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No surprise: Weather is delaying the Miami-VCU game in Coral Gables after 5 innings. The 'Canes lead 3-1. They scored all their runs in B2 on a walk, error, groundout and two singles.

There is one baseball team in the entire NCAA that can claim they did not allow Rice to win a conference title the last season they played in Rice's conference.
That team is up 6-1 on the team Rice beat to advance to Rice's first CWS.

(Fact checkers: double check my claims please!!)

(06-05-2015 01:56 PM)Almadenmike Wrote: [ -> ]No surprise: Weather is delaying the Miami-VCU game in Coral Gables after 5 innings. The 'Canes lead 3-1. They scored all their runs in B2 on a walk, error, groundout and two singles.

Miami wins game 1 after a long rain delay 3-2.

VCU 2 - Miami 3 (all unearned). Final

Va 0 - Md 2 (6th)

Mo St 1 - Hogs 6 (6th)

Fl - Fl St this evening

WOW! What is the attendance at the now 10-1 HOG ROUT?? Looks like 20,000!!

(06-05-2015 05:19 PM)OWLmanz Wrote: [ -> ] WOW! What is the attendance at the now 10-1 HOG ROUT?? Looks like 20,000!!

Kind of looks Omaha-esque, doesn't it.

(06-05-2015 05:17 PM)grol Wrote: [ -> ]Fl - Fl St this evening

Still gotta root for F_U here even though cusa's F_U two are already out.

(06-05-2015 05:19 PM)OWLmanz Wrote: [ -> ] WOW! What is the attendance at the now 10-1 HOG ROUT?? Looks like 20,000!!

And just like that, Bears get 2 of em back without giving up a single out...

(06-05-2015 05:15 PM)owl at the moon Wrote: [ -> ]There is one baseball team in the entire NCAA that can claim they did not allow Rice to win a conference title the last season they played in Rice's conference.
That team is up 6-1 on the team Rice beat to advance to Rice's first CWS.

(Fact checkers: double check my claims please!!)

I guess you can say that about Arkansas but I'm not sure what they actually did vs. Rice the last year both were in the SWC. I'll assume Arkansas wasn't the sole reason we didn't win the conference that year.

As far as Missouri State goes, didn't we beat them in the CWS opener in 2003? I thought we beat them, then Texas, and then Stanford to win the CWS?

After being held scoreless for 7 innings, Virginia pummels Maryland's ace and top closer for five runs in T8 on 4 singles and a 3-run double to take a 5-3 lead.

The double came after an intentional walk to a power hitter who the Terp coach had vowed he would not let beat him. That brought up the 0.230-hitting 8-hole batter with two outs. He laced his first pitch -- a shoulder-high fastball -- deep into the left-center gap. Maryland's fleet CF caught up to it, but just before he crashed into the wall, the ball hit the heel of the his glove and dropped to the ground .

In B8, with Maryland's leadoff batter runner at second (after a single and extra base taken when the SS's lob back to the pitcher was too high and rolled into no-man's land between the mound and home plate!), the Terps were hosed big-time by the home-plate umpire: An inside pitch hit the batter's front foot inside the batter's box. He was twisting out of the way, but back toward the ump, not away from the plate. The ump ruled no HBP because the batter didn't make an effort to get out of the way of the pitch. That was patently a bad call, as the batter WAS twisting out of the way. And since he was hit within the confines of the batters' box, does it even matter? Isn't that no-HBP rule meant to discourage batters' thrusting their knees and backs into ordinary inside pitches that are close to strikes?

I hope that ump, who defended his no-HBP call to the Maryland manager who came out to calmly question the ruling, is never assigned to ump another game above the Little League level.

Maryland didn't rise in the face of this adversity. The next six Terps made outs -- K, L-6, K in B9 -- and Virginia won, 5-3.

(06-05-2015 06:28 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-05-2015 05:15 PM)owl at the moon Wrote: [ -> ]There is one baseball team in the entire NCAA that can claim they did not allow Rice to win a conference title the last season they played in Rice's conference.
That team is up 6-1 on the team Rice beat to advance to Rice's first CWS.

(Fact checkers: double check my claims please!!)

I guess you can say that about Arkansas but I'm not sure what they actually did vs. Rice the last year both were in the SWC. I'll assume Arkansas wasn't the sole reason we didn't win the conference that year.

As far as Missouri State goes, didn't we beat them in the CWS opener in 2003? I thought we beat them, then Texas, and then Stanford to win the CWS?

You're correct. However Rice defeated "Southwest" Missouri State in the 2003 CWS opener, 4-2. Their two runs came on back to back solo home runs. I remember that afternoon like it was yesterday. The school was so embarrassed by the loss that they had to change their name to Missouri State.

This is fun: watching the Florida/Florida State game. The announcer just pointed out the neither team has ever won a National Championship in baseball. Unlike, say, Rice.

The Gators bring 9 men to the plate in the B1: 5 hits and an FSU error result in a 4-0 lead after one.

(06-05-2015 06:28 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-05-2015 05:15 PM)owl at the moon Wrote: [ -> ]There is one baseball team in the entire NCAA that can claim they did not allow Rice to win a conference title the last season they played in Rice's conference.
That team is up 6-1 on the team Rice beat to advance to Rice's first CWS.

(Fact checkers: double check my claims please!!)

I guess you can say that about Arkansas but I'm not sure what they actually did vs. Rice the last year both were in the SWC. I'll assume Arkansas wasn't the sole reason we didn't win the conference that year.

As far as Missouri State goes, didn't we beat them in the CWS opener in 2003? I thought we beat them, then Texas, and then Stanford to win the CWS?

I looked it up, Arkansas won the regular season title in their final SWC season (but went 1-2 in the conference tournament)

Another fun fact - only UT(11), Baylor and A&M won more SWC tournaments than Rice did. Arkansas and Tech won it once each.

Not much suspense with the Florida teams...

LSU-ULALA ??

(06-06-2015 12:53 AM)RiceDad Wrote: [ -> ]LSU-ULALA ??

That series starts Saturday evening. 8pm Eastern on ESPN-U, IIRC.

Could we see an all ACC-SEC CWS? Would not be surprising to see UVa-LSU-Louisville-Fla-Miami-Vandy-Texas A&M-Arkansas make it through.

(06-06-2015 01:49 AM)Almadenmike Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-06-2015 12:53 AM)RiceDad Wrote: [ -> ]LSU-ULALA ??

That series starts Saturday evening. 8pm Eastern on ESPN-U, IIRC.

Thanks, being in Bordeaux has me a bit off my game!!

Saturday:
UVA defeated/eliminated Maryland, UVA (ACC) advances
Miami defeated/eliminated VCU Boo! Miami (ACC) will return to the CWS for the first time since 2008...(remember 2008 CWS?)
Florida is on its way to defeating/eliminating Florida State
MO State defeated the Hogs, forcing a third game tomorrow. Go MO State!
TCU crushed the Aggies in Fort Worth
CS Fullerton defeated Louisville! Good for the CSF
The Illinois/Vandy game and the LSU/ULALA game are this evening