WSU @ Evansville

[haysdb]

Are Fred Jones and Eric Jones out with injuries? Anyone else?

Evansville has sure run a lot of players through the lineup this year. 20 different positon players. I can imagine this is because so many players are struggling at the plate. Only two everyday players are hitting above .265 on the season. OTOH, as the Shox prove, season stats can be very misleading. We're hitting .298 on the season, but just .202 over our last 10 games.

Pitching has kept us in games during this stretch, and will need to do so again this weekend.

[Pocket Aces]

No one else of note is out. Should be a fun weekend. With the exception of the bats going cold last weekend at Missouri State, the Aces hitting totals have actually improved the last dozen games or so.

[BBallDad02]

Fred Jones is out with soreness in his bicep. His MRI was negitive, however he is not scheduled to pitch untill the Illinois State series. Eric Jones had shoulder surgery and is out for the season. He is redshirting and will have another year left.

UE vs WSU should be a good one. If the pitching is as good as advertised, and the hitting as weak as they say it is, might play 2 on Saturday about as quick as one game.

[shocker3]

Weather wins game 1. Doubleheader on Saturday.

[Divergence]

Weather didn't actually win, but just delayed the horror.

Evansville sweeps the Shocks 2-1 and 7-5. Congrats to Evansville. Put WSU in last place. From the descriptions on the radio, Evansville was the more talented and better coached team.

The much storied program is hemoraging and has become irrelevant in MVC baseball.

[Pocket Aces]

Beat me by a couple of minutes with the post. Adam Rogers went the distance in game one outdueling Travis Banwart. Good day for the Aces. Final game Sunday afternoon.

[iSASO]

Most assuredly, after 28 years of domination, 1/2 of a season makes WSU irrelevant.

[haysdb]

Evansville really put on a clinic on how to move baserunners in game 2. Granted, the 13 base hits didn't hurt, but runners were conisistantly in scoring position when those hits came.

Meanwhile, we (WSU) didn't take advantage of our speed, and kept playing for the big inning that never came.

Evansville pursued, and executed, a superior strategy.

Kick us while we're down, because we don't plan on staying down.

[Divergence]

Kick us while we're down, because we don't plan on staying down.

Really?

[BBallDad02]

Rogers was outstanding today in game one. It was a great baseball game to watch, and the 7 hits that each pitcher gave up were scattered to the point that neither team had much of a scoring threat.

Over the course of Rogers' career at UE he has four starts and 5 appearences against the Shockers compiling a 3-0 record. Two of the starts were complete games. A total of one run scored during those 18 innings. He has a career ERA of 2.11 with 32 K's over 38.1 innings of work against WSU.

Wichita has set the standard for years in this league. It's not often that anyone has continued success against the Shocks. To see the Shockers in last place, even this early in the Valley season, was unthinkable just a few weeks ago.

The Aces winning 5 of the last 6 meetings between the two schools is even more amazing considering Mike Pelfrey was on the hill for some of those games.

The Aces won 2 of 3 last year in Wichita, they will try for the sweep Sunday in Evansville.

[redbirdtim]

I don't know if it's because Coach Brownlee knows UE so well why we could sweep UE last year and then get swept by WSU. Some teams just have other teams numbers, and it looks like UE has their number again...hmmm, maybe that means we'll get a sweep again...although I'd settle for 2/3 :innocent:

[iSASO]

Evansville is just that good.

By the way, an irrelevant WSU makes the whole conference more irrelevant on a national scale. Enjoy your new-found conference obscurity, WSU haters.

[Canevision]

Evansville is just that good.

By the way, an irrelevant WSU makes the whole conference more irrelevant on a national scale. Enjoy your new-found conference obscurity, WSU haters.

The same Evansville team the Bears swept?

[MikeKennedyRulz]

The same Evansville team the Bears swept?

ISASO is right. If WSU has a down year then be prepared to not hear anything about the valley on a national level. As goes WSU, so goes the valley in baseball. Like it or not, that is the reality.

[Canevision]

ISASO is right. If WSU has a down year then be prepared to not hear anything about the valley on a national level. As goes WSU, so goes the valley in baseball. Like it or not, that is the reality.

