BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[dp643]

UMHB drops game vs Trinity 7-0.

Trinity did a pretty cool live video feed and had former players Jordan Pennington and Evan Bronson doing the commentary today.

[golden_dome]

MC fell 4-3 last night to Belhaven College (5-1) after giving up a 3-spot in the first inning. Just couldn't push runners across, the Choctaws left 12 on base.

Not a bad loss though, Belhaven has easily been the best team on our schedule each of the last three years and has handled us. They are NAIA so it won't show as a regional loss, but it gives us an opportunity to face tough hitters and probably the best pitching we'll see this year.

[frank_ezelle]

MC fell 4-3 last night to Belhaven College (5-1) after giving up a 3-spot in the first inning. Just couldn't push runners across, the Choctaws left 12 on base.

Not a bad loss though, Belhaven has easily been the best team on our schedule each of the last three years and has handled us. They are NAIA so it won't show as a regional loss, but it gives us an opportunity to face tough hitters and probably the best pitching we'll see this year.

Belhaven College--easily the best team?  That hurt this Millsaps Major fan--I hope my Majors at least made it to the "receiving votes" category of best teams on the MS College schedule.

[Ralph Turner]

MC fell 4-3 last night to Belhaven College (5-1) after giving up a 3-spot in the first inning. Just couldn't push runners across, the Choctaws left 12 on base.

Not a bad loss though, Belhaven has easily been the best team on our schedule each of the last three years and has handled us. They are NAIA so it won't show as a regional loss, but it gives us an opportunity to face tough hitters and probably the best pitching we'll see this year.

Belhaven College--easily the best team?  That hurt this Millsaps Major fan--I hope my Majors at least made it to the "receiving votes" category of best teams on the MS College schedule.

Isn't that why you play the Maloney Series?   

[golden_dome]

MC fell 4-3 last night to Belhaven College (5-1) after giving up a 3-spot in the first inning. Just couldn't push runners across, the Choctaws left 12 on base.

Not a bad loss though, Belhaven has easily been the best team on our schedule each of the last three years and has handled us. They are NAIA so it won't show as a regional loss, but it gives us an opportunity to face tough hitters and probably the best pitching we'll see this year.

Belhaven College--easily the best team?  That hurt this Millsaps Major fan--I hope my Majors at least made it to the "receiving votes" category of best teams on the MS College schedule.

Frank,
Both are good programs. I think Millsaps is 4-5 against Belhaven the last three years. Just seeing the teams in person, in my opinion Belhaven has been the most impressive team for us the last three years, including Millsaps and UT-Tyler.

I'd go Belhaven, then give UT-Tyler the edge over Millsaps just based on their pitching. But you're right, "easily" wouldn't be the best description. We have terrible records against Millsaps and Belhaven, but we've been a bit more competitive with Millsaps. Our record against UT-Tyler is better, but that's more a reflection of the difference in our weekend and midweek pitching the last few years.

Hopefully, the game against Belhaven this week indicates we've closed the gap with them. Both teams looked very similiar on the field in my opinion. Everything I've heard about Millsaps this year is that they've reloaded again.

[frank_ezelle]

Chris--I hope the smiley face icon made it clear to everyone that my comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.  If memory serves me right, last year the first game Millsaps played after reaching #1 was against Belhaven and Belhaven won that game. 

They have been a tough team on the Millsaps schedule year after year and they seem to have more pitching depth for weekday games than both Millsaps and MS College.  That would be logical since they have scholarships to give.  While it will never happen, I'd like to see a 3-game weekend series between Millsaps and Belhaven where both teams are using their top three starters instead of whoever is available during the week.  Those would be very entertaining games to watch.

Good luck to the Choctaws in Georgia this weekend and we will see you in Jackson this Tuesday if the weather is good enough for a baseball game.

[golden_dome]

Chris--I hope the smiley face icon made it clear to everyone that my comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.  If memory serves me right, last year the first game Millsaps played after reaching #1 was against Belhaven and Belhaven won that game. 

