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We lose the first one 9-3.

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Currently tied 3-3 in the bottom of the fifth.

Close...maybe Sunday we get over the hill.....

HAMMOND, La _ The #21 Southeastern Louisiana Lions came from behind in the late innings Saturday afternoon to take a 5-4 victory over the University of Central Arkansas Bears in Southland Conference baseball action at Alumni Field.



http://www.ucasports.com/sport.asp?action=news&sportid=7&article=3656

After letting one get away yesterday, we avoided the sweep today with a 10-8 win.
Good win against a very good team, but we were so close to winning the series.

Good to see a win in 3rd game over #21....hope they take this into series at home this week vs McNeese.

Hopefully this series will be a confidence builder for the guys and will carry over into the rest of the season.

Congrats guys on winning the final game against the #21 team in the country! GO BEARS!

the 8-6 win Sunday was big for a number of different reasons. One, after losing the way we did on Saturday afternoon, it was nice of us to rebound, especially after falling behind 2-0 after 2 innings yesterday. Two, we kept from being swept for the 2nd time in the first 3 weeks of SLC play. Three, they needed to get some positive results in the form of a W on the back end of an 8 game road trip that had started out so well. We dug ourselves a little bit of a hole with the sweep from SFA opening week, but the last 2 weekends on the road we went 3-3, so that isnt too bad in retrospect. And by the standings, we have already played 2 of the best 3 teams in the league during the early going, with the Bears going on the road to Texas St. in 2 weeks.

Southeastern La...... 7 2 0 .778
Texas State............ 7 2 0 .778
Stephen F. Austin.... 6 2 0 .750
Sam Houston State.. 6 3 0 .667
UT Arlington............ 5 4 0 .556
McNeese State......... 5 4 0 .556
Northwestern State.. 4 4 0 .500
Nicholls State............4 5 0 .444
A&M-Corpus Christi...3 6 0 .333
Central Arkansas.......3 6 0 .333
Lamar......................2 7 0 .222
UTSA...................... 1 8 0 .111


I hope we have a good crowds the next week and half for the next 4 games that are at home, these guys were ready to get off the road for more than a week!

A sweep of the Cowboys would be very nice....

Current RPI's in College Baseball:
http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/currentrpi.html

We are ranked 154 of 300 schools currently
Division I Overall
Rank Rating W L W L Team
154- 0.495 8 16 8 16 Central Arkansas*

Our opponents to date:
38- 0.583 14 8 14 8 Texas State*
40- 0.583 22 3 22 3 Southeastern Louisiana*
41- 0.581 16 6 16 6 Northwestern State*
69- 0.550 14 7 14 7 Wichita State
72- 0.548 15 7 15 7 Stephen F. Austin State*
78- 0.542 11 11 11 11 McNeese State*
97- 0.528 9 14 9 14 Louisiana-Monroe
98- 0.528 12 6 12 6 Creighton
110- 0.518 10 10 10 10 Oral Roberts
116- 0.517 10 11 12 11 Nevada (Reno)
129- 0.510 10 12 12 12 Texas-Arlington*
134- 0.506 9 13 9 13 Texas-San Antonio*
141- 0.502 10 10 13 10 Nicholls State*
142- 0.502 11 13 11 13 Memphis
144- 0.500 12 11 12 11 Louisiana Tech
145- 0.499 16 10 16 10 Arkansas-Little Rock
148- 0.499 15 9 15 9 Lamar*
152- 0.496 11 13 11 13 Sam Houston State*
163- 0.487 14 9 15 9 Southeast Missouri State
178- 0.478 7 14 10 14 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi*
183- 0.474 8 15 8 15 Missouri State
201- 0.466 13 12 13 12 St. Louis
231- 0.442 7 16 7 16 Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
294- 0.344 3 12 5 14 Arkansas-Pine Bluff

The SLC's lowest rated team at this point is us and Corpus Christi at 178, but I expect ours to start going up if we can start getting some wins under our belt.

We've played the 86th toughest schedule to date as well.
stAte has played 128th toughest schedule to date, Ualr's is rated 199, Uapb's is 272 among the other in-state schools not in the SEC.

The SLC is 11th in the nation in RPI as a whole, according to WarrenNolan.com
http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2010/conference/Southland