Wolfpack Baseball Headed to Fort Worth

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During a strong showing in Durham this past week, which saw Wolfpack Baseball (34-21, 18-15 ACC) sweep thru their Pool B brethren at the 2015 ACC Baseball Championship but fall one game short of bringing home the hardware on Sunday, the Pack9 continued to improve its NCAA Tournament resume considerably, and as a result has earned itself a #2 seed for the upcoming NCAA Baseball Tournament.

Winners of 13 of its past 16 games, the Pack enters the tournament playing its best ball of the year and will begin its quest to return to Omaha by heading to the Fort Worth Regional, where they will open up play by facing the #3 seeded Stony Brook Seawolves on Friday at 2:30pm.  Regional host and #1 seeded TCU (#7 overall national seed) will face #4 seed Sacred Heart in the other opening game of the four team double elimination bracket.

 

#STATEMENT: Ft. Worth! #Pack9 headed to TCU’s regional, joining Stony Brook and Sacred Heart.

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Should the Pack manage to prevail in Fort Worth, they would likely remain in Texas for the Super Regionals, as the Fort Worth Regional is paired with the College Station Regional (Texas A&M).

Time to make Tejas the Pack’s bitch.

And while the Pack will have to become road warriors to advance thru this year’s bracket, by all accounts they are a confident bunch in spite of Sunday’s championship game loss.

This loss wasn’t bitter for NC State baseball team (NewsObserver.com)

N.C. State came so far, so fast at the end of this season, culminating in a 3-0 run through pool play in Durham that included wins over Notre Dame and Miami, that falling short didn’t sting like it might have otherwise.

“This weekend, it kind of showed everybody on the team that we could win the tight games,” N.C. State catcher Andrew Knizner said. “When we play with confidence, we can compete with anybody in the country – beating Miami, who’s top five or whatever they are. It gives us confidence going into a regional that we can play with the best teams in the country.”

No, this team still feels pretty good about things heading into the NCAA tournament, and for good reason despite Sunday’s loss. Whatever sour taste was left from last season, the bitter sting of what might have been, has been washed away. Down the stretch, this team has been nothing but sweet.

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So, for those of us who are still clinging to the bitter taste of Sunday’s defeat, let’s take a page from the team itself and get our minds right.  There’s still baseball to be played, hopefully a lot, and one never knows what this team might be capable of.

And besides….

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As an aside, Congrats to both Louisville (#3) and Miami (#5) for earning national seeds.

As another aside, Carolina did not make the field as one of the first four out.

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Go Pack!!!!

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  • 05/27/2015 at 1:41 PM #86617
    PackerInRussia
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    05/27/2015 at 2:23 PM #86620
    golf76
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    FIFA hit with “lack of institutional control” by NCAA.

    05/27/2015 at 8:27 PM #86626
    Adventuroo
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    Question for the DirecTv folks. At home I have TWC, but on the road, DirecTV HD. From what I gather, Friday’s game will be on ESPN3….which is, I think, the Internet version.

    ESPNU is doing “bases loaded” and will whip around all the games.

    Is there a DirecTV channel that WILL carry the Friday’s game….or is it ESPNU or the Internet?

    Thanks,

    05/27/2015 at 9:43 PM #86628
    13OT
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    I’ve had DirecTV for years, but don’t ever remember them setting aside extra free channels like they do for the major PGA events or the major tennis events.

    I saw a tv schedule for the regionals and not one of the games appeared listed on anything but ESPN3.

    I’m not very computer or internet savvy, but it looks like ESPN3 might as well be like ESPNU was for years- Unavailable.

    ESPN ought to rename ESPNU as ESPN3, and simply quit trying to make these ESPN “3” games appear to be available. If it’s not on DirecTV, chances are that it’s not on tv anywhere, unless perhaps you pay someone extra $$ to get it on the internet.

    I don’t know what this Charter-TWC marriage will bring, but it probably won’t be good news. I use TWC for internet and phone, but refuse to complete the bundle with their cable. I do like to watch MLB and giving up DirecTV and switching to TWC would, for starters, cost me over 300 Orioles-Nationals games, which wouldn’t be available even on the MLB Package offered by TWC. Maybe Charter can settle with MASN to get these two teams on area TWC cable. Maybe not.

