Postseason 2023

[LetsGoRabbits]

Did she lose her spot to Lasey in the rotation?

comparing what Grace did the previous years and the season Shannon had this year, Grace is a better pitcher than Shannon so that seems, not impossible, but unlikely. i am not trying to take anything away from Shannon or what she did this year. she is a solid #2 pitcher and from everything i have heard a good teammate! one other fact, Grace did start our second game of the year and pitched the following day. we have not seen her since then, so it appears, up to the point that she was around the team, she was still one of our top 2 pitchers

Grace was the clear third best pitcher in the conference last year (i know she won Pitcher of the year. that was based on stats, but i think every coach knows that TK and Meyer are 1 and 2) Shannon probably comes in a little bit lower in the ranking.

[jacks1]

There has got to be something more to this story. Never heard about an injury all year. Never saw her in the dugout or any team pictures. Unfortunately this isn't overly surprising but sad we lost both the Roosevelt girls after Krista Wood left.

Did she lose her spot to Lasey in the rotation?

[Jackrabbit2012]

Glanzer is in the portal.

There has got to be something more to this story. Never heard about an injury all year. Never saw her in the dugout or any team pictures. Unfortunately this isn't overly surprising but sad we lost both the Roosevelt girls after Krista Wood left.

[MontanaRabbit]

Glanzer is in the portal.

[jackdaniel]

Jacks are invited to the Softball version of the WNIT. the National Invitational Softball Championship is owned by Triple Crown Sports. maybe i remember wrong, but i am pretty sure that TCS also does own the WNIT

the WNIT is a 64 team field, but the NSIC is only 8 teams
not going to try to explain all but they play double elim down to the final two teams in the winner bracket and the final two in the loser bracket. then the final 4 play single elim

in other words if the jacks can win their first two games they are in the final 4

the jacks play Tarleton St at 1pm mountain time (tourney is played on site in Ft Collins, CO on two fields)
we played Tarleton 2x already this year won 11-0 and 10-2 the first weekend in March

the article only lists Maryland as top seed but does not have seeds for the other 7 teams
it would appear
Maryland is the 1
Jacks are 2
BYU 3
Iowa 4

in the final RPI
Maryland was 49 and the Jacks were 50 (not gonna say for sure i am correct, but i believe we started the season at either 45 or 48)

BYU 57
Iowa 64
San Jose St 110
UC Davis 124

I could not find CSU Northridge and Tarleton

FWIW UNO was 97 in the final RPI

More FWIW
Jacks did beat Final RPI 17 Baylor this year and nearly beat them 2x
Final RPI 19 Central Arkansas once and nearly 2x

Final RPI 20 Wichita St had them down 3-1 going into bottom of 7

anyway there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO reason for the jacks to go into this tourney expecting anything less than a championship!!!
last years NSIC champs Baylor was the only team to beat Oklahoma this year and, as I already said finished this season 17 in the final regular season RPI

Great news, more softball !

[LetsGoRabbits]

Jacks are invited to the Softball version of the WNIT. the National Invitational Softball Championship is owned by Triple Crown Sports. maybe i remember wrong, but i am pretty sure that TCS also does own the WNIT

the WNIT is a 64 team field, but the NSIC is only 8 teams
not going to try to explain all but they play double elim down to the final two teams in the winner bracket and the final two in the loser bracket. then the final 4 play single elim

in other words if the jacks can win their first two games they are in the final 4

the jacks play Tarleton St at 1pm mountain time (tourney is played on site in Ft Collins, CO on two fields)
we played Tarleton 2x already this year won 11-0 and 10-2 the first weekend in March

the article only lists Maryland as top seed but does not have seeds for the other 7 teams
it would appear
Maryland is the 1
Jacks are 2
BYU 3
Iowa 4

in the final RPI
Maryland was 49 and the Jacks were 50 (not gonna say for sure i am correct, but i believe we started the season at either 45 or 48)

BYU 57
Iowa 64
San Jose St 110
UC Davis 124

I could not find CSU Northridge and Tarleton

FWIW UNO was 97 in the final RPI

More FWIW
Jacks did beat Final RPI 17 Baylor this year and nearly beat them 2x
Final RPI 19 Central Arkansas once and nearly 2x

Final RPI 20 Wichita St had them down 3-1 going into bottom of 7

anyway there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO reason for the jacks to go into this tourney expecting anything less than a championship!!!
last years NSIC champs Baylor was the only team to beat Oklahoma this year and, as I already said finished this season 17 in the final regular season RPI

[LetsGoRabbits]

Great season for the Jacks , just couldn't get by Myer today, credit to her, Jacks played hard until the end, they deserve a lot of credit too. Hold your heads high Jacks, great season.

