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Post by HometownHoya on Jun 22, 2011 17:22:14 GMT -5
See, thats their problem for showing it when no one is watching!! Two pages!!
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Post by HometownHoya on Jun 27, 2011 21:55:04 GMT -5
So, I just turned on the 9th inning of this game...what defense by SC to make it go to extra innings!
Wow...then that throw to home at the bottom of the 10th!
SC defense is stepping up!
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Post by hifigator on Jul 2, 2011 12:41:46 GMT -5
Oh well, it sucks to get so close but then come up short. But only one team gets to win its last game ... well, its last game that matters anyway. I'm sure there were a handful of teams that won their last regular season game, but didn't qualify for their conference tourney. In any case, South Carolina outplayed Florida and earned their second straight Natty Tite. Florida lost the Championship on Monday. When they were the home team and failed to score in the ninth inning after loading the bases with nobody out, I knew that the Gamecocks were going to win it all. I'm proud of our boys. They are the epitome of the student-athlete and that's the way it should be. I think I read that the team GPA was 3.3 last semester. That is pretty impressive, especially when you factor in that they played about 70 games while still doing the job in the classroom. And as far as off the field incidents are concerned, they only had 1. Yes, that's 1 too many, but overall I guess that is a pretty good record.
Congrats to South Carolina as well as the National semi-finalists, Vandy and Virginia.
Baseball really is a game of inches and it showed last week. If any of a number of balls were an inch either way, Florida wins the Monday game and there would have been a rubber game for all the marbles on Wednesday, but it wasn't to be. USCe made more plays when they had to and Florida didn't make quite enough. It sucks to lose, but on the grand scale of things, a shared SEC regular season title, an SEC tournament title, a trip to Omaha and an appearance in the Championship series to finish as National runner-up is a great season. So as much as I hate to say it, I'm "happy" with the way the season played out.
P.S. Next year, I'm going back to Omaha. It pained me to not be there this season.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Jul 2, 2011 22:56:43 GMT -5
Congrats on a great year for the Gators, hifi. LSU sucked.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 3, 2011 16:03:49 GMT -5
hifi, your sentiments matched mine for UCLA last season. That team had a lot to be proud of, and performed admirably. Sure, you would always rather win the national championship than fall one game (or two in this case) short, but it's still a great achievement, particularly for UCLA last year, when no one expected anything of them.
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Post by hifigator on Jul 11, 2011 14:25:39 GMT -5
hifi, your sentiments matched mine for UCLA last season. That team had a lot to be proud of, and performed admirably. Sure, you would always rather win the national championship than fall one game (or two in this case) short, but it's still a great achievement, particularly for UCLA last year, when no one expected anything of them. I'm kind of surprised to hear that. Obviously, I don't spend as much time studying Pac 10 baseball, but still, I would think that having Cole and Bauer would generate high expectations. And giving it more thaought, I guess there midh be something to that in general. North Carolina, a perenial power, wasn't thought of aas a marquee/elite team this year. For that matter, South Carolina, even though they were the defending National Champ, wasn't expected to give a serius chance at repeating. Virginia, Vandy and Florida were among the Top 5 most of the year, so they were expected to contend.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 11, 2011 18:41:51 GMT -5
UCLA had been a sub-.500 team in 2009. One of Cole or Bauer (this shows how closely I truly follow this), I don't recall which was a freshman last year, and I believe the other, while considered to have lots of potential, made a huge leap last season.
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