SAN FRANCISCO - Six Pac-12 programs were selected to the 2021 NCAA Baseball Championship on Monday, including Conference champion ARIZONA, OREGON and STANFORD among the top-16 national seeds to host regional play.
The Pac-12's six bids are tied for the second-most in Conference history (2011, 2015), trailing only the eight berths in 2010.
It also marks the second straight NCAA Baseball postseason and the sixth time since national seeding began in 1999 the league had at least three regional hosts (2002, 2011, 2012 - 4, 2013, 2019, 2021).
ARIZONA (40-15) earned the No. 5 overall national seed and will host Oklahoma State, UC Santa Barbara and Grand Canyon. The Wildcats won the Pac-12 regular-season title outright with the second-most Conference wins in program history (21-9) to earn the automatic bid for their first postseason since 2017.
STANFORD (33-14) received the No. 9 seed and will face UC Irvine, Nevada and North Dakota State. It is the Cardinal's fourth consecutive postseason bid, serving as a regional host in all four, and 36th in program history.
OREGON (37-14) was awarded the No. 14 seed and will welcome Central Connecticut, Gonzaga and LSU. The Ducks return to the NCAA Championship for the first time since 2015 and will host for the first time since 2013.
A trio of Pac-12 selections will travel to the state of Texas as the second seeds within their regional sites.
UCLA (35-18) will be the second seed at No. 8 national seed Texas Tech's regional, opening against North Carolina with Army rounding out the Lubbock site.
ARIZONA STATE (32-20) also grabbed a second seed within No. 2 national seed Texas' regional, joined by Fairfield and Southern in the Austin quartet.
OREGON STATE (34-22) rounds out the Conference's six selections with a trip to Fort Worth and No. 6 national seed TCU along with Dallas Baptist and McNeese.
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CHILLICOTHE — The Beaver Local and East Liverpool are racing to see who gets to the state track meet first.
The Beavers qualified in six events and the Potters in three events at the Chillicothe Division II regional meet at Southeastern High School.
Beaver Local sophomore Caleb is a four-time state qualifier and won three regional titles on Saturday, while East Liverpool senior Cameron Beverly advanced in two events with a regional title in the high jump.
White was first in the in the 100-meter dash (10.99 seconds) and second in the 200 dash (22.46).
He also joined senior Tanner Johnston, junior Joe Monte and sophomore Zane Kinsey 400 relay (43.62) and senior Dylan Moore, Monte and Kinsey on the 800 relay teams that also captured regional championships in times of 43.62 seconds and 1:30.63, respectively.
Kinsey added a second-place finish in the 300 hurdles (40.27). Monte advanced with a fourth-place finish in the long jump Thursday.
The Beavers were regional runners-up in the team standings with 51 points, five behind West Holmes.
Beverly was first in the high jump (6-6) and third in the 110 hurdles (a personal-best 15.62). His first miss in the high jump came at 6-4.
East Liverpool senior Brannan Smith also reached state after placing second in the 800 run (1:58.85). He scratched from the 1600 run.
The top four in each event advance to the Division II state meet this Friday and Saturday at Pickerington North High School.
Beaver Local junior Kodi Kinsey advanced to state after a tightly-contested competition in the girls long jump.
She was one of the three jumpers at 16-feet-3 seeking the final two state berths and two others were at 16-2. Placements are made on the next-best jumps.
Kinsey’s last four jumps went over 16-2 and they were needed.
The competition was so close that Minerva senior Julie White was seventh (16-2) and Minerva junior Abby Wheeler was 10th (15-10).
Kinsey came up short of state in her three running events — finishing sixth in the 100 hurdles (16.05), seventh in the 300 hurdles (49.61) and eighth in the 200 dash (27.20).
The Minerva boys had four state qualifiers Saturday.
Junior Connor Shingleton was third in the 800 run (2:00.24) and third in the 1600 run (4:26.80).
Senior Garrison Markins was third in the 100 dash (11.19) and joined fellow seniors Detmetrias Evans, Chance Martineau and Deston Kropf on the third-place 400 relay team (44.70).
Evans, Martineau, Markins and Shingleton were sixth in the 1600 relay (3:36.59).
The Minerva girls had six other regional finalists — junior Jenna Cassidy was fifth (5:24.02) and sophomore Hera Hoffee eighth (5:39.82) in the 1600 run; sophomore Caitlyn Hopple was seventh (12:15.54) and junior Madeline Crissman eighth (12:21.71) in the 3200 run; senior Julie White was eighth in the 300 hurdles (50.02); senior Aubrey Dunham was 10th in the 800 run (2:32:30).
