Author Topic: NCAA Div. I Baseball Tournament (Read 19962 times)

Mr. Happy · « **Reply #40 on:** June 03, 2019, 07:08:01 pm »

Congrats to my Tigers for being selected to host a super-regional against Florida State. I must admit to being somewhat ambivalent about playing Florida State, and their venerable head coach, Mike Martin. I had the opportunity to meet with Coach Martin when Florida State entertained the Tigers. He's been the Florida State Seminoles head baseball coach for approximately 45 years. Despite his long career, and a bevy of College World Series appearances, Coach Martin has never won a college world series. I'd really like to see him win one, even if it is at our expense, because he's one of the realaly good guys in college baseball.

Texifornia · « **Reply #41 on:** June 03, 2019, 07:19:23 pm »

Quote from: Mr. Happy on June 03, 2019, 07:08:01 pm

Congrats to my Tigers for being selected to host a super-regional against Florida State. I must admit to being somewhat ambivalent about playing Florida State, and their venerable head coach, Mike Martin. I had the opportunity to meet with Coach Martin when Florida State entertained the Tigers. He's been the Florida State Seminoles head baseball coach for approximately 45 years. Despite his long career, and a bevy of College World Series appearances, Coach Martin has never won a college world series. I'd really like to see him win one, even if it is at our expense, because he's one of the realaly good guys in college baseball.

Florida State destroyed a pretty good field in the regional. They do not look like a #3 regional seed. On paper, LSU should beat them. 'Course that's not where the game is played.

Once FSU destroyed #4 overall seed Georgia, LSU at a #13 was the only overall seed left in the pair of regionals, so they get the super-regional in Baton Rouge.

Texifornia · « **Reply #42 on:** June 03, 2019, 08:03:22 pm »

UConn and Oklahoma State are dukeing it out in a pitcher's duel. It is 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth.

Michigan has come back to take the lead against Creighton 5-4 in the bottom of the fourth.

East Carolina leads the Campbell Camels 6-3 in the bottom of the fifth.

Texifornia · « **Reply #43 on:** June 03, 2019, 09:23:01 pm »

Oklahoma State defeats Creighton 3-1 and will travel to Lubbock to face Texas Tech in the super-regional. Unfortunately, the only two Big XII teams left in the tournament will face each other.

East Carolina leads the Campbell Camels 8-3 in the bottom of the eighth much to the consternation of the country's onomatopoets. The winner will travel to Louisville to face the Cardinals in the super-regional.

Texifornia · « **Reply #44 on:** June 03, 2019, 10:34:21 pm »

Michigan defeats Creighton 17-6. They will play the winner of the UCLA vs LMU game currently tied at two in the bottom of the third.

Texifornia · « **Reply #45 on:** June 04, 2019, 12:50:02 am »

With UCLA's defeat of LMU and Stanford's win over Fresno State we have our last regional champs.

The seeding held out pretty well as 12 of the 16 national seeds won their regional. The twelve regional #1 seeds are joined by three #3 seeds and one #2. Here are the match-ups:

#1 UCLA hosts Michigan
#8 Texas Tech hosts #9 Oklahoma State
#5 Arkansas hosts #12 Ole Miss
#13 LSU hosts Florida State
#2 Vanderbilt hosts Duke
#7 Louisville hosts #10 East Carolina
#6 Mississippi State hosts #11 Stanford
#14 North Carolina hosts Auburn

Some great baseball coming up with the super-regionals June 7-10. The CWS will begin on June 15 in Omaha.

Texifornia · « **Reply #46 on:** June 07, 2019, 11:21:43 am »

Super Regionals start today!

East Carolina vs Louisville starting at 11:00 am CDT
Oklahoma State vs Texas Tech at 2:00 pm CDT
Duke vs Vanderbilt at 5:00 pm CDT
Michigan vs UCLA at 8:00 pm CDT

Everything will be on one ESPN channel or another.

Wreck 'em, Tech!

