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Houston Baseball Regional
http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2015/...l-preview/

NCAA baseball tournament: Houston Regional preview

Posted on May 25, 2015 | By Joseph Duarte

Cougar Field is hosting the NCAA baseball tournament for the first time since 2000.•
When: Friday through Monday•
Where: Cougar Field (3,500)•
Teams: Houston, Houston Baptist, Louisiana, Rice•
Format: Double-elimination•

What’s at stake: Winner advances to NCAA Super Regional to face winner of the Baton Rouge Regional

Regional schedule
Friday, May 29
Game 1: (2) Rice vs. (3) Louisiana 2:30 p.m. ESPN3
Game 2: (1) Houston vs. (4) Houston Baptist 7 p.m. ESPN3

Saturday, May 30
Game 3: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loserTBA
Game 4: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winnerTBA

Sunday, May 31
Game 5: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 loserTBA
Game 6: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winnerTBA

Monday, June 1*
Game 7: Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loserTBA

All times Central
* If necessary

A Brief look at the four teams participating in the Houston Regional this weekend at Cougar Field:

HOUSTON•
Regional seed: 1•
Coach: Todd Whitting•
Record: 42-18•
Conference: American Athletic Conference (at-large bid)•
Nickname: Cougars•
NCAA postseason appearances: 20•
Last NCAA appearances: 2014•
Against regional field: 2-1 vs. Rice, 0-1 vs. Louisiana, 0-1 vs. Houston Baptist•
Last 10 games: 8-2•
Players to watch: LF Corey Julks (.309, 3 HR, 34 RBIs), 1B Chris Iriart (.306, 14 HRs, 39 RBIs), 2B Josh Vidales (.307, 70 hits, 2 HR, 38 RBIs), RHP Kyle Dowdy (9-2, 2.62 ERA), RHP Andrew Lantrip (8-3, 2.50 ERA), RF Kyle Survance (.301, 2 HR, 33 RBIs, 30-of-38 SBs), DH Jacob Campbell (.303, 5 HR, 40 RBIs), LHP Seth Romero (7-4, 2.15 ERA).•
Team batting average: .271•
Team ERA: 2.99


RICE
Regional seed: 2•
Coach: Wayne Graham•
Record: 35-20•
Conference: Conference USA (at-large bid)•
Nickname: Owls•
NCAA postseason appearances: 21•
Last NCAA appearances: 2014•
Against regional field: 1-2 vs. Houston, 1-0 vs. Houston Baptist•
Last 10 games: 6-4•
Players to watch: DH/C John Clay Reeves (.324, 8 HR, 55 RBIs), 2B Ford Stainback (.336, 72 hits), LF Kirby Taylor (.339, 11 2Bs, 1 HR, 29 RBIs), RHP Jordan Stephens (6-4, 3.12 ERA), LHP Blake Fox (8-2, 3.34 ERA), RHP Matt Ditman (3-3, 2.85 ERA, 10 saves), RHP Austin Orewiler (5-1, 2.63 ERA), RHP Kevin McCanna (7-3, 3.05 ERA), RF Charlie Warren (.330, 62 hits), CF Ryan Chandler (.291, 15 2Bs, 30 RBIs).•
Team batting average: .300•
Team ERA: 3.22


LOUISIANA
Regional seed: 3•
Coach: Tony Robichaux•
Record: 39-21•
Conference: Sun Belt (automatic bid)•
Nickname: Ragin’ Cajuns•
NCAA postseason appearances: 15•
Last NCAA appearances: 2014•
Against regional field: 1-0 vs. UH•
Last 10 games: 8-2•
Players to watch: 2B Stefan Trosclair (.358, 16 HR, 53 RBIs), CF Kyle Clement (.358, 8 HR, 29 RBIs), DH Tyler Girouard (.337, 3 HR, 28 RBIs), SS Blake Trahan (.336, 2 HR, 28 RBIs), LHP Gunner Leger (6-4, 2.95 ERA), RHP Wyatt Marks (6-1, 3.25 ERA), RHP Dylan Moore (3-3, 1.54 ERA, 11 saves), 1B Greg Davis (.253, 7 HR, 37 RBIs).•
Team batting average: .276•
Team ERA: 3.36


