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Today's win guarantees a .500 record in conference play and in the tournament.

LU softball stays alive in the tournament.

Just for the sake of discussion, it will be a 4 seed. The conference would be lucky to get 2 teams once every ten years and that would take the conference regular season winner having a great season but losing in the conference tournament. The SLC schools simply don't have and quite honestly can't have the facilities (MONEY, MONEY MONEY) to recruit the best college players. The SLC plays a decent quality baseball and though they shouldn't be content with that, to expect high tournament seedings is a stretch. PAC 12, ACC, BIG 12,and SEC alone will grab most of the 1 and 2 seeds and there are still several other conferences with bigger budgets, better facilities, etc. Examples ULL, Coastal Carolina, Southern Miss, some CUSA schools, some American Athletic, etc.... Opinion here for sure. The only way a SLC team becomes a perennial top 25 or even top 50 team ... someone worth well in excess of 50 million dollars chooses to fund a fabulous facility as well as NIL for simply baseball and in a "neat" town. Not sure Beaumont qualifies to young kids that aren't from the area. Yes, stating that as delicate as possible. In Lamar's case one oddity I will state. Although most AD's in the SLC would love to have Lamar's facilities, the last one most would take on the campus would be Vincent Beck. I believe it has the largest seating capacity, but beyond that there is nothing special about the overall facility at all.

LU has 12th best ERA in the country with the 219th lowest runs scored total and 233rd in runs per game. I differ with you on the pitching being the issue. I will give you that there have been blown saves. However let's look at 7 of the conference losses. 5 games the offense has produced 2, 2, 1, 3, and 3 runs in those games the runs against was 5, 4, 5, 4, 4. The other 2 games in the 7 discussing were extra inning affairs in which the offense provided 0 runs over 13 extra innings of play. While the season has been disappointing and could be labeled even worse... if we point fingers here...the pitching is not the biggest issue. Again, blown saves have hurt, but college offenses put up runs these days.

Place 8th, yes. However, there is no 8 seed in the tournament.

I don't see a 5th seed either. Just stating the possibility of it. They can't be an 8th. Remember, the tournament is a bit unusual with the 6th and 7th playing on Tuesday to earn a spot in the tournament.

Just scanning the remaining schedules. A sweep by either team in next weekends McNeese vs. Northwestern State series and with UNO finishing with Nicholls and UIW, Lamar could sneak into the 5 seed. Don't see it happening, but it could. It would be undeserved to not be a 6 seed or lower or even sitting home....but they have the talent base to pull a "Gilligan" (win the tournament unexpectedly). Lamar has the leage leading ERA and ranks 7th in team batting average. The offense was expected to carry the team this year. There have been some blown saves and several 1 run losses, but the again the offense should have had extended leads in several of those games.

Cards win 10-9 and use everbody with a jersey to pitch the ninth. Guess I chose the wrong day to travel over for a game. Wow! Just wow. Not sure what else to say. Must sweep HCU in 2 weeks and hope for a little help. Must secure a 5 seed or higher to avoid play in game. The play in game makes the odds of winning the tournament very low. Heck, HCU could sweep the Cards and leave them sitting at home. Despite today's win, still a disappointing season thus far.

12-12 and #4 seed. Face off with AMCC at noon on Tuesday at McNeese.

Drove over to Lake Chuck to watch this one. The offense was poor and when they had chances to score simply didn't. Sadly, based on position players that returned from last year this has been an underwhelming season.

A win tomorrow and Lamar finishes 4th in conference. A loss could set up an odd 3 way tie with all teams involved being 3 and 3 against each other. No idea how the tie breaker works in that situation.

Definitely a tough night. Need at least 1 game this weekend. HCU series could be big in 2 weeks.

Not sure if this is playing in a role in it not being utilized at least not among series listed here thus far, but the small outfield dimensions may be playing a role. Also, seating capacity is minimal.

12-4 winner. Move to 9-9 in conference. Huge series in Lake Chuck starting Friday.

