Softball @ Mizzou (4/21-23/23)

[Matt from A700]

Huge series win against Charlotte this weekend. I am still optimistic we can get this season going when it matters most. While we will have a week break from conference play going to Columbia to play Mizzou, new first-place team FAU (11-4 in CUSA) will have to go to WKU, who swept us. Our second-to-next series in Boca could easily be a battle for second place if WKU takes two of three. FAU has won seven straight, but six of those were against FIU and UTEP, who are a combined 7-23 in conference play. They have only outscored opponents 18-6 in that seven-game stretch.

Meanwhile, Mizzou is 25-19 overall on the season but only 4-13 in SEC play, and 8-6 at home.

We have faced several of the same opponents and fared better against all:
Texas: UNT lost 4-2; Mizzou lost 11-1
Oklahoma State: UNT lost 2-0; Mizzou lost 6-3
Kentucky: UNT lost 4-0 (no-hit); Mizzou swept in three games, combined score of 16-0

Mizzou also played at FIU this season and defeated them 8-0. Unfortunately, we will not play the Panthers in the regular season.

The worst thing about the next six games against Mizzou and FAU is that they are on the road.

[Matt from A700]

Mizzou enters the series tomorrow 26-20. They lost two of three in their last series at home to Ole Miss, who's only 5-10 in SEC play now. Then only beat Kansas (20-20, 2-7) 4-3. I would expect to win at least two of three in this series.

[Side.Show.Joe]

Winning this Missouri series would set us up nicely for a run at the regular season title. Go Mean Green!!!

[UNTLifer]

Opening game. Missouri pitcher has struck out 11 of the 12 batters she has faced. This team is maddening. 

[El Paso Eagle]

And this picture is by no means an "Ace"

 

 

[El Paso Eagle]

It's nice it's streaming, but the budget for these SEC+ games cannot run over a couple of hundred dollars.

Please explain why we couldn't at least do something like this again for the Spring Game. 

[El Paso Eagle]

We watch Pitch after pitch go by without taking a swing.

SO FRUSTRATING!

[El Paso Eagle]

Being humiliated at the plate through five.

Coach - If you don't swing, it reduces your chance of getting a hit.

[GrandGreen]

Anybody watching this, and if they are: please tell me what the hour plus delay was about.

[El Paso Eagle]

Ashley is doing a nice job pitching tonight.

 

[El Paso Eagle]

16 strikeouts through six. We are making an average pitcher look like an All-American. We are not a good-hitting team. 

[El Paso Eagle]

EMBARRASSING SHOWING

 

Wasted a nice outing by Ashley. 

[GrandGreen]

Got to be the worst hitting performance I have ever seen from NT softball.

Not that they got not a  hit, they looked like they had never seen a softball before. 

Again, there is something rotten in Denmark going on with this team. 

Edited April 22, 2023 by GrandGreen

[El Paso Eagle]

21 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

Got to be the worst hitting performance I have ever seen from NT softball.

Not that they got not a  hit, they looked like they had never seen a softball before. 

Again, there is something rotten in Denmark going on with this team. 

It's like they hope to walk and will hit if they have to. To say we are passive at the plate is an understatement. We just made a 9-9 pitcher look like she belonged on the National Team. Sadly, with the preseason hype, this has been one of the school's most underachieving teams in years. Hopefully, we can still do something in the conference, but postseason success seems unlikely. 

[Matt from A700]

Second time no hit this year.

[El Paso Eagle]

Probably being a bit negative, but after -

The closest we might come this year is - 

[Side.Show.Joe]

17 strike out and no hits by UNT. Just wow. Missouri isn't that good. They sure better show up and swing the bats today.

Peters was the only player that did her job yesterday. It's a shame she had to take that loss. 

[GrandGreen]

Lost today 1-2 with continued abysmal hitting, fielding and just bad decisions. 

If I were a NT pitcher I would just look for a better team.  

[SUMG]

16 errors by Cierra Simon.....10 more than anyone else on the team. And last year....she was so good at short. She's reminding me of Abou in basketball. 

[UNTLifer]

This is what freaking Missouri did to us this weekend. 
 

[Eagle71]

21 hours ago, SUMG said:

16 errors by Cierra Simon.....10 more than anyone else on the team. And last year....she was so good at short. She's reminding me of Abou in basketball. 

As the SS I would guess that she had at least 10 more errors that anyone else in 2022.  So, the replay in the first game showed that the umps blew the call at first and Simon was given an error.  If they had made the correct call she would only be one error off of last year.  I'm sure that she wanted her fielding avg. to be better than last year, but her fielding ain't the problem.  When the 5-9 hitters that finished the game have a combined BA of .215 you don't need to look any further than that to identify the problem we're having.  

[Matt from A700]

One run scored over three games to a mediocre team, I don't care about the conference. Embarrassing.

[Eagle71]

On 4/22/2023 at 6:01 PM, SUMG said:

16 errors by Cierra Simon.....10 more than anyone else on the team. And last year....she was so good at short. She's reminding me of Abou in basketball.