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Going to be a tough series, Arkansas has a couple of excellent pitchers.

I get almost as excited about the start of college baseball as college footbal

Mike Holloway ‏@ASUMike247 · 22m
#AppState opening day line-up:

1 LF Bauk
2 CF Davis
3 SS Dobson
4 C Gonzalez
5 DH Leach
6 1B Morton
7 2B Zupcic
8 RF Troutman
9 3B Head

There is nothing like opening day on the diamond. I don't care what level it is.

asucrutch23 wrote:Mike Holloway ‏@ASUMike247 · 22m
#AppState opening day line-up:

1 LF Bauk
2 CF Davis
3 SS Dobson
4 C Gonzalez
5 DH Leach
6 1B Morton
7 2B Zupcic
8 RF Troutman
9 3B Head

I'm excited to see Gonzalez play. He must have really impressed the coaches to not only start at C, but now batting clean up as well.

JTApps1 wrote:

asucrutch23 wrote:Mike Holloway ‏@ASUMike247 · 22m
#AppState opening day line-up:

1 LF Bauk
2 CF Davis
3 SS Dobson
4 C Gonzalez
5 DH Leach
6 1B Morton
7 2B Zupcic
8 RF Troutman
9 3B Head

I'm excited to see Gonzalez play. He must have really impressed the coaches to not only start at C, but now batting clean up as well.

think i remember reading in the fall world series recap that he tore it up

yep.. from appstatesports.com

Ozzie Gonzalez hit two home runs and drove in five RBI over two games to help his Black team finish off a three-game sweep of the Gold

Game has been moved to 5:00 PM ET. And it looks like we will be playing shorthanded.

From Appstatesports.com:

"With the cancellation, the only option to try to get Appalachian to Baum Stadium in time for Friday's opener was to split the travel party among two flights scheduled to depart from Charlotte on Friday morning.

However, shortly before the Mountaineers arrived at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport early Friday morning, they learned that one of the two new flights was also cancelled.

Therefore, Appalachian State will play Friday's game against the 25th-ranked Razorbacks with just two-thirds of its travel roster and only two coaches in uniform."

So it looks like that lineup posted above may change. We'll see.

I imagine they put their priority players for the first game on the flight that made it

mtnjax wrote:I imagine they put their priority players for the first game on the flight that made it

Surely to goodness they can get the starting lineup and the top 8 pitchers all on the same flight.

I didn't realize colleges had "split squad" games!

Go Apps!

Give 'em Hell, Apps!

Davis singles on first at bat of the season, Dobson strikes out, then Gonzales grounds into double play to end the top half of the first.

5 a.m. wake up, sitting in planes all day, arriving 90 mins before the first pitch and playing without 33% of the team against a ranked squad. A win today would be bigger than the LSU win two years ago, IMO.

Has anyone got the video feed? All I've got is a spinning circle and a loading message.


EDIT: Got the feed now.

i imagine the day's events are having an effect on the team. Nunn looks not sharp at all

5-0 Arkansas going into bottom 4

mtnjax wrote:i imagine the day's events are having an effect on the team. Nunn looks not sharp at all

5-0 Arkansas going into bottom 4

8-0 still in the 4th

I asked the question on another board, because of all the problems traveling today, why not cancel the game today and play double header tomarrow? Didn't really get a satisfactory answer, and Im sure that Ark wanted the game played today for obvious reasons, but, dam give me a break, you cant ask the team to go thru all they did today in terms of travel, show up 90 minutes before game, and expect to be competitive. I hate throw away games, but this is what we have here today...sucks.

11-0 thanks to Davis dropping a 3rd out fly ball

moehler wrote:I asked the question on another board, because of all the problems traveling today, why not cancel the game today and play double header tomarrow?

That is what they did for the Georgia/GS game today and GS didn't have to even worry about flying.