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Post by NSU2003 on May 19, 2015 0:46:45 GMT
#2 Demons take on #7 HBU on Wednesday.
Amazingly, with as many SLC titles as we have, NSU has NEVER won the SLC tournament. Could this be there year?! I like our chances on a neutral site.
As everyone knows, you gotta win that first game to set the tone and not dig your hole too deep.
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Post by purplestorm on May 19, 2015 14:57:51 GMT
Well, we have a legit shot at making the championship game, but we can't take HBU for granted and we will need stellar pitching from #2 (J.Oller) and #3 (Stovall) and their closers (Smith, Duvic, Stand and Hymel) to weave our way through the rest of the teams on our side. Then what? Who is left to pitch the championship game? We need that fourth pitcher to show up to win it, which would be our midweek guy and we haven't had much success there this year. But, we can do it! I believe we can, at least. Just have to be focused.
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Post by NSU2003 on May 20, 2015 11:34:21 GMT
So do you gamble and save a weekend starter? Hoping we can make it through HBU?
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Post by purplestorm on May 20, 2015 15:11:06 GMT
Absolutely not. Not only is it a dangerous move, it shows total disrespect for your opponent and could backfire by motivating them even more. We just have to hope Oller, Oller and Stovall get good enough offensive support to pitch 4-6 innings each and hope they can each pull a couple innings each in the championship game, if needed.
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Post by TrackDemon on May 20, 2015 17:56:58 GMT
Central Arkansas knocked off Nicholls 7-6 earlier which doesn't surprise me too much.
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Post by purplestorm on May 20, 2015 19:07:26 GMT
Our #2 seeding and our ace pitcher are, thus far, being bested by #7 seed HBU and their ace pitcher. Our bats are basically nonexistent.
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Post by TrackDemon on May 20, 2015 19:12:46 GMT
There ace has a nasty curve and our hitters seem like they can't find it.
horrible crowd at the game, pretty empty (maybe 50 people)
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Post by purplestorm on May 20, 2015 19:18:25 GMT
Two errors and being outhit in double-fashion. Pardon the pun. It's the same old baseball tournament recipe for us thus far. I'm out. I have other things to do. Be back by football season.
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Post by TrackDemon on May 20, 2015 19:21:51 GMT
Right Fielder misjudged the ball, triple, HBU now up 4-1 in the 8th. 2 runs in due to mistakes.
On the plus side,we have had comebacks before so don't count em out yet
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Post by TrackDemon on May 20, 2015 19:47:31 GMT
Demons Fall 4-1. Same ole same ole in the conference tourney. We get to try and keep our season alive tomorrow morning at 9am against Nicholls.
They really need to stop having our conference tourney's on neutral sites. The attendance is embarrassing in a stadium that size.
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Post by NSU2003 on May 20, 2015 21:42:53 GMT
Same ol' baseball conference tournament monkey on our back. I'm not sure why we can't seem to have any kind of success in the tournament. As the write-ups and announcers eluded to, we have three NCAA appearances and numerous regular season titles but ZERO conference tournament titles.
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Post by NSU2003 on May 20, 2015 22:13:24 GMT
WOW! THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE! Look at how many 1st round losses we have!
(only included are seasons since the start of the SLC tournament)
1993 - SLC Champions - 40-18...1st round loss to McNeese, 2nd game loss to UTA
1994 - SLC Champions - 45-15...1st round loss to McNeese, loss in the title game to UTSA...NCAA at-large bid.
1995 - SLC Champions - 37-15...1st round loss to UTA, 2nd game loss to UTA
1996 - 34-27...1st round loss to SWT, loss in the title game to SHSU in extra innings
1997 - SLC Champions - 35-23...1st round loss to UTSA, 2nd game loss to SWT
1998 - SLC Champions - 40-20...1st round loss to SHSU, loss in title game to nicholls
1999 - 38-21...1st round loss to UTA, 3rd round loss to SWT
2000 - 30-26...1st round win over McNeese, title game loss to Monroe.
2001 - SLC Champions - 38-17...1st round loss to Lamar, 2nd game loss to Monroe
2002 - SLC Champions - 43-17...1st round loss to SWT, title game loss to Lamar
2003 - 35-22...1st round loss to UTA, 2nd game loss to McNeese
2004 - 33-23...1st round win over Monroe, 4th game loss to Monroe
2005 - SLC Champions - 41-20...1st round loss to SLU, 2nd game loss to UTA...NCAA at-large bid
2006 - 33-28...1st round win over McNeese, title game loss to UTA
2007 - 25-28...did not qualify for the conference tournament
2008 - 28-28...1st round loss to SHSU, 2nd game loss to UTSA
2009 - 26-26...1st round loss to UTSA, 2nd game loss to SLU
2010 - 36-21...1st round loss to Lamar, 2nd game loss to SLU
2011 - 22-32...did not qualify for conference tournament
2012 - 19-32...did not qualify for conference tournament
2013 - 16-40...did not qualify for conference tournament
2014 - 33-26...1st game loss to SLU, semi-final loss to SLU
2015 - 31-21...1st game loss to HBU, TBD
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Post by TrackDemon on May 20, 2015 22:24:23 GMT
Amazing how badly we got screwed over by the selection committee between 93-2002
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Post by NSU2003 on May 21, 2015 11:39:58 GMT
Amazing how unfortunate we are in the 1st round since the inception of the tournament.
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Post by TrackDemon on May 21, 2015 11:42:47 GMT
Every lower seed won yesterday, SLU got his with the SLC top seed curse.
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