2024 college baseball/softball thread

Hoover is packed out.

 

Fresno State on the verge of mercying San Jose State, up 16-3 after 5 1/2.

 

So of course the Spartans score five in the bottom of the sixth, four on the third homer of the game by Hunter Dorraugh.

 

Mountain West final: Fresno State 16, San Jose State 11.
Just like the Spartans last year, the Bulldogs won three straight elimination games to move on. This despite a four HR game by Dorraugh.

 

Every time a team in any sport, including a couple this year, have petitioned to be eligible, it's been denied. James Madison football and Merrimack basketball among others

Hell, Tarleton was already denied in football

 

• Athens, Georgia – Georgia (39-15)
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina – North Carolina (42-13)
• Charlottesville, Virginia – Virginia (41-15)
• Clemson, South Carolina – Clemson (41-14)
• Bryan-College Station, Texas – Texas A&M (44-13)
• Corvallis, Oregon – Oregon State (42-14)
• Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (43-14)
• Greenville, North Carolina – East Carolina (43-15)
• Knoxville, Tennessee – Tennessee (50-11)
• Lexington, Kentucky – Kentucky (40-14)
• Norman, Oklahoma – Oklahoma (37-19)
• Raleigh, North Carolina – NC State (33-20)
• Santa Barbara, California – UC Santa Barbara (42-12)
• Stillwater, Oklahoma – Oklahoma State (40-17)
• Tallahassee, Florida – Florida State (42-15)
• Tucson, Arizona – Arizona (36-21)

 

Mildly surprised Arizona got one, given their RPI. But if you win the regular-season and tournament titles in a P5 conference, it should almost be guaranteed.

East Carolina crawled to the finish line. I could have seen subbing San Diego for the Pirates. USD's stadium is gorgeous.

Fowler Park and Cunningham Field - University of San Diego Athletics (usdtoreros.com)

 

Santa Barbara went undefeated at home.

 

Alabama softball not only upsets No. 3 seed Tennessee for its most unlikely WCWS appearance, it hands out cigars on Rocky Top. That’s next-level rivalry trolling.

 

At least this time they have lights and can host. Their only other time they hosted they played in Lake Elsinore and went 2-and-Q.

They probably will get San Diego, Cal and Cal Baptist in the annual "Let's Kill California" regional.

 

They kept talking up Mississippi State as a host site as if it was almost a certainty, and their nice run at Hoover surely didn't hurt their cause. But they only got up to No. 25 in RPI so I guess it wasn't even that close. There were four SEC teams ahead of them in RPI in that 18-25 range.