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Post by The Cats on May 21, 2014 22:58:42 GMT -5
Georgia Southern vs. Western CarolinaGAME 55 | MAY 22 | 10:00 AMCharleston, SC | Joseph P. Riley, Jr. ParkCatamount Sports Network | Live Video (free) | Live Stats
Two victims of upsets Wednesday morning, will meet in Charleston on Thursday's first elimination game of the day in the Southern Conference Baseball Tournament. Two of the SoCon's historically best teams will meet, and one will go home after playing only two games in this years' tournament. It's a variation of the old one-and-done, but here, it's "2 and done". Fourth seed Georgia Southern was defeated by Appalachian State in the first game of the day Wednesday morning in extra innings, losing by a final score of 3-2. In the second game of the day, number one seed Western Carolina faced number 8 seed Furman, and promptly lost to the Paladins in what is the major upset of the tournament. The Eagles come to the game at 34-21, while the Cats are 37-17 on the season. The Cats and Eagles played three. one run games in early May, with Georgia Southern taking two of the three. It would seem that fate has the Cats playing back to back the only two teams that won weekend series over Western Carolina.
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Post by The Cats on May 22, 2014 10:34:50 GMT -5
Top of the 6th, and Null has given up his third home run of the game. Back to back home runs have given GSU the lead 3-2.
Fortunately, all the home runs were made with no runners on base.
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Post by The Cats on May 22, 2014 10:51:36 GMT -5
Now tied, 3-3 top of 7th. Adam Martin homered in the bottom of the 6th to tie the game.
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Post by The Cats on May 22, 2014 10:56:11 GMT -5
Georgia Southern gets another home run, this time with one on base. Score now, 5-3.
Null has given up 4 home runs in the game. Our starting pitchers are just not getting it done in the tournament. Too bad.
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Post by The Cats on May 22, 2014 10:58:41 GMT -5
Given the state of our pitching, I see no way this team can battle back out of the the losers bracket, even if we could pull this game out.
Poor pitching, and a lack of hitting in the tournament has doomed this team to returning to Cullowhee early, and no NCAA.
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Post by WesternFan on May 22, 2014 15:45:59 GMT -5
A very disappointing loss today.
I don't think there is a good excuse, lots of reasons, but not a good excuse.
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