what a gut ripping game. southern miss came back against the #1 team in the country twice. but, pitching depth, the reason that kept them from being
able to close the deal last night, is going to make life in the loser's bracket very, very difficult.
Texas walks away with wild win over Southern MissOMAHA, Neb. -- It almost didn't seem right, celebrating. Texas coach Augie Garrido repeatedly said late Sunday night that he loved Southern Mississippi's fight, and the Golden Eagles' gumption. Both teams hated the way the game ended.
Southern Miss came tantalizingly close to knocking off the No. 1-seeded Longhorns, but walked three batters and hit another one in the ninth inning of a 7-6 loss at the College World Series. The gathering at home plate was rather subdued at the end, after Brandon Loy worked a walk to plate the game-winning run, putting Texas in Tuesday night's winners' bracket game with Arizona State.
"The ending was not befitting the performance," Garrido said of Southern Miss, which walked six of the last 11 batters it faced. "Baseball's a cruel game. It's a brutal game. And for that one position to break down, it misrepresented the spirit of that team.
"Some nerves turned into fear, and eventually that was the demise of an otherwise very courageous team. So I need to say that just to acknowledge what went on out there. It was a hell of a baseball game."
Garrido's flowing praise, by the way, probably lasted longer than the entire Southern Miss postgame news conference. Coach Corky Palmer simply said that the Golden Eagles weren't nervous; they just didn't throw strikes at the end.
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