Big XII Softball

[swok34]

Here's the current standings as of May 4th PM & the balance of the schedule for the Big XII. There are more games, but I eliminated the nonconference off the schedule.....since I'm more curious with the conference race and softball seems to continue to play non-conference games intermixed with conference games.



SAT, MAY 7
*Kansas at Iowa State, 2:00 p.m.
*Nebraska at Missouri, 2:00 p.m.

SUN, MAY 8
*Kansas at Iowa State, 12:00 p.m.
*Nebraska at Missouri, 2:00 p.m.

WED MAY 11 - SAT MAY 14
Big 12 Softball Tournament (ASA Hall of Fame Stadium; Oklahoma City, Okla.), Times TBA


STANDINGS AS OF May 4 PM:

Texas A&M 14-4** Winner, winner, winner
Oklahoma 12-6**
Baylor 11-7**
Texas 11-6**
Missouri 9-7
Nebraska 8-8
Oklahoma State 7-11**
Kansas 7-8
Texas Tech 3-15**
Iowa State 3-13


I'm updating both the schedule and the standings as the games are played.

**Has completed Big XII Regular Season. Texas A & M is the Big XII Regular Season Champ.

http://www.aggieathletics.com/images/headlines/full/generic-wsb-big12trophyvsbu.jpg
Trophy Hoisting in Aggie Land

[Bball Girl]

Wow look at those Aggies and Sooners go!

Out here...I've been getting too see quite a bit of Pac 10 softball..on Fox and actually Arizona has been on ESPN2 a couple of times. The UofA coach mentioned that he's having a hard time adjusting back from Olympic softball to college softball. A year away with the best in the world spoiled him.

Anyway...it's been nice to see some on tv instead of just during world series time.

How's the Big 12 compared to the rest of the conferences?

[Row6Seat10]

swok have I mentioned I miss Peaches :(

The Husker pitching is just too young and inconsistant for them to make any kind of a serious threat at the top conference teams, as are the bats. The hits have been coming a little bit more though the last couple of games, I hope that's a good sign. Right now they aren't even the top team in the state. :oo

bbgirl here are the last weeks rankings, the new ranking's come out tomorrow, so I guess you can be the judge on the conferences. I say the Pac-10 & Big 12 are about neck-and-neck at the top but right now I give the edge to the Pac-10.

USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Poll

Rank Team Record Pts Pvs
1 Michigan (20) 40-3 617 1
2 Arizona (4) 31-4 602 2 (highlighted for you bbgirl)
3 California (1) 35-5 574 3
4 Texas 30-6 544 5
5 Oklahoma 38-7 510 6
6 Tennessee 44-7 490 4
7 Texas A&M 36-3 474 7
8 Stanford 28-7 434 8
9 Alabama 44-9 407 10
10 Oregon State 28-6 386 13
11 Baylor 37-6 385 9
12 Georgia 39-8 384 11
13 UCLA 20-10 341 12
14 Louisiana-Lafayette 28-7 287 14
15 Missouri 31-6 254 15
16 Northwestern 26-9 231 18
17 Florida 32-10 223 16
18 Fresno State 26-8 191 19
19 Georgia Tech 38-9 161 21
20 Auburn 38-11 146 22
21 Arizona State 26-13 144 17
22 Creighton 32-4 80 23
23 Iowa 32-9 70 24
24 Washington 19-14 54 20
25 Oregon 23-13 43 25
Others receiving votes:
Nebraska 41, Southern Illinois 12, Long Beach State 12, UNLV 5, Notre Dame 5, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 5, Central Michigan 2. Four teams received votes but only appeared on one ballot.

[swok34]

wow, I would almost have to say the Pac-10 doesn't look as strong as in year's past.....I thought they all lived in the Top 10 :p

And, Michigan is number 1?....

row6........you guys sure are missing Peaches. After this season, OU loses pitcher Kami Keiter, 1st base, catcher...talk about some "stealth". I think Kami hit 4 over the wall homeruns between Saturday and Monday nite.

I haven't really followed the other games in the Big XII. And this weekend was really the first Big XII softball games I've been to this season :eek: I know....behind, I am ;)

The OU/Texas A & M series was Saturday and Sunday and they split...ditto, OU/Baylor last night....split.

The Saturday game vs TAMU was probably one of the best softball games I've seen.......usually the college game is about pitching, pitching...

