Super Regional Updates

Four Super Regionals began action on Friday. Super Regional play is a best of three format.

#1 Florida beat #3 Mississippi State 11-1 in the Gainesville Super Regional

#1 Arizona State beat #1 Texas 3-1 in the Austin Super Regional

#1 Vanderbilt beat #1 Oregon State 11-1 in the Nashville Super Regional

#1 North Carolina beat #2 Stanford 5-2 in the Chapel Hill Super Regional

The remaining four Super Regional sites will begin action today. Today’s Super Regional matchups include:

#1 Virginia vs. #3 UC Irvine in the Charlottesville Super Regional

#3 California vs. #3 Dallas Baptist in the Santa Clara Super Regional

#1 Florida State vs. #1 Texas A&M in the Tallahassee Super Regional

#1 South Carolina vs. #2 Connecticut in the Columbia Super Regional

Saturday Update

#3 Mississippi State avenged Friday’s loss to the Florida Gators by winning 4-3.

Quick Notes of Interest

The current regional format used in the NCAA baseball tournament began in 1999

This is Mississippi State’s first Super Regional since 2007 and their 4^th overall

Florida made it to Omaha in 2010

Florida sophomore Mike Zunino is a finalist for the Johnny Bench Award

The last time Texas and ASU met was in the 2009 College World Series, Texas won both games

Texas leads the all-time series vs. ASU 27-19

Stanford is making their first Super Regional appearance since 2008, their 8^th appearance.

Stanford has advanced to the College World Series in 6 of their previous 7 Super Regional bids

North Carolina has not appeared in a Super Regional since 2009

OSU’s last Super Regional was in 2007; OSU won back to back titles in 2006 & 2007

The Cavalier’s have advanced to a Super Regional in three straight years

This is UC Irvine’s second appearance in a Super Regional (2008)

The Cavalier’s hold a 2-0 series lead over the Anteaters

This is the first Super Regional for Cal and Dallas Baptist

Florida State has advanced to the Super Regional round in 4 consecutive years

Texas A&M’s last Super Regional was in 2008

This is Connecticut’s second post season berth in the NCAA tournament and their first Super Regional

The Gamecocks have advanced to their second straight Super Regional. They are looking to be the first repeat College World Series winners since Oregon State in 2006 & 2007

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Quick Sporting News

NCAA Regional wrap up

Texas A&M defeated University of Arizona 3-0 today in a storm delayed game originally set for Monday. A&M advances to the Tallahassee regional to face Florida State. Texas A&M helps salvage some respect for the Big 12 in the NCAA Tournament. The Big 12 finished regional play 9-10. The ACC finished 16-8, PAC 10 18-5, SEC 18-6, Big East 6-5, and the Big 10 was 2-2.

#3 seed Dallas Baptist, an Independent team, continued their amazing season by surviving the Fort Worth bracket to advance to the Santa Clara regional to face another #3 seed University of California at Stephen Schott Stadium.

Pryor says, “Tat ya later” to OSU

Who is the least liked wide receiver named Terrelle in pro football? Terrelle Pryor, take a bow. He has easily outdistanced himself from the former disliked, Terrelle Owens. And Pryor has to be fooling himself if he thinks he will be a quarterback on the next level. Someone give Pryor former University of Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones’ phone number.

How kind or harsh will the media, blogs, and message boards be to Terrelle Pryor? He’s an easy target and deserving of all that he receives. It’ll be funny reading soft and easy headlines like, “Pryor leaves OSU” or “Pryor heads to the NFL”. Let’s be honest. The headlines should read, “OSU doesn’t want the continued headache and embarrassment Pryor has brought the school so they finally kicked him off the team”.

NFL plans for an 8 game season

Why? Why would the NFL plan for an 8 game season instead of a full 16 game season? Is there a law forbidding the NFL to move the Super Bowl back a few weeks? Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana is the predetermined site for the 2012 Super Bowl, XLVI. It seems hard to believe that the administrators for Lucas Oil Stadium would say no to the NFL if the NFL asked to move the Super Bowl back a couple of weeks. Maybe Roger Goodell has vacation plans in March thus having a full season extend into March would not be good for him? Do the players and owners have somewhere else they have to be this spring? It’s their job, so go do your job! However long it takes to finish it.

