One of the things I always love about this time of year is to see the opening round matchup in the regional. There have been quite some memorable matchups, The Citadel cmijng to the forefront of my mind for example. LSU has played host to many "small" schools in the regionals over the years and many of those players have spoken very highly about their games at The Box.

This year, the Marist Red Foxes of the MAAC visit as the #4 seed. It is their fourth MAAC championship in the last six years and their fifth since 1997. They come into this game with two respectable starters in Chris Tracz & Jonathan Smith and a solid closer in Robert Ryan.

The most likely starter for the matchup against LSU will be Tracz. He is a senior lefty for the red foxes and has a 28-8 career record there. This season his record is 9-3.


#36 - Chris Tracz SR, LHP
Record: (9-3)


Another possible starter would be Smith, a junior lefty with a 7-1 record.


#41 Jonathan Smith JR, LHP
Record: (7-1)


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One other note, anyone who can get ERA's and stats for the Marist team, geaux for it.

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http://goredfoxes.collegesports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/mari-m-basebl-CumulativeStats.html

Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA


Tracz, Chris........ 2.85 9-3 14 14 5 1/1 0 98.0 90 37 31 17 75 25 0 0 373 .241 2 8 2 2 6
Supplee, Erik....... 4.12 5-4 19 5 1 0/0 0 54.2 57 29 25 14 38 15 2 1 211 .270 6 4 1 3 7
Smith, Jonathan..... 4.52 7-1 14 10 3 0/0 0 79.2 90 46 40 11 45 18 2 4 314 .287 0 9 1 6 5
Chambers, Scott..... 4.85 3-5 10 10 2 0/0 0 59.1 60 41 32 36 34 15 2 2 220 .273 4 5 1 3 7
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Schult, Steve....... 0.00 0-0 2 0 0 0/0 0 0.2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 2 .000 0 0 0 0 0
Kelly, Kevin........ 2.35 0-0 10 0 0 0/0 0 7.2 9 3 2 2 2 0 0 1 31 .290 0 0 0 1 0
Ryan, Robert........ 2.82 2-0 20 0 0 0/0 9 22.1 21 8 7 8 12 3 0 0 81 .259 2 2 0 3 1
Shurtleff, Kevin.... 3.86 1-0 6 0 0 0/0 0 7.0 5 3 3 7 2 1 0 1 19 .263 3 2 0 3 1
Heath, George....... 5.00 1-1 6 6 0 0/0 0 18.0 22 12 10 9 5 3 1 1 70 .314 0 2 0 0 0
Close, Tom.......... 6.53 3-5 12 5 1 0/0 0 51.0 61 40 37 14 23 12 2 9 208 .293 4 3 3 4 2
Hastry, Bobby....... 6.65 1-0 18 0 0 0/1 2 23.0 35 22 17 14 15 8 0 0 101 .347 7 2 0 2 1
Hanson, Jeff........ 8.25 1-0 5 2 0 0/0 0 12.0 17 12 11 2 6 3 0 1 50 .340 2 5 1 1 0
Dalton, Kevin....... 9.53 0-0 2 0 0 0/0 1 5.2 9 6 6 2 8 4 1 0 25 .360 1 1 0 1 0

Offense looks weak, only one starter above .300 and they only hit 20 HR's as a team. All of a sudden, I'm extremely comfortable using Lane in game one.

Code:

Player AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%

Musolf, Travis...... .359 52-52 206 49 74 9 3 0 28 89 .432 22 8 20 4 .435 3 1 25-31 95 26 3 .976 
Feeney, Pat......... .295 48-42 139 28 41 10 0 2 26 57 .410 22 1 19 5 .386 4 6 7-12 23 89 11 .911 
Grauer, Kevin....... .293 49-40 150 21 44 4 1 0 25 50 .333 15 2 38 0 .365 0 2 6-9 77 2 1 .988 
Lepore, Justin...... .289 35-28 90 17 26 4 0 1 21 33 .367 13 2 27 5 .369 6 0 5-6 0 0 0 .000 
Sargent, Joe........ .282 49-49 174 37 49 12 1 3 17 72 .414 14 4 41 3 .349 0 3 5-9 81 129 8 .963 
Kiriakedes, Andy.... .277 52-52 195 45 54 13 1 2 36 75 .385 27 8 33 5 .382 3 2 8-15 86 178 18 .936 
Brachold, Keith..... .276 52-52 214 27 59 12 1 6 49 91 .425 13 4 27 1 .326 2 0 11-14 287 21 2 .994 
Buck, Kevin......... .275 45-39 153 28 42 7 1 3 28 60 .392 10 3 28 1 .325 3 2 3-3 169 14 4 .979 
Towler, Bryan....... .267 52-50 191 31 51 4 1 2 30 63 .330 22 5 43 1 .351 4 0 3-4 282 23 4 .987 
Ciccarone, Thomas... .251 51-48 179 28 45 12 3 1 16 66 .369 13 17 28 2 .359 0 2 5-7 76 4 5 .941 

Look at all of those steals though, apparently they can run, which won't be good for Lane (a ground ball pitcher) with our weak infield defense. Taco or English, maybe?

no matter how weak their stats are, if lane can't find the strike zone, then BA's dont mean a thing...

i think they will start lane though...

i would love for taco or english to start...get a little postseason experience against a weaker team (Marist apparently isn't THAT horrible):tigbas: :geauxtige :tigbas:

I think Lane would be a good option becasue he can stop them from stealing he still has a very good move to first and maybe he can get some confodence from this game.

His delievery to the plate is slow and we've had a lot of problems throwing runners out so I don't think Lane is going to stop them from stealing. In the end, I'd still say start Lane, if he can't beat Marist then he has some serious issues. But its not like we don't have the bullpen or offense to make up for it.

You may be right i do remember in his earlier years teams had a hard time running on him because of his great move to first, and he picke off a lot of runners. I havent seen any of his starts this year though, and it doesnt suprise me that he has lost that also.