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Post by The Cats on Apr 24, 2015 9:23:54 GMT -5
Dates: Friday, April 24th; Saturday, April 25th; & Sunday, April 26th
Times: 6:00 pm; 2:00 pm; 1:00 pm
Location: Thomas Stadium, Johnson City, Tennessee
Video: SoCon Digital Network
Radio: Catamount Sports Network
ETSU record: 14-26, 3-9 SoCon
The Series: Western Carolina leads the all-time series 62-29.
ETSU is in the midst of a seven-game losing skid after a pair of midweek setbacks to Tennessee and Winthrop. The Bucs are 4-12 on the road and 9-13 at home this season. While the Bucs have won only 9 home games this season, the Cats have only won two on the road, giving them a 2-11 road record.
The Bucs are hitting a team average of .289 while the Cats are hitting .293 as a team.
Probable Starters
Friday- RHP B.J. Nobles (4-1, 3.68) vs. RHP Griffin Krieg (1-5, 7.56)
Saturday - LHP Bryan Sammons (3-3, 4.68) vs. RHP Jimmy Nesselt (4-5, 4.90)
Sunday- RHP Korey Anderson (3-3, 5.67) vs. RHP Ryan Simpler (1-4, 6.70)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 20:04:23 GMT -5
The Cats have now been beat by the last place team in the Sun Belt, and then the last place team in the SoCon, in consecutive games.
Bet no one else in the SoCon can pull off that little trick.
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Post by cat7 on Apr 24, 2015 20:58:51 GMT -5
Hate to say it but stick a fork in the cats, they are done. There will not be a three-peat for the regular season and they will get to play only two games in the in the SOCON tournament and be done. I have followed the team this year and there have been some bright spots but then again there has been a lot of bad play. Let's face it. The team does not have the talent like the last two years except for a couple of players. Pitching is way down. Is that due to recruiting or coaching? You decide. All I will say about the coaching is you can't be the head coach and pitching at the same time. It does not work, never has, and eventually catches up with you.
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Post by The Cats on Apr 25, 2015 10:14:35 GMT -5
..... There will not be a three-peat for the regular season..... Based on the way they are playing, you are probably right. However, they are only 3.5 games out of 1st place, with 8 games remaining. To win the regular season, the Cats would need to win out, and about 4 other teams would need to completely collapse. I don't think either will happen. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 17:49:56 GMT -5
The Cats drop game #3 to ETSU, thus losing the three game series, 2-1 to the team that was in last place when the series started.
The Cats gave up 8 runs in their final three innings at bat, to beat Western by a final score of 10-7. I'm speechless with Western's performance in this series.
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Post by CharlotteCat on Apr 26, 2015 19:37:06 GMT -5
what a let down for the team
the three peat is dead
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 10:18:14 GMT -5
Based on the season thus far, it looks like this is turning out to be the worst coaching & recruiting we have seen from Bobby since he was hired. His performance in the SoCon Tourney has been terrible since his arrival at Western. With cutbacks in the baseball scholarships & lack of funds for baseball field improvements, I think he would jump at the opportunity to leave WCU. Most of the money is being directed to Football & Basketball. Baseball is basically a stepchild to these programs.
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Post by The Cats on Apr 27, 2015 11:21:47 GMT -5
.....With cutbacks in the baseball scholarships & lack of funds for baseball field improvements.... This is the first I've seen about any scholarship cutbacks at WCU. Please tell me more. As for field improvements, I don't see funds on the horizon for any sport's facilities improvements. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 12:08:01 GMT -5
My understanding, cut backs were made during the payouts to the coaches that were fired in the recent past. WCU has never been allowed to give the 11 1/2 scholarships permitted by the NCA.
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Post by wcu32 on Apr 27, 2015 12:12:32 GMT -5
Based on the season thus far, it looks like this is turning out to be the worst coaching & recruiting we have seen from Bobby since he was hired. His performance in the SoCon Tourney has been terrible since his arrival at Western. With cutbacks in the baseball scholarships & lack of funds for baseball field improvements, I think he would jump at the opportunity to leave WCU. Most of the money is being directed to Football & Basketball. Baseball is basically a stepchild to these programs. It has been that way for the 20 years I've been involved with program and was even worse before that. The program has never been fully funded even when you had the out of state waiver (I cant remember the exact # of scholarships we currently have but i want to say its something around 6-7). When that was eliminated a few years ago it made the funding even worse. They can hardly afford to sign out of state kids and are very limited in where they can travel both recruiting and playing because there is not enough money. It's been that way during winning and losing so can't say that's to fault but it's huge part of it. And that definitely is not reason we blew a 5-0 lead in a VERY IMPORTANT game vs a very bad team. Instead of tied for 3rd now in 6th. Look on bright side it's no where near as bad as what is going on at the Citadel. |
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