(Short) Week in Review, 5/6

This will be very abbreviated because I have to get back to the world of actus reus soon.

The baseball team did exactly what it needed to do this weekend against that team from the east. Unfortunately, today's game was rained out by the same storm system that has caused death and destruction on the Great Plains. My condolences to all the people in Greensburg, Kan., who've lost everything they have and the families who lost relatives in the storm.

The Bat Cats continues their late-inning heroics on Friday by plating two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take a 2-1 lead. Sounded like a good pitcher's duel between Hutt and Smyth, and in the end closer Daniel Edwards finished it off with two strikeouts and a popout to end it.

No cardiac moments were needed on Saturday as the Cats scored four runs to chase Beak starter Nick Czyz after only 2/3s of an inning. The Cats then held off the birds before pushing across three insurance runs in the eighth for the 7-4 final tally.

It was a light week in the conference, with only three league series. Here are the standings at this point (assuming Missouri holds on against UT and projecting both possibilities for the outcome of tonight's Bedlam finale)...

1. Texas 18-6 (Lost 1-2 to Missouri)
2. Missouri 14-7 (Beat Texas 2-1)
3. Oklahoma State 13-8 -OR- 12-9 (Up 2-0 so far on OU)
4. Texas A&M 11-9 (No conference series, beat up on Dallas Baptist)
5. Nebraska 10-11 (No conference series, lost two to #19 Coastal Carolina in Lincoln)
6. K-State 9-11 (Beat KU 2-0, final game rained out)
7. Oklahoma 9-12 -OR- 8-13 (Down 2-0 to OSU)
8. Baylor 8-13
9. Texas Tech 7-13
10. KU 8-15 (Lost 0-2 to K-State)

That leaves us a full 2 games ahead of ninth-place Texas Tech with only six conference games remaining. Tech finishes with the two Oklahoma schools, while we will be host to Texas A&M next week before finishing up at Baylor. Finishing 3-3 all but locks up a trip to OKC, and we're also looking good to avoid the #8 seed, which would mean a first-round date with Texas.

I don't have time to grab the links right now, but both Rivals and Scout are projecting us to be in the field of 64 for the NCAA tournament. I believe one of them had us playing as a three-seed in the Wichita Regional. In my opinion, that would be huge for us, as we should be able to get a decent crowd in the park and have proven we can beat the Shockers this year.

Have a great week everyone. Sorry, the track team competed in Lincoln at the Nebraska Invite this week (if it didn't rain, that is), but I don't have the results.