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McAlester baseball took its first two district losses of the season this week to Bishop Kelley.
On Monday, the Buffaloes (11-13, 6-2) traveled to Tulsa where they lost to the Comets (16-4, 8-0) 12-2 by run rule. On Tuesday, McAlester hosted Bishop Kelley in another loss, this time 12-3 through seven innings.
While the Comets are a strong team, coach Justin Mullins believes the losses were more about what his team did wrong than what Bishop Kelley did right.
“It was self induced,” Mullins said. “We didn’t do a very good job competing in the zone, we didn’t make plays, we didn’t get the timely hits.
“They’re a good club and you can’t give them a lot of things because they’ll take advantage of it.”
The Buffaloes believe they’re as good of a team as any other, but they want to clean up the little mistakes which have cost them in the recent outings.
“Hopefully they learned that we can beat anybody if we want to but we can’t walk people, we can’t make errors,” Mullins said. “Those kind of things can’t happen if you’re going to beat quality clubs.”
The Buffaloes entered the week tied for the best district record in class-5A-4 and were atop the rankings by district points. Now, McAlester is at third place behind Bishop Kelley and Coweta.
Finishing in the top two seeds in the district is one of the Buffaloes’ goals for the season. The two losses to the Comets this week made that goal more difficult to grasp but it’s not completely out of the picture.
“Obviously that hurts us in winning the district but it puts us in a good line that if we win out the rest of the way, we’re going to finish second and host a regional, which is what we want,” Mullins said. “That’s what we’ve got to preach and we’ve just got to find ways to get better.”
McAlester plays again 7 p.m. Thursday at home against Hugo in the first game of the Mike Deak Shootout.
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On Monday, the Buffaloes (11-13, 6-2) traveled to Tulsa where they lost to the Comets (16-4, 8-0) 12-2 by run rule. On Tuesday, McAlester hosted Bishop Kelley in another loss, this time 12-3 through seven innings.
While the Comets are a strong team, coach Justin Mullins believes the losses were more about what his team did wrong than what Bishop Kelley did right.
“It was self induced,” Mullins said. “We didn’t do a very good job competing in the zone, we didn’t make plays, we didn’t get the timely hits.
“They’re a good club and you can’t give them a lot of things because they’ll take advantage of it.”
The Buffaloes believe they’re as good of a team as any other, but they want to clean up the little mistakes which have cost them in the recent outings.
“Hopefully they learned that we can beat anybody if we want to but we can’t walk people, we can’t make errors,” Mullins said. “Those kind of things can’t happen if you’re going to beat quality clubs.”
The Buffaloes entered the week tied for the best district record in class-5A-4 and were atop the rankings by district points. Now, McAlester is at third place behind Bishop Kelley and Coweta.
Finishing in the top two seeds in the district is one of the Buffaloes’ goals for the season. The two losses to the Comets this week made that goal more difficult to grasp but it’s not completely out of the picture.
“Obviously that hurts us in winning the district but it puts us in a good line that if we win out the rest of the way, we’re going to finish second and host a regional, which is what we want,” Mullins said. “That’s what we’ve got to preach and we’ve just got to find ways to get better.”
McAlester plays again 7 p.m. Thursday at home against Hugo in the first game of the Mike Deak Shootout.
Continue reading...
