Road to Omaha thread

[Batman]

Also comforting to see Clemson getting its ass kicked in a regional. Down 14-1 to Oregon in the sixth inning.
Memorial Day and ACC teams ****ting the bed in the postseason -- two sure signs that summer has arrived.

 

[albert77]

Oxford regional games rained out today. They'll play the first-round games tomorrow, then three on Sunday and the championship game Monday afternoon. That, of course, assumes that the rain will move out, and the forecast is not promising.

 

[Cosmo]

Long live HBCUs.

Jackson State beats Louisiana, 1-0.

BCU and Miami scoreless in the 8th.

 

[Cosmo]

And speaking of #goACC ... FSU gets curbstomped at home by Georgia Southern.

 

[heyabbott]

Also comforting to see Clemson getting its ass kicked in a regional. Down 14-1 to Oregon in the sixth inning.
Memorial Day and ACC teams ****ting the bed in the postseason -- two sure signs that summer has arrived.

Terps won and they are officially an ACC team until July 1.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Watching Liberty hang in with Arkansas, down 3-2 in the 7th.

Sid Bream still holds the top three single-season batting averages at LU: .443, .436 and .430.

Playing us his freshman year at LU (with Falwell sitting on the team bench cheering like a girl), he hit a liner that our first baseman nearly caught, then the right fielder nearly caught, and it was still rising 430 feet away.

 

[SoCalDude]

All the questionable Big West teams won easily today: Fullerton over Nebraska, Irvine over UNLV and Long Beach over North Carolina.

 

[albert77]

All the questionable Big West teams won easily today: Fullerton over Nebraska, Irvine over UNLV and Long Beach over North Carolina.

Anybody who doesn't think the Big West can play with the big boys, including the almighty SEC, doesn't know much about college baseball.

Fullerton came down here to play a weekend series at Southern Miss in 2009, the year USM went to the CWS, and it was like watching the Atlanta Braves play the Mississippi Braves, men against boys.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Hell, I know diddly about college baseball, and I know not to sell the Big West short.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

TCU going to the bottom of the ninth tied, 1-1, with Siena with potential to blow a big day for the Big 12. OK State is up 6-0 and Texas, Kansas and Texas Tech all took care of business.

 

[SoCalDude]

All the questionable Big West teams won easily today: Fullerton over Nebraska, Irvine over UNLV and Long Beach over North Carolina.

Anybody who doesn't think the Big West can play with the big boys, including the almighty SEC, doesn't know much about college baseball.

Fullerton came down here to play a weekend series at Southern Miss in 2009, the year USM went to the CWS, and it was like watching the Atlanta Braves play the Mississippi Braves, men against boys.

Hell, I know diddly about college baseball, and I know not to sell the Big West short.

Fullerton is a college baseball powerhouse ... but not this year.
Irvine is a really good program ... but not this year.
Long Beach didn't crack .500 until about the last two weeks of the season and hasn't made the postseason since 2008.
THIS YEAR, the jury is still out on the Big West.

 

[MileHigh]

And knowing how college baseball goes ... the Big West might sneak in and win the title when least expected. Vastly underrated conference east of the Colorado -- the river, not the state. And with all the garbage the Titans have gone through this year, rising up and getting to Omaha and even winning to go with their pace of a title once a decade would not be the biggest shocker in the world.

 

[Batman]

What a bed-****ting display in Tallahassee, even by Florida State's lofty standards.
FSU goes 17 innings without scoring, then scores five in the bottom of the ninth before losing 6-5 to Alabama. Seminoles are D-U-N done. First time since 1984 they haven't won a game in a regional.

 

[Paynendearse]

What a bed-****ting display in Tallahassee, even by Florida State's lofty standards.
FSU goes 17 innings without scoring, then scores five in the bottom of the ninth before losing 6-5 to Alabama. Seminoles are D-U-N done. First time since 1984 they haven't won a game in a regional.

FSU coach sends a .167 pinch-hitter to the plate with two outs in the ninth and runners at the corners. Nice way to kill a four walk, two hit batsmen five-run rally, idiot.

 

[Cosmo]

And Gator fans won't even get to laugh at FSU, since they're about to go two-and-barbecue at home too. Yikes.

The team I covered just went two-and-cue. I'm not complaining. I'm worn the **** out.

 

[heyabbott]

The teams who have made it this far have played about 60 games. NCAA baseball is a damn long season.

 

[Bubbler]

Two-and-cue for me too. I'm out.

 

[albert77]

Mississippi State finally put away Jackson State 3-1, but they had to burn their closer, Jonathan Holder, to do it. Holder went 5 1/3 in relief, allowed one hit and struck out 9.

Regardless of how it plays out, JSU has earned itself some props. They were 0-10 (by some frightful scores) in the NCAAs coming into the Lafayette regional, but they beat U LaLa 1-0 last night and gave the Pups all they wanted tonight.

 

[heyabbott]

Terps

 

[Hokie_pokie]

Nate Kirby, from my neck of the woods in suburban Richmond, dominates Arkansas to the tune of an 8-inning one-hitter with 9 strikeouts as Virginia wins 3-0.

Kirby already has a no-hitter this season, when he K'd 18 at Pitt.

6-2 lefty with a 93 mph fastball, hammer 12-6 curve and unhittable slider. Barring injury, he's going to get paid very well after next season.