Six months ago, Department of Natural Resources officers carefully caught a mangy little coyote in a net near the Decas School and brought her to the Cape Wildlife Center.
Last week, ‘Lucky’ was finally strong enough to be released back into the wild.
Community members and Natural Resources officers had been concerned about the little animal for some time before her capture, but many previous attempts to humanely trap the animal had been unsuccessful.
By day, Lucky ate fallen apples near the school, and at night, she was often seen exploring Wareham Crossing.
Luckily, an officer spotted the animal sleeping in a pile of hay. The wind rustling the trees was enough to cover the sound of the officer quietly approaching and netting the animal.
“We can say due to her condition at the time, her deteriorating health was not in this coyotes favor,” the Department wrote on Facebook. “With six months of quality care at this amazing facility we were given the ok to assist in releasing Lucky back into the wild today!”
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – How do you take the sizzle out of a Space Coast summer day?
Try sipping a pint of cold craft beer. But only after earning it with some exercise.
Since 2016, the Running Zone, Melbourne’s retail center for all things running, has hosted the Summer Brewery & Running Tour, with weekly stops at craft breweries across Brevard, according to News 6 partners Florida Today.
Last year’s free tour was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Denise Piercy of the Running Zone Foundation said she was eager to revive the tradition.
“We couldn’t wait to be able to continue it,” she said. “The breweries are so excited about it, too.”
The six weekly runs and walks start Tuesday at Bugnutty Brewing Co. in Cocoa Village and end July 6 at Dirty Oar Beer Co., also in Cocoa Village.
It’s free to participate. The Running Zone team sets up the three-mile route at each location and provides water. Each brewery offers specials for participants.
While there’s no cost to participate, and registration is not required, Piercy said this year the Running Zone is offering a VIP package. For $30, runners and walkers will get a commemorative T-shirt and a pint glass. The shirt features a map of Brevard highlighting the location of each participating brewery. The dates of each run are on the back of the shirt.
“We thought it was kind of a fun idea,” Piercy said, “like a concert tour, with all the concert dates on it. Because we all missed it so much last year, we wanted to make it extra special.”
Runners who register can check in each week to receive electronic badges.
Shirts and pint glasses can be picked up after June 2 at the Running Zone, 3696 N. Wickham Road, Melbourne.
More than 100 runners have already signed up.
“I’m so excited for the Summer Brewery Tour,” said Kevin Charles of Suntree. “I have done it previously and it was very nice. It’s a great way to support our local breweries, re-connect with old friends and find new friends.”
Shelley and Scott Sutherland of Rockledge will be participating for the first time this year.
“Summer running can be brutal, but when you add a cold beer from one of our local breweries…it’s not so bad,” Shelley said. “My husband and I have been looking forward to the Summer Brewery Tour. Run, beer, friends. It doesn’t get any better than that.”
The Running Zone hosts races most weekends the rest of the year, so the fun runs give people a chance to get together during the summer and take advantage of the season’s later sunsets, Piercy said.
“The mix of heat, beer, sweat, beer, friends, beer is what I’m looking forward to the most,” Sutherland said. “Oh yeah, and the run too.”
Summer Brewery & Running Tour schedule
The events are at 6:30 each Tuesday, June 1-July 6. Here’s the schedule:
June 1, Bugnutty Brewing Co., 225 King St., Unit B, Cocoa Village
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Twenty riders were rescued Saturday from a roller coaster that stopped in the middle of a ride at the Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme park in San Antonio.
The San Antonio Fire Department was called around noon about park guests trapped on a stopped ride, department Public Information Officer Joe Arrington told Fox News. No injuries were reported and crews were "actively removing the customers," he said.
In a statement to FOX affiliate KABB-TV, Jeff Filicko, the marketing and communications manager for the park, said the ‘Poltergeist’ ride stopped around 11:55 a.m. in the middle of the experience.
"In cooperation with the San Antonio Fire Department, we safely escorted all twenty guests from the ride," he said.
The ride will remain closed while it undergoes a full inspection, Filicko added. The roller coaster was introduced to the park in 1999 and lasts just over one minute, according to the Fiesta Texas website.
The White Sox had a pattern all weekend long of close contests vs. the Orioles (who pitched FAR better than advertised, well done Brownies), only to come through in the latter third of games with the winning or insurance runs to seal the deal. For the first time in 65 years, the club swept Baltimore in Chicago, and that’s saying something given the long and unfortunate history the White Sox seem to have against the Orioles. Let’s break down the fourth in a series.