Wait, this makes sense. This is another attempt to yo-yo with the emotions of the fans and the NFL players. If the NFL Players Union does not settle on a new labor agreement, this “forces” the NFL and the owners into an 8 game season. This means the players will only receive half of their salary for the 2011-2012 season.

Anyone else tired of hearing about money, the U.S. economy, millionaires complaining about their cut, banks being bailed out, foreclosures, and our pro sports teams being locked out over “labor disputes”, aka money?

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Regional and Super Regional Updates

Regional play has been so great this year they have decided to postpone Arizona and Texas A&M until Tuesday at 1:35 p.m. EST. Thunderstorms rocked the College Station area just before first pitch forcing the cancellation of the game. Game site has been moved from Bryan Stadium to Olsen Field.

Monday’s results:

Florida St. 11 Alabama 1

South Carolina 8 Stetson 2

Texas 5 Kent State 0

Connecticut 14 Clemson 1

Dallas Baptist 11 Oral Roberts 9

California 9 Baylor 8

Super Regional Matchups:

Virginia vs. UC Irvine

California vs. Dallas Baptist

Florida St vs. winner of Texas A&M vs. Arizona

South Carolina vs. Connecticut

Florida vs. Mississippi State

Texas vs. Arizona State

Oregon State vs. Vanderbilt

North Carolina vs. Stanford

Top Eight Seeds

Virginia

Florida

North Carolina

South Carolina

Florida State

Vanderbilt

Texas

Rice (eliminated)

Super regional action will being June 10. 

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2011 College Baseball Tournament Updates

11 teams have won their regional and are headed to their super regional. Five more teams await their fate today. Here’s an update of this weekend’s action.  

There were few big surprises from the NCAA tournament this weekend. #3 seeded UC Irvine upset #1 seeded UCLA 4-3 on Sunday with a walk-off single in the ninth. The Anteaters advance to the Charlotte super regional, their first super regional since 2008, where they will face overall #1 seeded University of Virginia.

#3 seeded Mississippi State upset #1 seeded Georgia Tech 7-3 on Sunday in the Atlanta regional. Mississippi State advances to the Gainesville regional where they will face their Southeastern Conference foe the Florida Gators. Florida took 2 out of 3 games from Mississippi State in Starkville during the regular season (5-7, 18-0, 3-1) and beat the Bulldogs 7-5 in the SEC Tournament.

#2 seeded Stanford sent #4 seeded University of Illinois, the only Big Ten team in the tournament, home on Sunday winning 14-2. The Fighting Illini upset #1 seeded Cal-State Fullerton 7-5 in the Sunday morning game of the Fullerton regional.

The biggest upsets of the weekend occurred in the Fort Worth regional. #1 seeded TCU was put out of the tournament after three games. TCU beat #4 seed Oral Roberts on Friday 10-2, lost to #3 seed Dallas Baptist 3-2 on Saturday, and then lost to Oral Roberts on Sunday 8-4. #2 seeded Oklahoma was ousted in two games losing to Dallas Baptist 3-2 in 10 innings on Friday and Oral Roberts 7-0 on Saturday. Dallas Baptist and Oral Roberts play for the right to advance to what would have been the Houston regional had Rice not been defeated by University of California during the Sunday morning game 6-3. The higher winning seed between the Houston regional (#3 California vs. #2 Baylor) and Fort Worth regional will host that super regional.

Power conferences have paved the way to the super regional. The SEC has 4 teams advancing, ACC 3, and the PAC 10 has 3.

Teams that are headed to a super regional:

#1 seeded Virginia

#1 seeded South Carolina

#1 seeded Florida

#1 seeded Florida State

#1 seeded Arizona State

#1 seeded Oregon State

#1 seeded Vanderbilt

#1 seeded North Carolina

#2 seeded Stanford

#3 seeded Mississippi State

#3 seeded UC Irvine

Teams still fighting for a super regional berth:

#1 Texas vs. #3 Kent State; Austin regional

#2 Baylor vs. #3 California; Houston regional

#1 Clemson vs. #2 Connecticut; Clemson regional

#1 Texas A&M vs. #2 Arizona; College Station regional

#3 Dallas Baptist vs. #4 Oral Roberts; Fort Worth regional

Super regional play will begin Friday June 10 through Sunday if necessary. The super regional format is a best of three series. The College World Series will begin June 18 in Omaha, Nebraska. 

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