ForeverADog

The weekend from hell if your a Lamar baseball fan...

LCM bats struggled as well vs PNG and Ned. I like vidor 5 to 3. But still I'm rooting for the bears!

HJ might get 10 run ruled.

LU never seizes to amaze..... Maybe next year right?

Wow congrats Kirby! Let's do it again next week guys!

PNG 3 - 2.

[quote name="Boogy1000" post="780937" timestamp="1269391842"] Ill take the Top 9 Tigers vs your TOP 9 anyday baby!!! SF Michael Dabney PF Lewis Arline C Eddie Fobbs SG Darrel McArthur PG Thad Holden PF Chris Miller SG Al Henry SF Chris Martin PG Tirus Elam LETS PLAY BALL!!!!! [/quote] IMO if you get the best 9 from Lincoln could take on Silsbee no question. Silsbee has some great ones but Lincoln takes it.

Way to bounce back dogs!

I hope not! I hope he stays here!

[quote name="ballin4life" post="780770" timestamp="1269372918"] [quote author=ForeverADog link=topic=67554.msg780716#msg780716 date=1269367193] Plus if you do fire him who are you going to hire that can take you to "the next level"? I don't see any other coach you can hire who will do better than Barnes. [/quote]get rid of him [/quote] You don't get rid of a guy just to do it. You have to have some sort of a plan in place to replace him. There is no one who can make UT basketball relevant quite like Barnes. Its a football school and for 4 months in the Winter he has gotten it to where people also watch basketball. No coach before him has ever gotten close to that.

[quote name="Lum-raider10" post="780760" timestamp="1269372498"] Hamshire, don't get on here acting like you can beat us again, that was our first game and we improved a lot. You guys lost to central as well [/quote] So you don't think HF has gotten better too? HF has beaten a lot of quality teams in the area.

Plus if you do fire him who are you going to hire that can take you to "the next level"? I don't see any other coach you can hire who will do better than Barnes.

I can agree with you on that one baseball25. But I think we can agree we have no shot at that at-large birth into the tourney. So I think for the rest of this year we work more on developing these new pitchers and hitters so we can have some depth for the conference tourney. Hopefully there we can get hot and earn an NCAA tourney spot.

Saw Jamaal Charles 3 times and all 3 he had over 300 yards. Then saw him in college several times including watching him go crazy against Nebraska. He has to be the best I have ever seen no question.

[quote name="coach_stockmalone" post="780334" timestamp="1269288303"] District 38 caught District 37 during Spring Break, which was critical to their success.  Liberty and Livingston were both missing several starters, which changed the whole outlook of the games.  District 38 might be better, but it was more timing than talent. [/quote] Well sorry that District 38 has their priorities to stay home and play their games with their team instead of going on a vacation in the most critical time of the season.

Hate to say it but Bellow did not pitch well last night. I thought this might happen since he hasn't pitched in a game since last year. He didn't have his command and it cost Nederland. He will get it back more and more with each start and be ready come playoff time!

[quote name="Dav-J" post="780133" timestamp="1269264527"] [quote author=Pearod link=topic=67597.msg780093#msg780093 date=1269228231] [quote author=Walk-off link=topic=67597.msg780041#msg780041 date=1269219828] By the time LCM approaches the Veterans bridge down by 3 [/quote] I just hope LCM is only playing against 9 nederland players on the field. I think that is what walk-off is talking about.  ;D [/quote] I just hope the bus driver takes the Rainbow Bridge going to Ned and the Veterans on the way home. (Unless they changed the traffic pattern). [/quote] Ha I was just about to say this! But anyway I look for Ned to bounce back and win 5-3.

Take away our star struck first 5 minutes that we looked nervous as all get out (score was 19 - 3 then) and we beat them the rest of the game. I know we looked pretty sloppy at times and had some bad turnovers but we played toe to toe with them. If we hit a couple more threes like we usually do its an entirely different game. Jenna, Kalis, and AC were a combined 4 for 17 from 3 point land. We know they are much better than that. Darika did have a bad night going only 3 for 12 from the field. We also know that isn't the way she normally shoots. I think we played very hard and left it all out on the floor. Great season ladies and we should be contending again next season!

