Final: USC vs. Clemson
Nipper's Buddy
Clemson lost a 16-inning game last night by walking in South
Alabama's winning run, so today's first game in the East Region
was USC vs. host Clemson. USC saved ace starter Seth Etherton
for this game, but they weren't supposed to be facing elimination.
At any rate, Etherton pitched very well until he gave up some
hits and runs in the 8th and 9th innings. Clemson didn't have
enough, though, as Etherton pitched a much-needed complete
game for an 8-5 victory. Etherton had 15 strikeouts, vaulting
him into the top spot in the nation for strickouts pitched.
The team that beat USC yesterday, Virginia Commonwealth, runs
up against The Citadel in the second game today. After that
is complete, USC faces South Alabama (2-0 in regional play).
USC will probably start Jason Lane and has a relatively rested
bullpen behind him since Etherton pitched a complete game
this morning and Jack Krawczyk, the nation's save leader,
has yet to pitch at all in the regional. On the contrary,
S. Alabama's pen is probably quite tired after last night's
16 inning affair. I don't remember the stats or the name
of the guy who may start tonight for S. Alabama, but they
weren't all that great. If USC bats show up, they should
be fine tonight.
If I remember the bracket shifting correctly, S. Alabama
will play the winner of the Citadel/VA C'wealth game to-
morrow morning regardless of what happens tonight.
If USC wins tonight, the winner of tomorrow's game will
have a one-game playoff with USC for the berth to the College
World Series. If S. Alabama wins tonight, it gets two chances
tomorrow to beat the winner of today's second game.
Jack
Jim Carr
Nipper's Buddy <ted...@usc.edu> writes:
>
>Clemson lost a 16-inning game last night by walking in South
>Alabama's winning run, so today's first game in the East Region
>was USC vs. host Clemson.
And the home field advantage goes to ... the number 1 seed.
>On the contrary,
>S. Alabama's pen is probably quite tired after last night's
>16 inning affair.
Ditto for Clemson. Better to lose the game in 9 than use a
whole game's worth of pitchers like they both did. Advantage USC.
>If I remember the bracket shifting correctly, S. Alabama
>will play the winner of the Citadel/VA C'wealth game to-
>morrow morning regardless of what happens tonight.
Correct. The "LWW" team always plays in that game, either
against the WWW team or the WWL team (which is the same team,
the one that was the sole undefeated team in this five team case).
>If USC wins tonight, the winner of tomorrow's game will
>have a one-game playoff with USC for the berth to the College
>World Series.
Correct. The "WLWW" team goes to game 11. The others have only
played three games, and meet in game 10.
>If S. Alabama wins tonight, it gets two chances
>tomorrow to beat the winner of today's second game.
Right.
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Jim Carr
j...@ibms48.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
|
|Nipper's Buddy <ted...@usc.edu> writes:
|>If USC wins tonight, the winner of tomorrow's game will
|>have a one-game playoff with USC for the berth to the College
|>World Series.
|
| Correct. The "WLWW" team goes to game 11. The others have only
| played three games, and meet in game 10.
After writing this I realized that the reason those seemingly
convoluted brackets make sense to me has to do with the way I
record the results and re-order the teams on my "regionals"
page. So, not to waste that insight, I added a "WL" sequence
annotation to JJ's old bracket sheet. You can see it at
http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~jac/Baseball/brackets.html
Also note that I have updated ..../regions-98.html with the morning
results, but will not do anything with the conference page until
tomorrow morning. Of course, the current version of that page,
at ..../conf-rank-98.html, shows quite clearly who went "oh and
two and barbeque" in the first two rounds of the tournament. This
part always strikes me as a significant measure of the selection
procedure and the quality of some playin and automatic conferences.
It is significant that none of the big multi-bid conferences had
anyone go out quickly. Note it was the much disputed UNCC (the
Conference USA tourney runner-up and #3 in regular season) that
was the only _at_large_ team to do so. The at-large teams from
the Sun Belt and Big Ten did better than their tourney champs,
and in both cases they were the ones who won the regular season
and were upset in the tournament.
barron
Does anyone have stats on South Alabama?
Dierk Kunkel
> Does anyone have stats on South Alabama?
Check out the inofficial Jaguars homepage at
http://acan.net/~maf00486/jagfan.html
Greetings
Dierk