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*****Official Regional Games Thread. #2 IOWA vs #3 N. Carolina at #14 Overall Seed Indiana St (Terre Haute) Regional (June 4, 11 am CT, ESPN+) *****

Dallas Baptist. Wow.
Up 18-1 over host Okie State, bottom of 7th in elimination game.

I would have rather seen DBU (Heller hates how they manipulate the RPI) lose but no tears being shed for a Big 12 Regional host going 0-2.

Same thing for SEC Auburn. Who would’ve thought that a team that closed the season 4-11 would go 0-2 as a Regional host? Suck it SEC.
 
Radio guy just said Indiana State hasn't seen a pitcher anything like Brody Brecht.

They said Heller is all business (he's not thinking about his time at ISU).

The stadium is FULL.

They brought up the key is Iowa scoring 5 runs. Iowa is 43-2 when scoring 5 or more runs and 0-12 when it scores 4 or fewer.
 
Let’s Go Hawkeyes.

Channeling last night’s good karma and broke open a Toppling Goliath Assassin. Tonight definitely qualifies as a night to bust it open.

Fingers crossed that Brecht brings his A game tonight.

Cheers all.
It would be preferable to the "early outings of Wild Thing Rick Vaughn" version we occasionally get with Brody.......................

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Rick Heller mentioned Ty started the game vs Indiana State in Feb. He said if Brody can get the win tonight, we're sitting there w/ Ty to advance to the Supers. He thinks pitching Brody tonight is the right plan.

Rick on Indiana State: solid, well coached, play well defensively, their pitchers throw strikes. They make you earn everything.

Rick said we saw Fenlong over 5 innings in Feb. Rick said Fenlong gets a lot of weak contact & doesn't strike out many. Iowa saw a lot of cutters last night; Rick said this should help us tonight. Facing Fenlong in Feb should help Iowa, too. Fenlong was the Missouri Valley Pitcher of the year

Rick said the goal is to jump on Fenlong early and give Brody some cushion to pitch with

Rick's keys to victory:

* Brody giving a good start, eliminating FREE BASES.
* Brody getting to the 6th or 7th, to give the bullpen a break
* Being relentless in our at bats.
 
Some Elimination Game FINAL SCORES from today:

18 Dallas Baptist
4 Oklahoma State (#11 overall seed)

7 Southern Miss
2 Auburn (#13 overall seed)

12 Coastal Carolina (#10 overall seed)
2 UNC Wilmington

0 Wright State
5 North Carolina (plays Iowa/ISU LOSER tomorrow at 11:00 am CT)
 
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