TXST 2010 SLC Baseball Champions - Repeat

[CatMom]

4/1

win over SFA puts TXST in 1st place in the SLC @ 8-2 (16-8)
RPI a/o 4/1 @ 8:30 AM - # 28

[CatMom]

4/2

Second win over SFA 3-2
Record goes to 9-2 (17-8)
RPI up to 27
Will retain 1st place in SLC even if SLU wins tonight

*game was moved from 2 PM to noon due to impending weather (rain) and SFA field has no lights, so have to all be day games. Tomorrow's game is at 1 PM.

Side Notes: Our FB fullback is becoming quite the gamer. He has been, more or less, designated the DH...by default and trial and error. Against A&M he hit a double in the 11th inning that ended up being the winning run. Against SFA he has 2 HR's in 2 games. He has also appeared in these past 3 games as a RP, allowing no runs, though 1 was charged to him (runner on 3rd) after he came out.
Last 3 games
BA - .385 (he was batting like .219 and has brought that up to .279)
Slug % - .857
OBP - .867

Pitching - 3 innings, 2 hits, 1 run, 3 K's
ERA is 2.25

[CatMom]

RPI now 24 with a 23 SoS (Boyd's)
RPI now 25 with a 31 SoS (Nolan's)
(subject to change game by game )

[CatMom]

After a loss to SFA 8-7 and an embarrassment at the hands of Baylor, TXST comes back and wins 14-2 in game 1 vs UCA. Still holding a 1 game lead in the SLC (10-3) (18-10)
Though not ranked, most of our losses have been to ranked teams
UT
Rice
TCU
WKU
A&M (when they were - early)
Baylor (2) (1 when they were ranked)
We did garner "others receiving votes" this past week but I think the team's immediate goal is to win the SLC and the SLC tournament, rankings be damned. Our RPI is hovering between 25 -40, so that's all good.

[CatMom]

Take second game against UCA with a 7th inning comeback after, amazingly, being shut-out for 6. Injured Sibley sent in to pinch hit and starts a rally that plates 6 runs. Randell adds a solo shot in the 8th, for good measure.

Coupled with other teams (except SFA) splitting their first 2, of the weekend, TXST stays in 1st place in the SLC @ 11-3 (19-10)

Thus far, this weekend, RF Randell has 3 S, 2 T, 2 HR, 2 W, 1 HBP, 5 RS and 4 RBI.
Looking like POTW material to me
7/7 with SP and OBP over 1.000

[CatMom]

Sweep of UCA with our RF having a career weekend
10/11
5 Singles
2 Triples
3 HR
2 W
2 HBP
6 RS
6 RBI


TXST still in 1st @ 12-3 (20-10). 2 games up on SLU - who we play next weekend - away

[GeauxLions94]

Sweep of UCA with our RF having a career weekend
10/11
5 Singles
2 Triples
3 HR
2 W
2 HBP
6 RS
6 RBI


TXST still in 1st @ 12-3 (20-10). 2 games up on SLU - who we play next weekend - away

Those are some salty numbers. Hope he leaves them there in San Marcos this weekend. Should be a good series this weekend against SLU

[CatMom]

I hope he keeps them up tomorrow night against UT, along with Kubitza and Martinson. Sibley is back also, so that helps.

Love to get to this series but 1) I only have Fri and Sat off and 2) no way I'm driving nearly 1000 miles (roundtrip) in that timeframe.

[CatMom]

After blowing a 2 out b8 lead to UT and totally crapping out at SLU (it was their worst set of games this year ....11 errors in 3 games????? - UGH) but retaining the SLC lead, TXST comes back and takes down Baylor 9-3.

Still not ranked but it doesn't matter for SLC play.

Have, apparently, lost our AA second baseman for the season.

(BTW - I am told that 11 errors is all the scorekeeper gave us. There should have been a lot more. Guess the UT debacle got into their heads.)

[CatMom]

Won Friday over # 30 NWS 5-3.
Our pitcher actually went the full 9 innings with 10 Ks
Retain 1st place in SLC by 1.5 games over NWS and SFA.

[CatMom]

Took game 2 vs # 30 NWS - keeps the Bobcats in 1st place regardless of what anyone does Sunday.
# 20 SLU lost 2 days straight. They fall to 4th place in SLC

15-5 (24-13)

[CatMom]

This team could drive me to drink. They take down Baylor 9-3, take games 1 & 2 from NWS (5-3, 7-3), then turn around and lose 8-0 in game 3. The guy that pitched had UT 5-3 after 7.1 innings just 12 days before.

