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Post by Trojan Warrior on May 21, 2014 5:11:58 GMT -6
By Jeremy Wise jwise@dothaneagle.com TROY – The 2014 Troy baseball season may have been filled with inconsistencies, but after a strong ending, head coach Bobby Pierce thinks his Trojans can win the Sun Belt Conference tournament. “We’re proud of our guys for continuing to stay the course, and not only get into the tournament, but be a sixth seed,” Pierce said. “It wasn’t but a week ago that we were on the outside looking in. The wins we got in the last two weekends made a huge difference.” Only eight of the conference’s 10 teams make the tournament, which begins today in Mobile. Before the final weekend series against South Alabama, the Trojans were in ninth place in the conference standings. Troy won the first two games against the Jaguars, though, elevating them to sixth place. Troy lost the last game 7-3 when Jags pitcher Kevin Hill struck out 14 in a complete game. Pierce said if his lineup performs as well as it did in the first two games of the South Alabama series, his squad can do well in the tournament. “I really like the at-bats and the way (the players) competed on Thursday and Friday, the first two games of the South series,” he said. “However, I thought Hill outcompeted our lineup on Saturday after we had found out we played our way (into the tournament). I saw they let off the gas … and now you’ve got to mash the gas again when you should have never let it off.” ( Full Article)
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