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By krh44
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Flames give up 2 in the 9th to drop the game 6-5. We walked in the winning run :x
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By flameshaw
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Walk in the winning run...................... unbelievable. Lose 6-5. Wish I had a dollar for every time LU chokes away a game. We don't have the pitching to be very good right now. Will be very surprised to see us win the conference.
By Chippy
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Mariano Rivera was not available :D Coach Jackson has no reliable arm in the starting rotation or in the pen. All have shown flashes but no one has been consistent - the closest may be Mitchell as a starter. We'll have a whole new pitching staff next year with all the seniors graduated. Hopefully, there will be some good and reliable arms and sprinkle in a couple left handers. I think Jackson may be setting up Degraot to pitch this w/e and the tournament. It might be DeGroat, Mitchell, Clinton and maybe Bertsch for the tournament.
Last edited by Chippy on May 17th, 2017, 8:48 am, edited 1 time in total.
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By Cider Jim
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#531154
We miss Honors Program alumnus Alex Close in the bullpen. Crybaby
By flamehunter
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It seems that the first half of the season our pitching, starting and especially bullpen, was carrying us. Now it's a bit of a crap shoot. Clinton may be the only one I can think of who has come on stronger recently, though he was used very little early on.
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By jinxy
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Did Tarantola get hurt? He had a great road start at elon then i know he got roughed up his next start. The way most of those guys were pitching maybe we should give him another shot. An at large is def shot after last night.
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By flamesfilmguy
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it was shot before we played the game. only shot we had at an at large bid was beating usc and uva and probably winning at least one more vs. St. Johns. you're not going to get an at large going well under .500 against top 100 RPI teams. especially when your RPI isn't above 50.
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By jinxy
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I actually disagree with that. I think if you get inside of 45 in the rpi with multiple top 25 wins your in. Had we have beaten duke and vcu swept presby and finished 2nd in the tourney we would had a great shot. The vcu loss put us on life support then duke finished it off imho.
By ballcoach15
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Win BSC tournament, go to NCAA tournament. Once tournament starts, it's a new season.

Just ask Longwood softball team. They were not the best team , but they won tournament.
By flamehunter
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ballcoach15 wrote:Win BSC tournament, go to NCAA tournament. Once tournament starts, it's a new season.

Just ask Longwood softball team. They were not the best team , but they won tournament.
I would argue that over the last 2-3 weeks of the season that they were the best team. They beat the Lady Flames 4 out of 6 games.
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By flamesfilmguy
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jinxy wrote:I actually disagree with that. I think if you get inside of 45 in the rpi with multiple top 25 wins your in. Had we have beaten duke and vcu swept presby and finished 2nd in the tourney we would had a great shot. The vcu loss put us on life support then duke finished it off imho.
My point was you needed those wins i went over earlier to get within the top 45 rpi. we didn't get them and we are outside the top 50 in RPI. Duke was 110 last night in RPI so they actually hurt you by losing to a lower RPI team more than they would have helped by winning.
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By jinxy
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Understood, we were at 53 before duke. Road win and we would have been at 50. Sweep presby and we would have been at 45. Finish 2nd in tourney and were inside top 45

Nick just said degroat is back in rotation.
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