And, as an amusing anecdote. In the 8th inning, (Saturday) our DH hit a foul ball that went straight back, over the netting (behind home plate), hit a speaker and the ball landed in his mom's purse. What are the odds? (I sit a row in front of his parents, so I was there to witness it)
Of course he got hassled by other players, after the game, about trying to take out his mom.

[CatMom]

Our First Baseman, Kyle Livingstone, was a College Baseball Prime Time Performer for last week

http://collegebaseball360.com/tag/kyle-livingstone/

[CatMom]

Maroon and Orange Rival Series weekend coming up. TXST & UTSA. We beat them in most sports and their Baseball team is not the best this year but, they can surprise. We need every W we can get with 12 conf games left. Tight race going on in the SLC with a 2 game differential separating the top 5 teams.

UTSA has taken teams they shouldn't and we have had some dramatic fails in games we should have won. With this series, usually, anything can happen.

[CatMom]

Won Friday over # 30 NWS 5-3.
Our pitcher actually went the full 9 innings with 10 Ks
Retain 1st place in SLC by 1.5 games over NWS and SFA.

Same pitcher had a 10- run rule win tonight w/2 hits and 7 K's

Our DH went 3/4 w/ 3 rs, 3 RBI (HR, triple, Single). The triple could have been a inside the park HR but they held him up. Damn shame too.

He leads the team in BA (.380), Slug % (.710), ob% (.447 - tied) and ERA (1.84)
He didn't start the year as DH, so has only been that for 26 of the 40 games: although he had a few abs scattered in those beginning games.
He is our set-up RP, with 14 appearances

He's also a FB on the football team


26-14 (16-6)

[CatMom]

They added (I think?) a game to the schedule. We were rained out in early March @ Rice. Rice decided to make this game up this coming Tuesday - to help their RPI. It will be a 3 PM start - in Houston.

[CatMom]

Swept UTSA but our Magic Number is still 8 with 9 conference games to go.
(4 teams eliminated from the race, 2 on the verge and 6 still in contention)

[CatMom]

Looks like TXST could make a regional even if they don't win conf or the tourney, barring a total collapse. Our Strong OOC really helped this year.

Ranked in 2 polls this week.

A collapse is not a foreseeable circumstance, to me.

[CatMom]

TXST takes 2 of 3 from McNeese. The top 3 teams will be positioned the same as they were before the weekend with 6 games left.

TXST goes back to LA next week (after finals and playing TCU) to take on Nicholls. 2 horrible road trips, back to back.
SFA will be at SLU - interesting

[CatMom]

Lost 2/3 to Nicholls. Something that never should have happened. In the meantime, SLU took 2/3 from SFA and we go into the final series tied for 1st. SLU has the tie-breaker.


Tonight, we run ruled UTA (amazing as that was) and NWS took SLU. 1 game up with 2 to go. We really have to sweep to take care of business, win the SLC and get a birth in a regional. It's no one else's fault we are in this position. (this is the player's perspective that I got from one of the dad's)

It is nice that SLU lost but TXST has to do it for themselves or forget moving on.

TXST 22-9 --
SLU 21-10 1
NWS 20-10 1.5
SFA 19-11 2

Still a very tight race. UTA statistically eliminated tonight.

[CatMom]

Our Friday starter, Carson Smith, has won his last 4 starts with an ERA of 0.28. 1 ER in 32 innings. 2 of the games have been run rule 7 innings. All 4 are complete games.

[CatMom]

Corrections, my bad, re: Carson Smith

It's only 30 innings, with 28 K's (total 89) and the 1 run was unearned, so the ERA is 0 for those 4 games and 3 of them were run ruled. So he has 1 - 9 inning and 3 - 7 inning CGs in the last 4.....6 for the year.
Overall record is 9-3 with 3 saves and an ERA of 2.43
102 BF in 30 innings

[CatMom]

Back to back Conference Champions.
Had to do it on the last day - It was nerve wracking but they got it done.

[CatMom]

Conference Tournament will be May 26-29 in Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC hosts)
Seeded as follows
1 - TXST
2 - NWS
3 - SLU
4 - SFA
5 - UTA
6 - Lamar
7 - McNeese
8 - Nicholls

Games start @ 9 AM Weds. 3 vs 6
Torunament Bracket is here
http://www.southland.org/fls/18400/pdf/ ... M_ID=18400

TXST will play Nicholls @ 4 PM

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