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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Beach Falls To 17th In RPI On Loss To USC

In a 4 hour, 39 minute marathon last night, the Dirtbags fell to USC 5-4 in 11 innings. [LongBeachState.com Story - Box Score]. This from the LongBeachState.com story gives the "flavor" of the game:

The four hour and 39 minute game combined for 30 hits and 27 left on base, as 39 players were used in the contest. The game also saw eight runners thrown out on the bases patches, four by the outfielders, including three by LBSU leftfielder Danny Mocny and two each by the team's catching cores. Both teams also combined for five errors.

In taking the loss, the Beach fell from 16th to 17th in RPI. Here's the top 25 psuedo-RPIs current through this morning as calculated by Boyd's World (no official RPIs are released by the NCAA until after the season):

           Division I   Overall
Rank Rating   W   L      W   L    Team    

1    0.625   48   9     48   9   Tulane
2    0.624   43  13     43  13   Texas
3    0.622   41  16     41  16   Mississippi
4    0.617   39  16     39  16   Georgia Tech
5    0.615   37  20     37  20   Baylor
6    0.614   40  13     40  13   Cal State Fullerton
7    0.614   38  16     38  16   Miami, Florida
8    0.613   40  16     40  16   North Carolina
9    0.612   37  20     37  20   Clemson
10   0.611   40  15     40  15   North Carolina State
11   0.609   39  18     39  18   Florida
12   0.606   44  12     44  12   College of Charleston
13   0.602   41   9     41   9   Oregon State
14   0.599   45  12     45  12   Coastal Carolina
15   0.598   38  19     38  19   Louisiana State
16   0.595   35  18     35  18   Southern California
17   0.593   36  20     36  20   Long Beach State
18   0.593   32  24     32  24   Auburn
19   0.589   37  19     37  19   Arkansas
20   0.588   48  16     49  16   Florida State
21   0.587   31  22     31  22   Arizona State
22   0.585   30  25     30  25   Georgia
23   0.585   38  19     38  19   South Carolina
24   0.584   34  21     34  21   Vanderbilt
25   0.582   46  13     46  13   Nebraska

And here are game results from yesterday for top 25 RPI teams:

Dirtbags (#17) 4, USC (#16) 5
Tulane (#1) 8, Alabama-Birmingham 6
Oklahoma State 10, Texas (#2) 4
Mississippi (#3) 3, Alabama 1
Georgia Tech (#4) 9, Wake Forest 8
Baylor (#5) 2, Kansas 1
North Carolina State (#10), Miami (Florida) (#7) 1
Florida State (#20) 3, North Carolina (#8) 2
Virginia 8, Clemson (#9) 1
Florida (#11) 9, Arkansas (#19) 8
Furman 9, College of Charleston (#12) 7
Mississippi State 9, LSU (#15) 2
South Carolina (#23) 12, Tennessee 2
Texas Tech 5, Nebraska (#25) 3

posted on 5/26/2005 by Jeff Agnew

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