Texifornia · « **Reply #47 on:** June 07, 2019, 02:01:53 pm »

Louisville is crushing ECU. The Cardinals lead the Pirates 14-1 through seven innings. Louisville has racked up the impressive score without benefit of a home run.

Next up: Red Raiders vs Cowboys.

Texifornia · « **Reply #48 on:** June 07, 2019, 05:46:39 pm »

Texas Tech defeats Oklahoma State 8-6. These two Big XII rivals will play again tomorrow in an elimination game for Oklahoma State.

Duke vs Vanderbilt is in a rain delay in Nashville.

Texifornia · « **Reply #49 on:** June 07, 2019, 10:55:41 pm »

Michigan upsets national #1 UCLA 3-2. UCLA will face elimination tomorrow.

Duke leads national #2 Vanderbilt 7-5 in the top of the seventh.

Texifornia · « **Reply #50 on:** June 08, 2019, 12:32:01 am »

Duke crushes Vanderbilt 18-5.

Two HUGE upsets by #3s beating #1s. In this case, the overall national #1 and #2 seeds went down to game 1 defeats.

Both Vanderbilt and UCLA will play for their tournament lives Saturday along with ECU and OSU. Conversely, Louisville, Texas Tech, Michigan, and Duke will play to get to the Promised Land: Omaha, Nebraska.

A full eight games tomorrow as the other bracket gets active.

Texifornia · « **Reply #51 on:** June 08, 2019, 02:44:03 pm »

Arkansas beats Ole Miss 11-2. Razorbacks play for Omaha tomorrow.

Louisville pitcher Bobby Miller took a No-No into the ninth inning but gave up a base hit to the lead off hitter. Louisville still destroys ECU 12-0 and gets their ticket punched to Omaha.

Fun fact: LSU baseball averages 1000 more in attendance per game than the Miami Marlins.

Auburn upsets North Carolina 11-7.

Snuffy · « **Reply #52 on:** June 08, 2019, 03:30:59 pm »

Quote from: Texifornia on June 07, 2019, 05:46:39 pm

Texas Tech defeats Oklahoma State 8-6. These two Big XII rivals will play again tomorrow in an elimination game for Oklahoma State.

Duke vs Vanderbilt is in a rain delay in Nashville.

Thank you for this thread.
Is the Oklahoma State game now set for 8 PM EST?

Lefty · « **Reply #53 on:** June 08, 2019, 03:34:15 pm »

Quote from: Snuffy on June 08, 2019, 03:30:59 pm

Thank you for this thread.
Is the Oklahoma State game now set for 8 PM EST?

Looks like 5 Central

http://www.espn.com/extra/baseball/cws/scoreboard?date=20190608&refresh=0

Texifornia · « **Reply #54 on:** June 08, 2019, 04:18:32 pm »

Quote from: Snuffy on June 08, 2019, 03:30:59 pm

Thank you for this thread.
Is the Oklahoma State game now set for 8 PM EST?

You are most welcome. Lefty's right, it's 5:00 CDT.

austro · « **Reply #55 on:** June 08, 2019, 04:20:01 pm »

Duke is really surprising me. I didn't see this coming at all.

Lefty · « **Reply #56 on:** June 08, 2019, 04:33:46 pm »

Guy from FSU just absolutely obliterated a ball over the bleachers and off the building behind them to tie their game at LSU 4-4. This also happens to be the anniversary of Warren Morris's HR to win the CWS.

Texifornia · « **Reply #57 on:** June 08, 2019, 04:35:29 pm »

Quote from: austro on June 08, 2019, 04:20:01 pm

Duke is really surprising me. I didn't see this coming at all.

I don't think anybody did.

Speaking of not seeing it coming: Florida State just tied LSU at 4. They're in the middle of the seventh.

Texifornia · « **Reply #58 on:** June 08, 2019, 05:48:25 pm »

Florida State upsets LSU 6-4.

Every lower seed has won their first game. Auburn as a #2; Michigan, Florida State, and Duke as #3s.

Texifornia · « **Reply #59 on:** June 08, 2019, 06:08:55 pm »

Texas Tech and Oklahoma State are tied at one run each after three innings.