The Starters
My my, Lucas Giolito is back. Not that he ever really left, but mmm mmm, he is chucking it as we enter the middle third of the season. The ace went seven innings, giving up just one earned run (a homer), three hits, three walks, and 12 strikeouts. His game score was a very solid 73.
Don’t pay too much attention to the velo below, but look at that spin. Giolito’s slider — a release-point correction made a couple of games or so ago — is back, so watch out, AL. Here’s his 108-pitch breakdown:
Baseball Savant
Keegan Akin didn’t overwhelm in his first career start, but he limited damage to just one earned run, so the effort was a success, for sure. Over 4 2⁄3 innings, Akin gave up five hits and two walks against four Ks. Like Giolito, his sole misstep was a solo homer, as Billy Hamilton has found his power stroke.
Akin may have sacrifice pitch crispness to shoulder a longer load that usual in this game, because nothing from his 94-pitch, 49-game score start leaps out as impressive:
Giolito induced 28 swing-and-misses in the game, more than double Akin’s 13. In fact, ever other pitcher in the game accumulated just 20 swing-and-misses.
There were just two hard-hit balls off of Giolito, five off of Akin. Baltimore had just three hard-hit balls in the entire game.
Pressure Play
With the bases full in a 1-1 game, Lucas Giolito got Makiel Franco to pop a 1-2 changeup out to Zack Collins, 4.26 LI pressure that was tops in the game.
Pressure Cooker
It may have been in part his own doing, but Adam Plutko faced the greatest pressure in the game (2.50 pLI), and lived to tell the tale. He entered the game and walked José Abreu in the fifth inning, filling the bases, but then got Yermín Mercedes to ground out and end the White Sox threat. Plutko started the sixth with a strikeout of Andrew Vaughn before hanging his glove up for the game.
Top Play
Billy Hamilton’s solo homer in the bottom of the third, tying the game 1-1, was worth .123 WPA — .004 more than D.J. Stewart’s homer in the top of the inning.
Top Performer
In a game without a lot of overwhelming offensive outputs, Lucas Giolito cruised as tops in the game, with a .315 WPA over his seven innings. No one else was close.
Smackdown
Hardest hit: Yoán Moncada kilt a seventh-inning single (111.3 mph) to center off of Dillon Tate, bringing in the final run of the game. The hit was 7.5 mph harder than any other ball in the game.
Weakest contact: That key pressure point of the game, Franco’s weak pop out to end the sixth? It was also the game’s weakest non-bunt contact, at just 54.3 mph. Trey Mancini had a pop out against Giolito that was nearly as soft, so the White Sox ace was frustrating some O’s today.
Luckiest hit: With two outs in the third, with the White Sox already having tied the game with a ... is this right? ... Billy Hamilton homer ... Moncada tapped a soft grounder to first for an infield hit, carrying a .110 xBA. At. 71.5 mph, Moncada takes honors for hardest and softest hits of Sunday’s game.
Toughest out: Again as referenced above, Adam Plutko dug out a hole with the sacks packed in the fifth by inducing a fielder’s choice from Yermín Mercedes to escape — but it wasn’t a cheapie. Mercedes crushed that grounder to short at 102.8 mph, a ball that carried an .860 xBA.
Longest hit: Neither of the homers in Sunday’s game were the longest hits. Instead, mini-mite Nick Madrigal, in a category you definitely thought he’d never win once, takes the prize, as his first-inning fly out to the power alley in left-center traveled 387 feet (and had a .590 xBA, so the screamer was well played by center fielder Cedric Mullins.
Magic Number: 7.71
Jimmy Lambert, by merit or turn in the rotation, comes up from Charlotte tomorrow as the 27th man for the doubleheader in Cleveland, starting one of the contests. Lambert had a strong showing in 2020 Summer Camp and made his MLB debut, briefly, before forearm soreness shut him down for the year. In five Knights starts this season, Lambert has a 7.71 ERA and is averaging just 2 1⁄3 innings. So this is an opener situation, with Michael Kopech potentially taking the lion’s share of innings if activated off of the bereavement list on Monday.
Glossary
Hard-hit is any ball off the bat at 95 mph or more LI measures pressure per play pLI measures total pressure faced in game Whiff a swing-and-miss WPA win probability added measures contributions to the win xBA expected batting average
Poll
Who was the White Sox MVP of Sunday’s 3-1 triumph over Baltimore?
97%
Lucas Giolito: 7 IP, 3 H, ER, HR, 3 BB, 12 K, WP, WIN, .315 WPA
(45 votes)
0%
Tim Anderson: 2-for-4, game-winning run, SB, .163 WPA
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