This past week, however, showed a few signs of that happening, but not on a consistent basis. In addition to pitching, defense was also solid all weekend, committing just four errors in six games and going errorless in three of those contests. That leaves only one thing offense. Tech has never gotten into a set lineup one through nine because coach Larry Hays can never figure out who's going to be on from one game to the next, or where in the lineup people should bat. He has moved players like Shaun Larkin and Scott Holzhauer up and down the lineup and players like Cory Sellars, Chad Landry, David O'Keeffe and Mark Austry in an out trying to find the right combination.
Nothing seems to have worked so far, and it's getting pretty close to crunch time.
Yes, the injuries have been more than any team should have to deal with. But offensively there has been just one big injury in outfielder Miles Durham. While Durham was supposed to be one of the major cogs behind the Tech offense, the players filling in for him are good enough to produce enough to keep things going. And everyone knows about the woes of the pitching staff. Of course it hurts a team when they have to go from one philosophy to a completely different one because of those ailments, but at some point the injuries must stop being an excuse.