2021 Season Thread

BeardownZonaZona · Post by **BeardownZonaZona** » Sat May 29, 2021 4:16 pm

Great pitching performance today. Good showing from the pitching staff these past two weeks

BetaCat · Post by **BetaCat** » Sat May 29, 2021 4:17 pm

Congratulations, Coach!

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Sat May 29, 2021 4:19 pm

Arkansas talked some crap about us. Even last night they were throwing shade, saying it wasn’t us, they just played bad. Soooooooooooooooooo freaking happy to get the sweep.

And I’m so damn happy for the seniors!!

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sat May 29, 2021 4:20 pm

Huge year for AZ Women's Athletics

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sat May 29, 2021 4:23 pm

Thanks to all of you giving updates throughout this game!

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sat May 29, 2021 4:34 pm

Our ladies sports are just killing it.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat May 29, 2021 4:42 pm

Postmaster · Post by **Postmaster** » Sat May 29, 2021 5:10 pm

Wouldn’t Lowe or Iveson be the choices to replace Candrea?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat May 29, 2021 5:17 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat May 29, 2021 5:21 pm

BetaCat · Post by **BetaCat** » Sat May 29, 2021 5:21 pm

If Coach Candrea chooses to retire, presumably he has a good idea who would be most qualified to take the program over, whether that be Caitlin Lowe, Kristie Fox, or someone else. Hopefully our bullheaded President would listen.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Sat May 29, 2021 5:25 pm

BetaCat wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 5:21 pm If Coach Candrea chooses to retire, presumably he has a good idea who would be most qualified to take the program over, whether that be Caitlin Lowe, Kristie Fox, or someone else. Hopefully our bullheaded President would listen.

Probably the U of A president knows a former bat boy with a relative that had heart surgery that needs a job. He’s not listening to anyone but his own ego.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat May 29, 2021 6:01 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat May 29, 2021 6:08 pm

Oh shit....

TheCatInTheHat · Post by **TheCatInTheHat** » Sat May 29, 2021 7:03 pm

First off, congratulations to the gals! Great to sweep a Super Regional on an SEC field on an ESPN channel.

That said, here's pretty close to a tirade from Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso on the "disgrace" and lack of transparency of the seeding:
https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/oth ... for-change

I appreciate her comments, considering she was in an unusually good position to make them, and I respect her guts for being outspoken about this against the NCAA establishment.

This is not unusual for either baseball or softball. The SEC has completely hijacked the process, and they're absolutely shameless about getting every possible advantage for their league. The ACC is their accomplice in baseball, but they're not good enough in softball for that effect. But, in both baseball and softball, the Pac-12 and BigXII almost always have a slew of strong teams that "surprise" in the NCAA tournaments, but which have an uphill battle on the road due to the seeding, while the SEC sits at home with big crowds and local or regional umps who don't want to upset the apple cart.

The full seeding list is here:

1. Oklahoma
2. UCLA
3. Alabama
4. Florida (Out)
5. Oklahoma
6. Arkansas (Out)
7. LSU (Out)
8. Missouri
9. Tennessee (Out)
10. Florida St
11. Arizona
12. Texas
13. Duke (Out)
14. Kentucky (Out)
15. ASU (Out)
16. Washington (Out)

So, that was 7 of the top 16, and 5 of the top 9 for the SEC. It's hard to overcome home field in a Super Regional, so getting the top 8 seeds correct is of immense importance.

Looking forward, I believe they re-seed for OKC. So I'll assume UCLA wins tonight, and Missouri and Oklahoma St win at home tomorrow. I'll further assume they powers-that-be will adamantly insist that they were right, so everybody just moves up over the eliminated teams. That would put us seeded at 7 and Georgia at 8.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat May 29, 2021 7:15 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat May 29, 2021 7:35 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat May 29, 2021 7:37 pm

Who is JF? Jennie Finch is still with us.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Sat May 29, 2021 7:58 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 7:37 pm Who is JF? Jennie Finch is still with us.

Jim Foster - huuuuuuuuuuuuuge softball booster for decades. He passed away before the UCLA series. They’ve been wearing his initials on their batting helmets.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sun May 30, 2021 11:39 am

Speaking of the SEC, JMU just pasted Missouri to punch their ticket to the WCWS.

That means out of the 12 SEC teams that were selected for the Tourney only 2 are left - Alabama and Georgia. And those 2 teams made it by beating 2 other SEC teams.

In contrast, 2 Pac 12 teams - Arizona and UCLA- made it out of 6 Pac teams selected.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Sun May 30, 2021 11:48 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 11:39 am Speaking of the SEC, JMU just pasted Missouri to punch their ticket to the WCWS.

That means out of the 12 SEC teams that were selected for the Tourney only 2 are left - Alabama and Georgia. And those 2 teams made it by beating 2 other SEC teams.

In contrast, 2 Pac 12 teams - Arizona and UCLA- made it out of 6 Pac teams selected.

So, if we can manage to knock out Alabama, we will have taken down 3 SEC teams on our own. I think that would give us a share of the SEC championship.

