Ron Polk
Ron Polk
Ronald GeorgePolkwas a long-time head baseball coach at Mississippi State and is considered, by some, to be the "Father of Southeastern Conference Baseball." Polk compiled one of the most successful winning records, as a coach, in both MSU and Southeastern Conference history. In 31 seasons as an SEC coach he compiled a 1218-638-2record. His career record stands at 1373-702-2. He currently ranks 9th on the all-time wins list nationally for 10+ year Division I coaches. His teams won five SEC...
arizona ball caliber credit job needed nice pitchers putting series team win
To win a three-game series from a team of Arizona's caliber is a credit to our players. Arizona has some outstanding pitchers and we did a nice job of putting the ball in play when we needed to.
ball home realize run second win
Little did you realize in the second inning that one home run is going to win a ball game.
arkansas ball beating capable club gave good nice pitch plays series shown state today
This was a good series for us. Arkansas State has a nice ball club and they have shown they are capable of beating good teams. They gave us a tussle this weekend, and today we had to make some plays and pitch well.
ball needed seeing
He got all of it. He's seeing the ball pretty good. We needed a hero.
athletic ballpark directors game gonna good great handle people
We're going to play the game somewhere. I'll let the athletic directors handle that. I ain't gonna tell you Smith-Wills is a better ballpark than the new one, but it's been good to us over the years. They've done everything we've asked. They put in a new (playing surface), they put in new lights. I think it's been great for the people down there.
ball pound start
That was a big inning. Baseball's funny. You pound the ball and nothing happens. Then you put it in play and things start happening.
ball coming good hard hit numbers
Seibert pitched well. His numbers were good coming in. We hit a lot of hard balls, just right at them. We put the ball into play, but we just couldn't get anything going.
ourselves week
This week will be a big test. We'll know a lot more about ourselves after this week.
home run three
We give them three after our home run to go up. That was big.
bad games good home start won
The good part is that we've won 11 games to start the season. The bad part is, they were all home games.
call few good pitching played weeks
We've played good teams, but give me a call in a few weeks and I'll let you know how our pitching is.
kids lights playing surface
But Smith-Wills has done everything we asked, put a new playing surface in, put new lights in, but it's an old facility. That's fine. It's not bad. It's old. You know how kids are, they want better facilities.
five hits innings until
We had the 13 hits in five innings because we didn't have a hit until the 5th inning.
umpires
Umpires are umpires, but he (Smith) was just incompetent.