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Beesball (Easter) Weekend: at UNC Cheaters, Thu-Sat this week

Ryan pitching really well today. 3 straight innings he has ended with a strikeout.

Need to get him some runs. Tech continues to hit the ball and has been unlucky yet again today with multiple hard hit balls right at Cheater defenders.
 
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Attaboy, Kel!

2 run bomb to RCF puts the JJ's up 3-0. Woohoo!

BANANA SPLITSBANANA SPLITSBANANA SPLITSBANANA SPLITSBANANA SPLITS
 
A quick bottom of the 5th for Ryan. Looking good halfway thru.

Let's get some more, JJ's!
 
Another DP by CJ and Bailey to end the 6th. JJ's up 3-0 heading to the 7th. Ryan on top of his game with a quality start.
 
Wade Bailey with a solo dinger to RCF to give the JJ's a 4-0 lead in the top of the 7th. Nice!
 
A bases loaded E5 plates 2 more for the Good Guys (with 2 outs too). JJ's up 6-0. Looking good now.
 
Bailey with a GRRRREAT play to end the 7th and save the shutout. Woohoo!

Heading to the 8th...Good Guys up 6-0.
 
Jackets complete the shutout, 6-0. Another series win in Chapel Hell. 4 in a row.

Good job, Jackets!

Kudos to Ryan (6 IP) and Dulaney (3 IP) out of the pen.
 
Orangenecks tied at Cuba 2-2 in the top of the 3rd. If the Kitty Cats can get a win tonight, the Good Guys will have picked up a game in the standings on all 3 teams ahead of us in the Coastal. Note, the Escort Service Academy defeated the French earlier today to even their series (being played in KY).
 
FWIW, Tech moves into the RPI top 10 at #8 (currently via RPI Live at warrennolan.com)
 
Some Easter Sunday beesball scores...

Canes 10-5 over the Orangenecks
SUNJ-Durham 3-2 over the Deacs
UofL 15-0 over the French (what a bad day for them...ha ha!)
NC State-FSU cancelled due to weather...again

Coastal Standings...

1. Cuba 7-2
2. Cheaters 6-3
T3. NATS 5-4
T3. France 5-4
5. Pitt 4-5
6. SUNJ 2-7
7. Buzzards 1-8

Tech is home this week for Ga Southern (Wed, 6pm) and Rutgers-Durham. 12 of the next 15 Beesball games are in the state of Georgia.


edited to remove "ESPN-3" from Ga Southern game...sorry about that
 
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Two of the toughest conference road series are over with, F$U and Cheats.

Good point, mate. Let's hope our next road series at Pitt doesn't see us post a donut up there like we did 2 years ago.

Any news on Hughes? (hey, it rhymes!)

Ryan looked great yesterday. If Ryan can pitch like that on weekends and we find another starter to go along with him and Gold...watch out!
 
Hughes didn't make the trip because we can only take so many on the road by requirement.
He wasn't going to pitch, therefore no need to take a spot up. Nothing major, he will go next Sunday vs. Devils.
 
Hughes didn't make the trip because we can only take so many on the road by requirement.
He wasn't going to pitch, therefore no need to take a spot up. Nothing major, he will go next Sunday vs. Devils.

Thanks, mate. Gold-Ryan-Hughes could (and I stress "could") be as good a weekend rotation as we've had in a while. We've had years where we had studs pitching on Friday and Saturday and then a big drop off to Sunday. Hughes as a Sunday starter off Gold & Ryan is encouraging.

Some of these freshmen arms out of the pen have also been very encouraging. Dulaney in particular.
 
I love Dulaney. The one who can throw almost mid-90's low in the zone on command has a dead arm after his injury in H.S. What if he comes back, and King, too?
 
As FYI, Mercer has added live video streaming for our game in Macon coming up soon on Tuesday, April 5. No big surprise here. I watched our win online live at Mercer last year. IIRC, the video feed was solid.
 
What we need is more college beesball polls/rankings. I read an article at rr.com yesterday that celebrated Tech being in the top 25 of 6 college beesball polls. Six? That's simply not enough. We need more.

So, I propose we start our own. We can perhaps call it the Bunch of Guys (BOG) Poll.

My vote for #1 spot in the poll is Georgia Tech. I think they are the best team and worthy of the top spot. I'm being completely objective about this too. I am. Stop shaking your head. The one between your shoulders, I mean.

March 29 BOG Poll
1. Georgia Tech
2. Florida State
3. UNC Cheaters
4. Miami
5. Clemson
6. Louisville
7. Virginia
8. Pitt
9. Duke
10. Georgia Tech's 2nd string

I'm still working on the rest. Stay tuned...
 
11. Blue Team. Just call us the "Scout Man Team". No Boy Scouts allowed on Scout Team.
11. Gold Team. Tie.



26. white teamers.
 
Florida and LSU probably need to be in there somewhere. can't leave them out or people will stop subscribing to the poll.

you must make the economics work as well.
 
Don't have to. Somebody else can start an 8th poll to include them. Or, a 9th or 10th.

Regardless, we need more college beesball polls. I figure 78 or 79 polls should do it. We're doing our part here. It's those other slacker boards that need to get to work and stop playing with their dingies.
 
UNC's ERA is 2.51 2nd in the ACC

GT's BA is 0.325 best in the ACC

I hope both those numbers go up after this weekend.
Well,
UNC's ERA is 2.34
GT's BA is 0.319

Despite winning 2 of 3 and scoring 9 runs in 3 games. I guess there were more unearned runs than I thought in the series. Regardless, happy for the wins any day over stats.
 
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