its monday...and were still here

as bad as this sounds-i packed clothes for 5 days for both my husband and i. we never imagined the gamecocks would be here this long. we hoped they would but never thought it. we are still here and today marks the start of the championship round. tonight at 7:10pm the gamecocks with face off against the florida gators. battle of the SEC. its very exciting to be a part of this all... the games have been so good. they played texas a&m the first game on sunday the 19. in the first inning both teams put up 4 runs and it wouldnt be until the 9th inning in which they would score the game winning run. the final was 4-5 gamecocks. the next game was against virginia. they were ranked 1 coming into the CWS series. the cocks were vistors this game-to me that means put up as many runs possible to hold that lead. in the first inning the cocks scored 3 runs. virginia would go scoreless until the 4th where they scored 1 run. the score at that point was 6-1. i was still so nervous. in the top of 8 they scored one more run and held them at 7-1. winning that game we had 2 days off. virginia faced cal to make it back to the winners bracket. in all honesty i was rooting for cal as my second choice. i wanted them to go far in the tourny due to the lack of support by the school-they lost which meant we would face virginia again on friday. if they won we would face them for a 3 game. the game went to the 13th inning. it was the CRAZIEST game i have ever been to. in the second inning virginia scored a run and two innings later in the 4th virginia took there lights out pitcher out of the game due to illness. he was DOMINATING! seriously-DOMINATING! we have heard he had the flu and was vomiting in the dugout but also witnessed a twitch in his pitching had which may have meant he was hurt. either way he left the game and the cocks scored 2. it would stay 1-2 until the top of 8 where virginia would score the tying run. the game would have bases loaded by both teams for 3 innings straight where they got out of it. finally in the top of 13 the cocks double played to get out of the inning-heading to the bottom of 13 matt price (our closer) was at 110 pitches. we needed to score!! he couldnt do it again-there was no way! the wahoos brought in a new pitcher. thomas singled to center. thennnn they pinch ran mathews for him. mooney bunted for a fielders choice and was safe. they beary bunted again and reached on a fielders choice and the ball was thrown away at third to score mathews for the winning run... they won! it was SO INTENSE!

GO COCKS!!!

tonight we play florida to start a need to win 2 games series. florida is coming to the series having never won a CWS championship and south carolina is coming to the series to defend there title. hopefully the cocks can pull this one out! watch for me. im 3 for 3 on making the espn cut! hahah. good day bloggers!