I think there were at least 7 homeruns (over the wall variety) hit on Saturday....I LOVE those kinds of games, FUN, FUN, FUN.

[Bball Girl]

Peaches was something special.

Arizona's going to drop after back to back losses to UCLA.

Good to see the Big 12 doing so well..

[swok34]

1, Michigan (22), 44-3, 574, 1
2, California (1), 38-6, 550, 3
3, Texas, 32-7, 509, 4
4, Arizona, 31-6, 507, 2
5, Oklahoma, 41-8, 484, 5
6, Texas A&M, 39-4, 456, 7
7, Stanford, 31-7, 444, 8
8, Alabama, 48-9, 398, 9
9, Tennessee, 45-9, 385, 6
10, UCLA, 23-10, 359, 13
11, Oregon State, 29-7, 350, 10
12, Baylor, 39-7, 331, 11
13, Georgia, 41-9, 324, 12
14, Louisiana-Lafayette, 32-7, 265, 14
15, Northwestern, 30-9, 243, 16
16, Florida, 34-12, 223, 17
17, Missouri, 32-8, 220, 15
18, Georgia Tech, 40-9, 173, 19
19, Creighton, 36-4, 143, 22
20, Fresno State, 29-10, 135, 18
21, Auburn, 39-13, 110, 20
22, Iowa, 37-9, 94, 23
23, Washington, 21-14, 81, 24
24, Arizona State, 26-16, 36, 21
25, Oregon, 25-16, 24, 25

Others receiving votes:, , , ,
Nebraska 18, Southern Illinois 16, Long Beach State 15, UNLV 5, Notre Dame 2. One team received votes but obly appeared on one ballot.

[swok34]

row6........this kid ain't too shabby ;)

PITCHER OF THE WEEK

Ashley DeBuhr, Nebraska, So., RHP, Beatrice, Neb. (Beatrice)

[Waylontheman]

Didn't Baylor beat Michigan........
A&M and Okie State beat Cal.........
Texas beat Arizona...........???

I think anyways;)

When Lew bucks up and fires KU's coach after this season we will only get stronger......why does Texas Tech suck? The other Texas teams thrive on the wealth of talent in the state.........

[Row6Seat10]

row6........this kid ain't too shabby ;)

PITCHER OF THE WEEK

Ashley DeBuhr, Nebraska, So., RHP, Beatrice, Neb. (Beatrice)She threw a no-hitter last week here in Lincoln against 10th placed Iowa State to get the award. She's still young but as the season progresses along you can tell she is starting to mature on the mound. She's a lot better than she was earlier in the year. Her record is now 15-13.

[spooky]

Didn't Baylor beat Michigan........
A&M and Okie State beat Cal.........
Texas beat Arizona...........???

I think anyways;)

When Lew bucks up and fires KU's coach after this season we will only get stronger......why does Texas Tech suck? The other Texas teams thrive on the wealth of talent in the state.........

Tech has never given their smaller sports much support, especially the women's sports. I wonder if the Lady Raiders being so good and so popular has really handcuffed the other women's teams. Their new coach has been a proven winner, but has a shady recent past, and is still facing legal issues from her time at Washington. It'll be interesting to see if she succeeds.

I think OU and A&M have the best shots to go far. OU has the powerful offense and Keiter. If their other pitching keeps up, they could do well. A&M is great on both sides of the ball. I'd be a little worried relying on freshmen for so much of their pitching, but if they don't hit the wall, they'll be strong. they can play the speed game and the power game.

For Texas, Cat is Cat, but there are too many days where their offense is non-existent, and even the great one gives up runs now and then. I don't see them making it through to the WCWS.

This year's Baylor offense combined with last year's pitching would be awesome. But as it is, we're limping down the backstretch with our #1 and #2 starters dealing with chronic arm problems, and it's a crapshoot day to day to see which pitcher shows up. The pitching depth is much better, but you don't go too far without a consistent ace. It's a shame cause the offense is much better (.324 avg and 44HR compared to .268 and 20HR last year) but it's gonna take alot of other pitcher's stepping up to make it through to OKC. Hopefully we can make a run cause we lose 6 starters this year and next year there's gonna be some rebuilding.

[Jennifer]

OU's offense or pitching didn't do anything for them this weekend.
They lost 2 to Kansas and are surely out of the Big 12 title race now.
Kansas!
Yesterday went in extra innings and they lost by 1. Today they lost 4-1. Keiter gave up 3 earned runs in the 1st. OU only managed 4 hits today. Their offense isn't looking at potent as it was even a week ago. :mad:

[Row6Seat10]

Oklahoma State shutout the Huskers this afternoon in Lincoln on Senior Day no-less 2-0 to salvage a split in the two game series.

