BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[CUAfan]

CUA drops 2 to Houston Baptist (5-2, 7-3) to open the year then beats TWU (6-4) to open the year.

#1 starter Miller went 5 innings (I think it was predetermined), struck out 6, gave up one hit and no runs on Friday night.

[BigPoppa]

CUA drops 2 to Houston Baptist (5-2, 7-3) to open the year then beats TWU (6-4) to open the year.

#1 starter Miller went 5 innings (I think it was predetermined), struck out 6, gave up one hit and no runs on Friday night.

Does CUA still play on campus? I thought their field was one of the most fantastic baseball settings we played in. I brought one of my teams to Texas to play them a few years ago. I felt like every flyball was going to land on the freeway!

[Ralph Turner]

CUA drops 2 to Houston Baptist (5-2, 7-3) to open the year then beats TWU (6-4) to open the year.

#1 starter Miller went 5 innings (I think it was predetermined), struck out 6, gave up one hit and no runs on Friday night.

Does CUA still play on campus? I thought their field was one of the most fantastic baseball settings we played in. I brought one of my teams to Texas to play them a few years ago. I felt like every flyball was going to land on the freeway!

Look at where Concordia is moving.

Click on the Jan 2007 update for the map of the new campus.

Does this look like the stadium that you remember?  The Freeway is behind the left field fence.

[BigPoppa]

Does this look like the stadium that you remember?  The Freeway is behind the left field fence.

That's the place. It is sad to know they are not going to stay on that campus. It's one of my favorite places to play of anywhere I have been.

[Ralph Turner]

Does this look like the stadium that you remember?  The Freeway is behind the left field fence.

That's the place. It is sad to know they are not going to stay on that campus. It's one of my favorite places to play of anywhere I have been.

The new campus is spectacular.  I am not sure how many trees they will cut downfor parking, tho'.  And I am having trouble seeing the gradations on the topographical map.  I think that I see a 950.00 foot contour line running thru the map.  A question for native Austinites, is that campus on the top of a mesa?

[Just_Some_Guy]

That's the place. It is sad to know they are not going to stay on that campus. It's one of my favorite places to play of anywhere I have been.

It is a pretty cool place to play, albiet a tough place to play.  I just wish it was a little bigger because I don't like the fact that 150-lb eight-hole hitters can hit an opposite field fly ball that leaves the yard. I know people these days enjoy the long ball, but at that facility a pitcher can make a good pitch that would typically be a fly ball out and the next thing you know the ball is leaving the year.  What ASC teams get going this weekend?

[Bearkat00]

That's the place. It is sad to know they are not going to stay on that campus. It's one of my favorite places to play of anywhere I have been.

It is a pretty cool place to play, albiet a tough place to play.  I just wish it was a little bigger because I don't like the fact that 150-lb eight-hole hitters can hit an opposite field fly ball that leaves the yard. I know people these days enjoy the long ball, but at that facility a pitcher can make a good pitch that would typically be a fly ball out and the next thing you know the ball is leaving the year. 

I seen a couple of balls hit into the freeway there during BP one year.  The next thing you hear are cars colliding into one another.  Has that happen often?  Also one of my favorite places to play, CUA.  Gotta love the short porch in right!

[Just_Some_Guy]

Most of the ASC teams open up this weekend, if they haven't already.

Friday, February 9th:
Concordia vs. Houston Baptist
East Texas Baptist vs. Millsaps
Howard Payne vs. UT-Permian Basin
Louisianna College vs. Hendrix
Sul Ross State vs. West Texas A&M
Mary-Hardin Baylor vs. UT-Brownsville
Hardin Simmons vs. College of SW

Saturday, Feb 10th:
Concordia vs. Houston Baptist
ETBU vs. Millsaps
McMurry vs. LeTourneu (DH?)
Howard Payne vs. UT-Permian Basin (DH)
Louisianna College vs. Hendrix (DH)
Sul Ross State vs. West Texas A&M (DH)
Mary-Hardin Baylor vs. UT-Brownsville
Ozarks vs. Principia College (DH)
Texas Lutheran vs. Huston-Tillotson (DH)
Mississippi College vs. Tougaloo College
Mississippi College vs. Loyola
Hardin Simmons vs. Oklahoma Baptist
Hardin Simmons vs. Lubbock Christian

Sunday, Feb 11th:
Concordia vs. Huston Tillotson
McMurry vs. Texas-Tyler
Ozarks vs. Principia College
Schreiner vs. Southwestern
Texas Lutheran vs. UT-Brownsville (DH)

Should be a good weekend of baseball for some teams to find out about the character of their teams.  It's too early to tell much as most teams probably won't have much of a definitive line-up, etc. until closer to the start of conference, but it'll be good to start feeling teams out.  I'm looking forward to the McMurry Texas-Tyler game.

[Just_Some_Guy]

Friday, February 9th:

Concordia 0 vs. Houston Baptist 10
Concordia gets 2-hit. Jonathon Miller gave up 7 in 4.2 innings of work.

East Texas Baptist vs. Millsaps
Couldn't find anything, but with pretty crappy weather in Jackson I suspect it might've been pushed back to a DH on Saturday.

