9th inning pitches:

Fox: Total: 90
Ditman: 16 -- total: 24

Mittura: Total: 59
Ring: Total: 25
Foriest: Total: 34

Nice efficient win for the 2nd straight day. Looks like we get a day off and then get the winner of the ODU-MTSU game Saturday morning (and that team will have to beat us twice on Saturday in order to advance).

Owls win. 8-2.
Friday rest for Rice. Early game Saturday..9am

Everybody be ready for 9 AM Saturday, our next game.

Ball game!

A bit lackadaisical on both offense and pitching at the end, but the game was over by then.

Second consecutive strong, all-around game by the Owls! Very well done....and you've now earned yourselves a well-deserved day off.

Game Ball #1: Blake Fox (W, 12-0, 7.0 IP, 3 hits, 1 run, 2 BBs, 7 Ks) stays perfect-- both for the year and his career (now 18-0). Struggled a bit in the first inning, but then settled into a dominant groove, faltering only after the offense had put away the game in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Game Ball #2: Michael Aquino (2-4, HR#6, 2 runs scored, 2 RBIs) kept his scorching hot hitting going by breaking up the scoreless and hitless game in the fourth with his no-doubter HR.

Game Ball #3: Chase McDowell (2-3, triple, 1 run scored, 2 RBIs) broke open the game in the sixth inning with his 2-run triple.

Win streak now at five games, leaving us just one win away from that 40-win plateau for the 20th consecutive season. That potential 40th win should also lock up next weekend at Reckling Park. No stopping us now-- let's go for another championship, as the trophy case always has room for one more! Go Owls!

(05-22-2014 04:30 PM)elf owl Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 04:26 PM)Rick Gerlach Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 04:25 PM)elf owl Wrote:  How good is Mittura?

Played Godzilla once, can't recall who won . . .

wait, or was that Mothra?

I think your'e confusing him with Ghidrah. Who was the flying turtle?

Gamera

The win ticks us up past Vandy on Warren Nolan's RPI projection.

And no some subsequent game has reshuffled Vandy ahead of us by .0001

(05-22-2014 07:29 PM)texd Wrote:  And no some subsequent game has reshuffled Vandy ahead of us by .0001

Texas State's loss?

(05-22-2014 06:50 PM)13thOwl Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 04:30 PM)elf owl Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 04:26 PM)Rick Gerlach Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 04:25 PM)elf owl Wrote:  How good is Mittura?

Played Godzilla once, can't recall who won . . .

wait, or was that Mothra?

I think your'e confusing him with Ghidrah. Who was the flying turtle?

Gamera

Gamera! my all time favorite monster!

(05-22-2014 06:37 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  Owls win. 8-2.
Friday rest for Rice. Early game Saturday..9am

Looking at the C-USA Championship Central's bracket, this tourney is double-elimination only through Saturday ... and Sunday's championship match is a single-game winner-take-trophy-and-autobid affair ... correct?

EDIT: Yes. I see it clearly stated elsewhere on the C-USA website:

Quote:... the format returns to two double-elimination brackets, with a single-elimination championship game.

(05-22-2014 07:31 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 07:29 PM)texd Wrote:  And no some subsequent game has reshuffled Vandy ahead of us by .0001

Texas State's loss?

It was Vandy that moved, not us.

BTW, anyone else think The OG had them working on their bunting between Saturday and Wednesday? By my count (including Byrd's bunt single and Hoelscher safety squeeze), we're a perfect 7-7 in bunting so far this tournament.

(05-22-2014 06:50 PM)13thOwl Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 04:30 PM)elf owl Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 04:26 PM)Rick Gerlach Wrote:  

(05-22-2014 04:25 PM)elf owl Wrote:  How good is Mittura?

Played Godzilla once, can't recall who won . . .

wait, or was that Mothra?

I think your'e confusing him with Ghidrah. Who was the flying turtle?

Gamera

1964, Godzilla vs Mothra

and Cardinals vs. Yankees

Coulda, shoulda been the Phil's. Bunning, Short,B,S what was Mauch thinking. Oh, worse than Walt on bunting. Must drink, forget, sleep

Good night