Congratulations to Oklahoma State's Marjorie Johnson who pitched her first no-hitter of her career striking out 11 and walking 6. NU was last no hit in May of 2000 against Arizona in the NCAA Regional Finals in a 5-0 loss.

The Cowgirls raise their record to 32-17 overall and 7-8 in the conference while the Huskers drop to 30-17 and 6-7 in the conference.

[Jennifer]

Through Saturday's games (I can't figure out the formatting to get this all lined up nice and neat).


STANDINGS
(Through Games of April 23)
Conference Overall
School W L T Pct. H A W L T Pct. H A N Last 5 Streak
Texas A&M 11 2 0 .846 7-0 4-2 40 4 0 .909 22-1 8-2 10-1 4-1 Won 2
Texas 8 3 0 .727 5-1 3-2 34 8 0 .810 19-3 8-2 7-3 3-2 Won 1
Oklahoma 10 4 0 .714 5-2 5-2 42 11 0 .792 19-3 9-3 14-5 1-4 Lost 3
Baylor 9 5 0 .643 4-3 5-2 42 8 0 .840 21-4 9-3 12-1 4-1 Won 3
Missouri 6 6 0 .500 3-4 3-2 32 9 0 .780 13-4 9-3 10-2 2-3 Lost 2
Nebraska 6 6 0 .500 4-3 2-3 30 16 0 .652 8-4 6-6 16-6 4-1 Won 3
Oklahoma State 6 8 0 .429 4-2 2-6 31 17 0 .646 12-2 4-8 15-7 3-2 Lost 1
Kansas 4 7 0 .364 1-5 3-2 21 19 0 .525 6-5 5-7 10-7 2-3 Won 1
Texas Tech 2 11 0 .154 0-6 2-5 22 20 0 .524 6-8 3-7 13-5 0-5 Lost 9
Iowa State 1 11 0 .083 1-3 0-8 15 27 0 .357 5-4 3-14 7-9 2-3 Lost 1

[swok34]

I didn't realize they had changed the format for the softball championship this year....though, I did notice that the World Series is no longer held over Memorial Day Weekend. According to the schedule.....the World Series could stretch out to an entire week.

the changes: a super-regional and the championship game has expanded to the best out of 3 games rather than a single game.

http://www.ncaasports.com/softball/womens/schedules

Selection Announcement (64 teams)
May 15, 2005

Regionals (16)
May 20-22, 2005
On campus sites
Fri, May 20 - Game 1
Fri, May 20 - Game 2
Sat, May 21 - Game 3
Sat, May 21 - Game 4
Sat, May 21 - Game 5
Sun, May 22 - Game 6
Sun, May 22 - Game 7 (if nec.)


Super Regionals (8)
May 27-28, 2005
On campus sites
Fri, May 27 - Game 1
Sat, May 28 - Game 2
Sat, May 28 - Game 3 (if nec.)


Women's College World Series
June 2-8, 2005
ASA Hall of Fame Stadium
Oklahoma City
Host: University of Oklahoma
Game 1 - 6/2/05 - NOON CT
Game 2 - 6/2/05 - 2 PM CT
Game 3 - 6/2/05 - 6:30 PM CT
Game 4 - 6/2/05 - 8:30 PM CT
Game 5 - 6/3/05 - 7 PM CT
Game 6 - 6/3/05 - 9 PM CT
Game 7 - 6/4/05 - 11 AM CT
Game 8 - 6/4/05 - 1 PM CT
Game 9 - 6/4/05 - 6 PM CT
Game 10 - 6/4/05 - 8 PM CT
Game 11 - 6/5/05 - NOON CT
Game 12 - 6/5/05 - 2 PM CT
Game 13 - 6/5/05 - 6 PM CT (if nec.)
Game 14 - 6/5/05 - 8 PM CT (if nec.)
Championship Series Game 1 - 6/6/05 - 6:30 PM CT
Championship Series Game 2 - 6/7/05- 6:30 PM CT
Championship Series Game 3 - 6/8/05 - 6:30 PM CT (if nec.)

