WOSgrad

The Bulldogs continue their pursuit of the TCAL Division I State Championship as they take on Houston Mount Carmel at Baseball USA at 9:00 a.m.

Have mercy.

Now at the outset, I know that responses will label me a "hater" or "unambitious" or a number of other words.  If you feel so compelled, go for it. But, I do not understand this compulsion seemingly shared by so many to bolt the Southland Conference for "greener pastures."  I mean what does Lamar gain from moving from the SLC to a "mid-major."  Please tell me! I am dying to know, what advantage do we have having the Idaho Vandals as opposed to the McNeese Cowboys?  Guys, this is not the WAC of the BYUs or the Air Force Academy.  We are asking our university to beg the likes of the freaking University of Denver?  I have never seen this option as "moving up."  The greatest successes that Lamar University have known came as members of the Southland Conference.  In that conference, we enjoyed our greatest success in basketball and in baseball.  What?  Does anyone harbor the hope that moving to a "mid-major" will actually improve the athletic program at Lamar?  How?  Ladies and gentlemen, as an alumnus of Lamar University, I see its limitations and everyone else should, too.  Let's take this year for example.  Lamar restarted a program that had been shut down after the 1989 season and finished 5-6.  That is a great start for a program that had been dormant, but sadly the again new LU football program will be the biggest accomplishment for the LU athletic program this year.  The once vaunted basketball program is welcoming a new head coach, not because the prior coach bolted for a bigger program, but because the prior coach had to be fired because of consistently poor seasons.  The LU baseball program appears to be headed for a season in which it will not even make the tournament of its own conference.  Do we really think we could improve on that effort in moving to a new conference?  Is a movement to FBS football going to further the program, or just render us another UL-Lafayette where we go happily bouncing around the country getting our brains beat in for a big check?  I don't know about y'all, but I am not one of those that counts as an accomplishment, "Yeah, A&M beat us by 50, but we got them to come to our place!" I would much rather us stay in the Southland, develop our programs to competent levels before we even think we are ready to move to another conference.  Our egos may tell us that Lamar is too good for the Southland Conference and that LU is ready to grow beyond it, but the results say otherwise. And really, what does LU at this point bring to another conference?  A big TV market?  Nope!  A rabid fan base?  Well, remember this example.  Say what you will about Billy Franklin shutting down the program in 1989 and all of the political reasons you may attach to it, the bottom line reason is that nobody attended the games...they couldn't get 1,000 people to attend games then and that is when they gave tickets to the students.  One season of good attendance does not a rabid fan base make, not in the eyes of other conference officials and not given Lamar's history.  And when was the last time the Montagne Center was filled for a basketball game? Any particular sport which would bring particular notoriety to a new conference?  I'll just refer you to the above paragraph. I love Lamar and want the greatest of success for it just like anybody here.  But to say that this University is ready right now to move to a mid-major conference and to FBS in football is just us foolish talk.

Dunno, he was replaced by Guidry in the Top of the 6th

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[quote name="PhatMack19" post="1009686" timestamp="1305255866"] Pitcher for Smithville went all 8 and threw 151 pitches! [/quote] That is nuts!

Final Box: [table] [tr][td][/td][td]     [/td][td][b]1[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]2[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]3[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]4[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]6[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]8[/td][td]     [/td][td][b]R[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]H[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]E[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Smithville[/td][td]     [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]2[/td][td]     [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]9[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]2[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Bridge City[/td][td]     [/td][td]4[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]     [/td][td]0[/td][td][/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]6[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]1[/td][/tr][/table]

Bot 8th Hubbard bounces out 4-3. Final, Smithville 7, Bridge City 5.  Smithville leads the series 1-0. Game 2 is tomorrow at 7:30 tomorrow in Conroe.

Bot 8th: Menard F3; Hubbard up

Bot 8th: Smith 6-3

Top 8th contd 5U Mid 8th, Smithville 7, Bridge City 5 [table] [tr][td][/td][td]    [/td][td][b]1[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]2[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]3[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]4[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]6[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]8[/td][td]    [/td][td][b]R[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]H[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]E[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Smithville[/td][td]    [/td][td]1[/td][td]  [/td][td]1[/td][td]  [/td][td]1[/td][td]  [/td][td]1[/td][td]  [/td][td]0[/td][td]  [/td][td]1[/td][td]  [/td][td]0[/td][td]  [/td][td]2[/td][td]    [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]9[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]2[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Bridge City[/td][td]    [/td][td]4[/td][td]  [/td][td]0[/td][td]  [/td][td]0[/td][td]  [/td][td]0[/td][td]  [/td][td]0[/td][td]  [/td][td]1[/td][td]  [/td][td]0[/td][td]    [/td][td]  [/td][td][/td][td][b]5[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]6[/td][td]  [/td][td][b]1[/td][/tr][/table]

Top 8th cont'd F6; 2 on, 2 out Top 8th, Smithville 7, BC 5

Top 8th cont'd 1B, 2 rbi Top 8th: Smithville 7, BC 5

Top 8th BB; 2B: Int BB; K Top 8th: BC 5, Smithville 5

Bot 7th Dishon hits into FC We're going extra innings folks! End 7th: Bridge City 5, Smithville 5 [table] [tr][td][/td][td]     [/td][td][b]1[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]2[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]3[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]4[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]6[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]8[/td][td]     [/td][td][b]R[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]H[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]E[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Smithville[/td][td]     [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td][/td][td]     [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]2[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Bridge City[/td][td]     [/td][td]4[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]     [/td][td]   [/td][td][/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]6[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]1[/td][/tr][/table]

Bot 7th Con'd Guidry HBP; bases loaded, 2 out

Bot 7th Mulhollan F2; Guidry up, runners on 1st and 2nd, 2 out

Bot 7th cntd Pittman BB Mulhollan up, runners on 1st and 2nd, 1 out

Bot 7th cont'd Sampere sac bunt, Zoch to 2nd; Pittman up

Bot 7th Zoch 1B

[quote name="BIGMO44" post="1009657" timestamp="1305254229"] Thanks for getting the word out Grad. [/quote] Thank you! I would have had a clue as to what was going on out there if it weren't for you.

Last licks, Cards!

Top 7th: K, BB, K, K Mid 7th, Bridge City 5, Smithville 5 [table] [tr][td][/td][td]     [/td][td][b]1[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]2[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]3[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]4[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]6[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]     [/td][td][b]R[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]H[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]E[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Smithville[/td][td]     [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]     [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]2[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Bridge City[/td][td]     [/td][td]4[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td][/td][td]     [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]1[/td][/tr][/table]

Bot 6th cont'd Menard BB; Hubbard F4 End 6th: Bridge City 5, Smithville 5 [table] [tr][td][/td][td]     [/td][td][b]1[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]2[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]3[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]4[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]6[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]     [/td][td][b]R[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]H[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]E[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Smithville[/td][td]     [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td][/td][td]     [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]7[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]2[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Bridge City[/td][td]     [/td][td]4[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]0[/td][td]   [/td][td]1[/td][td]   [/td][td][/td][td]     [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]5[/td][td]   [/td][td][b]1[/td][/tr][/table]

Bot 6th Mulhollan 1-3; Guidry K; Dishon 1B; Dishon steals 2nd; Smith 2B, Dishon scores Bot 6th: Bridge City 5, Smithville 5