A Year Late

One year to the day Campbell Baseball had won the regular season Big South with if I remember like a 48-12 season.  During the Big South Tournament they went undefeated until the championship game. The Big South Tournament winner  gets the automatic bid and the Big South tournament regardless of how many losses you have the once beaten team plays the undefeated team in a winner take all final game.  Campbell loss that game and with it went and NCAA bid.

This year as the three seed Campbell lost their first game in the tournament but fought their way to take on the host school Winthrop, Who was the undefeated team this year in the Tournament and Campell turned the trick that killed them last year is sending them to the NCAA tournament this year.

Duke, State, ECU and others are sitting on the edge of their seats today waiting on the NCAA selection show at noon on ESPNU.  A dagger for all teams hoping to get in is that in the Horizon League's Youngtown State who was the sixth seed in a six team tournament and wins the Horizon League bid.  Their record 16-36.  They RPI is near 200 but what their getting in does for any team with 64 or less RPI and  that includes all of the fore mentioned teams just means one less bubble team to get in the tourney.

We now need to start keeping up with the X Man 's stats as the Frontier League opened their season last weekend and Xavier Macklin is playing for the Gateway Grizzlies.  Eight games in X is batting 233 with a home run.

The Frontier League is an Independent league which means all players are playing for themselves not being paid  by a Major League team.  The league pays the players all the same and if any player stands out then they can be scooped up by any team.

Hobbs Johnson lost his latest start for Brevard in the Florida State league and his record stands at 4-5 with 46 strikeouts in 49 innings in 9 appearances.  His ERA is still under Three at 2.94.  His won loss record is not impressive but his performance otherwise is.

Brian Goodwin is hitting 222 in Syracuse for the AAA Chiefs.  It is still early enough that a 0-4 night can drop his average ten points  where a two hit night can make it go up 15 points.

Cousin Lauren Doughtie finished in 56th spot this week which is the third Futures tour tournament in a row where she has cashed a check.  She needs one or two that are top ten money.

Tonight at 5pm Thomas Berry and his teammates at Lander University play in a winners bracket game at the USA Baseball Complex in the NCAA DII World Series. The game is being streamed on NCAA.com.  Look for DII on front page and it should bring up the game.