    I’m as old-school as they come. I use a rooftop antenna for my local channels, which gets me all the over-the-air channels in the Triangle and Triad (most which aren’t available on satellite like ME TV), and still have a tube tv, a Sony 34″ XBR, which is a wide screen and to me the still the best HD tv I’ve seen. But as I get older, the screen seems to get smaller. A 52″ UHD tv is in my future, and it will be financed by not buying season football tickets this year.

    Go Pack!

    05/27/2015 at 11:39 PM #86630
    Wufpacker
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    ^ As of 2 or 3 months ago, ESPN3 is available to DirecTV subscribers.

    05/28/2015 at 9:17 AM #86638
    Adventuroo
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    Wufpacker

    Don’t argue that…..I can not find the channel listing and when I search espn3 on the DirecTV site, it comes up empty handed.

    If someone could post the DirecTV channel number for Friday’s game, I would appreciate it.

    Thanks,

    05/28/2015 at 10:13 AM #86640
    13OT
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    I’m not familiar with ESPN3 being available to me on DirecTV, although it may well be. I don’t subscribe to any of their extra pay/premium packages.

    I just checked the grid for upcoming sports programs and could find only the ongoing French Open extra channels, an upcoming PGA event, and the usual MLB games on the MLB pay package. There appears to be nothing else. Since ESPN has taken control of most college sports, the regional Fox sports cable affiliates are no longer showing any significant games involving (at least) the “power” conferences.

    I don’t have an ax to grind with ESPN, but it seems to me that the more they control sports coverage, the less choices we subscribers have. The fact that ESPNU can “whiparound” all the games this weekend tells me that if it were allowed, subscribers could access any of these games they desired, at least pay-wise. But politics, as usual, seems to be in control. Almost every game out there, as well as any station in the USA, is on satellite. Why is it that I’m prevented from getting something I’m willing to pay extra for, when it’s available at the push of a button? Why is it that if I want to watch, say, a CBS affiliate in NYC or LA, the local CBS affiliate says I can’t, even when they pre-empt CBS programming during that time?

    So, as far as I can tell, there is no DirecTV channel this weekend, or at least for Friday, that will carry the State-SB game, or any of the others, except ESPNU’s “whiparound” coverage.

    05/28/2015 at 1:00 PM #86641
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    If you have a laptop, or computer that is close to your TV, try going to the ESPN3 site first then it should prompt you as to which cable service you have. I have Dish TV and except for the slow speed, due to being satellite internet, it works ok. Just connect your computer to the TV with a RGB cable once you have it over the internet. You will have to change your input source on the TV which is typically done with the buttons on the side of screen.

    05/28/2015 at 4:09 PM #86645
    Wufpacker
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    Adventuroo wrote:

    Wufpacker

    Don’t argue that…..I can not find the channel listing and when I search espn3 on the DirecTV site, it comes up empty handed.

    If someone could post the DirecTV channel number for Friday’s game, I would appreciate it.

    Thanks,

    There is no actual channel on your TV that I know of that is carrying our game other than the occasional update on the ESPNU whiparound.

    As WolftownVA81 alluded to above, you won’t find the ESPN3 programming on channels on your cable/satellite system. It is available to subscribers of certain cable/satellite providers, but it is a streaming video website. Typically, whatever login you use for your provider’s website is the same login you use to access ESPN3 or WatchESPN (which is the mobile app version to watch ESPN3 and other ESPN programming). If you’ve never gone to your provider’s website to start an online account/login, then you likely will need to do that first.

    As 81 has said, when you go to the ESPN3 website it will ask you which provider you use…I know DirecTV is in the mix. Pretty sure TWC is as well. Beyond that, Cox Cable in Arizona is the only other one I know for sure that has access, but I think most of the bigger ones do.

    And again, hat tip to 81, because you can generally use any one of an RGB, HDMI or even a VGA cable to route it to your bigger TV from a laptop, depending on your computer’s external capabilities/jacks.

    It really is easier than it sounds.

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