Nebraska is still alive. They have an elimination rematch with UCONN for the right to play Okie State. In other regions; UCLA was upset by Loyola Marymount 3-2. This puts UCLA in the loser's bracket against Baylor for the right to play LMU. Oregon State was swept out of their own region. Michigan hammed Cincinnati and awaits the winner of Cinci and Creighton. In OKC, Okie State is awaiting the winner of Nebraska and UCONN. In Lubbock, it's Texas Tech waiting for Florida or Dallas Baptist. In Layaette, it's Arkansas awaiting the winner of TCU and Central Connecticut State. In Oxford, it's Ole Miss awaiting Clemson and Jacksonville State. In Baton Rouge, it's LSU awaiting Arizona State and Southern Miss. In Athens, it's Florida State awaiting Georgia and Florida Atlantic In Nashville, it's Vandy waiting for Ohio State and Indiana State. In Morgantown, it's Duke waiting for Texas A&M and West Virginia In Greenville, there's a lot of baseball to be played. East Carolina and NC State play an elimination game. Quiniapic plays Campbell in a winner's bracket game.Then they have the elimination game and the title game to be played. In the Louisville region, it's Illinois State waiting for the Louisville and Indiana winner. In Stanford region, it's Fresno State waiting on the Stanford Sacramento State winner. In the Chapel Hill Region, it's North Carolina waiting for the Liberty/Tennessee winner. In the Georgia Tech Region, it's Auburn awaiting the Georgia Tech/Coastal Carolina winner.
Cincinnati and awaits the winner of Cinci and Creighton. A note of interest is that Nate Meyer, Urban Meyer's son is a freshman at Cincinnati with a full baseball scholarship. Not sure how much playing time he is getting at the moment. Coach Meyer also is a Cincinnati alum.
Nate must be a very good player, not many kids get a full ride in baseball. Most kids are on some type or partial scholarship due to there only being 11 available and there being 25 to 30 players on a team
Terry. I may have misspoken about the full scholarship, I know he has a scholarship, but it may not be a full ride. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
Yeah women are fully funded, while men have to split 11.7 scholarships. (queue my rant about the difference between pitching staffs and roster size between softball and baseball)
Well... I was ready to say "I told ya so" about my Aggies, but they decided they wanted one more game.
Buckeyes lose to Indiana State this afternoon and are eliminated. We actually had more hits but you have to get the runs across the plate!
Ohio State had a damned fine run this year. Nothing to hang your hats about. Something that I didn't know, and it's worth keeping an eye out for next year. The Miami Hurricanes started nothing but underclassmen and were pitching freshman in the tournament. I think we'll hear a lot more from them in the coming years.
The late night coverage pisses me off. There's great games being played all over (UCLA-LMU, which has world class pitching on both sides), but we're watching TCU-Arkansas and Miss State vs Miami. I guess that SEC contract expands behind the SECNetwork.
Scott probably not celebrating too much as Duke took out the Aggies to win the Regional and go on to the Super Regional vs the Commodores of Vanderbilt in what will no doubt be deemed the SAT series!
That's a shame. I liked what he was doing there at NU. If you're up and fancy some high quality baseball, you have Stanford and Fresno State on ESPNU and UCLA playing Loyola Marymount of ESPN2.
Michigan really played well vs Creighton last night and the only BIG TEN team able to advance to the Super Regionals! Congratulations to the Wolverines and Bobda!
6 SEC teams 4 ACC teams 2 B12 teams 2 Pac 12 teams 1 AAC team 1 B1G team Favorites to make the finals are UCLA and Vanderbilt. IMHO it was dirty pool to pit the 2 Big 12 teams against one another.
Sure I am Terry. That was a GREAT moment from an otherwise ho-hum season. Happy for the kids to get that thrill before the year ended...
Scott, the Grand Slam in the 9th was a storybook finish. Agreed those players will remember that incident for a lifetime!