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  1. A solid showing by the team again this past weekend, and they got their first MAC win, first home win and first MAC/home win for Coach Faulds. Zippys have a problem in the early innings of every game it seems like, and they get in a hole that's hard t dig out of. Went to Saturday's game, and it got very exciting when the boys scored 6 runs to take the lead, but relief pitching killed them in the 9th inning for the loss. Yesterday was too cold for us, and didn't know the game was changed to 11, but saw it was changed on Instagram after church and tuned in on ESPN+. This one was much better, but our bats are pretty quiet right now. They managed to manufacture a run in the bottom of the ninth with 2 outs, without getting a hit! 2 walks, a hit batter and a passed ball scored the winner! Not pretty, but the boys needed a win and got one. Nice bunch of players, sorely lacking pitching, starts two freshman including a Stow Native, and of course Sam Seeker is a local boy as well. Bring on the warm weather please?
  2. Not nit-picking, but it was opposite, Game 1 was 6-3, Game 2 was 2-1. Bases loaded bottom of the 9th down 1, and couldn't finish it off. But both games were competitive as you said.
  3. Still doesn't say where Women's soccer will go
  4. Icing on the cake...Gorecka, Gatrall and Daniel qualify for the NCAAs! Way to go Pool Zips! These young women are very talented, and driven. Good luck in Athens, but Georgia this time instead of Ohio!
  5. BASEBALL FRIDAY!!! So happy to see the Zips return home for a game, and to see how the new staff does with these young men. Won't be back from FLA until Easter, so these early 3-game series will be viewed on ESPN+ (thank you very much!) but I'll have my Baseball Sweatshirt on and an adult beverage on hand (or in hand?). Go Zips!!!
  6. Wow Wow Wow! Zips Women win their 10th title in Swim and Dive, and it wasn't even close! We watched the finals on Friday and Saturday on the MAC live stream, which was well done. I was a little concerned looking at the performance list from the NCAA going in that Miami might give the Zips some trouble, and they do have a lot of talent, but Akron's depth (not a good swim term!) was overwhelming, as points are scored for both the Championship and the Consolation finals. By Thursday night it was obviously Akron's meet. Some great performances by Abby Daniel, who was Swimmer of the Meet, and Rachel Sabotin who was a real workhorse. Maddy Gatrall and Becca Reid were pure winners. Veronica Gorecka had an outstanding meet. One of the coolest thing was Astrid Halvorsen almost winning the 1,650 free from the third of four heats, not actually competing head-to-head with the eventual winner. I think if they had gone head-to-head Astrid would have won. The really nice story of the week was Grace Nuhfer, who is blind. She set two Paralympic event records at the meet as a Zip! And, the really really nice story is that Charles Guthrie and Jackie Walgren were both there to support the Zips on both nights. I saw video this morning of Charles jumping in the pool afterwards, holding a life preserver! This may have been the Zips most dominant Championship win of the 10.
  7. 3rd of 4 men's teams at MAC Championships. 8th out of 12 in women's. Interested to see how these results are excused by "those in the know". Kent State replaced their long-time coach Bill Lawson with an in-house selection of Nate Fanger, their throws coach, and brought back an ex-assistant coach in Mike Schoeber, and utilized recently graduated KSU athletes as assistant coaches for PV, jumps and multis. A Championship for the guys and a second for their Women. At the same time, Mitchell leaves and we bring in a coach who was supposedly a Combined expert, yet we still can't produce a heptathlete or a pentathlete indoors. If Garretson didn't have private coaching we wouldn't have won the PV. Track and field are now just "placeholder" sports for the Zips, unfortunately. I think there's enough ex-high school track athletes on campus that aren't on the team, that you could put a squad together and with a competent high school coach probably compete against our team. So Sad.
  8. This is totally outrageous. Total BS. Granted, I was in FL most of the season, but still made it to 5 home matches while visiting family, and there was absolutely no increase in attendance, at best it was equal? I do say though that Women's soccer seemed to have a better attendance, although slightly, than in past seasons at the 5 matches we attended as well. Thank you TennZip for calling this out. At this rate Mr. McFall and AD Guthrie will have us at 15,000 per game attendance for football in 2024! 😆
  9. Looking ahead on GoZips.com for the baseball schedule, I learn that there's a new school in Ohio...The Kittens aren't going to like this... Seriously, how can you make this mistake?
  10. Get ready Akron, first it was the "B" team, then the NCAA holding up eligibility, now it's the flu, the next plague will be a swarm of locusts dropping onto Stile Fieldhouse before the next meet! Then raining frogs!! Beware.....
  11. So I'm assuming that the Akron/Kent Dual meet, a Wagon Wheel Event, would be considered a "relevant" meet. So I'm assumiing we sent our "A" team. I take no pleasure in posting this:
  12. Oh! Mr. Wonderful! Thanks for enlightening us that our teams are so strong, so deep, that we have the luxury of a B TEAM! And not only that, we have a B team that is INVISIBLE! All those B team athletes that never bothered to be seen in the events we ran them in because the event was "irrelevant". I bet the other sports on campus wished they had a B team. Strong in a 4-team conference! Wow, that's reassuring. Of course, we won't know until there's an event relevant enough for us to find out. Until then the Invisible B Zips will do their part to convince other track and field athletes to attend Akron. Once again, great goal, beat three other teams. Sheesh. You know, our Championship swim team doesn't always swim their best, or they limit their best to swimming at an 80% rate. But they all compete. That's right, as I said, you don't send them out to go "all out", but they compete, so when it comes time to compete in the Big Bad 4 team MAC Championships they'll be ready. Get your head out of the long jump pit sand and go to Youngstown State, Ashland, Even Walsh for cripes sake, and especially take a drive up to Geneva and SPIRE and watch their meets, and see what real track and field coaches do with their athletes. Or just go on line and see the times being posted all across the country in "irrelevent" events. Stop making excuses for what is fast becoming an irrelevant program.
