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Softball matchups set - lcitsh - 05-03-2014 10:25 PM
Cajuns and Jaguars had already locked in the 1 & 2 seeds. Georgia State s #3 with the series win over #4 Western Kentucky. Texas State is #5, ULM #6, Troy #7 and Texas-Arlington #8. ULM & Troy will play at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the winner taking on Georgia State at approximately 3 p.m. Texas State & Texas-Arlington will play at approximately 12:30 p.m. with the winner playing Western Kentucky in the last game of the day. The two survivors will take on Louisiana and South Alabama Thursday afternoon.
Family night will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday night at Lamson Park. Conference awards, both athletic and academic, will be awarded at that time, and there will be a home run derby. Those of you who are coming, we look forward to seeing you then.
RE: Softball matchups set - slycat - 05-04-2014 04:25 PM
Go Bobcats, make a tourney run!
RE: Softball matchups set - GaSoEagle - 05-04-2014 06:45 PM
So if I have it right in the softball tournament 4 of the 8 teams go home on Day 1. Is that right?
RE: Softball matchups set - lcitsh - 05-04-2014 07:32 PM
(05-04-2014 06:45 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: So if I have it right in the softball tournament 4 of the 8 teams go home on Day 1. Is that right?
Correct.
RE: Softball matchups set - GaSoEagle - 05-04-2014 07:43 PM
That seems a strange set up for a conference softball tournament. Here is the SoCon it is a DH tournament--- 2 pods of 4 teams with the winner of each pod playing a single championship game.
RE: Softball matchups set - chiefsfan - 05-04-2014 07:44 PM
(05-04-2014 06:45 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: So if I have it right in the softball tournament 4 of the 8 teams go home on Day 1. Is that right?
Yes, and the Final Four is double elimination
RE: Softball matchups set - warhawk09 - 05-04-2014 07:51 PM
(05-04-2014 07:44 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:(05-04-2014 06:45 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: So if I have it right in the softball tournament 4 of the 8 teams go home on Day 1. Is that right?
Yes, and the Final Four is double elimination
Except the title game ... leave it to softball to do something screwy, just like their all-conference team.
Pointless to do it this way.
RE: Softball matchups set - GaSoEagle - 05-04-2014 08:47 PM
It just seems very odd for baseball to have a 2 4-pod setup and softball to do something different where 4 teams only get to play 1 game and go home.
RE: Softball matchups set - GaSoEagle - 05-04-2014 09:17 PM
SoCon softball tourney starts Wednesday. Ga. Southern #1 seed
Pod 1: Georgia Southern, UNC-Greensboro, Samford and Elon
Pod 2: Furman, Chattanooga, Western Carolina, and Appalachian St.
DE in pods. Single championship game on Saturday.
Softball matchups set - CajunFan3406 - 05-04-2014 09:20 PM
(05-04-2014 07:51 PM)warhawk09 Wrote:(05-04-2014 07:44 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:(05-04-2014 06:45 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: So if I have it right in the softball tournament 4 of the 8 teams go home on Day 1. Is that right?
Yes, and the Final Four is double elimination
Except the title game ... leave it to softball to do something screwy, just like their all-conference team.
Pointless to do it this way.
Hope your girls get sent home after day one. I only want the Cajuns to face teams that are beneficial to our RPI.
The setup is great for teams like USA and UL. Lessens the chance of facing RPI damaging teams and increases the chances of facing RPI beneficial teams. Also rewards the teams for their regular season.
RE: Softball matchups set - GaSoEagle - 05-04-2014 09:26 PM
Is this the way the Sun Belt has done it normally or is this the first year of doing it this way?
RE: Softball matchups set - lcitsh - 05-04-2014 11:46 PM
(05-04-2014 09:26 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: Is this the way the Sun Belt has done it normally or is this the first year of doing it this way?
First year.
RE: Softball matchups set - chiefsfan - 05-05-2014 12:17 AM
(05-04-2014 08:47 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: It just seems very odd for baseball to have a 2 4-pod setup and softball to do something different where 4 teams only get to play 1 game and go home.
Softball has an interesting issue in that the bottom of the league is not very good and the top of the league is very good. I imagine the format is designed to help the high RPI teams near the top who have chances of hosting regionals by not being forced to face a low RPI team in the tourney.
RE: Softball matchups set - T-Dog - 05-05-2014 12:24 AM
I hate the format in the SoCon of going undefeated in your four-team pod, then playing a team that has lost once in a winner-take-all game, although the team who lost once had to play at least one extra game.
RE: Softball matchups set - JoeJag - 05-05-2014 12:58 AM
(05-04-2014 04:25 PM)slycat Wrote: Go Bobcats, make a tourney run!
RE: Softball matchups set - AstroCajun - 05-05-2014 02:03 PM
(05-04-2014 07:51 PM)warhawk09 Wrote:(05-04-2014 07:44 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:(05-04-2014 06:45 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: So if I have it right in the softball tournament 4 of the 8 teams go home on Day 1. Is that right?
Yes, and the Final Four is double elimination
Except the title game ... leave it to softball to do something screwy, just like their all-conference team.
Pointless to do it this way.
Its also pointless for ulm to bleed the rest of its sports dry just so its football team can make it it 6-6.
But here we are. I credit the conference with the foresight to protect its best teams and would wish they'd do the same in baseball.