BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

[Ralph Turner]

CTX leads McM, 8-6, bottom of the sixth.

[TexasBB]

UTT takes two from LeTourneu - 10-0 and 19-0. Holland and Booher give up a total of 4 hits between them both throwing shutouts.  The Patriots offense just pummeled the home team.

[Ralph Turner]

Top of the ninth, CTX leads McM, 8-7.

Derek David has hit a home run in his seventh consecutive game to give him the ASC season record at 18 (in 32 games to date).  McMurry's Josh Lee hit 17 HR in 42 games in 2004. TLU's Jason Kreis hit 17 HR in 44 games in 2005.

Ontiveros in relief.

Pinch hitter Weston Franco hits the first pitch for a HR.  (Franco got a nail in his foot 3 weeks ago and it got infected.  He also has a broken finger and a pulled hamstring. Franco hobbled around the bases in "Kirk Gibson fashion".)  That ties the game, 8-8.

Ground out.

416' home run by Derek David off Ontiveros to give McMurry the first lead of the game.  That is David's third HR of the game.  McMurry leads 9-8.

Voorhees pops out.

Derrick strikes out.

To the bottom of the ninth, McMurry leads 9-8.

[indian4life]

Back to back HR's for CTX to win it in the 9th

[Just_Some_Guy]

Updated West Standings 4/5:

Mary-Hardin Baylor 11-4  CTX/ @HPU
McMurry 10-5                   HPU/ @ SRSU
Concordia 8-7                 @UMHB/ SU
Hardin Simmons 8-7        SRSU/ @ TLU
Texas Lutheran 8-7         @ SU/ HSU
Howard Payne 8-7           @ McM/ UMHB
Schreiner 6-9                   TLU/ @ CTX
Sul Ross 1-14                 @ HSU/ McM

JSG

[Ralph Turner]

Updated West Standings 4/5:

Mary-Hardin Baylor 11-4  CTX/ @HPU
McMurry 10-5                   HPU/ @ SRSU
Concordia 8-7                 @UMHB/ SU
Hardin Simmons 8-7        SRSU/ @ TLU
Texas Lutheran 8-7         @ SU/ HSU
Howard Payne 8-7           @ McM/ UMHB
Schreiner 6-9                   TLU/ @ CTX
Sul Ross 1-14                 @ HSU/ McM

JSG

Seeking opinions...

How many losses does the 4th place team have?

How many losses does the 5th place team have?

[Just_Some_Guy]

Seeking opinions...
How many losses does the 4th place team have?

How many losses does the 5th place team have?

I think 13-8 will definitely do the trick, but I could very easily see CTX, HSU, & TLU all being 12-9 in which case tie breakers are going to come into play. Either way you're looking at a tough draw getting UT Tyler or Ozarks.

JSG

[mcm505]

Indian4life-- Started 2001-graduated 2005.  Sorry for the delay in answering your question.

[The U For Life]

Good series between Mcmurry and Concordia.  First game was back and forth.  The second game was a blowout.  The last game was something i will never forget.  Great game sucks to be on the losing end.  It was like the stuff you see in a movie.  I still havent really come to fathom what happened.  Good luck to Concordia i hope ya'll kick the crap out of umhb.  I really think ya'll can take 2 of 3. 

[Ralph Turner]

Top of the ninth, CTX leads McM, 8-7.

Derek David has hit a home run in his seventh consecutive game to give him the ASC season record at 18 (in 32 games to date).  McMurry's Josh Lee hit 17 HR in 42 games in 2004. TLU's Jason Kreis hit 17 HR in 44 games in 2005.

Ontiveros in relief.

Pinch hitter Weston Franco hits the first pitch for a HR.  (Franco got a nail in his foot 3 weeks ago and it got infected.  He also has a broken finger and a pulled hamstring. Franco hobbled around the bases in "Kirk Gibson fashion".)  That ties the game, 8-8.
...

I got to thinking.  That Kirk Gibson HR in the 1988 World Series was hit before some college baseball players were born. 

Here is a You Tube 4-minute video clip.  Enjoy.

It still brings chills up my neck!   

[Ralph Turner]

The ASC-East's schedule was back-loaded.  The key games in the next 2 weekends involve the front-runners, UT-Tyler hosting Louisiana College and then at Mississippi College.

Doing some "retrospective prognostication", we can give Louisiana College the 4th bid from the ASC-East by virtue of three one-run wins over UT-Dallas on the weekend of Mar 8-9.  The Wildcats beat the Comets in Pineville, 3-2, 5-4(11) and 12-11.

The Wildcats are 7-4 going into today's game versus UOzarks.  Should they lose that game, and lose the three game series versus front-runner UT-Tyler and then sweep the series with LeTourneau, they finish 10-8.

UT-Dallas can sweep the series with LeTU and ETBU and finish 8-10, and just out of the playoffs, by virture of having been lost the games head-to-head to LaCollege.

[TexasBB]

UTT and Ozarks are definitly in for the confernce tournament and maybee it is time to look ahead and start making projections as to outcome.  In the past the West has owned the East taking the conference championship more times than I can remember.  However, I think it is clear that the two best teams this year are the ones I mentioned above and that is primarily due to pitching depth.  Both the Ozarks and UTT have 3 quality starters and UTT has 2 dominant starters.  UTT has a bit more offense and maybee a bit deaper in the bullpen.  The West has not had good consistant pitching from any of the teams this year although they have shown offensive ablility.  UTT will have to be the favorite but they are not as good as a year ago. If the western teams can keep it close forcing the bullpens to decide the game then they have a chance as UTT has blown several leads this year. They don't have a 93 mph closer like Jennings to put it to seal the deal. Their relief pitchers are competent but not outstanding. They also have at times booted the ball around so the defense has been inconsistant.  Having said that their defense and relief pitching is perhaps better than almost any team in the West.   Ozarks are very good but not much depth on offense. They are not gong to win in a slugfest so they must win with their pitching and defense. A very sound fundamental team that is well coached.  MHB has to be considered the class of the West at this point followed by McMurry.  IMO those two teams are good but a step behind the top two in teh east.  Let the speculation begin!

[Ralph Turner]

From Wednesday night, Trinity started #1 starter Brain Oates versus Schreiner's Michael Nicholson, who was making his second start of the season, and beat the Mountaineers 3-2.

The Mountaineers held up well.  Nicholson surrender 3 runs in the first 2.1 innings and took a hard loss.  The other encouraging feature is that SU's Brandon Pape held Trinity scoreless for 4.2 innings after allowing an inherited runner score in the third.

That is a good outing for the Mountaineers against a strong Trinity team.

[mcm_sid]

Derek David's seven-game streak of home runs is an NCAA Division III record. He passed Eric Heise of Ohio Wesleyan who hit homers in six consecutive games from March 8-12, 1998.

David's streak began with a homer against Trinity on March 25. He is 18 for 31 during the stretch with 10 home runs, 15 runs scored and 20 RBI.

The NCAA Division II record is 7, the NCAA Division I record is 8. David will try to tie the all-division record Tuesday night against Wayland at home.

I'll post the release later, but just wanted to pass along some pertinent info. He also has an 11-game hit streak - teammate Voorhees has a 16-game hit streak.

Here is the link to the release: http://athletics.mcm.edu/News/baseball/2008/4/7/040708bsb.asp

I will update again later with quotes from Head Coach Lee Driggers and Josh Lee

[mcm_sid]

Update with quotes from head coach Lee Driggers and former ASC record holder and current McMurry assistant, Josh Lee

http://athletics.mcm.edu/News/baseball/2008/4/7/040708bsb.asp