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Today we’re talking astir nan gem sports and really 1 is still kicking while nan other… not truthful much.
We’ll commencement pinch Mizzou Softball, which kept its fledgling postseason hopes live by going up against 1 of nan champion pitchers successful nan state and scraping their measurement backmost to a .500 record. From Karen’s analysis (Dylan wrote nan recap connected Saturday):
So hats disconnected to nan Missouri Tigers; they sewage it done, and now nan outlook is looking overmuch rosier. Win 1 crippled successful nan SEC Tournament and you’re into NCAA Tournament and we tin prevention that uncomfortable chitchat astir what’s been going connected pinch this programme nan past fewer seasons for different day. That, and I won’t person to stock nan NCAA tourney appearances photograph of halfway section pinch a glaring spread successful it wherever nan years 2025 & 2026 should be.
“You return everything we said we needed to activity connected successful nan past games, and we bottled it up and put it together successful this game,” Mizzou caput coach Larissa Anderson said connected Saturday afternoon.
So now nan Tigers request to triumph astatine slightest 1 crippled successful nan SEC Tournament to make nan postseason. You cognize I deliberation I’ll spell retired connected a limb - they should triumph much than one! I deliberation that should do nan trick.
On nan different broadside of things, well… let’s conscionable opportunity nan image isn’t arsenic rosey. Kam Durnin homered doubly to headdress a .500 series, but nan Tigers still sewage whooped 14-4 to driblet their 3rd consecutive crippled and driblet to 21-26 connected nan play and 4-20 successful convention play. They’ll adjacent their location slate against Vanderbilt adjacent weekend. The Commodores, usually a powerhouse, person struggled this season. Perhaps a bully opportunities for nan Tigers to stitchery immoderate momentum heading into nan last play bid against Texas?
Yesterday astatine Rock M and Rock M+
The incoming 5th year, who spent nan 2026 connected nan sidelines aft a season-ending little assemblage wounded and consequent surgery, entered nan portal connected April 6, citing nan desire to prosecute caller world and diversion opportunities. In 3 years successful Corvallis, Jennifer was chiefly a bars and beam master pinch profession highs of 9.95 connected bars and 9.925 connected beam.
You cognize you’re a apical programme erstwhile you’re adding numbers for illustration that conscionable to information retired nan squad.
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