2013 Year in Review

Starting off 17-0 didn't really surprise me. Losing to Central Arkansas twice did. But all those teams were good teams in their own right. Some games were very competitive.

If there is one big disappointment in March and April is losing close SEC games. Usually it was leaving runners in scoring position bc our pitching was great. I hate losing to LSU. Now that they comments they made about losing to them for 7 years? straight really makes me sick. We have got to start winning series in SEC play against the better teams.

The first turning point was winning a series versus Florida. Then we swept Texas A and M. This is when Pirtle started doing better, started at 2B and started batting cleanup.

Again, we needed to win one versus Vanderbilt at Nashville and couldn't do it.

The last big disappointment was losing 2 to Ole Miss. But we came back in the 3rd game and that gave us a lift that carried for a while.

Winning the series versus South Carolina solidified our hosting a regional. We needed at least one more series win to be a National Seed.

In the postseason, we played in 5 tournaments, the most anyone can play in. John Cohen stated that the 2012 SECT prepared this team for 2013. It's all about playing in tournaments.

I thought we did great in the SECT. Vanderbilts bats just came alive but I was glad not to play anymore. We didn't need to get worn down.

I would love to find out the reasoning about the teams in our regional. Every major writer said we have the toughest one. But by now, we are a hardened group and we survived.

We could smell Omaha at this point and in the first game versus Virginia we took it to them. Smashed them in the mouth. Seemed like we were there an eternity with all the rain....

The next tournament was the CWS. We played our brand of ball, had enough rest time in between and won all three. What came back to haunt us was Graveman pitching on Friday and not getting any rest to pitch in the championship series.

The last tournament was the National Championship Series which is seperate for the CWS if you didn't know. It said the CWS lasted until the 22nd. NCS started on the 24th. Losing the first game was it. We couldn't recover.

The best season we ever had. I really think that sentence won't last long. In the next few years, we will be saying that again.