Moravia had some chances early, and their SP gave them a good chance. Moravia seemed like frontrunners. The game would have been completely different if the Fr SP for Newman had lost composure in some of the tight spots early. But he didn't and Moravia definitely did the first time they were really threatened. The balk call shouldn't have mattered, but definitely did.
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To get to, and win, state, you've got to have more than 2 pitchers. The team that won their conference only had 2, and only used those 2 in the head to head regular season games. Only 1 of the 4 pitchers Newman used in those 2 conference-determining games even pitched at state.
Pretty sure it was the inverse last year. Newman won the conference but lost in the substate final and St. Ansgar won state. St. Ansgar lost in the substate final this year but won the conference.
I feel like this on me. I am a Moravia alumni, I wore and old moravia shirt from 2004 and turned the game on in the bottom of the 5th, when the wheels fell off.
My bad fellas.
They aren’t the only team to play each other 3 times. Imagine having to beat a single team twice to get into the finals and to win the whole thing you just need to beat them once
Double elimination maybe okay but a different bracket system could eliminate teams playing each other three times.
It really is a simple fix, just flip the bracket for the losers, top half losers go to the bottom of the bracket and the bottom half move to the top bracket. That way at worst you could play a school twice.
I would think they are going to talk about how the tournament went, under the new setup and nobody would like the idea that they had repeated games where teams were playing each other multiple times. But this is the Girls Union we are talking about here.