Howard Payne 13 vs. UT-Permian Basin 7
Justin Davies is the winning pitcher. HPU bangs out 19 hits with CF Kasey Black (4), C Jose Sierra (3) 3 RBIs, 1B Blake Shaffer (3) 4 RBIs, and SS Cale Thompson (3) leading the way.

Louisianna College 13, 15 vs. Hendrix 2,1
Thomas started and got the win in game 1 giving up 1 ER in 4 innings of work. C Malbrough was 3-4 with 6 RBI and LF Trahan was 3-3. In the second game of the double dip Wilson gets the win giving up 1 ER in 3 innings of work. 1B Bray was 2-2 with 3 RBI.

Sul Ross State 8 vs. West Texas A&M 7
Sul Ross tosses Kemmerlin 8 innings giving up 7 runs (6ER) on 15 hits and 3 walks. Sounds to me like his pitch count was probably pretty high for the first game of the season, but I guess that's why I'm not a coach. CF Klinetop and C Montano (2 RBI) both contributed 3 hits. 3B Arrieta was 2-5 with 2 RBI as well.

Mary-Hardin Baylor vs. UT-Brownsville - 5-5
Game Suspended Due To Darkness

Hardin Simmons 6 vs. College of SW 7
College of the Southwest gets 3 unearned runs in the top of the 9th to edge past HSU. Jeff Walker, SR, transfer from Pacific gave up 3 runs on 6 hits in 5 innings of work for HSU. Catcher Blake Koch was 4-5 and lead off hitter and LF Danny Ruth had 2 hits.

Overall the ASC goes 4-2 on Friday with quite possibly the two strongest teams of the bunch dropping their respective games. It will be interesting to see how Louisianna shapes up this year in the East.  With ETBU likely having a down year, UT Tyler still not eligible and Austin making the move to the SCAC, Louisianna is a lock for the playoffs but can they compete with perennial division leaders UT-Dallas and Mississippi College?

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks "Guy".  Great summary!

Game report on ETBU vs. Millsaps by Frank Ezelle, the well-respected Millsaps and SCAC fan.

Frank gives reliable reports, so I read his comment with interest.

A young ETBU was handled easily and the Majors got to Pre-Season ASC POTY Andrew Cardell.

[Bearkat00]

Hey guys, here's another Friday night score.  LETU added on a game:

LETU 6 vs. SAGU 1

'Jackets get strong pitching performance from Wolfers (Soph), 6IP 5H, 0BB, 2K's.  Played well defensively with no errors.  Lacking in power.  Faust goes 3 for 4 on the day with 2 r's and 1 rbi.  "jackets go to 1-1 on the season, with an early season loss @ Northwood 10-4. They were in the game up until the 8th inning, when 3 runs crossed the plate for Northwood.  Very young team again.  With the coaching change, not a lot of recruiting this past year.  You have a lot of guys who are going to battle though and they return their starting infield. 

Play host to McM today, 9 inning game.  I'll try to give you updates, but being outside I doubt we will get any connection.  Cloudy day, hope to get it in. 

[Bearkat00]

McM - 13
LETU - 3

Every McM starter collects a hit.  Voorhees 2 for 6 with a two run homerun and Curry goes 7 2/3 innings for the win. 

[Just_Some_Guy]

Saturday, Feb 10th:

Mary-Hardin Baylor 6 vs. UT-Brownsville 5 (15 innings)
Stephen Fellows is the winning pitcher going the last 3 innings, surrendering 1 hit and 0 runs. R.B. Garza pitched a hitless previous 3 innings. C Ricky LaFont was 3-3. RF Joseph Villegas also collected 3 hits.

Mary-Hardin Baylor 8 vs. UT-Brownsville 6
Blair Bundy started for UMHB and gave up 5 runs in 5 innings. R.B. Garza (0.00 ERA) got his 2nd save of the season. 1B Steven Reinlie was 3-4, 1 RBI, LF Ernest Pena was 3-3, 2 2B, 2 RBI, Garza and LaFont both added two hits.

Mary-Hardin Baylor 3 vs. UT-Brownsville 3
Corey Dobbins throws three shut out innings, but UMHB only manages 3 hits the whole game. Starter Bill Pearce gave up 3 ER on 8 BB and 10Ks

[Just_Some_Guy]

ETBU  2 vs. Millsaps 7

Losing pitcher for the Tigers was Reggie Patrick who gave up 4 runs in 4 innings of work.

Jay Hollenback earned the win for the Majors. Luke Morrow and Hunter Abrams contributed two hits each for Millsaps.

[Just_Some_Guy]

Sul Ross 3 vs. West Texas A&M 3
WP Arojo, 7 innings, 0 ER
RF Araujo 1-2, 1 RBI
3B Arrieta 1-2, 1 RBI
7 Errors & 8 hits in the game

Sul Ross 4 vs. West Texas A&M 10
M. Otero gets his 2nd loss of the year.
DH, lead off hitter Klinetop is 2-3, 1 RBI
3B Arrieta is 2-4 w/ a run

Sul Ross moves to 2-5 on the season