[quote name="ballin4life" post="780226" timestamp="1269274744"] [quote author=baseball25 link=topic=67548.msg780184#msg780184 date=1269270922] That's what they say, but he has no over powering pitchers this yr like lamar is use to having, I mean madison smith  is 85-88, and Erickson is 85-88, thats not overall powering right there, but they are descent enough to be good 2 and 3 starters, I mean they need a dominant number 1 pitcher and they don't have that this yr. Things are about to get tough in Conference play, so somebody needs to step up for Lamar. [/quote] I thought Dziedzic and Eric had powering stuff. [/quote] Not as far as just throwing fastballs constantly by you even when you know its coming. But they use their sharp breaking pitches very well to set up that fastball to blow it by you when you are looking for something else.

I just posted this on the UCA game thread but I definitely think it is relevant here. "Our starting pitching isn't bad IMO. Dziedzic has great stuff just needs to control it a little better. Our bullpen is horrible though. I just hate looking at the stat sheet that comes in the program and seeing guys like Cuniff, Boulanger, Cleveland, and Steward have the lowest ERA's on the team but have only thrown 6 or 7 innings this season. Then I look at Ford, Aldridge, Henderson, and McGinnis who all have ERA's of 7.14 or higher but have thrown more innings than everyone else in the bullpen. Since they aren't getting it done I think you have to give some of these other guys at least a chance. As far as handling the shortstop position I think Mena obviously needs more of an opportunity especially after how well he hit yesterday. Bunner and Theriot give you pretty much the same thing with the bat (.280 hitter with above average speed) but Bunner is slightly better defensively so let him play more. I can't wait for Anthony Moore to come back healthy. He has 5 tool capabilities. He leads the team in HRs and RBIs even after missing 8 games. Plus any single he hits turns into a double 2 pitches later when he steals second. And he is the only outfielder we have with a halfway decent arm to throw someone out. We will be fine in conference as long as our starting pitching keeps it up. But if they cant go 6+ innings we are screwed...I'm not counting them out just yet. We just need to win our next two series to be right back in the mix of things. But I do know that is easier said than done."

Our starting pitching isn't bad IMO. Dziedzic has great stuff just needs to control it a little better. Our bullpen is horrible though. I just hate looking at the stat sheet that comes in the program and seeing guys like Cuniff, Boulanger, Cleveland, and Steward have the lowest ERA's on the team but have only thrown 6 or 7 innings this season. Then I look at Ford, Aldridge, Henderson, and McGinnis who all have ERA's of 7.14 or higher but have thrown more innings than everyone else in the bullpen. Since they aren't getting it done I think you have to give some of these other guys at least a chance. As far as handling the shortstop position I think Mena obviously needs more of an opportunity especially after how well he hit yesterday. Bunner and Theriot give you pretty much the same thing with the bat (.280 hitter with above average speed) but Bunner is slightly better defensively so let him play more. I can't wait for Anthony Moore to come back healthy. He has 5 tool capabilities. He leads the team in HRs and RBIs even after missing 8 games. Plus any single he hits turns into a double 2 pitches later when he steals second. And he is the only outfielder we have with a halfway decent arm to throw someone out. We will be fine in conference as long as our starting pitching keeps it up. But if they cant go 6+ innings we are screwed...I'm not counting them out just yet. We just need to win our next two series to be right back in the mix of things. But I do know that is easier said than done.

New pitcher. Latulippe Ks. Two outs Mena doubles! Ballgame! LU wins! 8 to 7

Farhat Ks. 1 out. Luquette walks. Mathis reaches on E4. Runners on first and second. Meade doubles to tie the game! Latulippe up!

1st batter singles. 2nd batter walks. Third batter flies to short. One out. 4th batter flies to 3rd. 5th batter grounds out to the pitcher. 7 to 5 UCA bottom 9

Meade singles to left. Pitching change... Latilippe flies to center. One out. Mena walks. Theriot flies to center. Cambell singles scoring Meade. 7 to 5 now. Buchanan grounds out to the pitcher. Ending the inning. 7 to 5 UCA. Top 9