Given the thousands of errors I've committed over the past 55 years, I think I know how Bulldog second baseman Zeth Stone felt yesterday afternoon when he dropped a double-play ball in the bottom of the ninth inning of the Southern Conference championship game, allowing Georgia Southern to eventually score and tie the game.  The lump in his throat was probably as big as a baseball.  But that part of the story is only a minor detail.  Minutes later, forced into extra time, with two outs in the tenth and the bases loaded, Zeth hit the game-winning triple to drive in all three runs.  "I had to pick the team up," Zeth said after the game.  "I saw a pitch I could hit and I turned on it." 

"I saw a pitch I could hit."  A good rule for life, I would say.

Coach Casey Dunn and his champions will raise the Samford Victory Flag on campus at 10:30 a.m. today.   

The world is better because Samford people are as tenacious as . . . bulldogs.

 

 
Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 5,791 students from 49 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.