Posted on 06/23/2008 2:34:50 AM PDT by Drago
OMAHA, Neb. -- The beginning of the end for Fresno State's 2008 baseball team could have come on the opening weekend of the season, when the Bulldogs split a four-game series with UC Davis, a new NCAA Division I program.
"Oh yeah. I was thinking ‘How did this happen?' I mean, we're supposed to be something this year," junior second baseman Erik Wetzel said.
Perhaps now -- with Fresno having not only become the first No. 4 regional seed to make the College World Series but now about to play Georgia in the best-of-three championship series that begins Monday night (ESPN2, 7 ET) -- we should understand Wetzel's reaction Saturday after North Carolina's Chad Flack hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning to deliver the Bulldogs a crushing 4-3 defeat.
"There's nothing to be demoralized about because that's a good team in the other dugout," Wetzel said. "We're not thinking about our backs being to the wall. We're just going out and playing baseball."
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We are Georgia Bulldog fans and have been watching every game. The series has been great. I love when an underdog team goes all the way. My Dawgs weren’t thought to go this far either. We’ll be watching tonight. Go DAWGS!!!!!!!! Sic Em!!!!!!!!!
I’m certain the bulldogs will win.
;-)
I was in Japan last spring and the Fresno ball team was in the hotel I was at. I spoke to one of the assistant coachs for about 20 minutes and gave him the web address to Free Republic!
Thanks for spreading the word about FR! Fresno State baseball and Japan have a special link thru “Fibber” Hirayama...see links below.
http://www.niseibaseball.com/html%20articles/Postwar%20History/postwar.html
http://www.niseibaseball.com/html%20articles/Nisei%20Legends/hirayama.htm
Nisei Baseball The story of Japanese-American baseball. Satoshi "Fibber" Hirayama (Fresno State, 1950-51-52) is among those featured.
That was a heck of a game 1.
It's baseball, ANYTHING can happen.
As someone coming from Visalia, CA (45 miles south of Fresno), I have to say...
Hey. We’re the REPUBLICAN part of California. We’re the underdogs that everyone counted out and yet has gone neck-to-neck with a team that has every right to win the college world series. We’re the home of Free Republic.
With no slight intended against Georgia, we are the symbol of the Republican Party in a year where major analysts expect that we have no chance of winning. And we’re holding out against an absolutely great team.
This last game in this college world series is going to be a game to watch and a game to remember, regardless of whom wins.
Fresno State wins game 2 of the championship round 19-10!
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3459482
Final game Wednesday at 4pm on ESPN...series tied 1-1, winner is national champ!
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