100%

absolute proof in this game how this is a game of inches
UNO first batter of the game hits a dribbler that TK can only reach with the tip of her glove but not stop it
if TK fields that ball UNO never scores

in our final at bat Jocelyn leads off with maybe the hardest hit ball of the game. UNO CF charging with nobody behind her basically catches the ball with her bare hand as it is sinking hard. if that ball is maybe one inch lower it probably goes to the wall and Jocelyn is on second or maybe third with nobody out

the effort for these girls is unquestionable!!!! i am sure they are disappointed and had their sights set on a return to their 3rd consecutive ncaa. they came up a bit short, basically because of one perfectly hit ball from USD
one third of an inning pitched with a slick ball
and one excellent game in the circle from one of the best pitchers in the country

Congratulations ladies! you have definitely lifted this program to totally new heights and expectations

[jackdaniel]

Great season for the Jacks , just couldn't get by Myer today, credit to her, Jacks played hard until the end, they deserve a lot of credit too. Hold your heads high Jacks, great season.

[LetsGoRabbits]

well at the end of the day you gotta play in the conditions that you have and you have to find some way to take care of your business

MOST of all the offense needed to put the bat on the ball before the final inning. the offense has been a serious disappointment the whole season

but there is no way to not feel some disgust about losing a game 1-0
when the ONLY run scored in the game was scored via 3 walks with the pitcher pitching in wet conditions that neither pitcher had to deal with in ANY OTHER part of the game

TK pitched a total of 6 innings
in the first one third in the rain she gave up a very VERY unfortunate seeing eye grounder and three walks
in the other 5 and 2/3 she gave up 1 hard hit ball and one walk and uno never had a runner move beyond 1st base

in four tournament games
Jacks had 12 hits in the NDSU game
in the other 3 games combined we had 7 hits

this team had the talent to win a regional but they never found a way to hit the ball the way that they are capable of on a consistent basis

beyond all that,
congratulations to UNO they have been right there for the last two years!! and K Meyer is a player who definitely deserves a chance to be seen in a national tournament

[LetsGoRabbits]

not having an extremely big impact on the game so far, but seems to me the ump is pretty inconsistent on called strikes up, down, and on the left hand batters box side of the plate

seems WAY BEYOND obvious that the rain was impacting TK last night
pitched one third of an inning last night THREE WALKS!!
3 and two thirds innings today ZERO WALKS

[jackdaniel]

This game so far is classic batter vs pitcher, very little fielding involved so far, it's a chess match for who can guess right, to throw or hit.

[jackdaniel]

Myer seems to be throwing harder as the game goes on, wish softball had a speed gun, as I say she gets a SO by taking a little steam off her last pitch.

[jackdaniel]

Jacks are close to putting the bat on those strike swings, hope we can inch closer and get some hits going

[jackdaniel]

The NCAA selection show is tonight, so they need some kind of champion named by then.

Bummer, who thought we'd get so many rainy days that coincided with our Tournament, do we have to cut it so close in scheduling our Tournament to a mandatory cutoff if things like the weather go awry, didn't we wait 6 days for the tournament to begin? Just disappointed in the way this Tournament unfolded I guess. Sorry for the whining.

[bigticket1]

The weather site I watched specified PATCHES of heavy rain.... so they must have known it was possible they would be one of those "patches" . I don't think they can end the Tournament with a game rained out, and declare a winner can they, it will have to be re-scheduled for another day to pick up where it was left off, unless they can play it yet today of course, if the infield is a big mud hole, I don't see it, it would need time to dry.....right??

The NCAA selection show is tonight, so they need some kind of champion named by then.