2015 West Regional - Tyler, TX

[Wildcat17]

Linfield and LaVerne played two games in AZ to start the season.  Linfield won both 13-5 and 10-7, and faced ten or so LaVerne pitchers over the two games.  Thomasson and Justin Davis were the starters, fwiw. 

My guess is that Linfield will start Davis for this one, Haddeland against Trinity and Thomasson in a third game if necessary. 

[NWBaseballFan10]

Seriously!?  No audio commentary on the web stream today...what a joke. I guess I shouldn't be surprised with the way this whole regional has been going.

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I guess they heard me

[Just_Some_Guy]

In  the South Regional, #2 seed Pacific Lutheran is tied with #5 seed Emory 5-5 in the top of the 7th.

Winner will face Birmingham Southern later this afternoon for a trip to Appleton.

Pac Lu beat BSC on Thursday and lost to them last night. They're responsible for Emory's previous loss as well.

Would be cool to get two West Regional teams to Appleton.

Count me in the camp that would love to see the Tigers finally break through. This is a resilient Tigers team.

[Westside]

PLU is now up 6-5 in the 8th. It would be great to see them make it as well.

Linfield leads La Verne 4-0 early in the West Regional.

[Westside]

PLU loses a heartbreaker to Emory, 7-6. All-American closer Konopaski gives up a 2-run triple in the 8th.

Great season for the Lutes. And they return nearly everyone so they will be even better next year.

[Ron Boerger]

Linfield up 5-0 with La Verne (who have only three hits on the day) batting in the bottom of the seventh.

[NWBaseballFan10]

PLU loses a heartbreaker to Emory, 7-6. All-American closer Konopaski gives up a 2-run triple in the 8th.

Great season for the Lutes. And they return nearly everyone so they will be even better next year.

Great season indeed for the Lutes. I expect them to be right back in the mix next season with the return of Mahlum and the next incoming recruiting class  from Coach Loomis.

[Whatagame]

I think it is... No team left has any pitching depth unless some unknown just throws the game of their life. But hey, it could happen.

Good one going on late right now. Linfield and Millsaps tied 2-2 in the 6th.

Looks like it just did happen!

[wildcat11]

Go 'Cats!

[NWBaseballFan10]

I think it is... No team left has any pitching depth unless some unknown just throws the game of their life. But hey, it could happen.

Good one going on late right now. Linfield and Millsaps tied 2-2 in the 6th.

Looks like it just did happen!

Major kudos to freshman Cal Neely for a complete game shutout in his 1st career start. Keeps the Cats alive and gives them a rematch against Trinity in the Regional Championship.

Year after year it seems the Cats are able to throw a starter out there who has had limited time during the regular season and he comes up clutch. Last year Davis went 5+ while giving up just 1 run in the Regional Championship verse UW-Stevens Point (he had 12 IP on the year heading into that game) and in 2013 Stevick went 6+ while giving up 3 runs against Trinity (even though the Cats lost) in Game 1 of the Regional Championship (he had less than 20 IP on the year heading into that game).

Just a complete guess, but I would imagine Game 1 between Linfield and Trinity will feature Davis vs. Walker. If Walker gets the start for TU it will be interesting to see if he repeats his performance from 2013 (7.2 IP, 0 ER) or 2014 (2.2 IP, 3 ER) against the Cats....I'm hoping for the latter 

[Westside]

I think it is... No team left has any pitching depth unless some unknown just throws the game of their life. But hey, it could happen.

Good one going on late right now. Linfield and Millsaps tied 2-2 in the 6th.

Looks like it just did happen!

Hah, yup yup. Love seeing stuff like that. Freshman making his first career start and he goes complete game, shutout. I expect Neely to be a stalwart in Linfield's rotation going forward. I remember Haddeland telling me, in the fall, that Neely had the best velocity on the team. Nice to see him control it and get a chance.

[Wildcat17]

Go Wildcats!

Truly a great performance by Cal Neely.  And very solid hitting throughout the lineup. 

Keep it going for two more games!!

[Westside]

Looks like Haddeland is going for Linfield and Tindall going for Trinity.

Trinity is definitely in the driver's seat.

[CAT BAT 22]

Congratulations to Chris Haddeland and on an amazing career for the Cats. 

[Whatagame]

Congratulations to Chris Haddeland and on an amazing career for the Cats.

The understatement of the month, at least.