Bear Down Wildcats

Wow, one win away! Hopefully the bats unload tomorrow. Will we go with Netz tomorrow?

I would but they might want to ride the hot hand unless Bowen's arm is about to fall off.

I would give the ball to Netz for game 2. If she struggles early, bring in Bowen. I read Hannah has been dealing with a health issue, but it has not been revealed. It probably is not too serious since she has been pitching very well.

Yeeeeaaah. Go ladies!

Irish27 wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 1:20 pm I would give the ball to Netz for game 2. If she struggles early, bring in Bowen. I read Hannah has been dealing with a health issue, but it has not been revealed. It probably is not too serious since she has been pitching very well.

She still is displaying a noticable limp. (Knee/ankle??)

Her composure under stress (not getting any calls on the corners yesterday, the pain, and almost every inning with opposing runners in scoring position) has been off-the-board awesome!!!

Wheels are falling off for Mississippi St.! Cats are killing it right now!

AZ making great use of the DP.

What Lowe has done with this team the last month is amazing. She turned a terrible start in conference okay to 5 outs from going to Oklahoma City

This team swept the Regional and the Super!! Go Cats, go!!

WCWS!!!! OKC!!!! BEAR DOWN ARIZONA!!!!

Watching the postgame hug between Kaitlyn & Taryne brought tears to my eyes!

What a resiliant performance by the Cats in the past two weeks!!

(The last two weeks of May (and often the first two in June I’m all about Arizona Softball!!)

That Lowe postgame interview almost made me cry with how emotional she was. What a crazy run. And I love how she was all hell no we're not going home, we're going to OKC right now. lol

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 3:37 pm That Lowe postgame interview almost made me cry with how emotional she was. What a crazy run. And I love how she was all hell no we're not going home, we're going to OKC right now. lol

That’s how you Bear the fuck Down ladies! Had a great draw and didn’t lose a single game. Now let’s kick ass in OKC and never have a regular season like we just had again!

So fucking awesome

Beardown. Got me crying watching Coach Lowe's interview. So happy for this team and coaching staff.

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 3:51 pm

With Florida (as a 14 seed) winning that means only 1 SEC team made it to the WCWS.

Pac has 3 maybe 4 teams in or half of the field.

So fucking overrated.

S E C you later. ESPIN would sell their soul to boost their alliance with that conference

Oh sure, its all fun and games til someone catches pneumonia and can't play in OKC.

Just kidding, congrats ladies.

Bear Down and win this thing.

That's a shame. They were up 5-0.

I've just gotta say: How perfect and poetic is it that ASU did their backflips over winning the Pac-12 and sweeping us while we finished last, getting to host straight on through, and that a team called Wildcats never let them leave home while we advanced to OKC? Also always amusing how the Republic pivots from fawning coverage to harumphing, sweeping it under the carpet, and quickly changing the subject to tiddly-winks, as though nobody will notice. They always build up the rivalry series...until their fanboy team doesn't do well in it. Meanwhile, it's always nice to beat ASU, and it sucks losing to them. But it's also great to beat a number of other teams...like Oregon, USC, UCLA, etc., and it also sucks to lose to them. However, the main thing is always post-season success. If we beat some team we don't like and then we don't make the post-season or flop in it, the win doesn't make me feel much better. But if we have a disappointing loss, or losses, to somebody in the regular season, then go on to great post-season success, the regular season doesn't mean much. The classic example is 1976 baseball. 7 straight losses to ASU, then we sent them home from Omaha and won the national championship. (But, hey, they won the rivalry series...woo-hoo.) Anyway, it's a nice sidebar story to this season which can be fleetingly enjoyed before moving on to bigger fish to fry. And now that they've been eliminated at home, the sun ****s are free to grudgingly watch, and no doubt desperately root against, the Arizona Wildcats who are still playing on ESPN.

That's fucking awesome.

Weren’t many calling her a failure about a month ago…

Alieberman wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 6:32 pm Weren’t many calling her a failure about a month ago???

I think I fixed it for you.

Please show me where anyone predicted this run a month ago.

The Lowe era was a failure a month ago.

Chicat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:05 am Please show me where anyone predicted this run a month ago.

The Lowe era was a failure a month ago.

I honestly don't think her job was in danger at that point - questions and doubts yes, but she would still have gotten one or two more seasons if the Cats lost in the regional...

... as it is, I believe she's cemented her tenure now!!

The other 7 teams are loaded with super Seniors still. We only had 5.9% of our offensive production come from a SS. That’s dead last from the 8 teams. pitching wise, Hannah Bowen gave us some innings as a SS but we were still last among the teams.

I am shocked we even made it into the tournament much less the fact we got to OKC. Let it fly gals

It's amazing that it went from total dumpster fire to WCWS.

I was going to give Lowe a pass in her first year but as it turns out she accomplished something that has never been done before.

Give her credit for getting her team to be accountable for a disappointing regular season and then somehow becoming "all in" and kicking ass in both the regional and supers.

UCLA about to lose game 1.

That's a shame

I tend to support other Pac-12 teams in OKC…

the Sooners are living up to ESPN’s designation as “most dominant team in sports”….

Strange seeing the Cat’s playing on ESPN and the NBA Finals are on ESPN2

pc in NM wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:04 pm I tend to support other Pac-12 teams in OKC…

When we are in it? Ah hell no. Always going to root for the top teams to lose.

cerec_cat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:46 pm Strange seeing the Cat’s playing on ESPN and the NBA Finals are on ESPN2

Guess I read that wrong. NBA on abc

BTFD ladies

Bear Down, Hannah!!! Tough it out!!!

We need to get some runs on the board