A Sea Of Red

The Lady Flames closed the regular season taking two of three from Coastal Carolina down in Conway, and will be the #2 seed in this weekend's Big South Softball Championship presented by Musco Lighting. They'll face the #7 seed Presbyterian Blue Hose (who they lost two of three to...in extra innings) in the second game thursday. Here is the breakdown of the tournament (and these double elimination formats can get wild if the games fall the right way):

Thursday, May 12
Game 1: #3 Presbyterian College vs. #6 Gardner-Webb, 10 a.m. - Terry Field
Game 2: #2 Liberty vs. #7 Winthrop, 12:30 p.m. - Terry Field
Game 3: #4 Charleston Southern vs. #5 Coastal Carolina, 3 p.m. - Terry Field
Game 4: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 - 5:30 p.m. - Terry Field
Game 5: #1 Radford vs. Winner Game 3 - 8 p.m. - Terry Field
Game 6: Loser Game 3 vs. Lowest Losing Seed Game 1 or 2, 8 p.m. - Field C

Friday, May 13
Game 7: Loser Game 4 vs. Highest Losing Seed Game 1 or 2, 10 a.m. - Field TBA by Seeding
Game 8: Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 5, 10 a.m. - Field TBA by Seeding
Game 9: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 7, 12:30 p.m. - Terry Field
Game 10: Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 8, 3 p.m. - Terry Field
Game 11: TBA vs. TBA (if necessary), 5:30 p.m. - Terry Field
Game 12: TBA vs. TBA (if necessary), 8 p.m. - Terry Field

Saturday, May 14
Championship Game: TBA vs. TBA, Noon

and we lose our 1st game

Y'all play Winthrop Friday morning early in an elimination game, the winner plays G-W at 12:30.

We have one senior on our squad, and they apparently have decided to step up and play a bit of ball in Rock Hill today. Bodes well for the future no matter what happens Friday and/or Saturday.

Tiffani Smith throws a no hitter and Liberty wins 3-0 over Winthrop in an elimination game (Winthrop lost to Gardner-Webb last night). Lady Flames play the Lady Bulldogs at 12:30 in an elimination game for Liberty.

Talk about clutch ... Tiffani brought it this morning.

Indeed...Liberty has to beat G-W twice to make it to Saturday...Radford (#1 seed) has to do the same to Coastal to advance. if Coastal or G-W wins this afternoon, then they have to lose twice on Saturday...if both of them win, it sets up a winner take all game on Saturday (I think I am understanding that correctly)

Liberty wins their second game of the day defeating Gardner-Webb 1-0. Kat Johnson goes the distance allowing 4 hits. The same two teams will meet again in an elimination game at 5:30 pm with the winner facing the survivor or Radford-Coastal Carolina for the championship tomorrow at 12.

We've regained some momentum. Let's just hope our pitchers' arms aren't about to fall off.

we have two pitchers that have not thrown today if Coach Wetmore feels the need to call on them...Alyssa DiMartino and Grace Nordan but Im guessing he will go with one of his two biggest guns given the circumstances.

Interesting that all our runs today have come from solo HRs.

Doesnt matter how we get them flamehunter...its all about survive and advance at this point

Don't try to read too much into my comment BJ, I just thought that was an interesting bit of trivia. And I agree, I don't care if they all scored on errors and we didn't have a hit, survive and advance at this point.

The Flames come back and win 6-1 to advance to the championship game tomorrow.

impressive day by the ladies. I doubted they could run the gauntlet and win them all today. Congrats to Coach Wetmore and the ladies.

Congrats to yall for today.

Radford beats Coastal 6-5 and then crushes them 11-3 in the win or go home semifinal so its Liberty and Radford in a winner takes all showdown at high noon tomorrow.

game will be on ESPN3 at noon.

3-0 Liberty top of 5th

The Lady Flames lead Radford 3-0 in the bottom of the 5th.9 more outs.

Flames beat the HIghlander 3-1 to win the Big South tournament. Great job by coach Wetmore and company.

Liberty won 4 games in 2 days after dropping the opener to Winthrop. Congrats to Coach Wetmore and the Lady Flames...hopefully they can get the audio of that final out call by Nick...

great day to be a Flame! congrats to Coach Wetmore and the ladies!

Great job ladies!!!!!

Here is a random bit of trivia...Liberty has now won both of their appearances on ESPN3.com

With their backs to the wall from the outset, this tourney run was extra special.