They just flashed some game times for next week on ESPN - it said the Arizona-Alabama game is at 7 pm ET.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Sun May 30, 2021 2:00 pm

I’m watching the Texas OSU game, and the announcers casually were discussing Montana Fouts (Bama pitcher) going against Oklahoma. It was a super casual mention, but hopefully we can remind them that Alabama has to get past us and the rest of our side of the bracket to actually face Oklahoma.

prh · Post by **prh** » Sun May 30, 2021 2:36 pm

Zona Zealots is full of kindergarten level brains who write the dumbest shit ever. Absolutely LOVE seeing our official account dunk on them. Like Adia says, fuck everybody

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun May 30, 2021 3:23 pm

That was a great rant by the Oklahoma coach and UDub did get a very poor draw. 45-12 and they have to go to #1. They should have been matched against Florida as the 13 at worst.

I do think we beat Bama but UCLA is a load. Hoping we win this thing for Coach C

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun May 30, 2021 3:31 pm

Game times for Thursday:
James Madison vs. No. 1 Oklahoma — 9 a.m. PT, ESPN
Georgia vs. Oklahoma State — 11 a.m. PT, ESPN
No. 11 Arizona vs. No. 3 Alabama — 4 p.m. PT, ESPN
No. 10 Florida State vs. No. 2 UCLA — 6:30 p.m. PT, ESPN
The winner of Arizona-Alabama will face the winner of Florida State-UCLA in the next round. The losers will fall into the loser’s bracket of the double elimination tournament.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Tue Jun 01, 2021 1:49 pm

I think we pitch Bowen right?
Alabama is not a home run hitting team like Arkansas so she can attack up in the zone I would think.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:00 pm

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 1:49 pm I think we pitch Bowen right?
Alabama is not a home run hitting team like Arkansas so she can attack up in the zone I would think.

I would think Bowen too.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:27 am

My advice to the team today:

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:40 am

They just announced that UCLA’s Meghan Faraimo didn’t travel with the team due to an injury to her hand. I love watching Rachel Garcia pitch (when they’re not playing us) but losing Faraimo is pretty huge for them. She’s been awesome when Garcia was off.

Postmaster · Post by **Postmaster** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:42 am

That’s odd.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:20 am

Game one is in the 7th and James Madison is giving Oklahoma all they can handle. Game tied at 3-3.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:30 am

Home run by JMU in top of 8th to take a one run lead. Wow!

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:45 am

Cinderella has arrived at the ball.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:47 am

azcat49 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:45 am Cinderella has arrived at the ball.

This makes me so damn happy. All year it’s been all about Oklahoma, and now they get to play out of the loser’s bracket. Great job by JMU!

Carcassdragger · Post by **Carcassdragger** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:08 pm

Cats in an hour. LETS GO!!!

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:13 pm

And 1 of the 2 SEC teams (Georgia) is already in the losers bracket.

Let's take care of the other one.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:14 pm

ekat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:47 am
azcat49 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:45 am Cinderella has arrived at the ball.
This makes me so damn happy. All year it’s been all about Oklahoma, and now they get to play out of the loser’s bracket. Great job by JMU!

I thought OU would roll everyone until they got up against an ace like Garcia. Very surprised.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:19 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:14 pm
ekat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:47 am
azcat49 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:45 am Cinderella has arrived at the ball.
This makes me so damn happy. All year it’s been all about Oklahoma, and now they get to play out of the loser’s bracket. Great job by JMU!
I thought OU would roll everyone until they got up against an ace like Garcia. Very surprised.

Now it’s our turn for an “upset”!

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:57 pm

Bowen gets the start. Let’s Go!

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:22 pm

Let's throw some strikes eh

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:23 pm

Not an ideal start.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:24 pm

Not a good start

Postmaster · Post by **Postmaster** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:27 pm

Should have just earholed Tow

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:28 pm

Good job getting out of that with only one run though.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:28 pm

Nice to just give up 1 there.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:31 pm

I hate errors. Looking at Fouts' stats, she is hittable.

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:32 pm

Did UCLA get that many championships vacated that 8 titles is the NCAA record in softball? That blurb was confusing

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:33 pm

They are really playing up that Coach Candrea is going to retire. And apparently Jennie Finch’s presence in the stands is a sign of that.

ekat · Post by **ekat** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:35 pm

MrBug708 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:32 pm Did UCLA get that many championships vacated that 8 titles is the NCAA record in softball? That blurb was confusing

UCLA had their ‘95 title that they stole from us vacated. Just that one where they blatantly cheated by hiring a pitcher from Australia. I’m not still bitter.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:36 pm

ekat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:35 pm
MrBug708 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:32 pm Did UCLA get that many championships vacated that 8 titles is the NCAA record in softball? That blurb was confusing
UCLA had their ‘95 title that they stole from us vacated. Just that one where they blatantly cheated by hiring a pitcher from Australia. I’m not still bitter.

And her name was Tanya Harding. She never went to classes.

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