[swok34]

The SEC is making quite a respectable showing in the polls:

Rank Team Record Pts Pvs
1 Michigan (20) 46-4 617 1
2 Arizona (4) 33-6 588 4
3 California (1) 40-8 581 2
4 Stanford 34-9 525 7
5 Texas A&M 41-4 517 6
6 Texas 34-9 508 3
7 Alabama 48-9 453 8
8 Oregon State 35-8 415 11
9 Baylor 43-8 392 12
10 Oklahoma 42-12 387 5
11 Tennessee 48-11 383 9
12 Georgia 45-11 382 13
13 UCLA 24-11 362 10
14 Louisiana-Lafayette 38-7 300 14
15 Northwestern 34-10 298 15
16 Florida 36-13 244 16
17 Georgia Tech 43-10 207 18
18 Fresno State 32-10 167 20
19 Missouri 32-10 162 17
20 Auburn 42-13 142 21
21 Iowa 40-9 119 22
22 Washington 24-15 97 23
23 Southern Illinois 40-10 89 NR
24 Creighton 38-6 83 19
25 Long Beach State 31-13 30 NR

Others receiving votes:
Oregon 29, Arizona State 25, Nebraska 7, Notre Dame 3. Three teams received votes but only appeared on one ballot.
Dropped out:
No. 24 Arizona State, No. 25 Oregon.

[swok34]

What a wierd Saturday it's been for Big XII softball......

Texas was the only "higher ranked team" that won it's game.
And don't ask me what the heck is going on with OU...... :eek:

[Jennifer]

Wow, A&M lost to Missouri again today, 4-5.
Texas beat OSU 2-1,
OU over NU 4-0--great game by Keiter on the mound
Kansas rr Tech 11-0
Baylor over ISU 11-3

As of today:
School W L T W L T
Texas A&M 13 4 0 42 6 0
Oklahoma 12 6 0 44 13 0
Baylor 11 6 0 45 9 0
Texas 11 6 0 37 11 0
Missouri 8 7 0 36 10 0
Nebraska 8 8 0 32 18 0
Kansas 7 7 0 28 19 0
Oklahoma State 7 11 0 32 20 0
Iowa State 3 13 0 18 29 0
Texas Tech 3 15 0 23 24 0

[swok34]

I believe I read that Texas A & M has *won* the Big XII and OU has locked up the #2 seed in the Big XII tourney.

Baylor still has the opportunity to lock up the #3 seed, and may already have it with a tie (though I haven't read that). Texas has completed their Big XII season and Baylor has one game left vs Texas A & M on Wednesday.

The conference tournament is a little different for softball in that the #1, #2, #7, #8, #9 and #10 teams play on Wednesday (opening day) and the #3, #4 #5, #6 teams don't play until Thursday. But the later mentioned seeds play two games on Thursday, whereas the #1 and #2 seed play only one game.

http://big12sports.collegesports.com/championships/big12-softbl-championship.html

[Row6Seat10]

I believe I read that Texas A & M has *won* the Big XII and OU has locked up the #2 seed in the Big XII tourney.

Baylor still has the opportunity to lock up the #3 seed, and may already have it with a tie (though I haven't read that). Texas has completed their Big XII season and Baylor has one game left vs Texas A & M on Wednesday.Yes, swok A&M has the regular season locked up they have a game and a half lead over 2nd place Oklahoma. Now Baylor is only sitting a half game behind the Sooners and a half game in front of Texas. So if they win they tie the Sooners for 2nd place which means they use a tie-breaker for the #2 seed. The Bears and Sooners split their two game series so it starts to get real confusing to find the tie breaker. Evidently the Sooners have it. Also the way I see it if the Bears lose to A&M they finish in 4th behind Texas.

Missouri and Nebraska play two this weekend as does Iowa St and Kansas. Right now Missouri is in 5th a half game ahead of the Huskers at 6th and KU is sitting a half game behind the Huskers at 7th. If Missouri and Nebraska split and KU sweeps ISU the Jayhawks claim 5th place. If Missouri sweeps they are the 5th place seed and if Nebraska sweeps they are the 5th place seed no matter what KU does. KU has to sweep ISU and hope for a NU/MU split in order for them to move up which very well could happen. A MU/NU split and a KU/ISU split each of these three teams stay put in the standings as they are now. No matter what Missouri does they can't over take Texas in 4th place. Comprende?

[swok34]

Comprende?

huh :confused: This is worse than figuring out those basketball ties :D

I did read that OU had secured the #2 seed regardless of whether Baylor wins or not.

