Beesball team plays today

Well, today is the big day. Game one of the NCAA Tournament regional. Game time at 7:00 pm. Here are some links to get your appetite going:

Story from RamblinWreck.com.

Info on the starting rotation. I have to say, this quote is questionable from Coach Hall:

"Had I felt like winning the ACC tournament was important I would have started Burks" in Sunday's title game, Hall said. "But I didn't want to do anything to jeopardize our ability to be ready for this week."

Ok, I'll agree that the NCAA's are more important, but let's not say the ACC Tourney is not important. A little strongly worded there Coach. If you believe what all our starters are saying, they are ready to go and well-rested........ Here is another story on Burks and the stronger confidence in the bullpen this season.

Story on the game from Demopolis AL......... Story on a couple of high school teammates playing on different teams in our regional this weekend.

Here is info on ESPN's telecast of the regionals and superregionals.

GT Tries to start a new winning streak

This story points out something very interesting. Check out this quote:

They're on pace to set a school record for fielding percentage at .974, a mark which would top the .968 compiled in 1994 by a team that included current major leaguers Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Varitek.

"The constant throughout this whole season was our defense," Hall said.

Ok, so Coach Hall says defense is the key, Coach Hewitt says it's all about defense, and what does Coach Gailey say - same thing. Are we sensing a pattern here?

Did you know that the host team for a regional has won the regional 70% of the time in the past 6 years? Did you know that the Superregional host has gone on to college world series 77% of the time? Sounds like good odds to me - story here. Funny quote from Texas Tech head coach, when asked about Jax St -

"They're from Florida, so they must be good."

Whoops - try Alabama.

In this story, Jax.St talks about the game today........ GT will face a HOT pitcher today......... And Jax has their own hitting / pitching star, like GT. Story here.

To get us start we need E.Patterson to get on base and mess with opposing pitcher's heads. Nice story on EP.