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Pat Dye Field => Plainsman Park => Topic started by: ssgaufan on February 27, 2014, 10:51:10 AM
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I know many of you probably don't care about the softball program that much, but I do. This past week was the first time since I think 2010 that AU has been nationally ranked, and the team almost beat a top 10 FSU team yesterday. Up next is #4 Oregon. I absolutely love the Coach Myers hire, and can't wait to get my oldest daughter down to AU for his softball camp this summer. WDE! BTW, my oldest daughters goal is to play softball for AU!
By Phillip Marshall
AuburnTigers.com
AUBURN, Ala. – A sizzling line drive that turned into a double play. A drive that was almost a walkoff home run. Auburn’s softball team was that close, but No. 9 Florida State escaped Jane B. Moore Field with a 5-4 victory Wednesday night.
The No. 25 Tigers fell 5-0 after three innings at Jane B. Moore Field, but they rallied for four runs in the fifth inning and threatened in the sixth and the seventh. Sophomore pitcher Lexi Davis rebounded from three shaky innings to shut the Seminoles down over the final four innings.
Auburn fell to 13-2-1. Florida State improved to 14-1.
First-year coach Clint Myers, who took Arizona State to seven of the last eight College World Series, said he was proud of the effort.
“I thought we showed great character,†Myers said. “I’m not disappointed. We fought. We didn’t make an error. We didn’t beat ourselves. There are a couple of things we have to do a little better. We have to stay with our plan, but we had chances to win that ballgame, several times. We hit the ball pretty hard. If we can go up and have at-bats like that and learn from it, I think it was a good life lesson.â€
Leading off the fourth, freshman Jenna Abbott, making her first start, drove a 2-1 pitch over the right field fence for Auburn’s first hit off Lacey Waldrop. It was Abbott’s third home run in six at-bat. Kasey Cooper’s run-scoring single and Branndi Malero’s two-run double cut the Seminoles lead to a single run.
With the bases loaded in the sixth, Emily Carosone smashed a line drive right at second baseman Tiffani Brown, who threw to first to double up Tiffany Howard and in the inning.
In the seventh, after Melero singled with two outs, centerfielder Courtney Senas ran down McKenzie Kilpatrick’s drive on the warning track to end it.
“We’re not going to make excuses,†Myers said. “We lost. But what I tried to get across to them was what we did well. When we play Oregon on Friday, we start there. We know what we need to do. We should have won. Look at the balls we hit hard, but they were right at people. We didn’t make any luck tonight. Good teams make their luck.â€
Malero and Abbott had two hits apiece for Auburn. Davis took the loss on the mound falling to 7-2. She gave upfive runs on seven hits, striking out six and walking six. She gave up just one hit over the final six innings.
“I had a little tough time adjusting to the strike zone,†Davis said. “I had to do it. It’s definitely hard, especially when you are throwing strikes and they aren’t giving them to you. We had to try to work around it.â€
The Tigers will leave Friday for Orlando and the Diamond 9 Citrus Classic. They ill play Oregon on Friday.
“If we can come back and play well against Oregon, this was a good life lesson,†Myers said. “We learned. We tell them every day two things are going to happen. You are going to get better or get worse. I think we got better tonight.â€
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I know Kasey Cooper.
So, there's that.
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I know McKenzie Kilpatrick’s mom, granddad, grandmom, etc..
So there's that!
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I think the girls are cute running around in their shorts...
So there's...wait...that is soccer...never mind...
I got nothing...
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They're all Lebanese anyway.
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They're all Lebanese anyway.
No, I think most of those girls were raised in the...oh, wait.
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Back in the Mesazoic Era when I was at Auburn, a friend of mine went out for and made the softballz team. Said she went to a party for all the players and it only took her a few minutes to realize everyone of the players except her were carpet munchers.
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Back in the Mesazoic Era when I was at Auburn, a friend of mine went out for and made the softballz team. Said she went to a party for all the players and it only took her a few minutes to realize everyone of the players except her were carpet munchers.
I like to eat lunch down at the Y.
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I like to eat lunch down at the Y.
It's fun to stay at the Y.
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It's fun to stay at the Y.
Guess its me but I seem to only stay for a minute or two.
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It's fun to stay at the Y.
You can get yourself clean. You can have a good meal. You can do whatever you feel.
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You can get yourself clean. You can have a good meal. You can do whatever you feel.
Me and you must visit different Y's.
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Me and you must visit different Y's.
It's a cat bath
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Me and you must visit different Y's.
He was referring to the little bird bath afterwards.
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I like to eat lunch down at the Y.
After your muff diving class of course.
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Three straight no-hitters. 10-1 in last 11 games for Auburn softball team.
ESPN Top Play yesterday.
Crazy.
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The wimmens won 2 of 3 at #10 Kentucky this weekend.
They are 31-6-1 so far this season.
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The wimmens won 2 of 3 at #10 Kentucky this weekend.
They are 31-6-1 so far this season.
I think this was the first time ever taking a series from a team ranked in the top 10.
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The Lady Tigers made the regionals!
AUBURN, Ala. — Branndi Melero and her softball teammates watched the NCAA Selection Show on Sunday night and were officially told what they were heard from their coach all along.
Auburn is a NCAA Tournament team under new coach Clint Myers.
"Coaches always told us we're here to win championships. We're going to go," Melero said. "Coach's big thing: Our destiny. Our destiny, obviously, came out our way."
The Tigers learned their destination when ESPNU told them they were assigned to the Minneapolis Regional to open tournament play against North Dakota State at 4 p.m. Friday. Host Minnesota will play Wisconsin-Green Bay at 6 in the double-elimination tournament.
It was more celebration for Auburn, which has a turnaround 39-17-1 record, is returning to NCAA tourney play after a one-year hiatus and watched the selection show just minutes after the team banquet in which Melero was named the MVP.
Auburn had the best RPI in the last rankings among the teams in Minneapolis. The Tigers were 15th, Minnesota was 17th, North Dakota State was 51st and Green Bay was 120th.
Auburn's 39 wins are second in the regional to Minnesota, which is 41-9. North Dakota State is 35-16 and Green Bay is 27-12.
Myers has won nine national championships in college softball and baseball, so he knows his way around tournaments. He's happy enough to be in the tournament, though it didn't escape him that the winner of the Minneapolis Regional is paired with the Eugene Regional, where No. 1-overall seed Oregon will play.
Auburn should be well tested for tournament play. Eleven SEC teams are in the tournament.
Count Auburn in.
"Postseason is about playing the best teams," Myers said. "I don’t know much about Green Bay, but the other two I know they’re good programs. We have to go out there and play good softball with the opportunity to go play Oregon in Eugene. It’s postseason. Whoever lines up with you, you have to play.
"We’re going to have to play Auburn softball if we’re going to have any kind of chance."
Auburn did that for most of the season.
"We’re very proud of what this team has been able to accomplish," Myers said.
"We can play with anybody when we do the things we're capable of. We're not going to make excuses."
Myers said he's not surprised 11 SEC teams made the NCAAs because "it could easily have been 12. The SEC is such a strong conference.
"It just shows the caliber of teams that play each and every week."