMurry is dangerously close to buying a bus ride to Mississippi College.

Ralph,

Given what happened during this game, is it too early to say where McM is headed? Given the way MC has been playing of late, it is very possible that McM may not have to leave the state for the first round!

Thanks to Sul Ross - TLU is breathing a bit easier this morning   We still have two games to go and the way we're hitting right now, it's going to be interesting. Good pitching matchups today.

Will it come down to small ball or will long ball prevail?

Exciting all around - why we play the game!!

Good luck to day against those nasty lobos

[Ralph Turner]

Pitcher Lucas Garza was on his game yesterday for the Lobos. 

McMurry starter Kyle Martin went a strong 7.1 innings, giving up 1 earned run.  The unearned runs came in the 5th and 8th innings. The Lobos got a 2-run HR in the 9th.  Without the errors, Martin might have lasted the complete game.  He definitely got no run support.

[TexasBB]

Rained in east Texas today so the UTT and MC series is pushed back with a double header scheduled for Sunday starting at 2 and single game on Monday.

[Ralph Turner]

The wind is blowing in and then blowing out at Driggers Field today.

A random question of profound insignificance....

if that sportswriter who coined the term "southpaw" had been reporting on a game at Hunter Field, would we now refer to left-handed pitchers as "northpaws"?   

[Just_Some_Guy]

Macklin was stellar in a 4-1 TLU victory and they clinch the #1 spot in the West after falling 8-2 in the first game of the double-header.

JSG

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry swept the DH today.  Failure to sweep either the HPU or the SRSU series put them in third. FFaiulre to sweep both knocked them out of the #1 seed.

That is a testament to how close the ASC-West is.

Both UMHB-HPU and CTX-SU series are pushed to Sunday/Monday.

[hsusid]

Fun series this weekend. TLU executed when they had two. Barton was great in the first game today and Macklin was equally as good in game two. TLU played small ball and got the big plays necessary to score runs in the third game. The ASC Tournament should be a lot of fun, and this coming weekend may be the best of the two weekends. There are some really good matchups.

TLU vs. Ozarks
HSU vs. UTD
McMurry at UTT or MC
Concordia or UMHB at UTT or MC

I would not want to face Concordia's two pitchers in a best of three.

[golden_dome]

Hopefully, the MC-UTT series will finally get underway tomorrow. Should be fun to watch.

Here is a interesting preview from the Tyler Morning Telegraph on the series and Paige Hodges switch from MC to UT-Tyler.
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20090418/SPORTS06/904180318/-1/SPORTS