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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, a few years back, JMU made the final four of the Women's College World Series. They beat Oklahoma. Their third baseman was 4' 11". Their pitcher became a superstar.

I know softball isn't football, but size isn't everything. And stranger things have happened.

I was fine with JMU and Tulane in it. I'm more bothered by Alabama being in it, let alone ranked as high as it was. [/quote]

A bit analogous but on a much smaller scale...Messiah College against all odds, managed to make it to the D3 College World Series baseball championship games (best of 3) and was promptly, utterly destroyed in the that series, losing by 20+ runs in each game.  The games were over by the 2nd inning for all intents and purposes, but there are no mercy rules for the World Series games.

This was a team that was seeded 4th in their regional group (so out of 64 teams, they were considered #48 - #64 ranked).

On the one hand, they earned their trek to the championship series...on the other hand, the coach basically admitted they completely ran out of pitchers.  They were never deep enough to win, but D3 had "egg" on their face that the actual championship games were so horrendously uncompetitive.

Lots of online bickering over what to do.  Not sure there is anything one can do.  It just so happened that Cinderella made it all the way to the ball before reality intervened.[/quote]

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