Sam Houston State

Sam Houston State is the WAC Champion.  This is the second consecutive Tournament that Oregon State opened with the WAC Champion.  Oregon State beat New Mexico State 5-4 in 10 innings last year to kick off the 2022 Corvallis Regional.  Oregon State also kicked off the 2013 Corvallis Regional against the WAC Champion, Texas-San Antonio, in 2013.

Oregon State did not kick off the 2006 Corvallis Regional with Hawaii but played and beat the Rainbow Warriors 12-3 in the Championship Game of the Corvallis Regional.

The Beavs have won every Regional in which they have played a WAC team.

Sam Houston State's best player (as far as I can tell) is Joe Redfield, their leadoff hitter.  All-WAC.  Other All-WAC players are Sam Houston State's other two good hitters are the third baseman, Justin Wishkowski, and first baseman, Tyler Davis.  The three usually hit 1-2-3.

Coltin Atkinson is the only All-WAC starter that Sam Houston State has.  However, he just threw on Saturday in the WAC Championship Game, so I am unsure, if they throw him first or second.  Chandler David is probably their best pitcher.  They use him a lot as a long reliever.

Sam Houston State has two common opponents and those are the two WAC teams that Oregon State played Grand Canyon and Seattle.  The Beavs won the three games against those two.  Sam Houston State went 6-1 against those two teams.  The sole loss was the Friday game against Grand Canyon in Phoenix.

Sam Houston State University.

General Sam Houston won the decisive Battle of San Jacinto, which won Texas its independence from Mexico in 1836. Sam Houston then served as the first and third President of Texas (Presidents could not hold the office consecutively).

Texas joined the United States of America in 1845 and Houston was one of Texas' first two Senators. Houston advocated for the annexation of Oregon Country. Unlike most other Southerners, he advocated for the creation of free Oregon Territory. He was opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act as unfair to Native Americans.

He tried to run for President in the Know-Nothing Party, but they nominated President Millard Fillmore instead. During Houston's second term as Senator, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor but was defeated over issues surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Houston won on his second try. He tried to win the nomination of the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 Election, but they nominated Bell. Instead of campaigning for any party, he campaigned against secession and continued to do so after the Election of 1860 was won by Abraham Lincoln. However, Texas seceded anyway. He refused to swear an oath to the Confederacy. And the Texas Legislature forcibly removed Houston from office. He maintained a good relationship with Governor Francis Lubbock but was shunned by most other Texas politicians. He died in July 1863.

I will say that Sam Houston State is probably among the 4-5 softest threes out there.  You do not want to fall behind them, but there are some real worrisome threes out there, and Sam Houston State is not in that bunch.

I hope that whoever wins between LSU and Tulane plays their ace to win.

This is from their football game notes: The school is Sam Houston State University, but the athletics are Sam Houston. 

SAM HOUSTON

Although traditionally referred to as Sam Houston State, we ask

that all media entities refer to our athletics teams as simply Sam

Houston.

Please only use Sam Houston State University when referring to

the University in official capacity.

If an abbreviation is needed, SHSU is acceptable. Please DO NOT

use SH or SHS as abbreviations.

Please DO NOT use references such as Sam Houston St., Sam Hou

St. or any other variations.

Our teams, both male and female, are to be referred to as

Bearkats, or simply Kats on second reference. Please DO NOT

capitalize the K unless using only Kats

Beavs have scored 'only' 73 runs in the last 5 games....oh, and the Beavs have 'just' 5 guys with 10+ HR.