Game two of the Women's College World Series was a lot like the first; we pull ahead late in the game by taking advantage of the other team's mistakes. Tonight it was an OVERTHROW TO THE PITCHER that sent Jami Lobpries to third and then home off a Rhiannon Kliesing single. The final score, 2-1 Aggies over ULALA.

Jo warned our team that National Player of the Year Angela Tincher, who sports a 0.62 ERA and is #3 in the all time strike-out list, is "a strikeout pitcher and you’re going to strikeout in this game. How are you going to handle that?... As long as you can keep loose and not get heavy about that we are going to be fine. We’ll just keep plucking along. We’ll keep going until we score a run. It doesn’t matter how long it takes."

It took six innings, and went down like this:

Kliesing singled to right center. Tovar pinch ran for Kliesing. Villarreal out at first 3b to 2b; Tovar advanced to second. Gibson reached on an error by 3b; Tovar scored, unearned.

Ball game, 1-0 good guys.

Next up is the Ragin Cagins. An 8th inning one-run homer broke the 2-2 tie and sent ULALA our way instead of the #1 seed Fl Gators. Thank you Holly Tankersley.

Bill Hodge (not not rivals.com, yet) is reporting that forward Khris Middleton of Charleston/Porter-Gaud School, SC., has pledged to play for Turge in a couple years. Check out his highlight clip. Middleton looks like a good spot-up shooters, and at 6'7'', he show promise on the defensive end.

Still no players from Texas.... I am just saying.

Team doctors have decided that red shirt-freshman linebacker Derrick Stephens can no longer play because of multiple concussions. Stephens was a 4-star recruit from Cypress Falls High School where he was first-team Class 5A all-state honors. Stephens said that, "It hurt my heart. That was my passion right there. To have somebody tell me that I can't play anymore -- shoot me dead."

Softball is in the World Series and baseball is hosting a regional. Looking good.

Both Megan Gibson and Stanford's Missy Penna threw no-hitters in their previous starts, so this Super Regional was supposed to be a pitcher's duel. However, that headline was out the window in the first inning when Rhiannon Kliesing hit a lead-off homer, and four batters later Holly Ridley hit a three run shot. Unlike Penna (5 earned runs, 3 Ks), Gibson continued her post-season brilliance, allowing only one run and striking out 10. The 6-1 W puts us up 1-0 in the best of 3 series.

The bleeding has stopped. We pulled out of the tail spin at nearly the last possible second with a 6-2 W over Missouri. Coach Childress told the guys that "we just needed to pitch and play good defense and the rest will take care of itself." Done and done; Barret Loux pitched 6 1/3 innings of shutout baseball and we had zero errors (we averaged 2.12 errors per game in the last eight games/losses). Jose Duran helped out the defense with a 3-run homer.

If Childress can turn this thing around and get us to Omaha he will have eared his Big 12 coached of the year award, and, in my opinion, be a favorite for coach of the year.

We lost our 8th straight to Texas last night, 15-9. This team is sunk. We will be lucky to host a regional next week. I NEW I jinxed it when I made travel plans to Omaha. This is pretty much all my fault, sorry.

A&M says "my b" to "handful" swimmers whose Olympic dreams may have been crushed when their times at the the Texas Senior Circuit meet held at the REC Natatorium where called into to questions. Apparently "the course was three centimeters too short – measuring 49.97 meters instead of 50" (something about tightening ropes, shifting lanes, bla bla). Course lengths are "confirmed before major meets", but "it's not always standard to measure first". How do you "confirm before" with out "measuring first"?

Some of our own were among the "handful" getting the shaft...

Aggies swimmer Christine Marshall swam an Olympic Trials cut in the 400-meter freestyle. At least she might have recourse.

Alia Akinson, an A&M swimmer and Jamaica native, would have qualified for her country's Olympics team in the 100-meter breaststroke. Alejandro Jacobo, a male A&M swimmer, swam a time in the 200-meter breaststroke that would have given him a good chance to qualify for the Mexican team.

The international swimmers may have no recourse through FINA, the sport's governing body.

The downward spiral on the diamond continues. No. 8 seed Oklahoma upset No. 1 Texas A&M 4-1 in a Big 12 tournament baseball.