National Championship on the line
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Sitting in the Paper Lion enjoying an end of the tournament dinner it dawned on me - The tournament is not over. After 11 games in three days, only two games on Memorial Day seemed like a well…. a holiday. Those people scoring the game were working hard though as Emory surprised everyone by dispatching both Cortland State and Wisconsin-Stevens Point with an offense as potent as any in the tournament.
The Emory contingent near by my table made sure that I should not call the Eagles a cinderella team. The coach also made that clear well before the hitting came around. How can a 43-9 team be a cinderella team? Personally I am still living down calling the Emory baseball team “likely to disappoint” in the South regional. Yeah likely to disappoint those who don’t believe they can win the Championship Game.
Kean has always been my pick since the start of the season so they are not doing anything unexpected. Their pitching has been fantastic but a strength of the program for a while now.
I am one of those who will watching and enjoying the best Division III can bring. It will be a heck of a game - that I can assure.
