Following the junior college game I took spare time I had and grabbed a bite to eat. If I told you I was prepared for the Houston/Ole Miss game, I’d be lying; I wasn’t expecting to see Houston play until the College Classic and not expecting to see Ole Miss at all. My plan was to hit the San Jacinto/Blinn game and call it a day but one of my in-laws had tickets that evening for the Houston game so I figured I’d take full advantage of it. So with that said, I grabbed what info I had and made the trek down to Cougar field in the Houston to see the Rebels take on the Cougars.
Giving a little background information, the Cougars have a nice history with the Pirates. As we all know, Brad Lincoln was a former Cougar All American as was Chris Snyder but what I wasn’t aware of until I was there was the Doug Drabek was the first player whose number was retired by the Cougars. Much like the Pirates, the Cougars are in the process of rebuilding and currently are in the first year under a new head coach. Some of the fans that I had pleasure of taking with generally seemed very excited about the season but openly admitted that it was a rebuilding year for them and were very optimistic about the recruiting class they had assembled and that would be coming in next fall. In a way the same could be said for the Rebels of Ole Miss, one fan that I spoke with said it was definitely a rebuilding year from them as well. As for the game, Cougars starter Jordan Lewis went 4 innings giving up 2 runs, 1 in the 3rd and 1 in the 4th. He got into trouble in the 4th but managed to work his way out of it. He Houston bats seemed to wake up in the 6th when they put up a 4 spot and in the 7th added on 3 more to take an 8-2 lead the managed to hold up.
As for prospects, there really isn’t a lot right now for Houston; probably the most decorated player on their team is Caleb Ramsey a senior outfielder who ranked as the 92nd best player in the Cape Code League. He’s probably not that sexy player that most teams look for but he should be a solid organizational player. Perhaps the top underclassman for Houston is Chase Jensen who ranked as the preseason number 12 prospect in Conference USA. Just a sophomore, Jensen went 2-5 with 2 runs scored on Saturday night. At 6’3, 185 he’s looks very tall and skinny out there playing SS but he seems to have nice range and a strong arm at the position. As for Ole Miss players, like I said earlier, this game was more of a spur of the moment thing so I didn’t have a chance to put anything together on them so my apologizes on that. Anyway, like I said in my previous post, it’s off to see Anthon Rendon today along with big USC 1st baseman Ricky Opressa.
Giving a little background information, the Cougars have a nice history with the Pirates. As we all know, Brad Lincoln was a former Cougar All American as was Chris Snyder but what I wasn’t aware of until I was there was the Doug Drabek was the first player whose number was retired by the Cougars. Much like the Pirates, the Cougars are in the process of rebuilding and currently are in the first year under a new head coach. Some of the fans that I had pleasure of taking with generally seemed very excited about the season but openly admitted that it was a rebuilding year for them and were very optimistic about the recruiting class they had assembled and that would be coming in next fall. In a way the same could be said for the Rebels of Ole Miss, one fan that I spoke with said it was definitely a rebuilding year from them as well. As for the game, Cougars starter Jordan Lewis went 4 innings giving up 2 runs, 1 in the 3rd and 1 in the 4th. He got into trouble in the 4th but managed to work his way out of it. He Houston bats seemed to wake up in the 6th when they put up a 4 spot and in the 7th added on 3 more to take an 8-2 lead the managed to hold up.
As for prospects, there really isn’t a lot right now for Houston; probably the most decorated player on their team is Caleb Ramsey a senior outfielder who ranked as the 92nd best player in the Cape Code League. He’s probably not that sexy player that most teams look for but he should be a solid organizational player. Perhaps the top underclassman for Houston is Chase Jensen who ranked as the preseason number 12 prospect in Conference USA. Just a sophomore, Jensen went 2-5 with 2 runs scored on Saturday night. At 6’3, 185 he’s looks very tall and skinny out there playing SS but he seems to have nice range and a strong arm at the position. As for Ole Miss players, like I said earlier, this game was more of a spur of the moment thing so I didn’t have a chance to put anything together on them so my apologizes on that. Anyway, like I said in my previous post, it’s off to see Anthon Rendon today along with big USC 1st baseman Ricky Opressa.
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