BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

dp643 · May 05, 2011, 04:31:29 PM

hatbaseball: are you going to predict McMurry winning it all?

Ron Boerger · May 05, 2011, 04:43:44 PM

UT-T fell to fifth in the this week's NCAA regional rankings.

WEST
1 Linfield 27-5 29-8
2 Redlands 23-6 28-9
3 Chapman 18-8 27-10
4 Trinity (Texas) 27-10 33-11
5 Texas-Tyler 30-7 33-7
6 Hardin-Simmons 27-11 31-12

Ralph Turner · May 05, 2011, 08:31:49 PM

Quote from: Ron Boerger on May 05, 2011, 04:43:44 PM
UT-T fell to fifth in the this week's NCAA regional rankings.

WEST
1 Linfield 27-5 29-8
2 Redlands 23-6 28-9
3 Chapman 18-8 27-10
4 Trinity (Texas) 27-10 33-11
5 Texas-Tyler 30-7 33-76 Hardin-Simmons 27-11 31-12

But appears to be the first Pool C team at the table.

TexasBB · May 05, 2011, 10:37:40 PM

It is looking like UTT will not drop out of the top 6 since their season is over. That puts them in decent shape to get a bid. HSU if they win the tournament could jump them but nobody else in the ASC is likely to. So this puts the ASC in good shape to have 2 teams in the tournament for a second year.

As far as the conference tournament is concerned the top three have to be CTX, HSU and UTD. One of those 3 will get hot and win it. I am going with HSU. The crowd favorite is McMurry however, I think they caught UTT when they were flat having not played in 10 days. The above 3 teams will not likely be flat, as all 3 played 3 tough fist round games. They are all, on paper anyway, better teams. McMurry just does not have the depth at pitching nor can rely on their bats to out slug the opposition.

Texas BB

Ralph Turner · May 06, 2011, 07:23:08 AM

Thanks for the sentiments and well wishes for my McMurry War Hawks.

"Cinderella" is only getting to go to this dance because we won the HPU series, 2 games to 1. Wow! That is the thinnest of margins!

Gotta strap on the shoes and get it done!

May we have some great baseball today!

dp643 · May 06, 2011, 09:06:10 AM

I love getting ripped for making a wrong prediction (even after I acknowledged I was proven wrong) by someone who wont make any predictions himself!

All in good fun, but heres to CTX winning the ASC.

Sincerely,

UMHB fan

Ralph Turner · May 06, 2011, 02:53:56 PM

First game of the ASC Finals

McM 0 6 0
CTX 1 5 0

CTX's Beasley gets a 2-out BB in the first inning and scores on a double by Janssen.

What a game!

Ralph Turner · May 06, 2011, 08:05:56 PM

UTD 5, HSU 2. Game three (MuMurry vs HSU) at 10am on Saturday.

Ralph Turner · May 07, 2011, 09:36:10 PM

HSU 9, McM 3. The wheels came off in the bottom of the 7th after Kory Moench had hit a 3-run HR down left field line in the top of the seventh to go up 3-1.

CTX beat UTD in Game #4 8-3

UTD came back in Game #5 to eliminate HSU 5-3.

UTD comes out of the loser's bracket to face ASC-West co-champ CTX in game #6 tomorrow at 1pm CDT.

tigerfan_2001 · May 08, 2011, 07:55:56 AM

I can't believe they plated a game at 10am yesterday. You shouldn't be able to host a tournament if you dont have lights.

dp643 · May 08, 2011, 11:33:57 AM

Guess we won't see hatbaseball again till next year

I expect we see Scott Hays the first game vs Dallas. Anyone have any clue who Dallas will be throwing first and if necessary, game 2 today?

Just_Some_Guy · May 08, 2011, 09:14:09 PM

Quote from: dp643 on May 03, 2011, 10:58:23 PM
You will see ctx win the whole thing.

Ctx over mcmurry.
Hsu over Dallas.

Ctx over hsu.

Dallas over mcmurry.
Hsu over Dallas.

Hsu over ctx. Ctx over hsu to win it all.

Personally though I'm rooting for Mcmurry. What a story that would be.

+1 for correctly predicting CTX to take the ASC.

dp643 · May 08, 2011, 09:47:49 PM

Ctx has been solid all year. I'm anxious to see how they do in the regional. They didn't do too well against linfield and George fox earlier in the year but I think they are a much better team now.

If we go back and replay this thing over from the original 8 teams I think you could see 4 completely different teams in the 2nd round. All 8 teams could have just as easily gotten hot and won.

Congrats to ctx. Represent the Asc well! Here's to hoping Tyler gets in as well.

Ralph Turner · May 08, 2011, 09:57:15 PM

For the sake of the conference, I do think that CTX is the best representative that we have. I think that the West was a tougher division this year. That has helped CTX be stronger this year.

I thought that the only way McMurry was going to win the tourney was to beat CTX in the first game. I felt that our second pitcher might do well in Game #2. It was a wing and a prayer for Game #3.

hatbaseball · May 09, 2011, 10:54:20 AM

Quote from: dp643 on May 06, 2011, 09:06:10 AM
I love getting ripped for making a wrong prediction (even after I acknowledged I was proven wrong) by someone who wont make any predictions himself!

All in good fun, but heres to CTX winning the ASC.

Sincerely,

UMHB fan

Sorry for not making a prediction. I haven't been online for a few days. To be honest I would not have predicted McMurry winning it all, but I would have predicted them playing HSU in the finals. (Obviously not close on either count).

Since I had already seen all of the teams this season, I thought HSU was the strongest. CTX played solid defense but I was not impressed with them when McMurry played them during the regular season. They sure stepped it up and played great this weekend though. That first game of the tournament with the 1-0 win by CTX was a very well played game. They made all the plays when they needed to all weekend and were certainly the best team there this weekend.