The Ride Is Over

Saturday the Pirates of ECU held as far as the NCAA was concerned  the fifth best team in the tournament to one run.  They had already shocked Texas Tech with and unset win Friday beating the Red Raiders 8-6.  If Texas Tech is really as good as advertised then when you hold them to one run in 12 innings you must take advantage and  score two runs on Saturday and win the game. It didn't happen as Sunday the Pirates never had a chance as Texas Tech took advantage of every opportunity and whitewashed the Pirates 11-0.

It might not be the best record for the Pirates but where they finished one game from Omaha makes this year their most successful.  They were the only one from North Carolina playing this weekend after all others had fallen by the wayside.  Nice job Pirates.

This begs the question when you lose is it better to lose 11-0 or like NC State  that gave  up the lead in the last bat of the game.  The bottom line is you suffer either way that you didn't complete the task at hand.

One of the shockers of the weekend was Louisville losing two straight at home. Losing  4-2 and then had a 3-0 lead to be beaten in the last at bat on a grand slam home run.  I thought they had a real shot at winning the National Championship.

The ACC knew before this weekend started that one team was going to Omaha because in the Super Regionals two were matched up against each other this weekend.  Miami everyone expected but who in their right mind expected Boston College to be there.

The very first weekend of ACC  conference play BC beat the Wolfpack two out of three and everyone thought  the Wolfpack would be in for a long season losing to BC.  Little did anyone realize that BC would have one of their best seasons in decades.  They made Miami play three games and had their chances Sunday.

The only SEC team still alive with a chance to make it to the college world series is Florida and it took a 5-0 shutout of Florida State to set up a winner take all game today in Tallahassee.  Both Texas A&M and LSU were beaten last night making the SEC record  in the Super Regionals 2-9.

The win by Coastal Carolina over LSU in two straight games surely doesn't help the N C State Wolfpack pain over their last inning loss to Coastal but it sure does show you how close any team is that is trying to make it to the College World Series.  State played Coastal Carolina three times last weekend allowing 10 runs.  State over the last six weeks of the season lost two starting pitchers to injury and yet held CC to 10 runs in three while LSU gave up 15 in two games and yet Wolfpack Nation blames lack of pitching for their demise.