[Waylontheman]

All I know is I am so PROUD of how my Jayhawks have been playing! Just wished they would have beat Baylor(both were very close and crazy)! The Big 12 had 8 teams out of 10 in the Top 25 or receiving votes-thats even better than basketball!

[swok34]

Rather than go and update my original post.........

here are the seedings for the tourney that starts Wednesday:

Wednesday, May 11
Game 1 - No. 8 Oklahoma State vs. No. 9 Texas Tech, 5:00 p.m.
Game 2 - No. 7 Nebraska vs. No. 10 Iowa State, 5:00 p.m. - Field 4
Game 3 - No. 1 Texas A&M vs. Game 1 Winner, 7:30 p.m.
Game 4 - No. 2 Oklahoma vs. Game 2 Winner , 7:30 p.m. - Field 4

Thursday, May 12
Game 5 - No. 4 Baylor vs. No. 5 Missouri, 11:00 a.m.
Game 6 - No. 3 Texas vs. No. 6 Kansas, 11:00 a.m. - Field 4

[Waylontheman]

Go Jayhawks:)

[swok34]

Starts today:
Wednesday, May 11
Game 1 - No. 8 Oklahoma State vs. No. 9 Texas Tech
Game 2 - No. 7 Nebraska vs. No. 10 Iowa State
Game 3 - No. 1 Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma State
Game 4 - No. 2 Oklahoma vs. Nebraska

Thursday, May 12:
Game 5 No. 4 Baylor vs. No. 5 Missouri
Game 6 No. 3 Texas vs. No. 6 Kansas
Game 7 Oklahoma State vs. Missouri
Game 8 Oklahoma vs. Kansas
Game 9 Texas A & M vs. Baylor - 4:30 p.m. (FSN)
Game 10 Nebraska vs. Texas - 7 p.m.


http://big12sports.collegesports.com/championships/big12-softbl-championship.html

[swok34]

Game 11 No. 2 Oklahoma vs. No. 1 Texas A&M
Game 12 No. 5 Missouri vs. No. 7 Nebraska

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Game 13 No. 3 Texas vs. Oklahoma 5 PM
Game 14 No. 4 Baylor vs. Missouri 7:30 PM

[Row6Seat10]

I would think the odds of these six left are pretty good to make the NCAA tournament field. I would hope at least anyway's they are.

[Row6Seat10]

Congratulation to the Longhorns on becoming this years conference softball champions. And to the Tigers for putting up a valiant effort only to just fall one game short of the crown.

Friday May 13
11 No. 2 Oklahoma 6, No. 1 Texas A&M 2
12 No. 5 Missouri 5, No. 7 Nebraska 1
13 No. 3 Texas 3, No. 2 Oklahoma 1

Saturday, May 14
14 No. 5 Missouri 9, No. 4 Baylor 2
15 No. 5 Missouri 10, No. 4 Baylor 4 (8 inn.)

Game 16: Championship Game
No. 3 Texas 2, No. 5 Missouri 0

ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM

P/3B Megan Gibson, Texas A&M
C Heather Scaglione, Oklahoma
2B Carrie Leerberg, Baylor
SS Kim Wilmoth, Baylor
P Kami Keiter, Oklahoma
SS Heather Kunkel, Missouri
OF Janessa Roening, Missouri
P/DP Jen Bruck, Missouri
OF Tina Boutelle, Texas
C Megan Willis, Texas
2B Chez Sievers, Texas
OF Kelly Osburn, Baylor
P Erin Kalka, Missouri
MVP: P Cat Osterman, Texas

[swok34]

Thank you, row 6.....for posting that info.

I think Missouri pitcher, Kalka should have been MVP.....not to take a thing away from the strike out KAT.....but that young woman was pitching her third game in 8 hours time. She had a no-hitter going there for awhile...but, Missouri had to replace her. I really thought Missouri's field gave up a run they shouldn't have in the champ game....back when it was 0-0 and two runners scored on the same play.

[Bball Girl]

Congrats to the Big12 and the PAC10 for getting 8 teams (all of the Pac10) into the tourney.


Texas, Mizzou, Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Nebraska are hosts. Baylor's going to Auburn, Oklahoma State to Arizona (go 'Cats), and Kansas is going to Georgia.

also see
http://big12sports.collegesports.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/051505aab.html


http://www.ncaasports.com/softball/womens/story/8475658