BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[Dawgsdad]

Win 'em both tomorrow.  I think that McMurry would rather travel to Seguin than to Clinton, if we win!

Amen to that

[Ralph Turner]

Win 'em both tomorrow.  I think that McMurry would rather travel to Seguin than to Clinton, if we win!

Amen to that

We got an amen from the Lutherans!   

[CUAfan]

Van Hoozer owned McMurry this year.

Van Hoozer vs. McMurry, 2009 -
1.2 IP, 1 BB, 1 K, 0 H

I hardly think 1.2 IP is sufficient basis to say any one player "owned" another team. Not to mention the whole concept of a player/team "owning" another player/team is flawed.

I am also confused as to why a UMHB pitcher supposedly "owning" McMurry is significant at this stage of the tourney.
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Tourney offenses by standard OPS and OPS adjusted for BABIP (in an attempt to neutralize the effect of luck on balls in play).

Standard OPS
1. Texas-Dallas, .991
2. McMurry, .981
3. Texas-Tyler, .972
4. Texas Lutheran, .950
5. Mississippi College, .937
6. Hardin-Simmons, .922
7. Mary Hardin-Baylor, .893
8. Ozarks, .844

Adjusted OPS
1. Texas-Dallas, .972
2. Texas Lutheran, .950
3. Texas-Tyler, .937
4. McMurry, .931
5. Hardin-Simmons, .917
6. Ozarks, .907
7. Mississippi College, .892
8. Mary Hardin-Baylor, .857

[Ralph Turner]

Van Hoozer owned McMurry this year.

Van Hoozer vs. McMurry, 2009 -
1.2 IP, 1 BB, 1 K, 0 H

I hardly think 1.2 IP is sufficient basis to say any one player "owned" another team. Not to mention the whole concept of a player/team "owning" another player/team is flawed.

I am also confused as to why a UMHB pitcher supposedly "owning" McMurry is significant at this stage of the tourney.
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That is fair.

Nevertheless, Van Hoozer comes in for Hopper in the 8th runners on 2nd and 3rd  with one out and get the clean-up batter to pop to shallow LF and then a strike out swinging.  In the 9th,  fly, a walk and a DP.  His 6 saves are as many as UTT's Ziegler and only behind CTX's Szkotoak.  Only Austin College (during the mid-season slump) and Chapman's Kitchens stop the McMurry offense as effectively.

[Ralph Turner]

TLU leads UOz 1-0 going to the Ozarks' bottom of the 6th.  TLU scored on a Joe Gentry lead-off HR in the 2nd inning.  Macklin is on the mound for TLU.  Koch for UOz.

[Just_Some_Guy]

Pitching duel in Seguin as Texas Lutheran is up 1-0 going into the bottom of the 6th.

The Bulldogs run came on a solo shot by 3B Joe Gentry.

TLU:      Macklin 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K
Ozarks: Koch     6 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 8 K

The other games get going in approximately 30 minutes.

JSG

[Ralph Turner]

Macklin gets the 4-hit shutout as TLU wins 2-0.  Great game!  UOz is eliminated

[Warren Thompson]

Win 'em both tomorrow.  I think that McMurry would rather travel to Seguin than to Clinton, if we win!

Amen to that

We got an amen from the Lutherans!   

Ralph, Lutherans have always been big on "amens" .... 

[Ralph Turner]

MissColl leads UMHB 11-0, UMHB batting in the bottom of the 3rd.

UTT leads McM 6-0 going to the bottom of the 5th for McM.

UTT scored 2 in the 6th to go up 8-0.

[Ralph Turner]

Final in game #1 UTT 10 McM 0.  Booher 4-hits McM.  UTT announcers call it his best game of the season.

Game 2 in 30 minutes.


MC eliminated UMHB 14-4 in 7.

UTD 14 HSU 12.  On to game #3

[indian4life]

UTT up early 1-0 Bottom of the third 2 outs for UTT

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry scores an unearned run in the top of the 6 to tie at 1.  McM brings on Cory Davis in relief of Dakota Smith for the UTT bottom of the 6th who gets a 1-2-3 inning.

In the bottom of the 7th, UTT scores on a BB, advanced by a Sac Bunt, then a scored with a single.   UTT leads 2-1. 

UTT pitcher Lex Wolfe walks McM Nathan Love to lead of the 8th.

UTT brings in Tommy Rozelle to relieve.  The top of the McMurry lineup is up.

In the top of the 8th, McM gets a leadoff walk (Nathan Love).  Nathan Saltzgaber struck out.  On a grounder to short by Lips, Love is out on the force, but causes the SS to overthrow the play at first.  Lips is awarded second when the ball sticks in the fence.  Lips scored on single by Mullin.  Derrick then singles and McMurry is running Mullin who is thrown out at third.  Score is tied at 2.  Bottom of the 8th.

UTT 8th
Delaiden flies to center.  Harding singles to left. Harding steals second and moves to third on the grounder to short.  The UTT announcer comments how the third baseman was fighting the sun.  Hodges grounds sharply towards third that takes a bad hop on the 3B.  That error allows Harding to score.   UTT leads 3-2.

Top of the 9th.

PH Baker draws a BB.  Ziegler relieves Rozelle.  (Ziegler has a WHIP of 0.808, 15 hits and 6 BBs in 26 innings.)  Jackson singles to center.  Morris advances the runners with a great bunt right in front of the plate.  Franco to pinch hit  -- Intentionial BB.  Nathan Love up with the bases loaded.  Jordan Brown to pinch run for Franco.  Paige Hodges makes an error on Love's ground ball, bases loaded one out and tied.  Nathan Salzgaber to bat. He strikes out.  Lips is called out on strikes to end the inning tied at 3.


UTT bottom of the ninth. 

Gaona on the mound for McMurry.

Joe Towns on first on a E5. Pinch runner.  Newell at bat SAC bunt to 3rd.  Skeen at bat, RBI single to left,  unearned run.  UTT wins 4-3.

[Just_Some_Guy]

The East has shown their resiliency today with UT Tyler (and possibly UT Dallas) both fighting back from 1-0 deficits.

Some really good games so far this weekend.

JSG

[Dawgsdad]

Yesterday we were thinking an all West final (possibly), but looks what a day mades - only one team from the west is in for sure - HSU will need some real heroics to get two west teams to Mississippi...

Congrats to both UTT and MCM - MCM battled long and hard - Sorry to see them done...

TLU vs UTT first game - predictions?

[TexasBB]

UTT had for the first time added video to its sound so you can actually watch the game on line. Really could only see the infield but I thought it was great. 

Booher and Wolfe stepped up when they needed to the most today. It was a nail biter in the 9th of the second game with the bases loaded and only one out. McM had a chance to deliver a big inning but Ziegler was up to the challenge with two big strike outs. He was hitting 93 on the radar gun with an 83 mph slider - nasty.