FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

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(El Tea Gray--re: Question for Tex?)

Tex,
I have watched several recent Tiger football training sessions and also don't have much to offer regarding "new schemes, new players or recruiting scoop"; however, "the outlook for the fall" is without doubt another SCAC football championship for Trinity.

Did your (very wise) Trinity-bound son and his (equally wise) buddy play their high school football at Consol? If so, what were their uniform numbers last year?

Look forward to seeing you at this season's football games.

                                                                               

[historymajor]

Chris Baer won the SCAC jav and was sixth in the high jump.  If his provisional throw holds, or if he can improve it, look for him in the NCAA meet!

[Ralph Turner]

Chris Baer won the SCAC jav and was sixth in the high jump.  If his provisional throw holds, or if he can improve it, look for him in the NCAA meet!

JAVELIN THROW
1) Sean Corey              So Rowan University      65.65m (215-4)       4/19 CTC Championships
2) Brock Solveson          So Concordia (Wisconsin) 63.00m (206-8)       4/19 Benedictine Eagle
=======================    Automatic             62.50m (205-1)       
3) Chris Baer              Jr Trinity U (Texas)     62.24m (204-2)       4/12 David Noble Relays

I boldly predict...it holds! 

[Tex]

(El Tea Gray--re: Question for Tex?)

Tex,
I have watched several recent Tiger football training sessions and also don't have much to offer regarding "new schemes, new players or recruiting scoop"; however, "the outlook for the fall" is without doubt another SCAC football championship for Trinity.

Did your (very wise) Trinity-bound son and his (equally wise) buddy play their high school football at Consol? If so, what were their uniform numbers last year?

Look forward to seeing you at this season's football games.

                                                                               

60 (3 year starter OG) and 57 (2 year starter DT & powerlifter with several 1st places). 

[Tex]

Chris Baer won the SCAC jav and was sixth in the high jump.  If his provisional throw holds, or if he can improve it, look for him in the NCAA meet!

He seems to run with the rock pretty well also.

[Ron Boerger]

I see Chris Baer listed as a junior - did he get a medical redshirt, if so will he be returning next season at RB?

Also, from a very high level view of this week's sports festival results - it looks like DePauw retains the President's Trophy for another season.  Last year the difference was that DPU played field hockey and Trinity did not; this year the gap will be substantially larger than last year's 5 point margin (one half of one place in one sport!).  Congratulations to the DPU Tigers on an outstanding year in SCAC competition.   

DPU also won both the men's and women's tennis championships this season, defeating the formerly #1 ranked TU men 5-4.  What is this world coming to?      

[Ron Boerger]

On a related note, the SCAC Spring Sports Festival is now a thing of the past, with spring championships to be spread out across the conference.  This is probably because with the conference having 12 schools it's just hard to find any single location to house that many student-athletes.  That's a shame; I always thought the spring festival concept was pretty cool.  Perhaps scacsid can chime in on this. 

[Pat Coleman]

Especially since he is interim scaccommish.

[TigerDad]

Ron, Chris was injured during the first game (vs. ETBU) of his sophomore football season ... he did receive a medical redshirt from the NCAA for that missed year.  As a result, he is a junior student at TU this spring, but has two more football seasons of eligibility remaining.  TU press releases & stories describe him as a sophomore or junior interchangeably, depending upon who writes the article.  So, this fall (2008) he'll be a senior, but with another football season (2009) to play after that.  At present, he plans to graduate in December 2009 with an Engineering Science major and a Math minor.  The Good Lord willing.

Several TU tracksters will be headed to UT Arlington this weekend to attempt faster times and longer distances for NCAA qualification purposes.  As Ralph pointed out earlier, the latest D-III qualifying times/distances/heights are here: http://www.raceberryjam.com/ncoutmenperf08.html

The NCAA D-III Track & Field Championships will be held on May 22-24 at UW-Oshkosh.  Meet info here: http://www.titans.uwosh.edu/2008NCAATFChampionships/index.html

Trinity has several athletes with a chance to compete at Oshkosh in May, including Todd Wildman (110m Hurdles & High Jump), Zach Brush (800m), Chris Baer (Javelin), Chass Armstrong (1500m) and Emily Loeffler (3000m Steeplechase).  GO TIGERS!

[Ralph Turner]

This is the best "national" track team that Trinity has assembled in several years.

[Tex]

Enough of this track talk, when does football start again???   

[Ralph Turner]

Enough of this track talk, when does football start again???   

After the National Championships in Oshkosh in late May. 

[TigerDad]

Trinity wins SCAC over Millsaps with "unlikely" finish

Trinity Baseball team was playing Millsaps for the SCAC Championship last Sunday, April 27, in Danville, Kentucky.  Trinity was down 5-2 going into the bottom of the ninth.  Trinity scored twice to bring them within one run.  With two men on, two outs, and the count 2-2 (including a tip foul and lost bat), Trinity junior Stosh Hoover slapped the ball to the outfield and both runners scored, including a crazy play at the plate.  As a result, Trinity wins the SCAC championship & advances to the NCAA tournament.

BEFORE YOU CLICK THE LINK BELOW ... READ THIS.

The video clip is almost 10 minutes long and shows the entire bottom half of the ninth inning.  When you click on the link, IMMEDIATELY click the video PAUSE (||) button.  Wait for the entire video to load (may take a few minutes) ... the red line will fill from left to right until done.

Once the video has completely loaded, drag the slider to the 7:20 minute mark, then click PLAY.  That's the final hit and last two runs scoring.

YouTube Video: Trinity Baseball Victory over Millsaps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFFgs_R-ZZk

Here's the box score if you want to read the line and play-by-play:
http://www.scac-online.org/baseball/scac-07.htm

Another SCAC Title.  GO TIGERS!


UPDATE: out of respect for Millsaps fans and mods, the word "M*racle" has been removed.

[Ron Boerger]

Good win, but calling it a "miracle" smacks more of rubbing it an than anything else.  9th inning comebacks are not unheard of in baseball, especially in a tourney championship where the pitching staffs are gassed.   

I'm proud of the guys for winning the SCAC championship but wonder how I would feel if the shoe were on the other foot.   

[Pat Coleman]

Yeah -- let's not devalue the term Miracle by using it on something like this. That's a stretch by a long shot.