BB: ASC: American Southwest Conference

TexasBB · April 20, 2008, 05:46:16 PM

MC wins 6-3. Russell worked 8 and 1/3 before being lifted and did a great job. I don't understand since he is their most effective pitcher they did not use him yesterday. But they won and get home field advantage since they took 2 out of 3 from Ozarks last week. So the East is final UTT, MC, Ozarks and LC.

Ralph Turner · April 20, 2008, 06:05:54 PM

UMHB 4-0 top of the 8th.

Ralph Turner · April 20, 2008, 06:34:13 PM

Quote from: D35W on April 20, 2008, 06:10:24 PM
Quote from: fungoman on April 19, 2008, 11:48:27 PM
Congrats to the UT Tyler kids for playing good baseball today and winning yet anything East Division championship.

I looked at UMHB website Ralph and saw this...

"The Cru exploded for an eight-run first inning and a six-run fifth inning in game two. UMHB was cruising when the umpires suspended the game after six innings due to darkness with the Cru leading 18-5."

They won game won it appears 16-5.

So what in the world does that do to the west division standings assuming they pull out game two and win game three?

Does anyone want to win the west? Sounds like the west might be full of mediocre teams...

fungoman, why are you so bitter? Your son not getting the hype everybody else is?

Ralph thanks for the updates you do a great job.

I have lots of help from great ASC baseball fans...

UMHB 9-0, top of the 9th.

Ralph Turner · April 20, 2008, 06:55:12 PM

Final UMHB 9 HPU 1.

indian4life · April 20, 2008, 09:52:14 PM

Quote from: fungoman on April 19, 2008, 11:48:27 PM

Does anyone want to win the west? Sounds like the west might be full of mediocre teams...

You could see it that way or it could be that the teams in the west are more balanced...the west going into the last weekend had 7 of the 8 teams who could mathmatically get into the playoffs...the east on the other hand will have a 9-9 record or a losing one what does that tell you...that the east is just dominated by 3 teams not that the west is full of mediocre teams just that they are all around the same talent level...also the west has historicaly dominated the tournament and every year it is a dog fight for the seedings.

Blackcat00 · April 21, 2008, 01:07:52 AM

Fungo man did you tie your sons shoe laces and feed him orangeslices after this weekends series. Get him geared up for the tourny, he is def going to need it old man.

Blackcat00 · April 21, 2008, 01:16:15 AM

ASC east = NBA east

fungoman · April 21, 2008, 08:48:41 AM

I think it is funny how you guys would single out a student athlete on here to try and piss me off, whether he is my son or not. Grow up.

CUAfan · April 21, 2008, 11:41:44 AM

Blackcat00, would you mind acting your age? When you say stuff like that it just makes you look immature and stupid.

Anyway, on topic.....what a draw for CTX. It's not often you earn the second seed in the West and get to face a 30-win team in the first round.

Blackcat00 · April 21, 2008, 12:13:47 PM

Oh ok Cua fan didnt know you where the site moderator, why dont you do some more formulas fo us and not get caught up in my responses, I have an opinion and can state that. I am grown up my fried, seems like you need to grow some balls, if anythings needs to be grown.

Lets get this tourny rolling, what a show down in the West. 4 Great teams, it could go eather way, just like these NBA playoffs.

fungoman · April 21, 2008, 12:46:36 PM

do I need to remind you of the beating you guys took from the patriots on your own home field this season? Let's see who is still standing after this weekend.

Blackcat00 · April 21, 2008, 01:06:20 PM

Beating? havnt we gone over this. I was really expecting more out of UTT that weekend with all the hype coming into the weekend. From what I had heard they were suppose to dominate , then show their 40-0 not to get in Rings. From what I saw was def not a top 10 team in the nation.

TexasBB · April 21, 2008, 02:17:39 PM

Some interesting match ups for 1st round of the Conference Tournament.

I expect McMurry and UTT to win against LC and HSU but the other two series will be competitive. Strange but I am projecting the visitors to win both thus I am going with Ozarks over CTX and UMHB over MC. I think in both cases it will take 3 games. My rationalle with Ozaks is the have superior pitching depth. The Mississppi College team could very well win against UMHB. Certainly Russell has proved to be one of the better pitchers in the confernce and Williams did a pretty good job in the last series agains UTT. Mississippi also on paper at least has one of the best defenses in the confernece. However at the end of the day I think UMHB will prevail and play up to its potential. I am a bit concerned though as UMHB has played below expectations in its last two series and Mississippi has played to a combined 3-3 draw in its battles agaist UTT and Ozarks the last two weeks.

McMurry should not have any problem with LC even without Voorhees in the line up. Their big question is will he be back and 100% the following week. If not then David will be pitched around and will not get the opportunity to hit with runners on base. They need both bats in the lineup to have a decent chance.

All-AmericanFan · April 21, 2008, 07:53:36 PM

I keep reading that the West is stronger, but is that truly the case? I played in the West once upon a time, would argue then that that statement is true, but is it now? In the cross over series, EARLY IN THE SEASON, 7 series were won by EAST teams and seven won by the WEST. I do not believe the argument that the West has struggled down the stretch do to more balance.... Did UTT not just take down MC two games two one in the season finale? MCM was down in Alpine and lost the series to a team who had one win in all of conference...

About MCM, I did read their write up about the ASC playoffs and it says Voorhees played (says he went hitless but hit three balls hard, box score says one hit one rbi??). It says Yurchick is questionable; I saw MCM in two series this year (HSU and UMHB), Yurchick made a night and day difference defensibly for MCM when he played second base in the latter series. His offensive numbers speak for himself, he hit the heck out of the ball against UMHB.

About UTT, they continue to win each and every series. The closest thing to a losing series was going 1 and 2 in their spring break tournament when they lost to MCM and HSU while beating Marietta.

About MC, they seemed to have peeked at the right time winning 9 of their last 12 conference games. Will their momentum be slowed however since UTT beat them 2 of 3 to take the EAST crown on their own field this past weekend?

About HSU, this team is HOT, they have won 12 games in a row, sweeping HPU and TLU to insert themselves into the playoffs. They have also won 11 of their last 12 conference games, meaning they started a dismal 3 and 6 and have since learned the winning ways. They do have a great one-two punch in Barton and Alcorn down in that 'pen.

LC, what happened to them? I have not seen them play this year, but they have fallen apart down the stretch. Any info on them?

About OU, I would like to say that their pitching will be put to the test in that cracker jack ballpark in Austin. But then I remember their park may play smaller? This will be an interesting series with CTX playing real well offensively and on the bump. I look forward to the weekend!

Ralph Turner · April 21, 2008, 08:39:14 PM

In comparing the East versus the West, I reviewed the crossover series that All-American Fan referenced.

In late February, the East and West played 14 crossover series.

The East won 7 series, the West 7. The East won 21 games, the West 21.

But the thing that I think distinguishes those series are that the lower team in the end-of-season divisional standings beat the higher team in the end-of-season division standings three times.

#3 HSU defeated #2 Mississippi College 3 games to none.

#6 HPU defeated #4 La College 2 games to one.

#5 Texas Lutheran defeated #4 LaCollege 2 games to one.

I think that the West had four very good teams to the East's three.