Bear Down Wildcats

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:28 pm**

And boom goes the dynamite!

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:29 pm**

2-1
Top 5

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:31 pm**

These ladies have something special going on.

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:31 pm**

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:37 pm**

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:52 pm**

Dust that plate off blue!

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:14 pm**

Damnit

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:25 pm**

Bowen was toasted.
Should have let Netz start the 6th.

Would Scupin have caught the line drive?
She is taller than Gulia.

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:34 pm**

Well damn

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:37 pm**

No fault to Hannah or Caitlin - shit happens…

Bummed we have to play on Friday!

BEAR DOWN ARIZONA!!!!

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:38 pm**

Tough game.
Left Bowen in too long.
Meonio looks lost at plate.
But, not an embarrassing showing.

Pound the beavers.

Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:41 pm**

It's easy for us to say take Bowen out now.

Kick Beaver ass tomorrow and get back on track.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 12:16 am**

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:41 pm It's easy for us to say take Bowen out now.

Kick Beaver ass tomorrow and get back on track.

Yeah, but everyone at my house was saying it in the 5th. She had lost command She was frustrated on the one walk. Her curve didn’t seem to have much break.

I’m not trying to knock her. She has been pitching pretty well, but it looked obvious to me that she should have been pulled earlier.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:13 am**

Postmaster wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 12:16 am
AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:41 pm It's easy for us to say take Bowen out now.

Kick Beaver ass tomorrow and get back on track.
Yeah, but everyone at my house was saying it in the 5th. She had lost command She was frustrated on the one walk. Her curve didn’t seem to have much break.

I’m not trying to knock her. She has been pitching pretty well, but it looked obvious to me that she should have been pulled earlier.

IMNSHO, Hannah didn't look any different in this game than in either of her two shutouts in the prior two weeks. She pitched out of trouble in more innings than were easy!!

And. I think Caitlin, justifiably, agreed at the time!!

Hanah Bowen worked into and out of trouble all game. She had a runner in scoring position in the first inning, then gave up the go-ahead run in the fourth. After Palacios gave her the lead in the top of the fifth, Bowen promptly walked two batters and hit a third to load the bases in the bottom of the inning.

Bowen escaped the jam in the bottom of the fifth and was sent back out in the bottom of the sixth with her team still leading by one. A walk and a single put two on with no outs for Karli Petty, who sent the 2-2 pitch out of the park and gave the Cowgirls the 4-2 lead.

Bowen has worked out of jams all postseason. So, there was no thought given to removing her after the fifth.

“I thought when she got out of (the fifth inning), it rolled her into the next one, and I thought she had the stuff to get through them,” Arizona head coach Caitlin Lowe said. “Really...they capitalized on one pitch. We’ve been living on that one pitch this entire postseason, and they had it tonight.”

https://www.azdesertswarm.com/softball/ ... n-palacios

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:50 am**

Hanah has always had control issues. Lowe made the right choice in keeping her in the game. You go with your best pitcher. I would rather have Hanah on the mound in a one-run game rather than a young Netz.
The game is over and now all focus on Oregon State.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:12 am**

Tough loss - the team battled hard and Bowen's wildness finally caught up with her. Frustrating because a lot of those walks came after she got ahead of the batter.

No matter what happens, I'm still proud of this team overcoming a tough regular season to get to the WCWS.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:50 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:39 pm**

Great first inning for Netz

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:55 pm**

Not so great second.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:05 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:06 pm**

Tie game!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:14 pm**

Scupin!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:14 pm**

Woo hoo!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:18 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:34 pm**

Why did we bring in wild Bowen??!!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:40 pm**

That was a strikeout - bad call!!!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:41 pm**

Well shit...what do I know?

Great job ladies beating the Beavs and staying alive!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:41 pm**

Survive and advance

2 and BBQ Beavs!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:41 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:42 pm**

Good win!!

Survive and advance!!

BEAR DOWN ARIZONA!!!!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:43 pm**

Damn, we sure made that an interesting win! Glad Bowen was able to close it out, but the defense really got the win for us tonight with a few amazing catches.

On to Sunday. Keep fighting Cats!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:47 pm**

Yeeaah! Proud of this team!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:49 pm**

Nice win. One game at a time.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:50 pm**

pc in NM wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:40 pm That was a strikeout - bad call!!!

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that. That ump’s zone got more and more inconsistent as the night went on. Around the 4th, I was complimenting him. Good on the ladies for moving on!!!

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:52 pm**

We've got either Texas or Oklahoma next. We'll have an extra day of rest over whoever it is. Let's go Cats!!!

Posted: **Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:55 am**

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:52 pm We've got either Texas or Oklahoma next. We'll have an extra day of rest over whoever it is. Let's go Cats!!!

Let's hope it's Texas. I doubt anyone is beating Oklahoma, but at the least I would like a shot at em in the Finals.

Posted: **Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:00 am**

CopaCat wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:55 am
Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:52 pm We've got either Texas or Oklahoma next. We'll have an extra day of rest over whoever it is. Let's go Cats!!!
Let's hope it's Texas. I doubt anyone is beating Oklahoma, but at the least I would like a shot at em in the Finals.

Nah!! I'd love to send the Sooners home from the losers' bracket!!! BEAR DOWN!!!

(NOTE: See my quote below!!!)

Posted: **Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:02 am**

Siempre Verde wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:50 pm
pc in NM wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:40 pm That was a strikeout - bad call!!!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that. That ump’s zone got more and more inconsistent as the night went on. Around the 4th, I was complimenting him. Good on the ladies for moving on!!!

Mariah Mazon was getting low outside strike calls, especially against righties, all night!!!

Posted: **Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:04 am**

The one thing consistent with college softball is the inconsistent calls from the home-plate umpire. If there is a sport that should use the computerized strike zone, it's college softball.
Finally, when Meono bats for the first time in every game, she should purposely erase the inside part of the batter's box. It's basically gone anyway by the end of the second inning.

Posted: **Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:50 am**

Good call Irish. Every game she gets called out for leaving the box it appears.

She also swings at bad pitches, she needs to work on that as a leadoff batter.

Posted: **Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:24 pm**

Yeah
If she is stepping out of box, she is probably swinging at a Ball.
I’m so surprised that this is still an issue this last in season. But maybe it doesn’t get called during regular season.

I think that happened to Fowler, went all season with nobody saying anything about her delivery, then got to post season and the umps started calling it.

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:12 pm**

Well I hope Bowen gets that inside call too

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:15 pm**

Postmaster wrote: ↑Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:12 pm Well I hope Bowen gets that inside call too

Hell yes!!!

The refs have been atrocious!!!

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:24 pm**

Hannah’s pain looked more bothersome in that first inning than anytime in the postseason…

BEAR DOWN HANNAH!!!!

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:54 pm**

Ugh. Down 1-0.

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:00 pm**

What exactly is Bowen's injury?

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:04 pm**

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:00 pm What exactly is Bowen's injury?

I think they said it was her hip.

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:11 pm**

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:12 pm**

How did she only get to 2nd on that?

Posted: **Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:15 pm**

Need more runs

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