HOUSTON BAPTIST•
Regional seed: 4•
Coach: Jared Moon•
Record: 28-25•
Conference: Southland (automatic bid)•
Nickname: Huskies•
NCAA postseason appearances: First•
Against regional field: 1-0 vs. Houston, 0-1 vs. Rice•
Last 10 games: 6-4•
Players to watch: CF Zach Nehrir (.333, 73 hits, 4 HR, 43 RBIs), LHP Matthew Mccullough (8-2, 2.55 ERA), C Samm Wiggins (.325, 62 hits, 15 2Bs, 5 HR, 27 RBIs), RF Thomas Clay (.291, 15-of-15 SBs), 3B/RHP Curtis Jones (.308, 62 hits, 21 RBIs), RHP Taylor Wright (8-6, 2.99 ERA), RHP Dylan Zarosky (0-2, 2.95 ERA, 3 saves), RHP Matt Harding (1-1, 0.74 ERA), 2B Greg Espinosa (.307, 27 RBIs).•
Team batting average: .289•
Team ERA: 3.30
(This post was last modified: 05-26-2015 12:56 PM by IdahoCajun.)
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The Cajuns defeated Houston during a mid-week game on April 7th, 6-5

http://www.ragincajuns.com/news/2015/4/7...52745.aspx

Junior outfield Brian Mills delivered a walk-off RBI double as the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball team scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth to defeat No. 22 Houston 6-5 Tuesday night at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field.

Junior Kyle Clement got the rally started in the ninth with a one-out single as the Cajuns trailed 5-3 going into the inning. After Brenn Conrad drew a walk from left-hander Aaron Fletcher, Evan Powell delivered an RBI single through the left side of the infield off of reliever Aaron Garza to cut the Cougars lead to one run. In the next at bat, pinch runner Jam Williams came home to score on an errant throw by Garza on a safety squeeze attempt by Blake Trahan to even the game at 5-all.

With runners on second and third and one out, Mills drove a ball down the right field line off of Houston reliever Kyle Dowdy over the head of outfielder Kyle Survance to double in Powell to win the game.

The Ragin' Cajuns outhit the Cougars 12-10 in the contest led by Trahan who was 3-for-5 and scored a run while also extending his hit streak to 21 games. Tyler Girouard, Greg Davis and Clement each had a pair of hits in the game. Davis had a home run.

Survance led the way offensively for Houston going 3-for-5 with a pair of infield singles and scored twice.

Reliever Wyatt Marks picked up his second win of the season limiting the Cougars to one run on three hits in two innings of work with a strikeout and a walk.

Garza got the loss for Houston falling to 0-2 on the year after giving up the game-winning run without recording an out.
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The Cajuns meet No. 2 seed Rice (35-20) in Friday’s 2:30 p.m. opening game, with the Cougars (42-18) meeting Houston Baptist (28-25) at 7 p.m. in their first regional-host spot since the 2000 season.

“I never really get into ‘easy regionals’ or evaluating stuff like that,” UL-Lafayette coach Tony Robichaux said, “because now you’re paired up with the best 64 teams in the country, so you have to play well.”

But Robichaux didn’t hide the fact that he liked the proximity of the Cajuns’ third NCAA tournament trip in three years.

“We have a huge Ragin’ Cajun fan base in Houston,” he said, “and we have a couple of recruits and a couple of players from there, so that’s good for us. And the last time we were there, we were able to win that regional, so we’ve played well there.”

That previous Houston trip was in 1999, when UL-Lafayette swept three games over Texas and Houston (twice) in the year that the NCAA inaugurated the expanded format and included the super regional round. The Cajuns’ win in that regional qualified them for those first-year super regionals, and ironically they returned to Houston the next weekend to take on this year’s first-round foe, Rice, at the Astrodome.

UL-Lafayette lost that best-of-three series but used that experience a year later to break through and win a super regional in South Carolina to advance to the 2000 College World Series.

Most of the current Cajuns weren’t even in grade school when UL-Lafayette made those back-to-back Houston trips. But they do remember beating then-No. 22 Houston 6-5 in an April 7 midweek game at “Tigue” Moore Field.

