ORU

[RowdyRabbit]

Re: ORU

ORU are to the Jacks (in Tulsa), as the Yankees are to the Twins (anywhere).

[Roy]

Re: ORU

They have to come to our house for the tourney!

We handled them up here last year. We need to plan on taking them twice, we really can't ask of others to do our work.

A win today would be great.

Go Jacks!!

[Jacks#1Fan]

Re: ORU

We can't seem to get the monkey off our back in Tulsa.

Let's rip that dang monkey off, throw it to the ground and stomp all over it today, boys!

It's more like a gorilla, especially when they are at home. When you look at their history, at their location, at their facilities, at their roster (below), it becomes apparent how tough it is for any team in the league, but certainly the northern based teams, to compete with them.

They have 17 pitchers on their 35-man roster (SDSU has 28 players), and of that 35, they have more than 20 players who have transferred in from other universities, or jucos.

Despite that fact, we have competed against the rest of the league, and last year showed we were competitive by beating them in our series in Brookings...it continues to be VERY difficult to beat them down here.

While we certainly want to beat them (and will try to get one this afternoon), in all reality, this series has no major effect on the tournament in Sioux Falls, and only means that the tournament will be back in Tulsa next year (and yes, that is a downer). This year we will be either the #1 or #2 seed, will not play in the same bracket at the tourney in the first games, and will play the Thursday night game against somebody other than ORU.

The team is definitely "down" right now, but I have confidence they will be "up" for the tournament and a chance to face ORU up our way. GO JACKS!

[jackdaniel]

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Who was quoted as saying "we are good,when you're good ,you're good",well........beat ORU and prove it!
Sorry,I just couldn't say that if my team couldn't win one game out of four,at home or not!(he said that prior to this series,0-3, I know)Just tired of hearing how "good" we are, but can't seem to beat ORU anyway.Frustration I guess.

[1bunnies]

Re: ORU

They have to come to our house for the tourney!

We handled them up here last year. We need to plan on taking them twice, we really can't ask of others to do our work.

A win today would be great.

Go Jacks!!

We handled at Heuther Field last year. The Summit tourney will be in Sioux Falls. Quite a difference.

[SDSU16]

Re: ORU

Per Tylerl's twitter:
SDSU 0, Oral Roberts 0, Middle of 2nd. Eric Cain hit by a pitch with 1 out but left aboard.
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[jackmd]

Re: ORU

0-0 in the 2nd.

A win today will go a long long way towards advancing the program this year and in the future. It pulls us even with 4 games to play and gets the gorilla of our back, a gorilla all the other Summit programs have never budged much less nearly shaken. I hope the boys can pull this one out.

[SDSU16]

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Jacks up 8-0 bottom of the 5th.

[SDSU16]

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Jacks still up 8-0 after 6. Kolton Emery still pitching for the Jacks

[rabidrabbit]

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8-2 Jacks batting in 9th. Brings SDSU and ORU even for #1. Hope that we can do better than ORU in last series, and still win outright.

[SDSU16]

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Final 8-2 Jacks. Jacks and ORU tied for 1st. Jacks need to win one more than ORU in the last regular season series which starts on Thursday.

[rabidrabbit]

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8-2 Jacks batting in 9th. Brings SDSU and ORU even for #1. Hope that we can do better than ORU in last series, and still win outright.

8-2 Jacks win for the first time in Tulsa vs. ORU. co-leaders of Summit. Back home to Brookings to wrap up the regular season.

[bigticket1]

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That game the Jacks lost at home to last place Oakland is going to come back to haunt them.

[mitchellrabbit]

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That game the Jacks lost at home to last place Oakland is going to come back to haunt them.

ORU can say the same thing. Oakland beat them one game. So that kind of cancels that out. BTW Oakland also beat Michigan St, who is in 1st place in the Big 10

[zooropa]

Re: ORU

That game the Jacks lost at home to last place Oakland is going to come back to haunt them.

Or, shoot, that 12th inning against NDSU where they loaded the bases with no outs and didn't score... Could pick out any loss, really.