Got to hand it to Schreiner this year, a very small school beating nationally ranked TLU and almost beating nationally ranked Trinity last week. Congrats to them.

I had lots of friends at the game but could not make it this year. I watched some of it on the video feed and love their new three camera webcast, quality announcers. Top shelf. Cortland is a young team but look very talented and I would expect them to be in the mix later in the season. Trinity has the talent to make another run this year with better pitching and a more seasoned team. Not as much depth as previous teams so as long as injuries don't happen they should again be a favorite coming out of the West. Pretty special seeing TLU, and Trinity ranked in top 10.

....and were not anywhere in the top 25 at the end of the season. .   

They are now! Congrats to the players, coaches and families. Well done.
Nice to have the championship trophy back in Texas.

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Since explanations are the order of the day, who can explain how a conference runner up who didn't finish in the top 25 gets seeded higher than two conference winners and one of which was ranked 6th? Is SOS that big of a decider?

I do find it kinda funny that TLU and Concordia get to travel over 2000 miles to play each other when they're only 50 miles way from each other.

Yes, SOS really is that big of a factor.  TLU's SOS is 119, while CTX is 31, thats a pretty significant difference.  When it comes down to it, I think everyone is seeded right where they should be.  Take the Top 25 rankings out of the equation, they mean nothing.

This would have been a great year for the West to be played in TX as you could have put 4 TX teams there, the NWC and 1 SCIAC and fly the other SCIAC somewhere else.

I am glad that they are flying a Texas team to another region.  I will be very upset if UTT goes 2 and BBQ (again).

Since 2010, here is UTT's record in the West Regionals

2010 1-2 (eliminated by Mississippi College, which was still a member of the ASC)
2011  0-2
2013  2-2 
2015  0-2
2016  2-2
2017  0-2 *0-3  Forgetting to tarp the field on Saturday night should count as a big L
2017  0-2 *0-4  Wearing the Astro's 60 jerseys and expect to be taken seriously...

I asked someone who was a bit closer to the team and said Flores got Mono and was not available. I did not follow the team that close but it looked like they stopped scoring runs. I am always leery of a team that starts out hot early, I actually prefer if there are struggles during the season as it builds character and toughness in a team; which prepares players for a tough playoff run. This team just seemed to fold under the pressure at the end. All speculation on my part as I never actually saw a game other than a few video webcasts.

Skips Soldier.
+1 or +100 if I could but +1 will do for now.

Most teams go through a funk, however Trinity's timing is not great heading into a conference tournament with 2 other very competitive teams. They better win the conference if they want to be in the West Regional. Scannell is as good as any coach getting a  team ready, but I am not sure if they will have one of the their top pitchers back for the tournament or not. By the nature of the program they tend to have more depth than the other SCAC teams so they can, and have , come through a loser bracket, as they will face one of the top pitchers in the SCAC this afternoon. Going to be a very competitive conf. tournament.