Cowboys Will Play Texas-Tyler In ASC Championship Series
By: Chad Grubbs
Updated: April 22, 2012
RICHARDSON, Texas -- Hardin-Simmons'
baseball team will travel to Tyler for a best-of-three series with
Texas-Tyler in the American Southwest Conference Baseball
Championship Series, beginning Friday at 6 p.m.
The teams will play a 2 p.m. game on Saturday and then a third game, if necessary, would be played following that.
HSU
played its way into the ASC postseason with a three-game sweep of
Howard Payne on the final weekend of the year. HSU is 19-18 overall and
12-9 in the ASC West
play. HSU finished tied with McMurry but held the head-to-head
tiebreaker advantage for the No. 3 seed.
Texas-Tyler
finished the season tied with Texas-Dallas for the ASC East title and
UTD had the head-to-head advantage. The Patriots are 31-9 on the year
and went 14-4
in league play.
The
two teams have met one previous time in the ASC Championship series
with the Patriots winning in two games in 2007 in Tyler. The two teams
have not met since the
Patriots won a 5-4 game in the ASC Championship Tournament in 2010.
HSU,
Mississippi College and McMurry are the only three teams that have
qualified for all eight ASC Championship Series, since the format was
started in 2005.
The
Cowboys are looking for their first ASC title. HSU trails only MC in
ASC postseason appearances with 12. MC has played in 13.
The
other three ASC Championship Series feature ASC West No. 1 Concordia
(31-8) hosting ASC East No. 4 Louisiana College (14-22), ASC West No. 2
Texas Lutheran (26-12)
hosting ASC East No. 3 Mississippi College (18-21) and ASC East No. 1
Texas-Dallas (27-13) hosting ASC West No. 4 McMurry (19-21).
The
winner of the four series will play in a double-elimination ASC
Championship Tournament May 4-6 at the highest remaining ASC West seed.