Pitching and hitting combined. Didn't track game, but Lamar was able to pitch around 10 hits and 3 walks to only give up 1 run.

Today was bad. However, they have an excellent shot at the tournament with the set up. 7 teams go with the 1st place squad receiving a bye. HCU has to face McNeese, A&M Corpus (presently playing finale against McNeese) and UIW face each other, and Northwestern State faces SELA. If McNeese wins today...HCU, Lamar, and A&M Corpus will be all tied for 5th and Northwestern holding a 1 game lead on those 3. Lamar should be the 6th seed at worse and could grab the 4 seed with a sweep. Now, go get swept by Commerce and that would be the ultimate disaster.

Lamar finally on the right side of a tight one!

Wasn't watching at the time but Duke while utilizing the Durham Bull's facility had a power outage delaying a conference game. Leads me to a general question but not a specific game situation as I have only seen or been part of power outages during dead ball situations. How would an official handle a power outage during a nightgame of course that occurs while a ball is in play. I'm thinking of a ball against the outfield wall with runners on or a lazy fly ball and lights go out leading to it not being caught...these are 2 very different situations in that one was offensive advantage and the other defensive advantage at the time of power loss. Going to take a shot here and speculate it would be treated as though the pitch never occurred, buy could also see umpires discretion to determine runners placement or out call on fly ball.

Can Lamar pull of a 5-1 finish in the final 6 games of conference? They couldn't ask for a better opportunity as they face the bottom 2 teams. If they can pull off what is still likely a long shot.....12-12 conference record. They battled a decent HCU squad and pulled a miracle off in game 3 of the series this past weekend.

75,600 minutes would work out to to approximately 15000 minutes for each day of the week over a 36 week schedule (six 6 week sessions). That would mean 15000 over 36 weeks would have to be absorbed into the other 4 days over that time period. That works out to over 1.5 hours a day added. There must be something I missing. Does anyone know the average time added each day at places such as Devers that do this year round? If I'm not mistaken some schools are doing this some weeks and not others. While putting this essentially useless diatribe together I found an article about a one school day being 28 minutes longer. They extended the school year by 3 weeks as well to capture those extra minutes. That goes back to 89Falcon pointing out the loss of some breaks during the school year as a way to get the time covered.

I fully understand about practice. I am wondering about off-season. Are schools limited to only the athletic period? I know there are loads of unethical ways around (claiming in paper everyone is a track athlete, power lifter, etc). I actually teach a college course where I get into UIL rules. I simply did not work in public schools when the 4 day week came into play and I'm curious about some of the inner workings of such. Football player only, not in other sports. Can an off season workout session be run on a Friday for said kid?

If you are accurate about a lengthened school day of only 20 minutes, I would be on board. However, based on an instructional calendar that involves 75,600 minutes of instruction per year, I would be intrigued as to how schools aren't lengthening school days dramatically. Maybe it has to do with how extracurricular based classes and others that aren't part of the hour requirement.... then I stand corrected. This leads me to a question. Can a school on a 4 day week run an "athletic period" on the 1 off day each week? Having worked in an inner city school, I would hate to work the logistics of getting all the athletes to school on Friday game day when so few have personal transportation. Just interesting things that this type of scheduling would bring about. It seems more small town schools are moving to this model. Having an 0-7 or 0-8 team at a 2A or 3A school that has no Friday classes could lead to some interesting scenarios on how many kids decide week 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 fishing/hunting trips become more important than football.

15-18 years old with massive amounts of free time is scary for coaches. Baby sitting them all day in a field house to keep them from doing something foolish isn't fun either. Lengthening school days and then having later practices on Monday-Wednesday has to stink. Give me a straight teaching job an a 4 day schedule, heck yeah! Coaching duties with it on a 4 day schedule could be a nightmare.

Ugly ugly loss!

10-0 in 8. LU hitting line drives today and not loads of lazy fly balls. Ellis and Hail combine on a 5 hit shut out.