They have been a tough team on the Millsaps schedule year after year and they seem to have more pitching depth for weekday games than both Millsaps and MS College.  That would be logical since they have scholarships to give.  While it will never happen, I'd like to see a 3-game weekend series between Millsaps and Belhaven where both teams are using their top three starters instead of whoever is available during the week.  Those would be very entertaining games to watch.

Good luck to the Choctaws in Georgia this weekend and we will see you in Jackson this Tuesday if the weather is good enough for a baseball game.

I picked up the icon, but you were right about "easily". Belhaven has beaten us worse for the most part, but the truth is both teams have worn us out. Both Coach Page at Millsaps and Coach Denson at Belhaven have established programs with plenty of depth, and we just haven't had the midweek pitching to compete. This is Coach Owens third full year and you can see the depth, particularly on the mound, has improved a lot. Hopefully, it will show and the Maloney Series will be much more competitive.

I agree about the weekend pitching, it would be fun to see that series played out with weekend starters on the mound.

[Voorhees]

McMurry wins their first game of the year today behind an excellent effort from Dakota Smith. According to the box score, needed only 73 pitches over 6 innings allowing two hits on his way to the win. Cory Davis also looked to have thrown a good two innings.

Jake Mullin has started this season just the way he left off last year. Kid can rake.

[Voorhees]

Congrats to Orosey, TLU has found a way to find quality arm after quality arm.

[Ralph Turner]

Congrats to Orosey, TLU has found a way to find quality arm after quality arm.

+1!

Voorhees, glad to see you posting on the boards!

I will appreciate your insights in the conference race.

Please contribute as often as you wish.

[dp643]

Orosey is a very good pitcher. I saw him pitch a heck of a game last year vs UMHB with a 30 MPH wind in his face. Hes got excellent command of his pitches. Between Orosey, Steinert, and Hembree I think TLU will be able to win 2 out of 3 most weekends. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the staff fairs. Anyone know where Logan Hull is?

[Just_Some_Guy]

Orosey is a very good pitcher. I saw him pitch a heck of a game last year vs UMHB with a 30 MPH wind in his face. Hes got excellent command of his pitches. Between Orosey, Steinert, and Hembree I think TLU will be able to win 2 out of 3 most weekends. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the staff fairs. Anyone know where Logan Hull is?

He's on the roster. I know he's battled some some injuries the last two years after a solid freshman campaign, but aside from that if you check out his #'s over the last two years he's also struggled with his command at times.

At this point I think he's a real wild card. If he takes advantage of opportunities he could be a real X factor for the Bulldogs down the stretch, but it seems they've made it clear early on that they're not relying on him out of the gate.

JSG

[swbaseball3]

As many know, Logan had a great freshman year.  An injury in is soph year hurt velocity and command.  Last year, he just struggled with location.  Good news is he saw an inning on the mound the other day and looked OK.  My thoughts are that Burnett would be pretty happy if Hull could come out of the bullpen to burn some innings.  Again, humble opinion, it's all about location.

[swbaseball3]

Orosey is a very good pitcher. I saw him pitch a heck of a game last year vs UMHB with a 30 MPH wind in his face. Hes got excellent command of his pitches. Between Orosey, Steinert, and Hembree I think TLU will be able to win 2 out of 3 most weekends. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the staff fairs. Anyone know where Logan Hull is?

For those who have not seen Orosey pitch, it's quite a deal.  Once the season gets heated up, he'll be 86-88 with just about the best slider there is.  I watched him pitch against Johnson (Concordia) last year in a thriller at TLU and the scouts were pretty consistent on one thought...two Division 1 level pitchers were throwing.  Orosey got the best of that day 2-1 on a clutch 2-run homer by Knocklby late in the  game.

[dp643]

It was hard to judge velocity that day I saw him pitch...but I know his slider was outstanding. I know if I would have faced him when I played I would have been done because I couldnt hit a slider to save my life, much less that good of a slider.