 
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 2885
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 04, 2007 - 9:45 pm: |    |
...just won their NCAA Tournament regional championship, beating Memphis once and then Vanderbilt-- the no. 1 team in the nation-- twice in Nashville.
They will go on to face either Oregon St. or Virginia in the Super Regionals, one step away from the College World Series at Omaha.
The regional action was on Comcast Local (easily missed). I haven't paid attention but I don't think they even got any local newspaper coverage (whereas Vandy was all the rage in Nashville). The rest of the tournament should be on the major networks like ESPN, I believe.
This is the most clutch performance by UM athletics in a while, especially considering the magnitude of the upset (being a northern team beating the best in the country). Basketball has sucked, football has not done anything meaningful/up to standards, and softball and hockey fell short, so this ranks high on UM's achievements.
GO BLUE. |
Kenp
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Username: Kenp
Post Number: 518
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 - 6:39 am: | |
Michigan had to play the #1 ranked team in the country, at their sold out home field, and won with a homer againt the #1 ranked pitcher in the country. Very cool especially for a "cold weather" big ten team.
I was lucky enough to see 3 of the regional games on tv. |
Zephyrprocess
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Username: Zephyrprocess
Post Number: 402
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 - 9:00 am: | |
I saw only Sunday night's debacle :-(
That's Michigan's first regional title since Bud Middaugh's teams ran off 4 in 5 years in the early 1980s. Those teams I had the pleasure of watching in person. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 2888
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 - 11:49 am: | |
I have to admit I'm a bit surprised after I watched UM lose to Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament in Ann Arbor. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 2899
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2007 - 9:33 pm: | |
3-game series at Oregon State.
Saturday, 3 PM: ESPNU.
Sunday, 4 PM: ESPN.
Monday, 7 PM: ESPN (or ESPN2). |
Kenp
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Username: Kenp
Post Number: 540
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 8:06 pm: | |
Go Blue |
Detroitstar
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Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 642
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 09, 2007 - 1:47 pm: | |
Not a Michigan fan...at all. However, I hope they represent the state and the Big Ten Conference well. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 2906
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 09, 2007 - 6:43 pm: | |
Well, the NCAA made the arbitrary decision to let Corvallis, Oregon host the Super Regional, and they are paying for that. Today's game was rained out.
Game 1 -- Sunday, June 10, 4p.m. PDT (ESPN)
Game 2 -- Monday, June 11, 4 or 7 p.m. PDT (ESPN or ESPN2)
Game 3 (if necessary) -- Tuesday, June 12, Time TBA
Big Blue could have won under a beautiful blue Michigan sky today at Ray Fischer stadium if the NCAA wasn't so stupid. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 2915
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 8:36 pm: | |
I hope some of you saw it on espn, but in case you didn't, it was a gut-wrenching game with one of the strangest endings ever as Michigan lost game one 1-0.
Starting pitcher Zach Putnam carried a no-hitter for 26 outs and 2 strikes but gave up a ground-ball single through the gap to score a runner from second who had gotten on by means of a walk. That was it. He no-hit OSU for all but one strike but took a loss. UM scattered some hits but couldn't string anything together against OSU pitchers who were up to the task. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 2920
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 10:22 pm: | |
All over today...too bad. |
_sj_
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Username: _sj_
Post Number: 1875
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 11:15 am: | |
Don't feel too bad, Oregon State is the defending national champion who beat Andrew Miller's North Carolina Tar Heels last season. The Oregon State pitcher who beat Miller is also in the Tigers Organization
The midwest just can't compete with the west coast or south in baseball just to make it this far is a great accomplishment. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 2923
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 11:49 am: | |
Beating Vandy did say a lot.
And with the way they lost game 1, I can't feel too bad. They put themselves in a great position. |