I attended parts of all three games this weekend and there were many highs and lows for the tide. Here's what i think
Hitting: It was good to see rice, sosa, and welch all swing the bat well this weekend, looks like they'll hit 2,3,4 all year and those guys will have to continue to have weekends like this for the tide to be successful. Haske also looked decent leading off but was lifted from sundays game. But outside of those 3 guys, it was shaky at best, grooms, mcallister, bush our starting outfield combined to go 3 for 31 and it looks like the time off and hand injury has hampered charlie lyons at the plate as well. The UNO pitching wasnt over powering at all and nothing like we'll see in a 3 game set against SEC foes, the Diamond kid was good but a solid SEC team should have been able to muster more than 1 run off him.
Pitching: As good as you could ask for from Carter and LeBlanc on friday and saturday. And i totally expect sunday to improve as well when Tank arrives back off suspension to solidfy the pen and allow Belcher to assume the sunday starter role. I dont take much into account what happened on Sunday, a lot of newcomers were making their first apperances and again Coach Wells was having to pitch people he wasnt planning on pitching due to the Tank mishap. Outside of Carter and LeBlanc, Seth Johnson looked sharp out of the pen, logging 6 innings allowing only 3 hits and no earned runs. Once Downs and Belcher settle in to go along with Tank, Carter, LeBlanc, and Johnson the staff should be more than formidable
Defense: 3 errors in 3 games isnt bad, not from the first weekend. Scelfo looked good at 2nd and seems like Coach Wells has settled in on using Saleem as a late inning defensive replacement to maximize the D in late innings.
Overall: Not a bad start, could have been worse, tide was very forunate to get out of sunday with a win. Hopefully now that a lot of the newcomers have their first taste of SEC and collegiate action they'll settle in and start to improve, because the tide has a lot of improving to do to compete with the better teams in the SEC
Hitting: It was good to see rice, sosa, and welch all swing the bat well this weekend, looks like they'll hit 2,3,4 all year and those guys will have to continue to have weekends like this for the tide to be successful. Haske also looked decent leading off but was lifted from sundays game. But outside of those 3 guys, it was shaky at best, grooms, mcallister, bush our starting outfield combined to go 3 for 31 and it looks like the time off and hand injury has hampered charlie lyons at the plate as well. The UNO pitching wasnt over powering at all and nothing like we'll see in a 3 game set against SEC foes, the Diamond kid was good but a solid SEC team should have been able to muster more than 1 run off him.
Pitching: As good as you could ask for from Carter and LeBlanc on friday and saturday. And i totally expect sunday to improve as well when Tank arrives back off suspension to solidfy the pen and allow Belcher to assume the sunday starter role. I dont take much into account what happened on Sunday, a lot of newcomers were making their first apperances and again Coach Wells was having to pitch people he wasnt planning on pitching due to the Tank mishap. Outside of Carter and LeBlanc, Seth Johnson looked sharp out of the pen, logging 6 innings allowing only 3 hits and no earned runs. Once Downs and Belcher settle in to go along with Tank, Carter, LeBlanc, and Johnson the staff should be more than formidable
Defense: 3 errors in 3 games isnt bad, not from the first weekend. Scelfo looked good at 2nd and seems like Coach Wells has settled in on using Saleem as a late inning defensive replacement to maximize the D in late innings.
Overall: Not a bad start, could have been worse, tide was very forunate to get out of sunday with a win. Hopefully now that a lot of the newcomers have their first taste of SEC and collegiate action they'll settle in and start to improve, because the tide has a lot of improving to do to compete with the better teams in the SEC