How does this response have anything to do with what I said?

PS- Trivia time, the last MVC college baseball team to do something on a national level (ie College World Series)? Get over yourselves Shock fan.

[MikeKennedyRulz]

How long did MSU's press on a national level last after that CWS appearance? How many times is WSU mentioned in the national media each year? Are you saying that MSU gets as much press on a national level as WSU does each year? I think I know who needs to get over themselves and come back to reality.

:shockers:

[Canevision]

How long did MSU's press on a national level last after that CWS appearance? How many times is WSU mentioned in the national media each year? Are you saying that MSU gets as much press on a national level as WSU does each year? I think I know who needs to get over themselves and come back to reality.

:shockers:

To be perfectly honest with you, I hear very little about either one on a national level. When I hear about MSU, I hear about their stadium and the '03 run mainly.

When I hear about WSU, I hear about their past mainly and their 80's championship (very impressive of course).

Neither one gets lauded for their great baseball teams that I hear in today's sense.

[fontleroyjr]

I'm curious as to what national press you are talking about? I don't see alot of college baseball highlights on SC these days. You dont go to ESPN.com and see college baseball stories all over the front page. College baseball is played in general obscurity.

If a down WSU means less of this mysterious coverage for the valley, then to national attention I say... bye.

[shocker3]

Like a national TV game on one of the real espn networks last year (OU at WSU). :valley: :shockers:

Like Matt Brown's catch being shown over and over again on Sportscenter and at the espys.

Like Mike Pelphrey being shown and talked to a lot on various national sports shows as being one of the top guys to be picked (and then picked) in the Major League baseball draft.

:valley: :shockers:

[MikeKennedyRulz]

Damon Sublett being named the best two-way player in college baseball by baseball america.

[fontleroyjr]

Wow, the overwhelming evidence is rushing in. Those are moments the entire country will never forget, I'm sure.

[MikeKennedyRulz]

Wow, the overwhelming evidence is rushing in. Those are moments the entire country will never forget, I'm sure.

Its amazing what a few wins half way through a season will do for the bandwagon that is SWOMOSTU. Where were you clowns last year when your team was abissmal? Oh, thats right, you waited til late in the season when they finally started winning to spout off.

[Canevision]

Its amazing what a few wins half way through a season will do for the bandwagon that is SWOMOSTU. Where were you clowns last year when your team was abissmal? Oh, thats right, you waited til late in the season when they finally started winning to spout off.

A. Still not sure where the "O" comes from.

B. Your spelling is abysmal "abissmal?".

C. Having someone make a diving catch is not talking about your program. William Fontleroy led SC several times with his dunks, they weren't talking about the Bears though.

D. Pelfrey was a stud, that's again not talking about your program. Lots of Bears get drafted, they just mention the school as a reference. This is all about the player himself.

[fontleroyjr]

I'm sorry, but the Bears trip to the CWS, in this decade, was much more exposure for the conference than a diving catch, etc.

And, I have yet to find where I have spouted off about how great the Bears are this year. We've only played UNI and Evansville so far, so I'm not putting much stock in being in first this early in the season.

[Canevision]

I'm sorry, but the Bears trip to the CWS, in this decade, was much more exposure for the conference than a diving catch, etc.

And, I have yet to find where I have spouted off about how great the Bears are this year. We've only played UNI and Evansville so far, so I'm not putting much stock in being in first this early in the season.

Agreed. This weekend will tell us alot about our team.

[MikeKennedyRulz]

Not really, because the Shox offense stinks over the last 14 games. Beating this Shocker team will not tell you as much about the Bears as you think. Everyone has been beating the Shox lately. Although, I did hear that Gene performed a head cleansing (a la men in black) yesterday at practice and let the guys go early to see a movie and told them to just have fun. After hearing that I want to know who stole Gene's #10 jersey and donned a white clown wig to impersonate him. Very unlike Gene, but I think it is a good thing and hopefully will relax the guys for this weekend.


:shockers: :bears:

[Canevision]

Let's just get the games started already.

Hope the good guys turn in the wins, but hope the games are all good ones.