“That’ll give us a little confidence,” Trahan said, “but they are going to be ready to go. This is a regional game, and it’s a little different than a midweek game. They’re going to bring their ‘A’ game, and hopefully we’ll meet them in the second round.”

The Cajuns haven’t faced Rice since 2011, when the nationally ranked Owls took a 2-1 win in a midweek game at Moore Field; the only player still on the UL-Lafayette roster from that year is fifth-year senior Tyler Girouard, a 2011 redshirt. The teams have met five times in NCAA postseason play, with Rice holding a 3-2 advantage; three of those meetings came in that 1999 super regional.

Rice won the Conference USA regular-season title by a three-game margin and has won or shared championships in all 10 of its years in C-USA. But the Owls went two-and-out at the C-USA tournament, dropping back-to-back 6-5 decisions to eventual champion Florida International and Middle Tennessee.

The Owls, who ranked as high as No. 15 during the regular season, are in the NCAA tournament for the 21st straight year, the fourth-longest active streak and tied for the fourth-longest postseason streak in Division I history.

The Cajuns did exactly the opposite as the Owls to earn their NCAA trip, finishing third in the Sun Belt regular-season but winning five straight games after an opening-round loss in last weekend’s conference tournament. Stefan Trosclair’s grand slam in the 12th inning Sunday gave UL-Lafayette a 5-1 win over regular-season champion South Alabama in the tournament title game, securing the league’s only NCAA berth.

“After what we went through the past week, it’s exciting to see our name come up on the screen,” Trosclair said. “It gives us a lot of momentum going into this tournament.”

“It’s good to be where we are,” Girouard said. “Losing that first game put us in a spot that it was either win five or we’re done. It put the season on a line, and we kind of had the ‘so what’ attitude; we were going to come back. We had confidence, but it was a good confidence. Nobody panicked.”

The Houston regional is paired with the Baton Rouge regional, where LSU is the No. 2 national seed, for the super regional round. LSU has No. 2 seed UNC-Wilmington, No. 3 Tulane and No. 4 Lehigh in its regional
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Hope everything dries out in Houston so this gets played. Had some major flooding there yesterday.
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GATA Cajuns!
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(05-26-2015 12:45 PM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote:  GATA Cajuns!

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good luck a-holes. lol
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(05-26-2015 01:37 PM)NCeagle Wrote:  good luck a-holes. lol

The accolade...lol....thanks
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Yeah, I hope the weather cooperates this weekend. I saw all the flooding in Texas.
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# 8 seed in CWS - More than just a basketball add?
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Yea, that is pretty impressive. Honestly do not know their history, is this a bolt from the heavens or have they consistently made regionals, or ever hosted before period.
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Usually fairly good, not this good. Notable MLB players from the program include Ryan Howard, Bill Mueller, Shawn Marcum, and Ross Detweiler. Coach has been there for more than 30 years. One of current players is Mike Matheny's son.
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http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/find...2C+tx&MR=1

It looks like there could be some Weather Delays this weekend

Weekend Weather Forecast for Houston

Friday
05/29
84 | 73 °F
Friday 60% Precip. / 0.15 in
Scattered thunderstorms. High 84F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60%.

Friday Night 20% Precip. / 0 in
A few clouds from time to time. Low 73F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday
05/30
83 | 71 °F
Saturday 60% Precip. / 0.35 in
Scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 83F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.

Saturday Night 60% Precip. / 0.1 in
Partly cloudy with late night showers or thunderstorms. Low 71F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.

Sunday
05/31
84 | 70 °F
Sunday 60% Precip. / 0.18 in
Scattered thunderstorms. High 84F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%.

Sunday Night 30% Precip. / 0.01 in
Isolated thunderstorms during the evening hours. Skies will become partly cloudy overnight. Low near 70F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.

Monday
06/01
84 | 71 °F
Monday 60% Precip. / 0.05 in
Partly cloudy with afternoon showers or thunderstorms. High 84F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%.

Monday Night 20% Precip. / 0 in
Partly cloudy skies. Low 71F. Winds light and variable
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