Super Bowl Update

I should have gotten this updated earlier today, but I have spent the entire evening enthralled with the NBA Playoffs and watching Nick Young spearhead the Clippers into a 27-point comeback over the Grizzlies. Anywho...

Troy's baseball team had a great weekend, bouncing back from a Friday night loss and taking the Saturday and Sunday games over Florida Atlantic, who was and still is the Sun Belt's first place team. Ryan Brady had his best start on Sunday and he and Nate Hill combined to shut out FAU, 9-0. Thomas Austin, who is

Game 1 recap here and box here
Game 2 recap here and box here
Game 3 recap here and box here.

Unfortunately I couldn't get to any of the games with our busy high school schedule. It's even busier this coming week, but the good thing (for me, not those riding 450 miles in a bus) is that Troy is on the road this week, to Samford on Tuesday and UL-Lafayette over the weekend. Trojans host UL-Monroe and South Alabama in the final two weeks.

Troy is 8-13 in conference play, still a game out of that final spot for the Sun Belt Tournament. Trojans are tied with ULL and a game behind ULM, UALR and Western Kentucky, so it's safe to say the next two weekends determine Troy's tourney fate, and I truly believe that the Sun Belt Tournament, in its current format of round robin play and then a title game, is anybody's to win this year. College baseball experts I follow see the conference as a one-bid league, and that may still hold true even if FAU doesn't win the tournament.

STANDINGS
FAU 14-5
Arkansas State 12-7
South Alabama 12-9
FIU 11-10
Middle Tenn. 11-10
UALR 9-12
ULM 9-12
WKU 9-12
Troy 8-13
ULL 8-13

Top 8 qualify for the Sun Belt Tournament in Bowling Green, Ky.