Men 2022 UConn Baseball @ NCAA Tournament’s College Park Regional (6/3> 6/6). Winner Take All - Monday 6/6 @7p v. Maryland on ESPNU. Audio Mixlr/97-9 ESPN

[huskymedic]

 

[huskypantz]

PLEASE no 10pm start times……..

 

[navery12]

@huskymedic must have gotten in the word early enough to get us the Saturday/Sunday/Monday matchups for @dbmill

 

[Storrs South]

Other thread closed, but full game replay from yesterday is up

 

[huskymedic]

-> “Toughness isn’t something you see a ton of baseball anymore unfortunately. And UConn is tough,” Maryland head coach Rob Vaughn said. “That’s a tough, tough group of guys. They played hard. They made pitches in big spots. They made plays in big spots. They had tough ABs. It’s a tough team. Coach Penders and his staff do an unbelievable job.” <-

 

[huskymedic]

 

[CL82]

Lol Jonesy.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[dbmill]

-> “Toughness isn’t something you see a ton of baseball anymore unfortunately. And UConn is tough,” Maryland head coach Rob Vaughn said. “That’s a tough, tough group of guys. They played hard. They made pitches in big spots. They made plays in big spots. They had tough ABs. It’s a tough team. Coach Penders and his staff do an unbelievable job.” <-

Love the above quoted text that @huskymedic posted. Here is a bit more from the a above article that I really liked as well:

Sure, every good team has its won’t-be-defeated heartbeat, but the roster full of them has mostly become an archaic relic of a former era. One place it’s still thriving is in Storrs, Connecticut, a rural destination where it takes 20 minutes to wind your way through the woods to find the campus once you depart the closest highway. There, Jim Penders has no intention of changing the foundation of the UConn baseball program his father, uncle and he played for before Jim took over as head coach in 2004.

“It’s the culture that’s been in the program well before I got here with the four coaches since the 1930s — J.O. Christian, Larry Panciera, Andy Blaylock my former coach,” Penders said. “It was always on a strong foundation of toughness and doing things the right way and blue-collar mentality, I’m just the temporary caretaker of the program and trying to help it get a little bit better each day.”

It’s that blue-collar mentality and HookC culture that has helped Penders and his staff of Joshua MacDonald, Jeff Hourigan and Chris Podeszwa — all Connecticut alums and the longest tenured staff in Division I baseball having been together the last 11 seasons — transform a group of rejects and resurrection projects, overlooked overachievers and Northeast grinders into and the winningest team in UConn baseball history.<