  13. Here I am for my usual rant about the level that Zip T & F has fallen to, despite the MAC outdoor Championship for the men. As I said b in May, that win was fueled by the throwers and a few jumpers, mostly left over from Coach Mitchell's squad. I wasn't sure where the teams were headed after the opener, something called the Akron Haynes Lancaster Open, of which I am not sure it is named. Never heard the name, never saw an explanation on the website as to who it supposedly honored. But we got a full view of the state of the program at the Judd Logan Invitational over at Kent State this weekend. First off, we found out that the throws coach from last year called it quits after 1 season, despite his success with the throwers. What's up with that? Then it got depressing. A nice showing by Jamari and Josephine Davis making the finals of the 60. Both women were top 8 in the 200. Zips had NO women entered in the 400. Laura Genetin was the only Zip entered in the 800 and had a nice 5th finish. A couple milers. Zero Zip Women in the 3,000 and the 5,000. 1 hurdler, Jade Celestine who made the finals. 1 High Jumper who didn't make opening height. Bryne Rychick, a Mitchell - PVer finished 5th. We had ZERO long jumpers or triple jumpers. Best shot was 14th, best weight throw was 11th, and only 2 entries in both events. Where are all of Akron Women's Track athletes?????? We got smoked by Slippery Rock! Ashland! Tiffin! Malone! If this meet were scored as a team we would have placed like 6th at best. Surely the Champion men would do better? Tysean Baronette was the only entry in the 60 and he finished 8th, then 3rd in the 200. A best of 13th for the guys in the 400, we entered NO 800 meter runners. No milers - not one. I guess our CC Championship wasn't so powerful after all. Maybe our African runners didn't return to campus? ZERO 3,000 and 5,000 meter runners entered. ZERO 60 hurdlers entered! Our 4 x 400 relay teamed finished 4th to Ashland, Slippery Rock, and Ashland's "B" team! 1 high jumper, finished 15th. Garretson won the PV but we know he was a MItchell kid, and I can't believe he stayed. We did not enter a long jumper. We did not enter a triple jumper. Thank goodness for Josiah Cox and Jabari Neal-Jackson for returning, they both were placers in throws. Once again, we got smoked by DIII schools, DII schools. So why was I told by our "experts" in our forums that "The team was re-building as we speak!" last year when I was spewing? Where are all the Zip track men athletes at? Inquiring minds want to know!
  14. Back in chilly Ohio for a family function and Hubby and I went to the Zips game last night vs. Buffalo, and I was pleasantly surprised and excited by the size of crown, after reading some of the posts leading into this weekend. Still wasn't like the "old days", but nice crown, engaged, and the game was great. Still a sorely lacking student contingent. We were talking about it with our seat-neighbors and we all agreed that waaay back, the student population was not only a larger number enrolled, but also a huge number of students were "commuter" students, not living on campus or really that many out-of-towners. So it was always great to get out of the apartment, Mom and Dad's house, grab a local beer before and after the game, then drive home. Students grew up on the Zips, not moved to campus from other regions and had to form a loyalty quickly. Abd there was a heck of a lot of night school students (us included) that used to stop by and catch whatever part of the game was left. Just a few pbservations....
  15. You're right to a point. It's not what draws us to a game, most of the time we don't even know there's one going on. But when you attend, and off-and-on get a little "something" thrown in for your ticket, whether a GA or a seat-back, it makes you feel a little appreciated for your effort, and it tends to maybe bring some people back. Just my opinion. And as far as the talk of a $10 vs. $7 GA ticket, I know I'm a 'blue hair" now (although I hide it, but when Hubby and I first started attending games, and bringing our two small children, the difference of $3 per person for a struggling family of four attending grad school and working full-time was a HUGE difference for us, especially when you threw in the cost of concessions, a lot more civilized than todays prices. So don't discount (no pun intended) what $3 a ticket can make to the average local Akron family in deciding to attend or not.
  16. 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣 Oh...you weren't joking?
  17. what about us sisters?
  18. It is. Saw and talked to her last week at a local HS game they dominated at. Watched her several times last year as well. She's excited to go to SC. Class act too. They've also got a sophomore that is showing well for them, bookends with Naomi. Her name is Carlee Bedford, combo G and F.
  19. You are very perceptive, oh wise B & G. I know U of A really had no choice when it occurred, but I am disappointed that the record board at the Natatorium reflects the results, and also the program for the Invitational does as well. I just find the stance that all NCAA institutions took last year in celebrating Title IX hypocritical in light of what happened in the sport that year. U of A does a very good job of supporting women's athletics, and I applaud them for that, it's just a sore spot, since our daughter swam against two of these women.
  20. So right Clark, these are classy athletes and people.
  21. If you show up this weekend at the Zippy Invitational at Ocasek, once again, please remember these names: Emma Moynihan (Miami) - 4:42.47 (2019 500 free); Claudia Lins de Mello (Miami) - 1:45.47 (2019 200 free); Claire Leichty (Toledo) - 16:11.80 (2012 1,650 free) Say their names
  22. Agreed. Cautiously optimistic and it is a great job on keeping the fans informed. Nice job, and I am looking forward to seeing it come together for 2024 and beyond. Coach is putting a lot of new pieces in place, now she and her crew need to mold and shape them to what they envision for the team.
  23. why do you think that? Isn't playing in front of 100,000 at Tennessee a thrill, or other past big games. This just reeks of being a Suckeye or else fan base.
  24. And a local High School Public Address announcer that is sooooo bad
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